- Natalee Holloway
Natalee Ann Holloway (born October 21, 1986), from Mountain Brook, Alabama, United States, disappeared on May 30, 2005 during a graduation trip in Aruba. Holloway remains officially missing to this day, although according to Aruban authorities, she is most likely dead. The disappearance generated a media sensation in both the U.S. and Aruba and sparked considerable interest in the Netherlands.
- Jimmy Hoffa
James Riddle "Jimmy" Hoffa (February 14, 1913, disappeared July 30, 1975, date of death unknown) was an American labor leader, gangster, fraudster and criminal convict. As the president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s, Hoffa wielded considerable influence. After his conviction, he served nearly a decade in prison.
- Amelia Earhart
Amelia Mary Earhart was a noted American aviation pioneer and women's rights advocate. Earhart was the first woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross, which she was awarded as the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. She set many other records, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, a women's pilots' organization.
- Lori Hacking
Lori Kay Soares Hacking (December 31, 1976 - July 2004) was a Salt Lake City, Utah, woman who was killed by her husband, Mark Hacking, in 2004. She was reported missing by her husband, and the search earned national attention before her husband confessed to the crime.
- Kristin Smart
Kristin Denise Smart (born February 20, 1977, legally presumed dead 2002) is a missing person. She went missing at 2 a.m. on May 25, 1996 while attending California Polytechnic State University and has not been heard from since.
- Glenn Miller
Alton Glenn Miller (March 1, 1904 - presumably December 15, 1944), was an American jazz musician and bandleader in the swing era. He was one of the best-selling recording artists from 1939 to 1942, leading one of the best known "Big Bands." During World War II, while traveling to entertain U.S. troops in France, his plane disappeared in bad weather. His body was never found. Miller's signature recordings - including, among others, "In the Mood", "Tuxedo Junction", …
- Jim Thompson
Jim Thompson (born March 21, 1906 in Greenville, Delaware) (Died 26th March 1967 in Pahang ,Malaysia ??) was an American businessman who helped revitalize Thailand's silk and textile industry in the 1950s and 1960s. A former U.S. military intelligence officer who once worked for the Office of Strategic Services, Thompson mysteriously disappeared while going for a walk on Easter Sunday, March 26, 1967 in the Cameron Highlands of Malaysia.
- Joe Pichler
Joseph "Joe" Pichler (born 14 February 1987 in Bremerton, Washington) is an American actor who has been missing since January 5, 2006.
- Vivian Solon
Vivian Alvarez Solon is an Australian who was unlawfully removed to the Philippines by the Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs (DIMIA) in July 2001. In May 2005, it became public knowledge that she had been deported, although DIMIA knew of their mistake in 2003. Solon's family had listed her as a missing person since July 2003, and until May 2005, did not know that she had been deported.
- Eloise Worledge
Eloise Worledge (October 8, 1967 - probably died January 1976) is a missing person, who as an eight year old girl was abducted from her home in Beaumaris, Australia in the early hours of 12 January, 1976.
- Joseph Rodriguez
Joseph Rodriguez (1932 - missing from September 6, 1936) was a four year old resident of East Harlem (also known as Spanish Harlem or El Barrio), New York, whose disappearance in 1936 remains one of the oldest known unsolved missing person's cases in New York City history.
- Frank Morris
Frank Lee Morris was an American criminal who escaped from Alcatraz and was never seen again.
- Harold Holt
Harold Edward Holt CH (5 August 1908 - presumed dead 17 December 1967) was an Australian politician who became the 17th Prime Minister of Australia in 1966. His term as Prime Minister was dramatically ended in December of the following year when he disappeared while swimming at Cheviot Beach near Portsea and was presumed drowned. Holt spent 32 years in Parliament, including many years as a senior Cabinet Minister, but he was Prime Minister for only 22 months.
