Useful Notes / Notable Eurovision Song Contest Acts

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Winners of the Eurovision Song Contest

• ABBA (Sweden — Brighton 1974)
• Céline Dion (Switzerland — Dublin 1988)
• Katrina and the Waves (United Kingdom — Dublin 1997)
• Sertab Erener (Turkey — Riga 2003)
• Lordi (Finland — Athens 2006)
• Alexander Rybak (Norway — Moscow 2009; fifteenth, Lisbon 2018)
• Loreen (Sweden — Baku 2012; Liverpool 2023)
• Conchita Wurst (Austria — Copenhagen 2014; co-host, Vienna 2015)
• Jamala (Ukraine — Stockholm 2016)
• Salvador Sobral (Portugal — Kyiv 2017)
• Netta (Israel — Lisbon 2018)
• Duncan Laurence (The Netherlands — Tel Aviv 2019)
• Måneskin (Italy — Rotterdam 2021)
• Kalush Orchestra (Ukraine — Turin 2022)

Competitors of the Eurovision Song Contest

• Cliff Richard (United Kingdom — runner-up, London 1968; third, Luxembourg 1973)
• Olivia Newton-John (United Kingdom — fourth, Brighton 1974)
• Dschinghis Khan (Germany — fourth, Jerusalem 1979)
• Doce (Portugal — thirteenth, Harrogate 1982)
• Ofra Haza (Israel — runner-up, Munich 1983)
• t.A.T.u. (Russia — third, Riga 2003)
• Verka Serduchka (Ukraine — runner-up, Helsinki 2007)
• Sirusho (Armenia — fourth, Belgrade 2008)
• Senhit (San Marino — semifinalist, Düsseldorf 2011; Rotterdam 2020 ^note withdrawn entry due to the contest's cancellation; twenty-second, Rotterdam 2021)
• Bonnie Tyler (United Kingdom — nineteenth, Malmö 2013)
• Cascada (Germany — 21st, Malmö 2013)
• Marco Mengoni (Italy — seventh, Malmö 2013; fourth, Liverpool 2023)
• Guy Sebastian (Australia — fifth, Vienna 2015)
• Francesca Michielin (Italy — sixteenth, Stockholm 2016)
• Lucie Jones (United Kingdom — fifteenth, Kyiv 2017)
• Saara Aalto (Finland — 25th, Lisbon 2018)
• Jessica Mauboy (Australia — twentieth, Lisbon 2018)
• SuRie (United Kingdom — 24th, Lisbon 2018)
• Madame Monsieur (France — thirteenth, Lisbon 2018)
• Darude (Finland — semifinalist, Tel Aviv 2019)
• Hatari (Iceland — tenth, Tel Aviv 2019)
• Mahmood (Italy — runner-up, Tel Aviv 2019; sixth, Turin 2022 ^note (with Blanco))
• Kate Miller Heidke (Australia — ninth, Tel Aviv 2019)
• KEiiNO (Norway — sixth, Tel Aviv, 2019)
• Blas Cantó (Spain — entrant, Rotterdam 2020 ^note withdrawn entry due to the contest's cancelation; twenty-fourth, Rotterdam 2021)
• Daði Freyr (Iceland — entrant, Rotterdam 2020 ^note withdrawn entry due to the contest's cancelation; fourth, Rotterdam 2021)
• Go_A (Ukraine — entrant, Rotterdam 2020 ^note withdrawn entry due to the contest's cancelation; fifth, Rotterdam 2021)
• Hooverphonic (Belgium — entrant, Rotterdam 2020 ^note withdrawn entry due to the contest's cancelation; nineteenth, Rotterdam 2021)
• Little Big (Russia — entrant, Rotterdam 2020 ^note withdrawn entry due to the contest's cancelation)
• The Roop (Lithuania — entrant, Rotterdam 2020 ^note withdrawn entry due to the contest's cancelation; eighth, Rotterdam 2021)
• Blind Channel (Finland — sixth, Rotterdam 2021)
• Flo Rida (San Marino — twenty-second, Rotterdam 2021 ^note featured vocalist on "Adrenalina" by Senhit)
• TIX (Norway — eighteenth, Rotterdam 2021)
• Chanel (Spain — third, Turin 2022)
• Subwoolfer (Norway — tenth, Turn 2022)
• The Rasmus (Finland — twenty-first, Turin 2022)

Competitors of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest

• Molly Sandén (Sweden — third, Bucharest 2006)
• Dani Fernández (Spain — fourth, Bucharest 2006)

Interval Acts

• Riverdance (Dublin 1994) ^note It wasn't a Poorly-Disguised Pilot, it was conceived as purely an interval act, though they may have had some hopes of turning it into a standalone show if it got a good reaction. It got the loudest, longest applause that any performance at Eurovision ever had.
• Justin Timberlake (Stockholm 2016)
• Madonna (Tel Aviv 2019)
• Rita Ora (Liverpool 2023)

Hosts

• Terry Wogan (Birmingham 1998)
• Maria Menounos (Athens 2006)
• Pilou Asbæk (Copenhagen 2014)
• Conchita Wurst (Vienna 2015)
• Daniela Ruah (Lisbon 2018)
• Laura Pausini (Turin 2022) ^note also performed in the opening act
• Mika (Turin 2022) ^note also performed in the interval
• Alesha Dixon (Liverpool 2023)
• Graham Norton (Liverpool 2023)
• Hannah Waddingham (Liverpool 2023)