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Famous People On The Athenia

  • Richard Stuart Lake Former Saskatchewan Lieutenant-Governor and federal politician.
  • Hannah Baird, a civilian waitress from Montreal, was the first Canadian killed in the war.
  • James A. Goodson, notable fighter pilot of the RCAF and later USAAF.
  • Judith Evelyn, American stage and film actress (Craig's Wife)
  • Andrew Allan, head of CBC Radio Drama, fiancĂ© of Judith Evelyn
  • Prof. John H. Lawrence, American physicist and doctor
  • Charles Wharton Stork, American writer and essayist (Day Dreams of Greece)
  • Thomas Finley, head of Loomis Chaffee in Windsor, Connecticut
  • Nicola Lubitsch, then ten-months-old daughter of film director Ernst Lubitsch (accompanied by a nurse)
  • Carmen Silvera, Canadian-born British actress
  • Barbara Cass-Beggs, British-Canadian teacher, writer and music scientist
  • Daphne Sebag-Montefiore, relation to Moses Montefiore
  • James Thornton Mustard, father of Canadian physician and cardiac surgeon, William Thornton Mustard

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