List of Famous people who died in 2000

Vincent M. Fennelly (1920–2000) was an American film and television producer. He worked as a sales manager for Monogram Pictures before graduating in 1950 to produce pictures for the studio and its sister company Allied Artists. He was closely involved in the production of western films, a large number of which the companies made each year.

Oleg Vladimirovich Kuznetsov was a Soviet-Russian serial killer and rapist. Between 1991 and 1992, he killed 10 girls and women between the ages of 15 and 30.

Italo Zingarelli was an Italian film producer. He produced 26 films between 1954 and 1995. In 1981, he was a member of the jury at the 31st Berlin International Film Festival.

Irving Christian Wright (1882–1953) was an American male tennis player who was active in the early 20th century.

Lawrence Morgan Kelley was an American football player born in Conneaut, Ohio. He played college football as an end at Yale University. While at Yale he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity and Skull and Bones, and was the first winner of the Heisman Trophy in 1936 and the second winner of the trophy awarded by the New York Athletic Club, the year it was renamed in honor of John Heisman. His jersey number was 19. Kelley was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1969.

Shōji Ueda was a photographer of Tottori, Japan, who combined surrealist compositional elements with realistic depiction. Most of the work for which Ueda is widely known was photographed within a strip of about 350 km running from Igumi to Hagi (Yamaguchi).