These are the most famos cases and most well know bobbleheads that can be used as trophies.

• The UK car insurance company "Churchill" uses a bobblehead of a British Bulldog as its mascot.
• Bobbleheads are referred to in the Nikolai Gogol short story The Overcoat in 1842.
• In the Firefly episode "Trash", the characters discuss a shipment of bobblehead geisha dolls they smuggled and sold.
• In 2003, as a promotional stunt, cable network GSN unveiled the "Chucklehead", an 11-foot-tall, 900-pound bobblehead statue of game show host Chuck Woolery.
• A George Bush & John Kerry bobblehead give-away involving 2500 Minor League baseball fans (at 7 stadiums) accurately predicted the United States presidential election, 2004.
• Child rapper Lil Romeo's album Romeoland includes a song called "Bobblehead". The lyrics compare the act of dancing to the motion of a bobblehead, with the chorus: "...take it to the floor and act like a fool / shake it, shake it, shake it like a bobblehead..."
• In The Office episode "Valentine's Day", Dwight Schrute receives a personalized bobblehead of himself. He also has a small collection of other bobbleheads on his desk.
• The Futurama episode "The Farnsworth Parabox" had an alternate universe where everyone appears as bobbleheaded versions of themselves.
• In 2006, Boston College commissioned Boxwood Brands - www.boxwoodbrands.com Bobbleheads to create a custom bobblehead of their Boston College Superfan
• The law journal The Green Bag created bobblehead dolls of certain U.S. Supreme Court justices, including Sandra Day O'Connor, Antonin Scalia, William Rehnquist, and John Paul Stevens.
• In Prison Break episode "Scan", fugitive Fernando Sucre steals an automobile fitted with a bobblehead of Mother Mary that cryptically appeared to nod and shake her head whenever Sucre devised a desperate idea to escape recapture.
• In Scrubs episode "My Way Home", Turk tries to make Dr. Bob Kelso choose him for making a heart transplant, by giving him a personalized bobblehead of himself.