List of Famous people who died in 1938

Francis Capel Harrison was a British civil servant and Conservative Party politician.

Sir Charles Glynne Earle Welby, 5th Baronet, was a British civil servant who became a Conservative Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1900 to 1906, and then had a long career in local government in Lincolnshire.

Albertson Van Zo Post was an American fencer and writer. He earned two gold medals in the 1904 Summer Olympics as well as a silver and two bronze medals, and also competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.

Edward James Livernash, subsequently Edward James de Nivernais, was a U.S. Representative representing the fourth congressional district of California. Late in life Livernash adopted the French form of the family name, de Nivernais, by decree of court.

George Phillip "Phil" Bryant was an American archer who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics. He later became President of the Organising Committee for the Olympic Games. He won two gold medals in Archery at the 1904 Summer Olympics in the double york and American rounds. In the team competition he won the bronze medal.

Eugenie Schumann was a German pianist and author.

Thomas Wilmer Dewing was an American painter working at the turn of the 20th century. Schooled in Paris, Dewing was noted for his figure paintings of aristocratic women. He was a founding member of the Ten American Painters and taught at the Art Students League of New York. The Freer Gallery of Art at the Smithsonian Institution has a collection of his works. He was the husband of fellow artist Maria Oakey Dewing.

Walter Scott was the first Premier of the province of Saskatchewan in Canada.

Derrick Norman Lehmer was an American mathematician and number theorist.