The Big Ship's Public and Celebrity Passengers
Actor John Wayne and Commodore John Anderson
aboard the Big U.
- Bud Abbott
- Chancellor Konrad Adenauer of West Germany
- Edward Albee
- Prince Albert of Belgium
- June Allyson
- Sherwood Anderson
- Elizabeth Ashley
- Ralph Bellamy
- Jack Benny
- Milton Berle
- Irving Berlin
- Leonard Bernstein
- William Boyd
- Marlon Brando
- Yul Brynner
- Horst Bucholtz
- Al Capp
- Kitty Carlisle
- John Carradine
- Cyd Charisse
- Maurice Chevalier
- President Bill Clinton
- Sean Connery
- Kathrine Cornell
- Salvador Dali
- Walt Disney
- Keir Dullea
- Anthony Eden former British Prime Minister
- King Edward VIII
- Ralph Edwards
- President and Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Gracie Fields
- Peter Finch
- Errol Flynn
- Glenn Ford
- Charlotte and Anne Ford
- Queen Frederika of Greece
- Greta Garbo
- Ava Gardner
- Greer Garson
- John Paul Getty
- Hermione Gingold
- Jackie Gleason
- Sam Goldwyn
- Eydie Gorme
- Princess Grace
- Billy Graham
- Cary Grant
- Rex Harrison
- Moss Hart
- Rita Hayworth
- Katherine Hepburn
- Charlton Heston
- Stanley Holloway
- Bob Hope
- Keir Irene Pappas
- Mahalia Jackson
- David Janssen
- Lionel Jeffreys
- George Jessel
- Van Johnson
- Jennifer Jones
- President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy
- Alan Ladd
- Hope Lange
- Steve Lawrence
- Peggy Lee
- Janet Leigh
- Eric Leinsdorf
- Jack Lemmon
- Harold Lloyd
- Shirley MacLaine
- George C. Marshall
- Tony Martin
- Victor Mature
- Elsa Maxwell
- Kevin McCarthy
- Fred McMurray
- Yehudi Menuhin
- Ray Milland
- Marilyn Monroe
- Zero Mostel
- John Ringling North
- Kim Novak
- David O Selznick
- Merle Oberon
- Sir Laurence Olivier
- Irene Pappas
- George Peppard
- Mary Pickford
- Suzanne Pleshette
- Prince Rainier of Monaco
- Vera Ralston
- Debbie Reynolds
- General Matthew Ridgeway
- Buddy Rogers
- Mrs. Elanor Roosevelt
- Rosalind Russell
- Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia
- Red Skelton
- New York's Cardinal Spellman
- Jimmy Stewart
- Leopold Stokowski
- Akim Tamiroff
- Spencer Tracy
- President and Mrs. Harry Truman
- President Tubman of Liberia
- Vivian Vance
- Robert Vaughn
- John Wayne
- Cornel Wilde
- Tennessee Williams
- Julie Wilson
- Jonathan Winters
- Jane Wyman
- Duke and Dutchess of Windsor