List of Famous people who died in 1901

Wilhelm Marceli Nencki was a Polish chemist and doctor.

Michael Morris, Baron Morris and 1st Baron Killanin,, known as Sir Michael Morris, Bt, from 1885 to 1889, was an Irish lawyer and judge. He was Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench for Ireland from 1887 to 1889 and sat in the House of Lords as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary from 1889 to 1900.

Marie Françoise "Fanny" Bernard was known for having set up an anti-vivisection society as a result of opposing Claude Bernard's research methods.

Frederik Christian Lund, commonly known as F. C. Lund, was a Danish genre and history painter. He is also remembered for his illustrations of traditional Danish regional costumes in the mid 19th century.

Sir Cuthbert Edgar Peek, 2nd Baronet was an astronomer and meteorologist, and took part in activities of several learned societies.

Euphrosine Beernaert was a Belgian landscape painter.

Robert Grant Haliburton Q.C., D.C.L. was a Canadian lawyer and anthropologist. He became famous after founding the Canada First organization that saw English Canadian society as the "heirs of Aryan northmen" and that the French Canadians were a "bar to progress."