The following is a list of persons who are known to have attended one or more conferences organized by the Bilderberg Meeting. The list includes attendees by annual conference as well as by country.
Attendees by annual conference
1954 Conference Participants Nationality Title Robert Andre France President of the Syndicat de Petrole Ralph Assheton United Kingdom Member of Parliament; Former Parliamentary Secretary to Ministry of Supply; Former Financial Secretary to the Treasury G. De Beaumont France Member of Parliament Pierre Bonvoisin Belgium Banker; President of the Banque de la Societe Generale de Belgique (SGB) Robert Boothy United Kingdom Member of Parliament Max Brauer West Germany Former Mayor and President of the Land of Hamburg Raffaele Cafiero Italy Senator Walker L. Cisler United States Public Utility Executive; President, Detroit Edison Co; Consultant to Atomic Energy Commission and Mutual Security Agency Gardner Cowles United States Publisher Clement Davies United Kingdom Member of Parliament; Former Minister Chairman of Parliamentary Liberal Party Jean Drapier Belgium Lawyer Roger Duchet France Member of Parliament; Former Minister; Secretary General, Independents and Peasants Party Maurice Faure France Member of Parliament John H. Ferguson United States Lawyer; Vice-president and Executive Director, Committee for a National Trade Policy; Deputy Director, Policy Planning Staff, Department of State, 1951–1953 John Foster United Kingdom Member of Parliament; Parliamentary Undersecretary of State for Commonwealth Relations Oliver Franks United Kingdom Former Ambassador in Washington; Chairman of Lloyd's Bank Gerhard P. Th. Geyer West Germany Industrialist; Director General of Esso Colin Gubbins United Kingdom Major General; Formerly in Charge of Special Operations Executive (SOE) Denis Healey United Kingdom Member of Parliament; Former Secretary of the International Committee of the Labour Party Henry John Heinz II United States President, H.J. Heinz Co Leif Hoegh Norway Shipowner; Founder of Leif Höegh & Co C. D. Jackson United States Publisher; Formerly Special Assistant to President Eisenhower (1953–1954) Nelson Dean Jay United States Banker; Director, J. P. Morgan & Co Inc. New York Panagiotis Kanellopoulos Greece Member of Parliament; Minister of National Defense V. J. Koningsberger Netherlands Professor, State University Utrecht Ole Bjorn Kraft Denmark Member of Parliament; Former Minister of Foreign Affairs Paul Leverkuehn West Germany Member of Parliament; Lawyer Giovanni Malagodi Italy Member of Parliament Finn Moe Norway Member of Parliament; Chairman, Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee; Vice-President, Council of Europe H. Montgomery Hyde United Kingdom Member of Parliament Roger Motz Belgium Senator; Chairman of the Liberal International; Former Chairman of the Liberal Party Rudolf Mueller West Germany Lawyer George C. McGhee United States Industrialist Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern & South African Affairs (1949–1952); U.S. Ambassador and Chief, American Mission for Aid to Turkey (1951–1953) George Nebolsine United States Lawyer; Consultant to Department of State and Economic Cooperation Administration (1948); Trustee, U.S. Council of International Chamber of Commerce H. Oosterhuis Netherlands Member of Parliament; President of the Netherlands Federation of Trade Unions Cola G. Parker United States Industrialist; Member of Commission on Foreign Economic Policy (Randall Commission) George W. Perkins United States Industrialist; Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs (1949–1953) Harry Pilkington United Kingdom President, Federation of British Industries Antoine Pinay France Member of Parliament; Former Prime Minister Panagiotis Pipinelis Greece Former Foreign Minister; Former Ambassador to Soviet Union Alberto Pirelli Italy Industrialist; Minister of State Pietro Quaroni Italy Ambassador to France; Former Ambassador to the Soviet Union Ludwig Rosenberg West Germany Chief of Department of Foreign Affairs of the Trade Unions Paolo Rossi Italy Member of Parliament Denis de Rougemont Switzerland Author; Director, European Cultural Center Paul Rijkens United States Industrialist; Chairman of Unilever N.V. Ernst Georg Schneider United States Industrialist; President, Chamber of Commerce of Düsseldorf Joseph P. Spang, Jr. United States Industrialist; President, The Gillette Co. Max Steenberghe Netherlands Former Minister of Economic Affairs of the Netherlands Pierre-Henri Teitgen France Vice-president of the Council of Ministers Terkel M. Terkelsen Denmark Chief editor, Berlingske Tidende Herbert Tingsten Sweden Chief editor, Dagens Nyheter H. Troeger West Germany Minister of Finance of Hesse Vittorio Valletta Italy Industrialist; President of FIAT Andre Voisin France President, La Federation H. F. van Walsem Netherlands Industrialist; Member of the Board of Philips Industries Eindhoven Jean Willems Belgium Fondation Universitaire Thomas Williamson United Kingdom General Secretary, National Union of General and Municipal Workers B. H. M. Vlekke Netherlands Secretary General of the Netherlands' Society of International Affairs
