Famous People

Over the years a lot of Famous People sailed or were onboard just for a day.Here is a collection of those events.

Shimon Peres

Jimmy Saville

Tony Christie still trying to find Amarillo this time heading for Spain in 2007

77 by Blue Bombay, on Flickr

Sugar Ray Leonard boxed on the QE2 back in 1982

Steve Sinclair
Age: 46
The doors: Has worked most of the pubs and clubs in Blackpool since he was 18

Have I enjoyed a good fight? Oh yeah, too right. In 1982 I was working in the store room on the QE2, and Sugar Ray Leonard came on board. It was just before he fought Hagler, he was light middleweight champion of the world. The boss said would I fight him - just sparring, for the passengers. I did five 2-minute rounds with him; his speed was awesome." He unfolds a magazine cutting, showing a photograph of his young self in the ring, flushed and keen in silk red shorts, dancing round the champ.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/story/0,,1062874,00.html

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QE2 Famous Guests


The QE2 has been host to hundreds of the who’s is who of royal figures, presidents, movie & stage stars, musicans, pop & rock stars, that have cruised and spend time on this magnificent ship since it commenced services in 1969.

If there any names and known dates that are missing and which you would us like to add, please contact us!

Royal Figures
HM The Queen of England, Elizabeth II, 1979
The Queen Mother
HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Phillips
HRH The Prince of Wales, Prince Charles, 1978
HRH The Prince Edward
Dianna, Princess of Wales
King Hussein of Jordan
The Emperor of Japan
Princess Christine of the Netherlands
Prince Nikita Romanoff
The Sultan of Brunei
The Sultan of Selanghor
Earl Mountbatten
Earl of Snowdon
Earl of Lichfield
Lord Wedgwood
Lord Montagu of Beaulieu

Presidents & Politicians
Lord Archer of Weston-super-Mare
George Bush Jnr
President Jimmy Carter
Edwina Currie
Sir Nicholas Fairbairn
H R Haldeman
Bob Hawke
Sir Rex Hunt
Dame Jill Knight
Mayor John Lindsay
Lee Kuan Yew
Graca Machel
President Nelson Mandela
Lord Mason of Barnsley
Shimon Peres
Dame Stella Rimington
The Most Revd Lord Runcie of Cuddesdon
Sir Cyril Smith
Lord Taylor of Warwick

Musicans, Pop & Rock Stars
Moira Anderson
Applejacks
Larry Adler
Charles Aznavour
Count Basie
Tony Bennett
Dave Berry
John Briggs
Joe Brown
The Cure
Vic Damone
Gracie Fields
Wayne Fontana
Gerry and the Pacemakers
Marvin Hamlisch
George Harrison
Herman’s Hermits
Edmund Hockridge
Mick Jagger
Elton John
Davy Jones
Jack Jones
Joe Loss
Patti Lupone
Dame Vera Lynn
Maureen McGovern
Harry Neilson
Yoko Ono
Oscar Peterson
Sir Andre Previn
Linda Ronstadt
Neil Sedaka
Carly Simon
Ringo Starr
Rod Stewart
Tommy Tune
Frankie Vaughan
Sarah Vaughan
Nancy Wilson

Movie & Stage Stars
John Altman
Eamonn Andrews
Julie Andrews
Patrick Anthony
Debbie Arnold
Michael Aspel
Peter Baldwin
Roy Barraclough
Thelma Barlow
Jeremy Beadle
Sean Bean
Isla Blair
Victor Borge
Jim Bowen
Tracy Brabin
Johnny Briggs
George Burns
Richard Burton
James Cagney
Beverly Callard
Jasper Carrott
Cy Chadwick
Judith Chalmers
Petula Clark
Glenn Close
Rosemary Conley
Bill Cosby
Judy Cornwell
Michael Crawford
Jimmy Cricket
Tim Curry
Tony Curtis
Jill Dando
Paul Daniels
Nigel Davenport
Liz Dawn
Les Dawson
Dame Judi Dench
Neil Diamond
Sue Eden
Douglas Fairbanks Jnr
Eddie Fisher
Bryan Forbes
Fiona Fullerton
Susan George
Hermoine Gingold
Lillian Gish
Jilly Goolden
Peter Gordeno
Russell Grant
Hughie Green
Richard Griffiths
Larry Hagman
Stuart Hall
Mona Hammond
Rolf Harris
Lawrence Harvey
Dickie Henderson
Jim Henson
Sherrie Hewson
Geoff Hinsliff
Thora Hird
Bob Holness
Bob Hope
Frankie Howerd
Rock Hudson
Geoffrey Hughes
Lorraine Kelly
Kevin Kennedy
Eric Knowles
Barbara Knox
Robert Kilroy Silk
Kris Kristofferson
Sara Lancashire
Burt Lancaster
Roy Lancaster
Danny LaRue
Christopher Lee
Maureen Lipman
Moira Lister
Emily Lloyd
Deborah Lyttle
Barry Manilow
Dean Martin
Raymond Massey
Nichola McAuliffe
Leo McKern
Hayley Mills
Sir John Mills
Matthew Modine
Bob Monkhouse
Ken Morley
Bryan Mosley
David Neilson
Bob Newhart
Nannette Newman
Paul Newman
Barry Norman
Tom O’Connor
Sid Owen
Patsy Palmer
Nicholas Parsons
John Peal
Dr Mark Porter
Robert Powell
Vincent Price
Charley Pride
Juliet Prowse
Esther Rantzen
Bertice Reading
Lyn Redgrave
Christopher Reeve
Debbie Reynolds
Gary Rhodes
Wendy Richards
Angela Rippon
Ginger Rogers
Anton Rodgers
Patricia Routledge
Jane Russell
Dr Ruth
Sir Sydney Samuelson
Telly Savalas
Sir Jimmy Savile
Prunella Scales
George C Scott
Sir Harry Secombe
Peter Sellers
Jack Smethurst
Delia Smith
Jon Snow
Robert Stack
Terence Stamp
Tommy Steele
Sharon Stone
Meryl Streep
Jimmy Tarbuck
Bill Tarmey
Chris Tarrant
Gillian Taylforth
Elizabeth Taylor
James Taylor
Shaw Taylor
Christopher Timothy
Anthony Worral Thompson
John Travolta
Twiggy
Liv Ullman
Sir Peter Ustinov
Bill Waddington
Robert Wagner
Barbara Windsor
Alan Whicker
Richard Whitley
Desmond Wilcox
Simon Williams
Ernie Wise
Natalie Wood
Helen Worth
Timothy West
Michael York

Courtesy :: Cunard Lines

Among performers I have met on QE2:

Singers
Heathmore King
Craig Douglas
Brook Benton
Mary Travers (of Peter, Paul and Mary)

Scottish Comedian
Alan Stewart

Guitarist
Bert Weedon

Actors
Ruby Keeler
Ed Lauter