List of Famous people who died in 1952

Sir Lucius Abel John Granville Ram, KCB, QC, JP, commonly known as Sir Granville Ram, was an Anglo-Irish lawyer and parliamentary draftsman.

Henry Alexander Cecil Douglas (1879–1952) was an Australian businessman and politician. He was a Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.

Louis Valtat was a French painter and printmaker associated with the Fauves, who first exhibited together in 1905 at the Salon d'Automne. He is noted as a key figure in the stylistic transition in painting from Monet to Matisse.

Luigi Cristiano Fagioli, nicknamed "the Abruzzi robber", was an Italian motor racing driver. He is currently the oldest driver to win a race in Formula One, also being the only race winner born in the 19th century.

Chaim Azriel Weizmann was a Russian-born biochemist, Zionist leader and Israeli statesman who served as president of the Zionist Organization and later as the first president of Israel. He was elected on 16 February 1949, and served until his death in 1952. It was Weizmann who convinced the United States government to recognize the newly formed state of Israel.

Herbert Juttke (1897–1952) was a British-born German screenwriter who worked on around fifty film screenplays during his career. He frequently collaborated with Georg C. Klaren, working on a number of Expressonist screenplays during the silent and early sound eras. They worked on the scenario for Alfred Hitchcock's 1931 German film Mary. Following the Nazi rise to power, Juttke emigrated to France.

Horace Jackson was an American Academy Award-nominated filmmaker of the silent and sound film eras. More well known for his screenwriting efforts, Jackson also worked as a set designer early in his career.

Adolf Černý (1864–1952) was a Czech poet and journalist, as well as professor of Slavic studies in Prague.