List of Famous people who died in 1952

Edward Vermilye Huntington was an American mathematician.

Ernest Henry Alton was an Irish university professor and an independent Teachta Dála (TD) and Senator.

Sir Ernest Ridley Debenham, 1st Baronet, was an English businessman. He was responsible for the considerable expansion of the family's retail and wholesale drapery firm between 1892 and 1927.

John Francis Skjellerup was an Australian amateur astronomer who spent two decades working as a telegraphist in South Africa.

Herbert Evans was an English film actor. He appeared in over 180 films between 1916 and 1952.

Viktor Mikhailovich Chernov was a Russian revolutionary and one of the founders of the Russian Socialist-Revolutionary Party. He was the primary party theoretician or the 'brain' of the party, and was more analyst than political leader. Following the February Revolution of 1917, Chernov was Minister for Agriculture in the Russian Provisional Government and advocating immediate land reform. Later on, he was Chairman of the Russian Constituent Assembly.

Gavin George Hamilton, 2nd Baron Hamilton of Dalzell, KT, CVO, MC, was a Scottish Liberal politician.

Joseph Louis Anne Marie Charles Avenol was a French diplomat. He served as the second Secretary General of the League of Nations, from July 3, 1933 to August 31, 1940. He was preceded by Sir Eric Drummond of the United Kingdom, who was general secretary between 1920 and 1933, and he was succeeded by the Irish diplomat Seán Lester, who was general secretary between 1940 and 1946, when the League dissolved following the aftermath of World War II in 1946.

Manuel Portela y Valladares was a Spanish political figure during the Second Spanish Republic. He served as the 43rd Attorney General of Spain between 1912 and 1913.