British:
- Captain Rudolph Sharp, Master of the RMS Laconia
- Commodore Arthur Worth, Royal Navy
- Major Norman Grattidge, Army Intelligence (survived on a raft for 6 days)
- Commander Charles Linley Blissett, Royal Navy
Italian Prisoners of War (POWs):
- General Ettore Baldassarre, Senior Italian commander
- General Giuseppe Mancinelli, Division commander
- Admiral Luigi Mascherpa, Naval commander
- Brigadier General Aldo Pellegrini, Brigade commander
- Admiral Raffaele de Courten, Naval detachment commander
- Colonel Angelo Todaro, Intelligence Officer
Polish refugees, including:
- Jan Karski, a courier for the Polish Underground and later a witness to the Holocaust.
Civilian passengers including:
- Margaret Hartley-Milne and daughter Diana, daughters of Lt-Gen Edward Henry Martin-Leake; their mother died
- Barbara Wild, future wife of author C. P. Snow
_Please note that there were many hundreds more survivors and unfortunately I'm only giving information on some notable persons due to this list's character constraints._