This annotated list of individual monkeys includes monkeys who are in some way famous or notable. The list does not include notable apes or fictional primates.

Monkey actors

• Binx – (white-headed capuchin) appeared in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, George of the Jungle, and Bruce Almighty.
• Govi – (capuchin) played Sophocles in the 1993–1994 sitcom Monkey Please, Sophocles! that aired in Azerbaijan as a satire of the political climate in the country at the time.^[1]
• Finster – (brown capuchin) played Harvey Keitel's pet thief, Dodger, in the 1994 film Monkey Trouble.
• Crystal – (brown capuchin) played in The Hangover Part II, Night at the Museum, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb and as "Annie's Boobs" in Community.
• Boo – (brown capuchin) played Ella in the 1988 movie Monkey Shines.
• Katie – (white-headed capuchin) one of two monkeys to play Marcel, Ross Geller's pet monkey in season 1 of the 1994-2004 sitcom Friends.^[2] Appeared in Sam & Cat, 30 Rock, and The Loop (American TV series).
• Jack Cruz – (capuchin) played as Jack in the 2017 black-and-white short film What Did Jack Do? written and directed by David Lynch.

Monkeys used in experiments

• Able (rhesus macaque) and Miss Baker (Peruvian squirrel monkey), both female – the first monkeys sent into space who survived the experience. They were launched on 28 May 1959 in the nose cone of a Jupiter AM-18 missile as a test of NASA's launch facilities at Cape Canaveral and procedures for retrieving astronauts after splashdown. Miss Able died a few days after the mission, but Miss Baker lived another 25 years.^[3]
• Albert I – (rhesus monkey) the first primate and first mammal launched on a rocket (a June 18, 1948 V-2 flight), although it did not reach space.
• Albert II – (rhesus monkey) the first primate and first mammal in space, June 14, 1949. Died upon hitting the ground due to a parachute failure
• ANDi – (rhesus monkey) the first genetic modified rhesus monkey, born at the Oregon Health & Science University
• Britches – (stump-tailed macaque) removed from his mother at birth, Britches was left alone with his eyes sewn shut as part of a study into blindness. He was rescued by the Animal Liberation Front, which publicized the condition he was found in, and the experiment was shut down.
• Gordo (also known as "Old Reliable") – (squirrel monkey) He was launched in the US Jupiter AM-13 Rocket in 1958, but was lost after a technical failure at the end of the mission.
• Hellion – (capuchin) trained by Mary Joan Willard to assist disabled people, was the first trainee to be placed. In 1979, Hellion started assisting a quadriplegic, Robert Foster, with chores and general assistance.^[4]
• Miss Sam – (rhesus macaque) sent into space under the Little Joe program in 1960.^[5]
• Semos – a nine-year-old male rhesus macaque at the Oregon National Primate Research Center who supplied the skin cells from which scientists were able to successfully derive embryonic stem cells.^[6]
• Tetra – a rhesus macaque at the Oregon National Primate Research Center who was the first cloned primate, created through splitting.^[7]

Other

• Corporal Jackie, a baboon of the South African army
• Darwin, a Japanese macaque who earned notoriety as the "Ikea Monkey"
• Fred, euthanized in March 2011. Fred had a reputation for stealing food anywhere he could, but when he turned too aggressive, he was caught and controversially euthanized.
• Jacco Macacco, was a fighting ape or monkey who was exhibited in monkey-baiting matches at the Westminster Pit in London in the early 1820s.
• Jocko Flocko, unofficial 'codriver' for Tim Flock who was in the car when he won a race at Hickory Motor Speedway in 1953. He 'retired' two weeks later at Raleigh Speedway after being struck by a pebble and attacking Flock.

• Jack, known as Jack the Signalman [1].^[8] This baboon was reputed to have become an expert at working the railroad signals for the Cape Government Railway.
• Loon, lived at the San Diego Zoo and was trained to accept blood draws and insulin injections to treat his diabetes.
• Maggie the Monkey, a crab-eating macaque who predicted the results of the Stanley Cup playoffs.
• Ramu, arrested and kept behind bars in India for 5 years on the charge of disturbing communal harmony. At the age of three, while under the care of a family, Ramu attacked some children. This sparked communal riots in the Jagannathpur village, ultimately leading to Ramu's arrest.
• Twelves (December 12, 2012 – March 20, 2018) was a pet monkey of Brazilian singer Latino.^[9]