Britons Glenn Thomas and Richard Mayne are two of nine UK nationals on board flight MH17 when it crashed in eastern Ukraine, colleagues said.
Newcastle United fans, John Alder and Liam Sweeney, who were travelling to see their football team play in New Zealand, also died in the crash, according to NUFC.com and the Newcastle Evening Chronicle.
Richard Mayne during a trip to Nepal. Pic: Facebook Leeds University student Richard Mayne, 20, from Leicestershire, who had recently completed a charity trek to Everest Base Camp, and was described as a man who had a "great thirst for life" by his former headteacher.
Mr Thomas, 49, from Blackpool, was among 100 delegates reportedly on their way to the International Aids Society (IAS) summit in Melbourne, Australia.
He was a media officer at the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Geneva where friends today spoke of their shock and loss.
Newcastle United fan Liam Sweeney Fadela Chaib, a spokeswoman for WHO, said: "We have lost a wonderful person and a great professional. Our hearts are broken. We are all in shock."
Some of the great minds in the fight against HIV and Aids were heading to the conference, including, it is understood, one of its former presidents Dr Joep Lange, a well-known researcher from the Netherlands.
"If this is the case then the HIV/Aids movement has truly lost a giant," the IAS said.
Dr Lange is believed to have been with partner Jacqueline van Tongeren Among the 283 passengers and 15 Malaysia Airlines cabin crew on board were also 173 Dutch nationals, 44 Malaysians, 27 Australians, 12 Indonesians, four Germans, four Belgians, three Filipinos, one Canadian and a New Zealander.
In a bizarre twist of fate, flight attendant Sajid Singh 41, swapped flights to fly on MH17 - months after his wife swapped off the doomed MH370 which vanished flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, his his father Jijar Singh told The Malaysian Insider.
Albert Rizk and his wife Maree were returning from. Pic: Facebook Kaylene Mann, from Queensland, Australia, who lost her brother and sister-in-law in the flight which disappeared on March 8, 2014, is now mourning the loss of her stepdaughter Maree Rizk and her husband Albert, who were on their way back to their Melbourne home after a month-long European holiday.
The Star Online reported Malaysian PM Najib Razak's step-grandmother was among the passengers aboard the fateful flight.
Sailor and businessman Nick Norris, 68, was also heading back from a breakaway in Europe with his three grandchildren, Milo Maslin, 12, Evie Maslin, 10, and Otis Maslin eight, Perth Now reported.
The children's parents were said to be devastated, while Mr Norris's daughter Natalia Gemmell, said her father was a "great man" and described her niece and nephews as "gentle, clever and beautiful kids".
Cor Pan posted a picture of the airliner on Facebook. Pic: Facebook The Australian media also reported a much-loved nun, Philomene Tiernan, from Sydney, Toorak college teacher Frankie Davison and her husband Liam, student Elaine Teoh and her Dutch boyfriend Emiel Mahler, Canberra mother-of-two Liliane Derden and security consultant Marco Grippeling, from Melbourne, among the victims.
Young Dutchman Cor Pan, from Volendam, north of Amsterdam, who is also believed to have perished in the disaster, posted a picture of the jetliner on Facebook, minutes before he boarded it, writing: "If it should disappear, this is what it looks like."
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