List of Famous people who died in 1962

Jimmy Conlin was an American character actor who appeared in almost 150 films in his 32-year career.

Egodahage George Wilfred Alwis Samarakoon known as Ananda Samarakoon was a Sri Lankan composer and musician. He composed the Sri Lankan national anthem "Sri Lanka Matha" and is considered the father of artistic Sinhala music and founder of the modern Sri Lankan Geeta Sahitya. He committed suicide in 1962, possibly driven by unauthorized changes to lyrics in a composition.

William Norman Birkett, 1st Baron Birkett, was a British barrister, judge, politician and preacher who served as the alternate British judge during the Nuremberg Trials.

Edward Turnour, 6th Earl Winterton, PC, styled Viscount Turnour until 1907, was an Irish peer and British politician in the first half of the twentieth century who achieved the rare distinction of serving as both Baby of the House and Father of the House at the opposite ends of his career in the House of Commons.

Omer Bouchery (1882–1962) was a French illustrator.

Palmyre Levasseur was a French stage and film actress.

Sir Thomas Shenton Whitelegge Thomas, commonly known as Sir Shenton Thomas, was the last Governor of the Straits Settlements. He served from 1934 to 1942, during which time the Second World War broke out, and again from September 1945 to April 1946, when the Straits Settlements was dissolved.

Pierre Larquey was a French film actor. He appeared in 214 films between 1913 and 1962. Born in Cénac, Gironde, France, he died in Maisons-Laffitte at the age of 77.