List of Famous people who died in 1952

Sir Philip Crampton Smyly was a British judge and colonial administrator.

Rudolph Gustav Hass was an amateur horticulturist who first grew the Hass avocado, the source of 95% of California avocados grown commercially today.

János Scheffler was a Hungarian-born Roman Catholic prelate who served as the bishop of two dioceses before acting as the Bishop of Oradea Mare. He was imprisoned due to opposing the Communist government policies and was killed while imprisoned and had been noted during his episcopate for his attentiveness to vocations and to the defense of the faith from those forces that sought to disrupt it such as communism.

Ferdinand Victor Henri Lot was a French historian and medievalist. His masterpiece, The End of the Ancient World and the Beginnings of the Middle Ages (1927), presents an alternative and possibly more objective account of the fall of the Roman Empire than does Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, which set the tone for Enlightenment scholarship blaming the fall of classical civilization on Christianity.

Robert Porter Patterson Sr. was Under Secretary of War under US President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the US Secretary of War under President Harry S. Truman. He was a US Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit after he had been a District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Yuri Alexandrovich Bilibin was a Soviet geologist.

Paul Dienes was a Hungarian mathematician and poet.

Guido Castelnuovo was an Italian mathematician. He is best known for his contributions to the field of algebraic geometry, though his contributions to the study of statistics and probability theory are also significant.

Gino Fano was an Italian mathematician, best known as the founder of finite geometry. He was born to a wealthy Jewish family in Mantua, in Italy and died in Verona, also in Italy.

Forest Ray Moulton was an American astronomer.