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List of famous pairs

The following is a list of famous pairs listed alphabetically. For a list of pairs by category see Lists of pairs.

Pairs are actual persons (living or dead), places, or things, unless identified otherwise.

• Pairs are human beings unless otherwise noted.
• Twins (see list of twins) and twin cities are not included.

Each pair is listed once only, and is sorted alphabetically by the name listed first. If a pair is not listed under one name, it may be listed under the other.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

Aa-Al - Am-Au

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Aa-Al

• Aachen & Aix-la-Chapelle (geographical; juxtapositions) (German and French names for the same town)
• Abbott & Costello (colleagues; entertainers)
• Abélard & Heloise (couples)
• Abercrombie & Fitch (commercial partners)
• Adam & Eve (Biblical; couples)
• Addison & Steele (colleagues; writers)
• Adenine & thymine (scientific; complementary) (DNA base pair)
• Roberto Alagna & Angela Gheorghiu
• Albireo (astronomical; juxtapositions) (the double star Beta Cygnus)
• Alcock & Brown (colleagues; aviators)
• John Alden & Priscilla (couples) A real couple (but Priscilla's memorable line, "Why don't you speak for yourself, John?"" is the fictional creation of Longfellow)
• Ali and Frazier, (rivals), boxers
• Ali and Norton (rivals; boxers)
• Allemande left & Grand right and left (sequences) (frequently paired square dance maneuvers)
• Allen and Farrow (couples)
• A&P (supermarket chain, stands for "Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company")
• A&W (Root beer- named after inventors Allen and Wright)

Am-Au

• American Falls & Horseshoe Falls (geographical; juxtapositions)
• Amoeba & Paramecium (complementary) Prototypical protozoans studied in elementary biology classes
• Amos & Andy (fictional; companions)
• Anderson & Webster (colleagues; comedians)
• Andrade and Trevi (controversial couple, entertainers, accused of crimes)
• Andy and Grant Flower, Zimbabwe cricket players
• animus & anima (conceptual)
• Ant & Dec (colleagues; entertainers)
• Anthony and Dayanara (couples)
• Antigua & Barbuda (geographical; juxtapositions)
• Antony & Cleopatra (couples)
• Anna & the King of Siam (colleagues) (Anna Leonowens and King Mongkut )
• Apples & oranges (proverbial/idiomatic; conceptual; opposing; food)
• Arguello and Escalera (rivals; boxers)
• Assault and battery (criminal acts commonly committed together)
• Asterix and Obelix (cartoon friends)
• Fred & Adele Astaire (colleagues; entertainers; siblings)
• Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers (colleagues; entertainers)
• Atlas & Gazetteer (equipment; complementary)
• Autobot & Decepticon (fictional; rivals)

B

Ba - Be-Bi - Bl-Bo - Br-Bu

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Ba

• The Babbitt & the Bromide
• Bangers & Mash (proverbial/idiomatic; complementary; food) (Sausages & mashed potato)
• Battledore & Shuttlecock (equipment; complementary)
• Bacon & eggs (proverbial/idiomatic; complementary; food)
• Baddiel & Skinner (colleagues; comedians}
• Bambi & Thumper (fictional; companions)
• Barbie & Ken (fictional; couples)
• Barnes & Noble (commercial partnership)
• Barnum & Bailey (commercial partnership)
• Baskin-Robbins (commercial partners)
• Bass & treble (conceptual; technical; antitheses)
• Bathroom & W.C. (proverbial/idiomatic; complementary) (British usage) The two essential hygienic plumbing facilities.
• Batman and Robin (fictional; colleagues)

Be-Bi

• Beaumont & Fletcher (colleagues; playwrights)
• Beany & Cecil (fictional; companions; animated cartoons; television)
• Beavis & Butthead (fictional; companions)
• Bed and breakfast (proverbial/idiomatic)
• Beer and skittles (proverbial/idiomatic)
• Ben & Jerry (commercial partners)
• Benjamin Britten & Peter Pears (colleagues; couples)
• Beren & Lúthien (fictional; lovers) Creations of J. R. R. Tolkien
• Bert & Ernie (fictional; companions; puppets; television) Creations of Jim Henson, possibly named after characters in It's a Wonderful Life
• Betty and Veronica (fictional; friends and rivals, mostly friends)
• Big-endian & Little-endian (fictional; opposing factions) Creations of Jonathan Swift. Satirized homoousia & homoiousia. Also: (technical; conceptual; opposing) computer science terms
• Bill and Ben, The Flowerpot Men (fictional; companions)
• Bill & Ted (fictional; companions)
• Bird and Magic (rivals; colleagues)

