Famous Passengers Aboard
Some of the most well-recognizable names of the time were aboard the Titanic when it sank, view a select list here and discover if they lived or died.
NOTE: * indicates a famous person mentioned in the script of Titanic: The Musical
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Margaret “The Unsinkable Molly” Brown SURVIVED
American actress, philanthropist, human rights activist.
John Jacob Astor IV* DIED
American business magnate and New York real estate developer.
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Madeleine Astor* SURVIVED
American socialite and second wife.
Benjamin Guggenheim* DIED
American businessman and patron of art.
Cosmo and Lucy Duff-Gordon SURVIVED
Prominent Englishman and sportsman.
Leading British fashion designer.
George Widener* DIED
Heir to a wealthy streetcar magnate and Philadelphia fortune.
John B. Thayer* DIED
Pennsylvania Railroad executive.
Charlotte Drake Cardeza (Cardoza)* SURVIVED
Daughter of a British textile manufacturer and married into Pennsylvania wealth.
Jacques Futrelle DIED
American journalist and mystery writer.
Archibald Butt DIED
U.S. Army officer and military aide to Roosevelt/Taft.
Charles Melville Hays DIED
President of the Grand Trunk Railway.
Henry B. Harris DIED
Broadway producer and theater owner.
Dorothy Gibson SURVIVED
American actress and socialite. Featured in the first film about the disaster.
Missed the Boat
Several famous people intended to take the journey on the Titanic and passed on their spot due to other obligations:
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Theodore Dreiser
American novelist and journalist.
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian electrical engineer and inventor known for the wireless telegraph system.
Milton Hershey
American chocolatier, businessman, philanthropist.
J.P. Morgan
American financier and investment banker.
Henry Clay Frick
Pennsylvanian industrialist.
The Vanderbilts
Gilded age American prominent family with success built on shipping and railroads.