List of Famous people who died in 1952

Sir Alfred George Lascelles KC was the 20th Chief Justice of Ceylon. He was appointed on 1 May 1911 succeeding Joseph Turner Hutchinson and was Chief Justice until 1914. He was succeeded by Alexander Wood Renton.

Sir William Augustus Forbes Erskine was the first British ambassador to the Republic of Poland.

James Perry Goodbody was an Irish politician. He was an independent member of Seanad Éireann from 1922 to 1928. From County Limerick, he was nominated to the Seanad by the President of the Executive Council in 1922 for 6 years. He did not contest the 1928 Seanad election.

James Algernon Palmer-Tomkinson was a British alpine ski racer who competed in the Winter Olympics in 1936 and 1948. He also competed and won in the Oxford-Cambridge ski race for Oxford, winning in 1935. He was educated at Eton College.

Ralph Byrd was an American actor. He was most famous for playing the comic strip character Dick Tracy on screen, in serials, movies and television.

Herbert Henry John Murrill was an English musician, composer, and organist.