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 former 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)

See also

• List of Hollywood celebrity couples
• Lists of people