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Titanic Passenger Bios

Captain Edward J. Smith—Captain of the RMS Titanic

Molly Brown—American socialite, philanthropist and activist

Colonel John Jacob Astor—Solider, inventor and financier

Madeleine Astor—Wife of John Astor

Elizabeth "Millvina" Dean—Last living survivor

Benjamin Guggenheim—Industrialist

Isidor Straus—Macy's owner

Cosmo Duff Gordon—Scottish landowner and sportsman

Lady Duff Gordon—Wife of Duff Gordon

George Dunton Widener—Streetcar magnate

John Thayer—Cricketer and Pennsylvania railroad executive

William Thomas Stead—English Journalist

Charles Melville Hays—President of Grand Trunk Railway System

Noelle, Countess of Rothes—Countess

Major Archibald Butt—U.S. military officer and presidential aide

Helen Churchill Candee—Author and socialite

Jacques Futrelle—Author

Francis Davis Millet—Writer and painter

Dorothy Gibson—American silent film actress

J. Bruce Ismay—White Star Line's Managing Director

Thomas Andrews—Shipbuilder

Lawrence Beesley—Journalist

Thomas Byles—Priest

George Washington Roebling—Son of Brooklyn Bridge builder

Michel Navratil—Frenchman who had kidnapped his two sons

Sidney Leslie Goodwin—A 19-month-old boy from England who was identified by DNA analysis in 2007

Stuart Collett—Survivor

Barbara West Dainton—Second to last remaining survivor

Hetty Dean Dainton—Milvina's mother

Eva Hart—One of last remaining survivors

Lillian Asplund—Last American survivor

Robert Hichens—Quartermaster

Frederick Fleet—Lookout on the Titanic

Violet Jessop—Ocean liner stewardess