List of World Passport Holders
This is a list of notable people who have been issued with World Passports. Some may have made applications for World Passports of their own volition, while others were unilaterally issued with World Passports on the initiative of the WSA.
- Triston Jay Amero, American man charged with hotel bombings in Bolivia
- Doug Casey, American investor; received his World Passport from Garry Davis in the 1970s, and claims to have used it to travel to Iceland, French Polynesia, Honduras, Costa Rica, and Peru
- Garry Davis, WSA founder; holds World Passport No. 1, originally issued in 1948
- Youssef Majed al-Molqi, one of the hijackers of the MS Achille Lauro in 1985; acquired his World Passport in 1988 when he was in jail, while never used it for travel.
- Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian prime minister; Garry Davis presented him with a World Passport in 1956
- Kenneth O'Keefe, American peace activist; unsuccessfully attempted to use a World Passport to travel to Iraq in 2003
- Joel Slater, Iowa man who renounced U.S. citizenship in Australia in 1987 and became stateless
- William Worthy, American journalist; issued with a World Passport in 1957 while in China
- Yehudi Menuhin, world renown violinist and conductor; was holder of a World Passport since 1954, received honorary World Passport from Garry Davis in 1984
- Vytautas Landsbergis, first Lithuanian post Soviet president, received World Passport from Garry Davis in 1990
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