Bl-Bo

• Blackadder & Baldrick (fictional; companions)
• Black & Decker (commercial partners)
• Black & white (proverbial/idiomatic; conceptual; opposing)
• Block & tackle (equipment; complementary)
• B&Q (Block & Quayle - British DIY chain of stores)
• Boardwalk & Park Place (complementary; juxtapositions)
• Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall
• Bobby & Jack Charlton (English football (soccer) players.)
• Bolsheviks & Mensheviks (opposing factions)
• Bonnie & Clyde (colleagues; couples; criminals)
• Bootsie and Snudge
• Bosnia & Herzegovina (geographical; juxtapositions)
• Bow & Arrow (equipment; complementary)

Br-Bu

• Brace & bit (equipment; complementary)
• Brahms & Wagner (idols of opposing musical factions in Vienna during the 1870s)
• Bread & butter (proverbial/idiomatic; complementary; food)
• Bread & Roses (Proverbial of women's labor issues, from slogan of the 1912 Lawrence, Massachusetts strikers)
• Bread & water (proverbial/idiomatic; complementary; food)
• Breaking & Entering (legal term)
• Brighton & Hove - also Brighton & Hove Albion (geographical; juxtapositions)
• Charlie Brown & Snoopy (fictional; companions; comic strip) Creations of Charles M. Schulz
• "Daddy" Browning & "Peaches" Heenan (couples; scandalous)
• Robert Browning & Elizabeth Barrett (couples)
• Bubble & Squeak (proverbial/idiomatic; complementary; food) (dish made from leftover potatoes and cabbage)
• Buck & Bubbles (colleagues; entertainers)
• Geoffrey & Margaret Burbidge (scientists, colleagues; couple)
• Burke & Hare (colleagues; criminals)
• George Burns & Gracie Allen (colleagues; entertainers; couples)
• Aaron Burr & Alexander Hamilton (rivals/opponents)
• Buster Brown & Tige (fictional; companions; comic strip) Creations of Richard F. Outcault

C

Ca-Ce - Ch-Co - Cr-Cy

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Ca-Ce

• Caesar & Cleopatra (couples)
• Cain & Abel (mythological/legendary; Biblical; siblings; rivals/opponents)
• Calvin and Hobbes (fictional; companions; comic strips) Creations of Bill Watterson
• Cannon & Ball (complementary; comedians)
• Captain Scarlet & the Mysterons (fictional; rivals)
• Carriage return & Line feed (technical; complementary) Standard line break in Digital OSes, CP/M, MS-DOS, and Windows
• Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid (colleagues; companions; criminals) (Subject of motion picture Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid)
• Castor & Pollux (astronomical; juxtapositions); also (mythological/legendary; twins) The twin stars in Gemini; see also Dioscuri; see also Leda and the Swan
• Castro and Mendez (colleagues, rivals)
• Cats & dogs (proverbial/idiomatic; rivals/opponents)
• Cavaliers & Roundheads (opposing factions)
• Cav & Pag (complementary) (Cavalleria Rusticana and I_Pagliacci, short operas frequently performed together)
• Cease & desist (proverbial/idiomatic) (Legal idiom)

Ch-Co

• Chacon and Limon (rivals, boxers)
• Iris Chacon and Charytin, (colleagues, rivals)
• Iris Chacon and Elin Ortiz (couples)
• Chalk & Cheese (proverbial/idiomatic; rivals/opponents) British phrase, "as different as chalk and cheese"
• Chang & Eng (twins) The eponymous "Siamese twins"
• Charytin and Elin Ortiz (couples)
• Chas 'n Dave
• Cheech & Chong (colleagues; entertainers)
• Cherubim & Seraphim (Biblical; complementary) Frequently paired; the two lowest orders of angels.
• Chip and Dale
• Christopher Columbus & Queen Isabel (colleagues)
• Click & Clack (colleagues; entertainers) ("the Tappet brothers") (Tom and Ray Magliozzi)
• Cloak and Dagger (idiom) refers to covert operations, also a comic book duo
• Coat & tie (proverbial/idiomatic; equipment; complementary) (The two required articles constituting formal dress)
• Conservative & Labour (opposing factions)
• Joel and Ethan Coen (brothers, filmmakers)
• Corned beef & Cabbage (proverbial/idiomatic; complementary; food) Proverbial lower-class Irish main course
• Emily Cox & Henry Rathvon (colleagues) (crossword puzzle authors)
• Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner (cartoon characters; adversaries)

