Hello Kitty -- despite having a name that's 50 percent devoted to the term that refers to a young cat -- is no feline. She is, rather, a little girl, the Los Angeles Times reports.

On the 50th anniversary of Hello Kitty, fans were shocked to learn that their beloved cat-inspired character is, in fact, not a feline at all — she's a little girl.

Hello Kitty is a girl, not a cat. Olivia Wong/FilmMagic Not only is Hello Kitty not a cat, she actually has a pet cat of her own, named Charmmy Kitty. One of the reasons the details of her canon ...

On Thursday, July 18, Sanrio — the developers of Hello Kitty — confirmed that the beloved character is not a cat during an appearance on the 'Today' show.

Hello Kitty rules the world. Picking up where Snoopy left off, 40-year-old Hello Kitty adorns purses, mugs and much more. She inspired a Lady Gaga photo shoot (see video below). She has starred in ...

Japan reports that yesterday, at a press event for the new Hello Kitty anime, Sanrio’s 86-year-old president and founder Shintaro Tsuji was asked if Hello Kitty was a cat, to which he replied: ...

For the longest time, many thought that Hello Kitty was a cat because of her prominent whiskers, but her creators said that she was actually a little girl born and raised in the suburbs of London.

“Hello Kitty is not a cat,” Jill Koch, Senior Vice President of Marketing and Brand Management at Sanrio, told the “Today” show Thursday ahead of the brand’s 50th anniversary celebrations.

Hello Kitty—a brand beloved by innocent children and sarcastic teenagers—is not actually a cat. This from Christine R. Yano, anthropologist and Hello Kitty scholar.

Hello Kitty was done in the motif of a cat. It's going too far to say that Hello Kitty is not a cat. Hello Kitty is a personification of a cat.