list of pairs of colleagues

This is a list of pairs of people notable in their field by virtue of working together. For a complete listing of pairs see Lists of pairs. For a list of pairs sorted by name see List of pairs by name

Abbott & Costello (entertainers)
Addison & Steele (writers)
Alcock & Brown (aviators)
Anna & the King of Siam (Anna Leonowens and King Mongkut )
Fred & Adele Astaire (entertainers; siblings)
Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers (entertainers)
Batman and Robin (fictional)
Beaumont & Fletcher (playwrights)
Benjamin Britten & Peter Pears (couples)
Bird and Magic (rivals)
Bonnie & Clyde (couples; criminals)
Buck & Bubbles (entertainers)
Burke & Hare (criminals)
George Burns & Gracie Allen (entertainers; couples)
Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid (companions; criminals) (Subject of motion picture Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid)
Iris Chacon and Charytin (rivals)
Cheech & Chong (entertainers)
Chrissie and Martina (rivals)
Christopher Columbus & Queen Isabel
Click & Clack (entertainers) ("the Tappet brothers") (Tom and Ray Magliosi)
Emily Cox & Henry Rathvon (crossword puzzle authors)
Pierre & Marie Curie (couples; scientists)
Dalziel & Pascoe (fictional; detectives) Creations of Reginald Hill
Eckert & Mauchly (also commercial partners)
Douglas Fairbanks Sr. & Mary Pickford (entertainers)
Ferrante & Teicher (entertainers) (duo-pianists)
Flanders & Swann (entertainers)
Gallagher & Shean (entertainers)
Bill Gates & Paul Allen (business partners) Founders of Microsoft Corporation
George & Ira Gershwin (siblings; songwriters)
Gilbert & George (entertainers; couples) (performance artists)
Gilbert & Sullivan (songwriters)
Goodson & Todman (television game-show producers)
Hardy & Littlewood Mathematicians in the field of number theory.
William Hewlett and David Packard (business partners) Founders of Hewlett-Packard
Edmund Hillary & Tenzing Norgay
Homer & Jethro (entertainers)
Sherlock Holmes & Dr. Watson (fictional; companions)
Rock Hudson & Doris Day (entertainers; movies) (fictional; couples) Played couples in battle-of-the-sexes comedies such as Pillow Talk
Huntley & Brinkley
Agents Jay and Kay (fictional)
Steve Jobs & Steve Wozniak (commercial partners) The proverbial "two Steves in a garage" who founded Apple Computer, Inc.. (with assistance from Mike Markkula)
Kernighan & Ritchie Computer scientists
Laurel & Hardy (entertainers; animated cartoon)
Leopold & Loeb (criminals)
Lewis & Clark (explorers)
Lennon & McCartney (songwriters)
Lone Ranger & Tonto (fictional)
Lucy & Desi (couples; rivals/opponents; commercial partners; entertainers)
Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne (couples; entertainers; theatre)
McGwire and Sosa (both of whom broke Roger Maris' home run record in 1998)
Marx & Engels
Mason & Dixon
Masters & Johnson (scientists)
Michaelis & Menten (scientists)
Michelson & Morley (scientists)
Morecambe & Wise (entertainers; comedians)
Mutt & Jeff (spies)
Fox Mulder and Dana Scully (fictional; television)
Penn & Teller (entertainers; illusionists)
Redgrave & Pinsent (athletes)
Regis & Kathie Lee (entertainers; television)
Ren & Stimpy (fictional; animated cartoon)
Rodgers & Hammerstein (songwriters)
Roy Rogers & Dale Evans (couples; entertainers; singers; motion pictures)
Rowan & Martin (entertainers; comedians; television)
Russell & Whitehead (mathematicians)
Sellar & Yeatman (authors; humorists) Authors of 1066 and All That
Siegfried & Roy (entertainers)
Simon & Garfunkel (entertainers)
Siskel & Ebert (Print and television movies reviewers) (Siskel 1946-1999)(Ebert& Roeper aren't really a "famous pair" yet)
Smith & Jones (fictional)
Smothers Brothers (entertainers)
Sonny & Cher (entertainers; couples)
Starsky & Hutch (fictional)
Stockton and Malone (athletes, teammates)
Tex & Jinx (entertainers)
Torvill & Dean (entertainers) (figure skaters)
Tracy & Hepburn (entertainers; couples)
Wayne & Shuster (entertainers)
Watson & Crick (scientists)
Weber & Fields (entertainers)
Wilbur & Orville Wright (siblings)
Nero Wolfe & Archie Goodwin (fictional; detectives) Creations of Rex Stout
Woodward & Bernstein (journalists)

List Of Pairs Of Colleagues

See also