List of Famous people who died in 1901

Peter Guthrie Tait FRSE was a Scottish mathematical physicist and early pioneer in thermodynamics. He is best known for the mathematical physics textbook Treatise on Natural Philosophy, which he co-wrote with Kelvin, and his early investigations into knot theory.

Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was an Italian opera composer. He was born near Busseto to a provincial family of moderate means, and developed a musical education with the help of a local patron. Verdi came to dominate the Italian opera scene after the era of Vincenzo Bellini, Gaetano Donizetti, and Gioachino Rossini, whose works significantly influenced him.

Peter Benoit was a Flemish composer of Belgian nationality.

Brigadier General Robert James Loyd-Lindsay, 1st Baron Wantage, was a British soldier, politician, philanthropist, benefactor to Wantage, and first chairman and co-founder of the British National Society for Aid to the Sick and Wounded in War, for which he crucially obtained the patronage of Queen Victoria.

Major Robert Stuart was an officer of the British Army and veteran of the Crimean War. After the war, he was appointed Vice-Consul at Volos and later Consul at Janina and Consul-General in various locations. He was also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

Rowland Smith was an English Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1874.

Hippolyte-Prosper-Olivier "Lissa" Lissagaray was a literary animator and speaker, a Republican journalist and a French revolutionary socialist.