Irish Setter - Notable Setters

Notable Setters

• Alex the Dog from the Stroh's beer commercials (half Irish Setter, half Golden Retriever)
• Big Red, book and movie character
• Chauncey, fictional dog of Duck Phillips in Mad Men
• Garry Owen, pet of Maine Governor Percival Proctor Baxter
• King Timahoe, pet of Richard Nixon
• Kojak, fictional dog in the Stephen King novel The Stand
• Mike, pet of US President Harry Truman
• Milord, a red Setter which was Alexander II, tsar of Russia's favorite dog
• Plunkett, the only Irish setter depicted in George Earl's mythical painting of "A Field Trial in the Eighties"
• Shannon, pet of Beach Boy Carl Wilson, whose death became the subject of the 1976 song by a friend, Henry Gross
• T-Bone, mascot for the Pace University Setters sports teams
• Thunder, first mascot for the University of British Columbia Thunderbirds sports teams
• Seamus (dog), owned by Mitt Romney.