Cr-Cy

• Crips & Bloods (rivals)
• Crosse & Blackwell (commercial partners)
• Cruise and Kidman (couples, formerly)
• Cruz and Knight (couples)
• Pierre & Marie Curie (colleagues; couples; scientists)
• Currier & Ives (commercial partners) (lithographers)
• Cut & Paste (technical; complementary)
• Cyril & Methodius
• cytosine & thymine (complementary) (DNA base pair)

D

• Dallas & Fort Worth (geographical; juxtapositions; twin cities)
• Dalziel & Pascoe (fictional; colleagues; detectives) Creations of Reginald Hill
• Damon & Pythias (mythological/legendary; companions)
• Matt Damon & Ben Affleck (entertainers, colleagues)
• Danger Mouse & Penfold
• Dante and Virgil (epic poets, fictional companions) Dante makes Virgil his guide through Hell (logical since Virgil described the Roman underworld in his Aeneid) in Inferno
• David & Goliath (mythological/legendary; Biblical; rivals/opponents)
• Day & Night (proverbial)
• Death & Taxes (proverbial/idiomatic; complementary) (proverbial pairing of two inevitabilities)
• Del and Rodney (fictional; brothers)
• De La Hoya and Corretjer (couples)
• Democrat & Republican (opposing factions in the U.S.)
• Dick & Jane (fictional; siblings) (in the Scott, Foresman primary readers, very widely used in the U.S.)
• Big Diomede Island & Little Diomede Island (geographical; juxtapositions)
• The Dioscuri (mythological/legendary; twins; rivals/opponents)
• The Big Dipper & the Little Dipper (astronomical; complementary)
• Divide & conquer (proverbial/idiomatic; complementary)
• Dodge & Plymouth (corporate twin automobile marques; same company, same chassis, different model names and body styles)
• Doom and gloom (proverbial)
• Dorothy & Toto (fictional; companions)
• Drum and bugle corps (equipment; complementary) Marching band musical complement.
• Dempsey and Makepeace (fictional; colleagues)

E

• Echevarria and Vigoreaux, (couples, she went to jail accused of ordering his murder)
• Eckert & Mauchly (colleagues; also commercial partners)
• Elsie and Elmer (fictional; couples; mascots) Cows, trademark of Borden dairy circa 1938 on.
• England & Wales (geographical; juxtapositions)
• ENQ & ACK (technical; complementary)
• Emilio and Gloria Estefan (entertainers, couples)
• Evan & Jaron
• Chris Evert & Martina Navratilova (rivals; opponents; athletes) Tennis legends.
• Exchange & Mart
• Edison & Swan (rivals/opponents and commercial partners)

F

• Faber & Faber, Ltd. (commercial partners) British publishing firm.
• Douglas Fairbanks & Mary Pickford (colleagues; entertainers)
• The Falcon and the Snowman (film title)
• Farrelly brothers -(Peter and Bobby) (brothers, filmmakers)
• Basil Fawlty & Sybil (fictitious)
• Ferrante & Teicher (colleagues; entertainers) (duo-pianists)
• Fife & Drum (equipment; complementary) Traditional military instrumental pair
• Fight or flight (proverbial/idiomatic; opposing)
• Fire and Brimstone (idiomatic) Punishment in hell, used idiomatically to describe especially emphatic and threatening sermonizing
• Fish & chips (proverbial/idiomatic; complementary; food)
• Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau & Gerald Moore
• Flanders & Swann (colleagues; entertainers)
• Flanagan & Allen
• Flotsam & Jetsam (proverbial/idiomatic/legal)
• Fools & Horses
• Fortnum & Mason (commercial partners)
• French & Saunders
• Friend or foe (proverbial/idiomatic; opposing)
• Frodo Baggins & Sam Gamgee (fictional; companions)
• Funk & Wagnalls (commercial partners)

G

• Gallagher & Lyle
• Gallagher & Shean (colleagues; entertainers)
• Gary and Phil Neville (English football (soccer) players.)
• Bill Gates & Paul Allen (colleagues; business partners) Founders of Microsoft Corporation
• Gatti and Ward (rivals; boxers)
• George & Ira Gershwin (colleagues; siblings; songwriters)
• Gilbert & George (colleagues; entertainers; couples) (performance artists)
• Gilbert & Sullivan (colleagues; songwriters)
• Gin & tonic (proverbial/idiomatic; complementary; beverages)
• Gin & Vermouth (proverbial/idiomatic; complementary; beverages)
• Goofus & Gallant (fictional; rivals/opponents)
• Gog & Magog
• God and the Devil (rivals)
• Good & evil (conceptual; juxtaposition)
• Peter and Rosemary Grant
• Great Pyramid & Sphinx (juxtapositions) Ancient Egyptian monuments of Giza
• Guanine and cytosine (scientific; complementary) (other DNA base pair)
• Gumby & Pokey (fictional; companions; television; animated cartoons)
• The Globe & Mail
• Goodson & Todman (colleagues) (television game-show producers)

