List of Famous people who died in 1938

Edwin Herbert Hall was an American physicist who discovered the eponymous Hall effect. Hall conducted thermoelectric research at Harvard and also wrote numerous physics textbooks and laboratory manuals.

James Outram Fraser was a British Protestant Christian missionary to China with the China Inland Mission. He pioneered work among the Lisu people, of Southwestern China, in the early part of the 20th century. He is credited with developing the Fraser script for their language.

Kaarlo Castrén was a Finnish politician and Prime Minister of Finland. He represented the National Progressive Party.

Alexandre-Louis-Victor-Aimé Le Roy, C.S.Sp. was a French-born archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church, and the Superior General of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit. He served as Vicar Apostolic of Gabon from 1892 until 1896. He was later consecrated Titular Archbishop of Caria in 1921.

Archibald Kennedy, 3rd Marquess of Ailsa was a Scottish peer

Ahn Changho, sometimes An Chang-ho was a Korean independence activist and one of the early leaders of the Korean-American immigrant community in the United States. He is also referred to by his pen name Dosan. A protestant social activist, he established the Shinminhoe when he returned to Korea from the US in 1907. It was the most important organization to fight the Japanese occupation of Korea. He established the Young Korean Academy in San Francisco in 1913 and was a key member in the founding of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea in Shanghai in 1919. Ahn is one of two men believed to have written the lyrics of the Aegukga, the South Korean national anthem. Besides his work for the Independence Movement, Dosan wanted to reform the Korean people's character and the entire social system of Korea. Educational reform and modernizing schools were two key efforts of Dosan. He was the father of actors Ralph and Philip Ahn, founder of the Chinese restaurant Moongate Soorah Ahn, and US Navy aerial gunnery officer Susan Ahn Cuddy, who also later worked for the Office of Naval Intelligence, the National Security Agency, the Library of Congress, and the US Department of Defense.

Valery Pavlovich Chkalov was a test pilot awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union (1936).

Andreas Michalakopoulos was an important liberal politician in the inter-war period who served as Prime Minister of Greece from 7 October 1924 to 26 June 1925.