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)

See also

• Lists of people