H

Ha - He-Ho - Hu

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Ha

• h and Chi Persei (astronomical; juxtapositions)
• Hagar & Helga
• Hagler and Hearns (rivals; boxers)
• Haim and Feldman (entertainers, the two Coreys)
• Hale & Dorr (commercial partners) (Boston law firm)
• Hale & Pace
• Ham and eggs (proverbial/idiomatic; complementary; food)
• Hannity and Colmes (television commentators)
• Hansel & Gretel (mythological/legendary; siblings)
• Warren G. Harding & Nan Britton (couples; scandalous)
• Hardy & Littlewood (colleagues) Mathematicians in the field of number theory.
• Harlequin & Pierrot (fictional; archetypes; complementary)
• Harry and David (commercial partners) Pioneering mail-order food merchant (pears, Fruit-of-the-Month club)
• Harvard & Radcliffe (institutions; complementary)
• Harvard & Yale (institutions; rivals)
• Hatfields and McCoys (rivals/opponents)

He-Ho

• Heaven & Earth (proverbial/idiomatic; opposing)
• Heaven & Hell (proverbial/idiomatic; opposing)
• He-Man & She-Ra (fictional; colleagues)
• He-Man & Skeletor (fictional; rivals)
• Hennes & Mauritz Swedish clothing manufacturer
• Hero & Leander (mythological/legendary; couples)
• Edmund Hillary & Tenzing Norgay (colleagues)
• Hinge & Bracket (colleagues; entertainers)
• Hiroshima & Nagasaki (geographical) (First, and to date only, targets of nuclear attack)
• Hobbs & Sutcliffe
• Hollywood and Vine (geographical; intersections)
• Homer & Jethro (colleagues; entertainers)
• Homer & Marge (fictional; couples)
• Holmes and Cooney (rivals; boxers; later friends)
• Sherlock Holmes & Dr. Watson (fictional; colleagues; companions)
• Sherlock Holmes & Professor Moriarty (fictional; rivals/opponents)
• Holyfield and Tyson (rivals; boxers)
• homoousia & homoiousia (concepts; opposing)
• Horn & Hardart (commercial partners)

Hu

• Hubie and Bertie characters in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons
• Rock Hudson & Doris Day (colleagues; entertainers; movies) (fictional; couples) Played couples in battle-of-the-sexes comedies such as Pillow Talk
• Albert and Allen Hughes (brothers, filmmakers)
• Rod Hull and Emu (ventriloquist & dummy)
• Huntley & Brinkley (colleagues)

I

• The Iliad & the Odyssey (literary; complementary)
• Incubus & Succubus
• Itchy and Scratchy (fictional; rivals; characters in The Simpsons)
• Iztaccihuatl &Popocatepetl (geographical; juxtapositions) (Mexican volcanos named after mythical lovers)
• Izzy and Moe (colleagues]]

J

• Jack & Jill (proverbial/idiomatic; fictional; companions)
• Jagger & Richards (colleagues, songwriters, Rolling Stones)
• Jarndyce and Jarndyce (fictional; commercial partners) (legal case in Charles Dickens' novel, Bleak House)
• Agents Jay and Kay (fictional; colleagues)
• Jay & Silent Bob (fictional; companions)
• Jeeves & Wooster (fictional; companions)
• Thomas Jefferson & Sally Hemings (couples; scandalous)
• Jekyll & Hyde (fictional)
• Joel and Brinkley (couples)
• Steve Jobs & Steve Wozniak (colleagues; commercial partners) The proverbial "two Steves in a garage" who founded Apple Computer, Inc.. (with assistance from Mike Markkula)
• Johnson & Johnson (commercial partners)
• Martin and Osa Johnson (film makers)
• Irène Joliot-Curie & Frédéric Joliot (scientists, couple)
• Joseph & Mary (Biblical; couples)
• The Jukes & the Kallikaks (conceptual; opposing)
• Jules & Vincent (fictional; companions)
• Jules et Jim (fictional; companions)
• Juno & the Peacock; see also Aesop, Alfred Hitchcock, Sean O'Casey (fictional; couples)