- Jaidyn Leskie
Jaidyn Raymond Leskie (April 30, 1996 - June 15, 1997) was the Australian child of Bilynda Williams. He was kidnapped at age 14 months whilst under the care of a babysitter, Williams' then boyfriend Greg Domaszewicz, from Domaszewicz's house in Moe, Victoria in 1997, which led to the biggest search for a missing person in the Australia since the disappearance of Prime Minister Harold Holt in 1967. The body of Leskie was later recovered from Blue Rock Dam, …
- Hale Boggs
Thomas Hale Boggs, Sr., was an American Democratic politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for Louisiana. He was the House Majority Leader. In 1972, while he was still Majority Leader, the twin engine airplane in which Boggs was traveling over a remote section of Alaska disappeared. The plane presumably crashed and was never found. Congressman Nick Begich was also presumed killed in the same accident.
- Sergei Ivanov
Sergei Ivanov was a correspondent for St. Petersburg daily "Nevskoye Vremya", was last seen by his colleagues on June 16, 1995, when he left to Chechnya. Ivanov was going to look for "Nevskoye Vremya" journalists Maxim Chabalin and Felix Titov, who had not been heard from since they disappeared in Chechnya on February 27, 1995.
- George Mallory
George Herbert Leigh Mallory (18 June 1886 - 8 June/9 June 1924) was an English mountaineer who took part in the first three British expeditions to Mount Everest in the early 1920s. On the third expedition, in June of 1924, Mallory and his climbing partner Andrew Irvine both disappeared somewhere high on the North-East ridge during (or perhaps after completing) the final stage of their attempt to make the first ascent of the world's highest mountain.
- Andrew Irvine
Andrew "Sandy" Irvine was an English mountaineer who took part in the third British Expedition to Mount Everest in 1924. Irvine disappeared somewhere high on the North-East ridge, along with climbing partner George Mallory, whilst attempting to make the first ascent of the world's highest Mountain in June of that year. The pair's last known sighting was only a few hundred metres from the summit.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (pronounced) (June 29 1900 - presumably July 31 1944) was a French writer and aviator. One of his most famous works is "Le Petit Prince" ("The Little Prince"). He disappeared on the night of July 31, 1944 while flying on a mission to collect data on German troop movements.
- Michael Rockefeller
Michael Clark Rockefeller (born 1938 - presumed dead November 17, 1961), was the youngest son of New York Governor and former Vice President Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller and Mary Todhunter Rockefeller and a fourth generation member of the Rockefeller family. He disappeared during an expedition in the Asmat region of southwestern New Guinea.
- John Anglin
John William Anglin was an American criminal who escaped from Alcatraz along with his brother Clarence and Frank Morris on June 11 1962 and then was never heard from again. In the 1979 "Escape from Alcatraz" movie John Anglin was played by Fred Ward. Anglin was born in Donalsonville, Georgia. His FBI wanted poster states his occupation as a farmer and a laborer. He and his brother were arrested for grand larceny and bank robbery.
- Clarence Anglin
Clarence "Larry" Anglin was convicted of a number of bank robberies along with his brother John Anglin who escaped from Alcatraz prison in 1962 with Frank Morris. He is believed to have drowned in San Francisco Bay, but disappeared after his escape and is still wanted by the FBI. However postcards where later put forward as evidence from the family from south America signed by the brothers. He was played in the 1979 movie "Escape from Alcatraz" by Jack Thibeau.
- Ambrose Small
Ambrose Joseph Small (born January 11, 1863 in Bradford, Ontario-vanished December 2, 1919) was a Canadian theatre magnate, who owned theatres in several Ontario towns including the Toronto Grand Opera House and the Grand Theatre in London, Ontario, considered by some to be his favorite theatre. More notably, he is a famous Canadian missing person. He disappeared on 2 December, 1919 and his body was never recovered. He was 56 years old.
- Renee MacRae
Renee MacRae (b.1940) is a Scottish woman who is missing, presumed dead. Her disappearance along with her son, is currently Britain's longest running missing person's case, and in Scotland the case is as notorious as Glasgow's Bible John murders. MacRae lived in Inverness and was married to Gordon MacRae. The couple were separated. She had two sons, 9 year old Gordon and 3 year old Andrew.
- Dorothy Arnold
Dorothy Harriet Camille Arnold (1884?-presumed dead 1910) was an American socialite who disappeared in 1910.
- Andrew Carnegie Whitfield
Andrew Carnegie Whitfield (1910 - presumably April 17, 1938), the nephew of wealthy steel magnate Andrew Carnegie, mysteriously disappeared shortly after he departed from Roosevelt Field on Long Island, New York on the morning of April 17, 1938.
