Flight Attendant - Notable Flight Attendants

Notable Flight Attendants

  • Neerja Bhanot, was a flight attendant for Pan Am airlines, based in Bombay, India, who died while saving passengers from terrorists on board the hijacked Pan Am Flight 73 on September 5, 1986, she went on to become the youngest recipient of India’s highest civilian award for bravery, the Ashoka Chakra.
  • Ant, TV personality Celebrity Fit Club former American Airlines flight attendant
  • Soraya Raquel Lamilla Cuevas - International Award-Winning Spanish/English Singer and Songwriter Musician
  • Kathy Augustine, a flight attendant prior to entering Nevada politics
  • Alex Best, ex-wife of George Best
  • Regina Bird, Big Brother Australia 2003 winner
  • Deborah Burlingame, sister of Charles "Chic" Burlingame III, pilot of hijacked American Airlines Flight 77
  • Betty Ong, was a flight attendant on board American Airlines Flight 11 the first of four hijacked aircraft's on the morning of September 11, 2001. Ong is best known for her actions that morning as well as her calm and professional manner.
  • Madeline Amy Sweeney, was also a flight attendant on board Flight 11, Sweeney was the first to describe the hijackers, and their actions.
  • Beverly Lynn Burns, American Airlines stewardess class of 1971; first woman Boeing 747 Captain in the world July 1984
  • Terence Cao, veteran Singaporean actor
  • Ellen Church, first female flight attendant in history
  • Uli Derickson, on duty during the TWA Flight 847 hijacking
  • Brian Dowling, UK Big Brother 2001 winner
  • Gaëtan Dugas, alleged Patient Zero for acquired immune deficiency syndrome
  • Ruth Carol Taylor, first verified African-American stewardess, hired by Mohawk Airlines in 1958
  • Roz Hanby, face of the British Airways "Fly the Flag" campaign (1970s/1980s)
  • Barbara Jane Harrison, posthumously awarded the George Cross for bravery
  • Todd Herzog, winner of Survivor: China
  • Jennifer Hosten, 1970 Miss World winner
  • Patricia Ireland, former President of the National Organization for Women
  • Annita Keating, Dutch-born estranged wife of former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating, flew with KLM and Alitalia prior to her marriage.
  • Sonija Kwok, 1999 Miss Hong Kong, now a popular artist with TVB
  • Evangeline Lilly, Canadian actress, coincidentally most notable for her role as a stranded plane crash survivor on Lost
  • Ziana Zain, Malaysian international artist, model, actress
  • Kate Linder, actress on The Young and the Restless, who continues to fly with United Airlines on weekends when not filming.
  • Jan Brown Lohr, lobbied in Washington for lap babies' safety belts after the crash of United Airlines Flight 232
  • Catherine Maunoury, French winner of the Aerobatics World Championship in 1988 and 2000
  • Pamela Bianca Manalo, a flight attendant for Philippine Airlines before she was crowned Miss Philippines-Universe in 2009
  • Carole Middleton, mother of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
  • Avis Miller, Playboy Playmate 1970
  • Jane McGrath, co-founder of the McGrath Foundation for breast cancer.
  • Naila Nazir, Pakistani air hostess who received 1985's Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) Heroism Award for bravely handling a tense and dangerous situation during the Flight PK-326 hijacking ordeal
  • Froso Papaharalambous, singer
  • Iris Peterson, flew for United Airlines from 1946 until 2007, retiring at the age of 85
  • Lyudmila Putina, wife of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, was a flight attendant early in her career.
  • Linda Louise Rowley, former beauty queen who held the title Miss Alaska USA
  • Lee Seung-yeon, Korean actress/talkshow host
  • Ellen Simonetti, first flight attendant to be fired for blogging
  • Tania Soni, beauty pageant winner
  • Silver Tree, writer and producer
  • Sharon Luk, 2005 Miss Hong Kong First Runner-up, artist with TVB
  • Skye Chan, 2008 Miss Hong Kong First Runner-up and Miss World 2008 contestant, artist with TVB
  • Gabriele von Lutzau (born Gabriele Dillmann) was a flight attendant on hijacked Lufthansa Flight 181 and was credited for her loyalty to the passengers and crew. In the aftermath, she was named "Der Engel von Mogadischu" (The Angel of Mogadishu)
  • Vesna Vulović, Guinness World Record holder for surviving the highest fall without a parachute
  • Julie Woodson, Playboy Playmate 1973
  • Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, Prime Minister of Iceland and first openly homosexual Head of Government
  • Chiaki Morita, Japanese-Filipina International Model, FHM Magazine Model 2011,Tanduay Liquor Calendar Babe 2012, Taekwondo 2nd Dan Blackbelter and member of Philippine Taekwondo Demo Team prior to flying with Zest Air
  • Rico Barrera of Pinoy Big Brother Philippines Season 1 and an actor who continues to fly with Seair
  • On August 9, 2010, Steven Slater gained immediate global fame when he claimed he was injured by the luggage of a passenger whom he had confronted on an arriving Jet Blue flight at New York's JFK Airport for disregarding his order to remain seated. Passengers dispute his account of this confrontation. As the incident continued, he cursed at the passengers over the aircraft's public address system, grabbed a beer, opened the evacuation slide and left the aircraft. He was later arrested and charged with several crimes.

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