1957 Conference Participants Nationality Raymond Aron FranceDavid Astor United KingdomGeorge Ball United StatesFritz Berg West Germany Muharrem Nuri Birgi TurkeyEugene R. Black Sr. United StatesRobert R. Bowie United StatesMcGeorge Bundy United StatesHakon Christiansen DenmarkWalker Lee Cisler United StatesPierre Commin FranceB. D. Cooke United KingdomArthur Dean United StatesThomas E. Dewey United StatesWilliam Elliot United KingdomFritz Erler West Germany Amintore Fanfani ItalyJohn Ferguson United StatesJ. William Fulbright United StatesJean de la Garde FranceLincoln Gordon United StatesF. A. de Graaff NetherlandsColin Gubbins United KingdomLawrence Hafstad United StatesJens Christian Hauge NorwayBrooks Hays United StatesDenis Healey United KingdomArnold Heeney CanadaMichael A. Heilprin United StatesHenry John Heinz II United StatesLeif Høegh NorwayPaul G. Hoffman United StatesCharles Douglas Jackson United StatesWilliam H. Jackson United StatesPer Jacobsson SwedenGeorge F. Kennan United StatesKurt Georg Kiesinger West Germany Henry Kissinger United StatesPiet Lieftinck NetherlandsImbriani Longo ItalyGiovanni Malagodi ItalyPaul Martin CanadaDavid Maxwell United KingdomJohn J. McCloy United StatesDavid J. McDonald United StatesGeorge C. McGhee United StatesRalph McGill United StatesAdnan Menderes TurkeyAlexander Menne West Germany Rudolf Mueller West Germany Robert Daniel Murphy United StatesFrank C. Nash United StatesGeorge Nebolsine United StatesPaul Nitze United StatesAllan Noble United KingdomMorehead Patterson United StatesAntoine Pinay FranceJohn Pomian United KingdomDon K. Price United StatesHenry Lithgow Roberts United StatesDavid Rockefeller United StatesHerman van Roijen NetherlandsDean Rusk United StatesPaul Rykens NetherlandsJ. L. S. Steel United KingdomArthur Hays Sulzberger United StatesTerkel Terkelsen DenmarkJohn M. Vorys United StatesMarcus Wallenberg Jr. SwedenFrazar Wilde United StatesAlexander Wiley United StatesOtto Wolff von Amerongen West Germany W. T. Wren United KingdomPaul van Zeeland Belgium
1958 Conference Participants Nationality Hermann Josef Abs West Germany Dean Acheson United States Gianni Agnelli Italy George Ball United States Walworth Barbour United States Wilfrid Baumgartner France Edward Beddington-Behrens United Kingdom Berthold Beitz West Germany Fritz Berg West Germany Muharrem Nuri Birgi Turkey Pieter Blaisse Netherlands James Boden West Germany Erik Boheman Sweden Max Brauer West Germany Warren Randolph Burgess United States Louis Camu Belgium Guido Carli Italy Clifford P. Case United States Victor Cavendish-Bentick United Kingdom Ralph Cochrane United Kingdom Erich Dethleffsen West Germany Fritz Erler West Germany John Ferguson United States Hugh Gaitskell United Kingdom Walter L. Gordon Canada Jo Grimmond United Kingdom Colin Gubbins United Kingdom Walter Hallstein West Germany Joseph C. Harsch United States Gabriel Hauge United States Denis Healey United Kingdom Michael Heilprin United States Henry John Heinz II United States Leif Høegh Norway Charles Douglas Jackson United States David Maxwell United Kingdom Eelco van Kleffens Netherlands Edward Knollys United Kingdom Ole Kraft Denmark Thorkil Kristensen Denmark Giovanni Malagodi Italy John J. McCloy United States George C. McGhee United States Philip Mosely United States Roger Motz Belgium Rudolf Mueller West Germany Alfred C. Neal United States George Nebolsine United States Paul Nitze United States David Ormsby-Gorex United Kingdom Frans Otten Netherlands Panagiotis Pipinelis Greece Alberto Pirelli Italy Pietro Quaroni Italy Alfred Roberts United Kingdom David Rockefeller United States Michael Ross United States Jacques Rueff France Paul Rykens Netherlands Carlo Schmid West Germany Cortlandt V. R. Schuyler United States J. L. S. Steele United Kingdom Terkel M. Terkelsen Denmark Henry Tiarks United Kingdom Every Vermeer Netherlands Marcus Wallenberg Sweden Otto Wolff von Amerongen West Germany Paul van Zeeland Belgium James David Zellerbach United States
1963 Conference