- Eleanor Jarman
Eleanor Jarman (1904 - undetermined) was a U.S. runaway, fugitive from justice, and robber who was jailed, escaped from jail in 1940, was placed on the FBI ten most wanted fugitives list, and remains missing.
- Richard Bingham 7th Earl of Lucan
Richard John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan (born 18 December 1934) was or is a British peer who disappeared 8 November 1974 after his children's nanny was found murdered. Lord Lucan's current whereabouts are unknown, and many, including his wife, presume him to be dead.
- Ettore Majorana
Ettore Majorana was an Italian theoretical physicist who began promising work on neutrino masses. He disappeared suddenly in mysterious circumstances.
- John Brisker
John Brisker (born June 15, 1947, in Detroit, Michigan, declared legally dead 1985) was a retired American professional basketball player who disappeared in Uganda in April 1978; he was declared legally dead in 1985.
- Nick Begich
Nicholas Joseph (Nick) Begich, Sr. was a Democratic Party member of the United States House of Representatives from Alaska. He disappeared after his plane crashed in 1972.
- Arthur Coningham
Air Marshal Sir Arthur "Mary" Coningham KCB KBE DSO MC DFC AFC RAF (19 January, 1895 - presumably January 29 or 30 1948) was a senior Royal Air Force commander and was the Air Officer Commander-in-Chief 2nd Tactical Air Force (and subsequently the Air Officer Commander-in-Chief Flying Training Command). Coningham is chiefly remembered as the person most responsible for the development of tactical air power, …
- Charlie Fowler
Charlie Fowler (1954 - December 4 2006 (estimated)) was an American mountain climber, writer, and photographer. He was one of North America’s most experienced mountain climbers, and successfully climbed many of the world’s highest peaks. Along with his climbing partner, Christine Boskoff, he went missing in southwestern China sometime between November 11 and December 4, 2006. His body was found on a remote mountain on December 27, 2006, …
- Joshua Slocum
Joshua Slocum (February 20, 1844 - on or shortly after 14 November, 1909) was a Canadian-American seaman and adventurer, a noted writer, and the first man to sail single-handedly around the world. In 1900 he told the story of this in "Sailing Alone Around the World". He disappeared in November 1909 while aboard his sloop-rigged fishing boat that he had named "Spray".
- Richard Halliburton
Richard Halliburton (9 January 1900- presumed dead 23 March 1939) was an American explorer, athlete, and author. He disappeared during a typhoon (along with his ship and crew) while attempting to pilot a junk eastward across the Pacific Ocean.
- Wallace Fard Muhammad
Wallace Fard Muhammad (born circa 1891 - year of death unknown) was a preacher and founder of the Black-nationalist movement called the Nation of Islam (NOI), establishing its first mosque in Detroit, Michigan. He preached his distinctive religion there for three years before mysteriously disappearing in 1934 and subsequently being deified by Elijah Muhammad. Alternative names on record are numerous, among them David Ford-el, Wali Farad, Farrad Mohammed, W.D. Fard, …
- Curtis Chillingworth
Curtis Eugene Chillingworth (October 24, 1896 to presumably June 15, 1955) was a Florida attorney and state judge who disappeared from his Manapalan, Florida home, and was later believed (together with his wife, Marjorie Chillingworth) to have become the victim of homicide.
- Boston Corbett
Thomas P. "Boston" Corbett (1832 - presumed dead 1894) was the Union Army soldier who shot and killed Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth. He disappeared after 1888 and is believed to have died in Minnesota in 1894, but this is unproven.
- Ben Charles Padilla
Ben Charles Padilla (born 1952, last confirmed contact May 25 2003) is a small-aircraft pilot and a jet-aircraft mechanic, who disappeared while in-flight aboard a Boeing 727 which took off from Luanda, Angola without permission. Padilla resided in Pensacola, Florida.
- Charles Carroll Taylor
Charles Carroll Taylor (October 25, 1917 - presumably December 5, 1945) was a United States Navy Lieutenant whose notoriety is due solely to the fact that he commanded the Flight 19 squadron that disappeared without a trace in the area known as the Bermuda Triangle on December 5, 1945.