K

• Kenan & Kel (colleagues; Nickelodeon show)
• Kermit & Miss Piggy (fictional; companions)
• Kernighan & Ritchie (colleagues) Computer scientists
• Nancy Kerrigan & Tonya Harding (rivals; opponents; athletes) Figure-skaters. Famous because of Harding's 1994 participation in a conspiracy to disable Kerrigan.
• Kirk and Spock (fictional; colleagues)
• Keuffel & Esser (commercial partners) (slide rule manufacturer)
• King & Country (proverbial/idiomatic; complementary)
• King and Queen
• Kruder & Dorfmeister (partner DJs)

L

La-Li - Lo-Lu

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La-Li

• Lady & The Tramp (fictional; couples)
• Lancelot & Guinevere (mythological/legendary; couples)
• Land's End and John O'Groats (geographical; promontories at opposite extremities of Great Britain)
• Last Will and Testament (a person's stated wishes for the distribution of their assets after death)
• Laurel & Hardy (colleagues; entertainers; animated cartoon)
• The Law & the Prophets
• Lea & Perrins (commercial partners)
• Leda & the Swan (mythological/legendary; couples)
• Leicestershire & Rutland (geographical; juxtapositions)
• Left & right (conceptual; opposing)
• Lennon and McCartney (song writers)
• Leonard and Duran (rivals; boxers)
• Leonard and Hearns (rivals; boxers)
• Leopold & Loeb (colleagues; criminals)
• Les Paul and Mary Ford (colleagues; couples; entertainers)
• Lewis & Clark (historical; colleagues)
• Lewis and Holyfield (rivals; boxers)
• Lineweaver & Burk
• Lindwall & Miller
• Little & Large
• Life or death (conceptual; antitheses)

Lo-Lu

• Lone Ranger & Tonto (fictional; colleagues)
• Louis and Schmeling (rivals; boxers)
• Love and Death (movie title by Woody Allen)
• Lucy & Desi (colleagues; couples; rivals/opponents; commercial partners; entertainers)
• Auguste and Louis Lumière (brothers, filmmakers)
• Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne (colleagues; couples; entertainers; theatre)

M

Ma - Me-Mo - Mu

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• McDonnell and Douglas (commercial partners)
• McGwire and Sosa (athletes, friendly rivals, both of whom broke Roger Maris' home run record in 1998)
• Aimee Semple McPherson & Kenneth G. Ormiston (couples; scandalous)

Ma

• Mad dogs & Englishmen (proverbial/idiomatic; complementary; title) Noel Coward song title, referring to creatures that "go out in the mid-day sun" in tropical climes; also motion picture title, name of singing group, name of advertising agency.
• Madonna and Sean Penn (couples)
• M & M's
• Marc Antony and Pussyfoot characters in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons
• Large Magellanic Cloud & Small Magellanic Cloud (astronomical; juxtapositions)
• Mahler & Bruckner (complementary) Symphonic composers who are frequently paired and seem to appeal to similar musical tastes.
• Mainyu & Mazda (mythological/legendary; conceptual; rivals/opponents)
• Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis (entertainers; colleagues; actors) created a successful stage comedy duo
• Mantle and Maris (baseball teammates, chased Babe Ruth's home run record in 1961)
• Marks & Spencer (commercial partners)
• Marx & Engels (colleagues)
• Mary & her little lamb (fictional; companions) (Sarah Josepha Hale's nursery poem, "Mary had a Little Lamb")
• Mary & Joseph (biblical; complementary; couples)
• Mason & Dixon (colleagues)
• Masters & Johnson (colleagues; scientists)

Me-Mo

• Meat & Potatoes (proverbial/idiomatic; complementary; food)

(Merrick and Rosso (Australian comedians)

• Mexicali & Calexico (geographical; juxtapositions; twin cities)
• Michaelis & Menten (colleagues; scientists)
• Michelson & Morley (colleagues; scientists)
• Mills & Boon (commercial partners) British publisher of romance novels.
• Wilbur Mills & Fanne Foxe (couples; scandalous) (Senator caught with stripper, in the "tidal basin" incident)
• Mississippi-Missouri (geographical; juxtapositions) Conjoined river systems
• Mizar & Alcor (astronomical; juxtapositions) (the "horse and rider")
• Modesty Blaise & Willie Garvin
• Moet et Chandon (champagne manufacturer)
• The Monitor & the Merrimack (rivals/opponents)
• Montague & Capulet (fictional; rival families)
• Mom and pop (conceptual; complementary)
• Morecambe & Wise (colleagues; entertainers; comedians)
• Mork & Mindy (fictional; companions; television)
• Morse & Lewis
• Motherhood & apple pie (proverbial/idiomatic; complementary) The two primary undisputed American values

