list of couples

This is a list of people who are or have been famous as a couple. For a complete listing of pairs see Lists of pairs. For a list sorted by name see List of pairs by name.

Hagbard and Signy (the Romeo and Juliet of the Vikings)
Abelard & Heloise
Adam & Eve (Biblical couples)
John Alden & Priscilla (A real couple (but Priscilla's memorable line, "Why don't you speak for yourself, John?" is the fictional creation of Longfellow)
Allen and Farrow
Anthony and Dayanara
Antony & Cleopatra
Barbie & Ken (fictional couples)
Benjamin Britten & Peter Pears (colleagues)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer & Angel (fictional couples)
Bonnie & Clyde (colleagues; criminals)
Caesar & Cleopatra
Charles & Diana (prince and princess of Wales)
Cruise and Kidman
"Daddy" Browning & "Peaches" Heenan (scandalous couples)
Robert Browning & Elizabeth Barrett
George Burns & Gracie Allen (colleagues; entertainers)
De La Hoya and Corretjer
Echevarria and Vigoreaux, (she went to jail accused of ordering his murder)
Elsie and Elmer (fictional; mascots) Cows, trademark of Borden dairy circa 1938 on.
Emilio and Gloria Estefan (entertainers)
Gilbert & George (colleagues; entertainers; performance artists)
Hero & Leander (mythological/legendary couples)
Warren G. Harding & Nan Britton (scandalous couples)
Myra Hindley & Ian Brady (serial child killers see Moors Murders)
Homer & Marge (fictional couples)
Rock Hudson & Doris Day (colleagues; entertainers; movies) (fictional couples) Played couples in battle-of-the-sexes comedies such as Pillow Talk
Thomas Jefferson & Sally Hemings (scandalous couples)
Joel and Brinkley
Juno & the Peacock; see also Aesop, Alfred Hitchcock, Sean O'Casey (fictional couples)
Lady & The Tramp (fictional couples)
Lancelot & Guinevere (mythological/legendary couples)
Leda & the Swan (mythological/legendary couples)
Lucy & Desi (colleagues; rivals/opponents; commercial partners; entertainers)
Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne (colleagues; entertainers; theatre)
Aimee Semple McPherson & Kenneth G. Ormiston (scandalous couples)
Madonna and Sean Penn
Mary & Joseph (biblical couples; complementary)
Wilbur Mills & Fanne Foxe (scandalous couples) (Senator caught with stripper, in the "tidal basin" incident)
Napoleon & Josephine
Evelyn Nesbit & Stanford White (scandalous couples)
Othello & Desdemona (fictional couples; theatre)
The Owl & the Pussycat (fictional couples)
Pelleas et Melisande (mythological/legendary couples)
Pierre & Marie Curie (colleagues; scientists)
Philemon & Baucis (mythological/legendary couples)
Porgy & Bess (fictional couples) Title of and character in DuBose Heyward's novel, on which the Gershwin opera was based
Pyramus & Thisbe (fictional couples)
Punch & Judy (fictional couples; archetypes; rivals/opponents)
Roy Rogers & Dale Evans (colleagues; entertainers; singers; motion pictures)
Romeo & Juliet (fictional couples; theatre)
Samson & Delilah (mythological/legendary; Biblical couples)
John Smith & Pocahontas
King Solomon & the Queen of Sheba (mythological/legendary; Biblical couples)
Sonny & Cher (colleagues; entertainers)
Stallone and Nielsen
Tarzan & Jane (fictional couples)
Strom Thurmond & Essie Butler (scandalous couples) Biological parents of mixed-race Essie Mae Washington-Williams
Travolta and Preston
Tristan & Isolde (fictional couples)
Troilus & Cressida (fictional couples)
Tracy & Hepburn (colleagues; entertainers)
Victoria & Albert (see also Victoria and Albert Museum)
Zeus & Ganymede (mythological couples)

List Of Couples

See also