List of Famous people who died in 1950

Isidor "Jack" Niflot was an American wrestler who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics.

Vicente Sotto y Yap was a Filipino politician who served as a Senator from 1946 to 1950. He also served in the House of Representatives from 1922 to 1925, representing Cebu's 2nd district. He was the main author of the Press Freedom Law

Makarios II was Archbishop of Cyprus from 1947 until 1950. He was born Michail Charalambous Papaioannou in the village of Prodromos in 1870. In 1895, he was ordained a deacon and left Cyprus for further education. He studied at the Great School of the Nation in Constantinople before entering the Halki seminary.

Johanne Dybwad was a Norwegian stage actress and stage producer. She was the leading actress in Norwegian theatre for half a century.

General Evangeline Cory Booth, OF was a British theologian and the 4th General of The Salvation Army from 1934 to 1939. She was the first woman to hold the post.

Frederick William Twort FRS was an English bacteriologist and was the original discoverer in 1915 of bacteriophages. He studied medicine at St Thomas's Hospital, London, was superintendent of the Brown Institute for Animals, and was a professor of bacteriology at the University of London. He researched into Johne's disease, a chronic intestinal infection of cattle, and also discovered that vitamin K is needed by growing leprosy bacteria.

A. Roland Fields was an American art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for another two in the category Best Art Direction. He worked on 39 films between 1942 and 1951.

Vyacheslav Vassilievich Stepanov was a Russian mathematician, specializing in analysis.

Giovanni Giorgi was an Italian physicist and electrical engineer who proposed the Giorgi system of measurement, the precursor to the International System of Units (SI).

Aimé Simon-Girard in Paris, France was a French film actor. He was the son of the tenor Nicholas Simon-Max and the soprano Juliette Simon-Girard.