Mu

• Mum and dad (conceptual; complementary)
• Mums and Dads (investors of modest means; Andrea's regular greeting to her radio listeners)
• Mutt and Jeff (fictional; companions; comic strip) Creations of Harry Conway "Bud" Fisher; it was the first well-known daily comic strip. Hence also (idiomatic/proverbial) for any tall-short pair of men.
• Mutt & Jeff (colleagues; spies)
• Fox Mulder and Dana Scully (fictional; colleagues; television)

N

• Nancy & Sluggo (fictional; companions; comic strip) (Creations of Ernie Bushmiller)
• Napoleon & Josephine (couples)
• Nature or nuture (proverbial/idiomatic; opposing)
• Neanderthals & Cro-Magnons
• Evelyn Nesbit & Stanford White (couples; scandalous)
• Newfoundland & Labrador (geographical; juxtapositions)
• North Island & South Island (New Zealand)
• nuts & bolts (proverbial/idiomatic; complementary)

O

• Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler
• Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh
• Olmedo and Porcel (entertainers)
• One Man & His Dog
• Oranges and lemons (proverbial/idiomatic; complementary) (Nursery rhyme)
• Orkney & Shetland (geographical; juxtapositions)
• Orthanc & Minas Morgul (Tolkien's (fictional; geographical; juxtapositions; rivals/opponents) Two Towers)
• Orthoclase & Plagioclase (complementary) (minerals found together in feldspar)
• Oscar and Lucinda (Peter Carey book title)
• Donny and Marie Osmond (siblings, entertainers)
• Othello & Desdemona (fictional; couples; theatre) (creations of William Shakespeare)
• The Owl & the Pussycat (fictional; couples)

P

Pa-Pl - Po-Pu

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Pa-Pl

• Pat and Patachon
• Peaches & cream (proverbial/idiomatic; complementary)
• Pelleas et Melisande (mythological/legendary; couples)
• Penn & Teller (colleagues; entertainers; illusionists)
• Penrod & Sam (fictional; companions) Creations of Booth Tarkington
• Pepsi and Coke (proverbial, market rivals)
• Peter Pan & Wendy (fictional; companions) Creations of J. M. Barrie
• Phil and Grant Mitchell (fictional; brothers in EastEnders)
• Phileas Fogg & Passepartout (fictional; companions) (Creations of Jules Verne)
• Philemon & Baucis (mythological/legendary; couples)
• Phobos & Deimos (astronomical; juxtapositions) Satellites of Mars
• Piston & Cylinder (equipment; complementary)
• Pinky & the Brain (fictional; cartoon mice)
• Pinky and Perky (fictional; children's television puppet pigs)
• Plankton & Nekton
• Plug & Socket (equipment; complementary)

Po-Pu

• Pompeii & Herculaneum (geographical; juxtapositions) Adjacent cities destroyed in the A. D. 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius
• Porgy & Bess (fictional; couples) Title of and characters in DuBose Heyward's novel, on which the Gershwin opera was based
• Postman Pat & Jess (fictional; children's television character and cat)
• Press & Journal
• Posh & Becks
• Pride & Prejudice (literature; juxtapositions) a novel by Jane Austen
• Procter & Gamble (commercial partners)
• Proton & neutron (scientific; complementary)
• Pryor and Arguello (rivals; boxers)
• Pyramus & Thisbe (fictional; couples)
• Punch & Judy (fictional; archetypes; couples; rivals/opponents)
• Punt & Dennis (colleagues; entertainers)
• Pupienus & Balbinus

Q

• Strange & Charm Quarks (complementary)
• A.B. and Selena Quintanilla (siblings, entertainers)
• Quisp & Quake

R

Ra-Ri - Ro - Ru-Rw

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Ra-Ri

• Pierre-Esprit Radisson & Médard des Groseilliers
• Ramadhin & Valentine (cricket players, subject of song)
• Rand & McNally (commercial partners)
• The Raw & the Cooked
• Ray and Cruz (musicians, Christian salsa)
• Redgrave & Pinsent (colleagues; athletes)
• Reeves & Mortimer
• Regis & Kathie Lee (colleagues; entertainers; television)
• Regis & Kelly
• Ren & Stimpy (fictional; colleagues; animated cartoon)
• Rhode Island & Providence Plantations (geographical; juxtapositions) (Rhode Island's official name)
• Rhubarb & Custard (foods; complementary; fictional character; companions)
• Ring and KO Magazine (sister publications)

