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Famous People Who Went Missing

Name these people from history who went missing and were never found.
Life notes year person went missing or is presumed to have died
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First submittedJune 2, 2023
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1450–1500
Italian explorer of North America
John Cabot
1587–1590
All settlers of this Virginia colony disappeared.
Roanoke
1565–1611
English explorer of North America
Henry Hudson
1842–1914
The Devil's Dictionary, "Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"
Ambrose Bierce
1872–1928
Norwegian explorer of polar regions
Roald Amundsen
1897–1937
First woman to fly across the Atlantic unaccompanied
Amelia Earhart
1900–1944
Writer of The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
1904–1944
Big band leader whose plane wreckage was never found
Glenn Miller
1938–1961
Great grandson of Standard Oil co-founder
Michael Rockefeller
1908–1967
17th prime minister of Australia
Harold Holt
19??–1971
Unidentified hijacker of Northwest Orient Flight 305
D. B. Cooper
1934–1974
British aristocrat who vanished after murder of nanny
Lord Lucan
1913–1975
Labor union leader of the Teamsters
Jimmy Hoffa
1986–2005
American girl probably murdered in Aruba
Natalee Holloway
2003–2007
3-year-old British girl who went missing in Portugal
Madeleine McCann
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8 Comments
interopia
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Level 90
Jun 2, 2023
Any others that are notable?
CardinalSin
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Level 82
Jun 3, 2023
If the highjacker was unidentified, how come you know his/her name?

Lord Lucan and Glenn Miller also vanished without trace.

interopia
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Level 90
Jun 3, 2023
It was his alias. The name he checked in with. And what he is now known by.
Jymy
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Level 63
Sep 5, 2024
He actually used the alias '' Dan Cooper''.

DB Cooper was the name of a suspect in the case that was found to be innocent. Everybody simply calls the perpetrator DB Cooper because that's what the media called him.

XYU
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Level 62
Apr 15, 2025
Great idea. I would have put Richey Edwards on it.
DookieKong
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Level 41
Mar 28, 2026
Not sure if you're counting temporary disappearances but Agatha Christie once went missing for 11 days. The exact reason is unknown; some think it was a publicity stunt while some think it was a legitimate breakdown caused by the deterioration of her marriage, since she claimed to have no memory of her time missing, and two doctors believed this to be true following examinations. Either way, the way she suddenly vanished caused a massive manhunt and a massive news story (which some think was overblown).
interopia
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Level 90
Mar 28, 2026
This is a very notable story, but yeah I was just doing permanent disappearances. The number of temporary disappearances of famous people would be a much longer list.
Pontiac
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Level 61
Apr 21, 2026
Roanoke shouldn't be included. If you want to still include it then Virginia Dare (First person to be born in America outside of natives) could work as she was in the Roanoke Colony
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