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Notable and Celebrity passengers
Among the people who died there were many famous and wealthy Americans and Europeans who for many different reasons chose to make the Atlantic crossing at such a dangerous time. Of the roughly 1,200 people who perished, the following are worthy of mention:
- Frances McIntosh Stephens, a Montréal socialite and wife of Canadian politician George W. Stephens;
- Mary Amelia Crowther Ryerson , wife of George Ryerson, founder of the Canadian Red Cross;
- Lindon W. Bates , a political figure and engineer from New York;
- Harvard University Lecturer Edwin W. Friend
- Anna and Gwendolyn Allen daughters of H. Montagu Allan, a Canadian banker and ship owner
- Actress Amelia Herbert
- Marie Depage the Belgian wife of surgeon Antoine Depage, founder and president of the Belgian Red Cross
- American fashion designer Carrie Kennedy and her sister Catherine Hickson
- hotel proprietor Albert Bilicke
- Anne Shymer , president of the United States Chemical Company
- English-born American playwright and actor Charles Klein
- American writer Justus Miles Forman
- Charles Frohman , American theatre producer
- American artist and philosopher Elbert Hubbard who founded Roycroft, and his wife Alice who was a women’s rights activist
- American pianist Charles Knight and his sister Elaine
- Irish-born Sir Hugh Lane founder of the Dublin Gallery
- Alfred Scott Witherbee , son of the president of the Mexican Petroleum Solid Fuel Company, and the former’s grandmother Mary C. Brown
- American entrepreneur Frederick Pearson and his wife Mabel
- American genealogist and historian Lothrop Withington
- sportsman and millionaire Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt member of the rich Vanderbilt family
- Mary Picton Stevens wife of the American ambassador to Spain
- Editor and publisher Herbert Stone
- Basil Maturin , Anglican priest and writer
- Phyllis Hutchinson 20 year-old niece of financial agent Andrew Carnegie
- Arthur Henry Adams president of the United States Rubber Company
- Paul Crompton director of Booth Steampship Company, who died with his wife Gladys and their six children, as well as their nanny; Iris Burnsidegranddaughter of Timothy Eaton, founder of Eaton’s department store
- Albert L. Hopkins president of Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company
- Mining entrepeneur William Broderick Cloete and William Sterling Hodges who perished with his wife and two sons.
- Mother-in-law of Montgomery Ward president Robert J. Thorne, Catherine E. Willey
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