Ro

• Robinson and LaMotta (rivals; boxers)
• Robinson and Turpin (rivals; boxers)
• Rocky and Bullwinkle (fictional; colleagues; animated cartoon)
• Rocky and Mugsy characters in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons
• Rod & reel (equipment; complementary)
• Rodgers & Hammerstein (colleagues; songwriters)
• Rodgers & Hart (colleagues; songwriters)
• The Two Ronnies (colleagues; comedians; Ronnie Corbett and Ronnie Barker)
• Roy Rogers & Dale Evans (colleagues; couples; entertainers; singers; motion pictures)
• Rolls & Royce (commercial partners)
• Romeo & Juliet (fictional; couples) Creations of William Shakespeare
• Romulus & Remus (mythological/legendary; siblings)
• Rosencrantz & Guildenstern (fictional; companions) Creations of William Shakespeare, also used by Tom Stoppard
• Roy & HG Australian comedy-based sporting commentators (or sporting-based comedians)
• Le Rouge & le Noir (conceptual; opposing; famous title) Stendhal's novel; red army uniforms vs. black church robes
• Rowan & Martin (colleagues; entertainers; comedians; television)

Ru-Rw

• Ruler & compass (technical; equipment; complementary) The two instruments whose use is permitted in formal geometrical constructions.
• Russell & Whitehead (colleagues; mathematicians)
• Ruth & Naomi (mythological/legendary; Biblical; companions)
• Rwanda & Burundi (geographical; juxtapositions)

S

Sa-Sh - Si-Sm - So-Su

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Sa-Sh

• Saint Kitts and Nevis (geographical; juxtapositions)
• Saint-Pierre and Miquelon (geographical; juxtapositions)
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (geographical; juxtapositions)
• Salt & pepper (proverbial/idiomatic; complementary; food)
• Salt & vinegar (proverbial/idiomatic; complementary; food)
• Samson & Delilah (mythological/legendary; Biblical; couples)
• San Diego & Tijuana (geographical; juxtapositions; twin cities)
• São Tomé and Príncipe (geographical; juxtapositions; twin islands)
• Sapphire & Steel (fictional; colleagues)
• Scylla & Charybdis (See also Scylla & Charybdis) (mythological/legendary)
• Sears & Roebuck (commercial partners)
• Sellar & Yeatman (colleagues; authors; humorists) Authors of 1066 and All That
• Sense & Sensibility (literature; juxtapositions) a novel by Jane Austen
• Shadows and Fog (movie title by Woody Allen)
• Shave & a haircut (proverbial/idiomatic; complementary)
• Shaw Brothers (filmmakers)

Si-Sm

• Siegfried & Roy (colleagues; entertainers)
• Silk & Satin (proverbial pairing of two lustrous, luxurious fabrics)
• Simon & Garfunkel (colleagues; entertainers)
• Simon & Schuster (commercial partners)
• Sirius & Sirius B (astronomical; juxtapositions) (binary star system)
• Siskel & Ebert (colleagues) (Print and television movies reviewers) (Siskel 1946-1999)(Ebert& Roeper aren't really a "famous pair" yet)
• Skull & Bones (proverbial/idiomatic; complementary) Name of Yale secret society.
• Skull & Crossbones (proverbial/idiomatic; complementary) Symbol of death, piracy, and poison.
• Slap & Tickle
• John Smith & Pocahontas (couples)
• Smith & Jones (fictional; colleagues)
• Smith & Wesson (commercial partners) (gunmakers)
• Smoke & mirrors (proverbial/idiomatic) The illusionist's elements
• Smothers Brothers (colleagues; entertainers)

So-Su

• King Solomon & the Queen of Sheba (mythological/legendary; Biblical; couples)
• Somerville and Ross
• Sonny & Cher (colleagues; entertainers; couples)
• Sons and Lovers (novel by D H Lawrence)
• Sooty & Sweep
• Spider and Rosie (get laid)
• Spike the Bulldog and Chester the Terrier characters in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons
• Square & compass (symbols; juxtapositions) (Masonic emblem)
• Stalagmites & Stalactites (conceptual; complementary; opposing)
• Sticks & stones (proverbial/idiomatic; complementary) Sticks and stone may break my bones, but words will never hurt me
• Stallone and Nielsen (couples)
• Starsky & Hutch (fictional; colleagues)
• Steptoe and Son (fictional; companions)
• Steve and Mark Waugh, Australian cricket players and twin brothers
• John Stockton and Karl Malone, NBA legends; teammates for nearly 20 years
• Strauss & Howe
• Strunk and White (editors)
• Sturm und Drang ("Storm and Stress", German literary movement)
• Superman & Wonder Woman (fictional; colleagues)
• Chris Sutton & Alan Shearer (English football players, known as SAS)

