List of famous pairs

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 incluced.

Table of contents

1 A

1.1 Aa-Al
1.2 Am-Au

2 B

2.3 Ba
2.4 Be-Bi
2.5 Bl-Bo
2.6 Br-Bu

3 C

3.7 Ca-Ce
3.8 Ch-Co
3.9 Cr-Cy

4 D
5 E
6 F
7 G
8 H

8.10 Ha
8.11 He-Hi
8.12 Ho-Hu

9 I
10 J
11 K
12 L

12.13 La-Li
12.14 Lo-Lu

13 M

13.15 Ma
13.16 Me-Mo
13.17 Mu

14 N
15 O
16 P

16.18 Pa-Pl
16.19 Po-Pu

17 Q
18 R

18.20 Ra-Ri
18.21 Ro
18.22 Ru-Rw

19 S

19.23 Sa-Sh
19.24 Si-Sm
19.25 So-Su

20 T

20.26 Ta-To
20.27 Tr-Ty

21 U
22 V
23 W
24 X
25 Y
26 Z
27 See also

A

Aa-Al - Am-Au

Aa-Al

Aachen & Aix-la-Chapelle (geographical; juxtapositions) (German and French names for the same town)
Abbott & Costello (colleagues; entertainers)
Abelard & 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)

Am-Au

American Falls & Horseshoe Falls (geographical; juxtapositions)
Amoeba & Paramecium (complementary) Prototypical protozoans studied in elementary biology classes
Amos & Andy (fictional; companions)
Anderson & Webster (collegues; comedians)
Andrade and Trevi (controversial couple, entertainers, accused of crimes)
animus & anima (conceptual)
Ant & Dec (collegues; entertainers)
Anthony and Dayanara (couples)
Antigua & Barbuda
Antony & Cleopatra (couples)
Anna & the King of Siam (colleagues) (Anna Leonowens and King Mongkut )''
Apples and oranges (proverbial/idiomatic; conceptual; opposing; food)
Arguello and Escalera (rivals; boxers)
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

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 (collegues; 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)
Ben & Jerry (commercial partners)
Benjamin Britten & Peter Pears (colleagues; couples)
Beren & Luthien (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, q.v. 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)
Boardwalk & Park Place (complementary; juxtapositions)
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)
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)
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

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
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)
Chalk & Cheese (proverbial/idiomatic; rivals/opponents) British phrase, "as different as chalk and cheese"
Chang & Eng (twins) The eponymous "Siamese twins"
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)
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 (comercial partners)
Cruise and Kidman (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)
Danger Mouse & Penfold
David & Goliath (mythological/legendary; Biblical; rivals/opponents)
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)
Dick & Jane (fictional; siblings) (in the Scott, Foresman primary readers, very widely used in the U. S.)
Big Diomede Island & Little Diomede Island (geographical)
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)
Dorethy & Toto (fictional; companions)
Drum and bugle corps (equipment; complementary) Marching band musical complement.

E

Echevarria and Vigoreaux, (couples, she went to jail acussed 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)
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)
Fish & chips (proverbial/idiomatic; complementary; food)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau & Gerald Moore
Flanders & Swann (colleagues; entertainers)
Flannigan & Allen
Flotsam & Jetsam (proverbial/idiomatic)
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)

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)
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-Hi - Ho-Hu

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)
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 [1] (rivals/opponents)

He-Hi

Heaven & Earth (proverbial/idiomatic; opposing)
Heaven & Hell (proverbial/idiomatic; opposing)
He-Man & She-ra (fictional; collegues)
He-Man & Skeletor (fictional; rivals)
Hero & Leander (mythological/legendary; couples)
Edmund Hillary & Tenzing Norgay (colleagues)
Hinge & Bracket (collegues; entertainers)
Hiroshima & Nagasaki (geographical) (First, and to date only, targets of nuclear attack)

Ho-Hu

Hobbs & Sutcliffe
Hollywood & 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)
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)
Izzy and Moe (collegues]]

J

Jack & Jill (proverbial/idiomatic; fictional; companions)
Jarndyce & Jarndyce (fictional; commercial partners) (law firm in Charles Dickens' novel, Bleak House)
Agents Jay and Kay (fictional; colleagues)
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)
Joseph & Mary (Biblical; couples)
The Jukes & the Kallikaks (conceptual; opposing)
Jules et Jim (fictional; companions)
Juno & the Peacock; see also Aesop, Alfred Hitchcock, Sean O'Casey (fictional; couples)

K

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)
Kruder & Dorfmeister (partner DJs)

L

La-Li - Lo-Lu

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)
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)
Leonard and Duran (rivals; boxers)
Leonard and Hearns (rivals; boxers)
Leopold & Loeb (colleagues; criminals)
Lewis & Clark (fictional; colleagues)
Lewis and Holyfield (rivals; boxers)
Lennon & McCartney (colleagues; songwriters)
Lineweaver & Burk
Lindwall & Miller
Little & Large
Live or die (conceptual; antitheses)

Lo-Lu

Lone Ranger & Tonto (fictional; colleagues)
Louis and Schmeling (rivals; boxers)
Lucy & Desi (colleagues; couples; rivals/opponents; commercial partners; entertainers)
Auguste and Louis Lumi�re (brothers, filmmakers)
Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne (colleagues; couples; entertainers; theatre)

M

Ma - Me-Mo - Mu

McDonnell and Douglas (commercial partners)
McGwire and Sosa (colleagues, 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
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)
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)
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
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)

Mutt & 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)
Nuts & bolts (proverbial/idiomatic; complementary)

O

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)
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

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 (provervial, market rivals)
Peter Pan & Wendy (fictional; companions) Creations of J. M. Barrie
Phileas Fogg & Passepartout (fictionall companions)
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 character 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 (collegues; entertainers)
Pupienus & Balbinus

Q

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

R

Ra-Ri - Ro - Ru-Rw

Ra-Ri

Pierre-Esprit Radisson & M�dard 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)
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)
Rod & reel (equipment; complementary)
Rodgers & Hammerstein (colleagues; songwriters)
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

St. Kitts & Nevis (geographical; juxtapositions)
St. Pierre & Miquelon (geographical; juxtapositions)
St. Vincent & the Grenadines (geographical; juxtapositions)

Sa-Sh

Salt & pepper (proverbial/idiomatic; complementary; food)
Salt & vinager (proverbial/idiomatic; complementary; food)
Samson & Delilah (mythological/legendary; Biblical; couples)
San Diego & Tijuana (geographical; juxtapositions; twin cities)
Sao Tome & Principe (geographical; juxtapositions; twin cities)
Sapphire & Steel (fictional; collegues)
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
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)
Sooty & Sweep
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)
Strauss & Howe
Superman & Wonder Woman (fictional; collegues)

T

Ta-To - Tr-Ty

Ta-To

Tarzan & Jane (fictional; couples)
Tex & Jinx (colleagues; entertainers)
Thelma & Louise (fictional; companions)
Thunder & lightning (proverbial/idiomatic; complementary)
Strom Thurmond & Essie Butler (couples; scandalous) Biological parents of mixed-race Essie Mae Washington-Williams
Tintin & Snowy (fictional; companions)
Titanic & Britannic (twin White Star ships that both met tragic fates)
Tom & Jerry (fictional; rivals/opponents; animated cartoon); also (proverbial/idiomatic).
Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn (fictional; companions)
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
Victoria & Albert (couples); see also Victoria and Albert Museum

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)
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 & 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
Zenith & Nadir (concepts; opposing)
Zeno & Chrysippus (see also Stoicism)
Zero & One (concepts; opposing; complementary)
Zeus & Ganymede (mythological; couples)