T

Ta-To - Tr-Ty

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Ta-To

• Tarzan & Jane (fictional; couples)
• Terms and Conditions (legal term)
• Tex & Jinx (colleagues; entertainers)
• Thelma & Louise (fictional; companions)
• Thomson and Thompson (Dupont et Dupond in the original Belgian) twin-like detectives in the Tintin comic series
• Thompson Twins, a New Wave band best known for their ballad "Hold Me Now"—but for their most successful years, they were a trio, not a pair.
• Thunder & lightning (proverbial/idiomatic; complementary)
• Strom Thurmond & Essie Butler (couples; scandalous) Biological parents of mixed-race Essie Mae Washington-Williams
• Tintin & Snowy (fictional; companions)
• Tom & Jerry (fictional; rivals/opponents; animated cartoon); also (proverbial/idiomatic).
• Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn (fictional; companions)
• Tommy and Tuppence (fictional; created by Agatha Christie)
• Tool & Die (equipment; complementary)
• Tonsils & Adenoids (anatomical; juxtapositions) (Customarily removed together; routine surgical procedure for children in the U. S. in the 1940s and 1950s).
• Torvill & Dean (colleagues; entertainers) (figure skaters)

Tr-Ty

• Travolta and Preston, (couples)
• Trinidad & Tobago (geographical; juxtapositions)
• Tristan & Isolde (fictional; couples)
• Troilus & Cressida (fictional; couples)
• Trylon & Perisphere (juxtapositions) Iconic monuments of the 1939 New York World's Fair
• Trueman & Statham
• Tunney and Dempsey, (rivals; boxers; later friends)
• Turks & Caicos (geographical; juxtapositions)
• Town Mouse & Country Mouse
• Tracy & Hepburn (colleagues; entertainers; couples)
• Tudors & Stuarts
• Tweedledum & Tweedledee (idiomatic/proverbial; complementary) Proverbial for an trivial difference; originally creations of John Byrom, referring to musical controversy; also (fictional; twins) creations of Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking-Glass
• Tyne & Wear (geographical; juxtapositions)

U

• Uday & Qusay (siblings)
• Ulna & Radius (juxtapositions; complementary)
• Uranium-235 & Uranium-238 (complementary) (Almost inseparable isotopes)

V

• Van & Schenck (colleagues; entertainers; vaudeville)
• Victoria & Albert (couples); see also Victoria and Albert Museum
• Vieques and Culebra (geographical; juxstapositions)
• Vijay and Anand Amritraj, tennis players

W

• Wallace & Gromit (fictional; companions; motion pictures; animation) Fictional creations of Nick Park
• Wachowksi brothers - (Andy and Larry) (filmmakers, brothers)
• War & Peace (conceptual; literature; juxtaposition)
• George Washington & Abraham Lincoln (complementary) Portraits frequently paired in U. S. classrooms; two highest rankers in the American Presidential pantheon
• Wayne & Garth (fictional; companions)
• Wayne & Shuster (colleagues; entertainers)
• Watson & Crick (colleagues; scientists)
• Weber & Fields (colleagues; entertainers)
• Harvey Weinstein and Robert Weinstein (brothers, filmmakers)
• Whigs & Tories (rivals; factions)
• Venus and Serena Williams (siblings; athletes; tennis)
• Wilbur & Orville Wright (colleagues; siblings)
• Nero Wolfe & Archie Goodwin (fictional; colleagues; detectives) Creations of Rex Stout
• The Woodies, tennis players Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde
• Woodward & Bernstein (colleagues; journalists)
• Peg Woffington & Christie Johnstone
• One and Two World Trade Center, New York (geographical; juxtapositions)

X

• Xerxes I & Esther (mythological/legendary; Biblical; rivals/opponents)
• Xylem & Phloem (technical; complementary) Botanical circulatory elements

Y

• Yin & Yang (conceptual; complementary and opposing)
• York & Lancaster (rivals/opponents)

Z

• Zager & Evans (colleagues; entertainers; musicians; rock band)
• Zenith & Nadir (concepts; opposing)
• Zeno & Chrysippus (see also Stoicism)
• Zero & One (concepts; opposing; complementary)
• Zeus & Ganymede (mythological; couples)

See also

• List of famous trinities, trios, triplets, or threesomes
• List of twins
• List of couples
  • List of Hollywood celebrity couples
• List of notable boxing rivalries