List of Famous people who died in 2000

Charles Mayer was an American middleweight and heavyweight boxer who competed in the early twentieth century.

Zentarō Kosaka was a Japanese politician who served as foreign minister for two times and as labor minister.

Karl Mejstrik was an Austrian pair skater. Competing with Helene Engelmann, he became the 1913 World champion and 1914 World silver medalist.

Fung Fung was a veteran Hong Kong actor. He began his career as a leading man in 1946. An accident in 1949 left the left side of his face paralysed, but, while no longer able to attract leading roles, he enjoyed a long career as a character actor, appearing in films alongside such stars as Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung. He was the father of Fung Bo Bo, a child star of the 1960s, and Fung Hak On, an actor known for playing villainous roles in several kung fu/action comedies of the 1970s and 1980s.

Edgar Cardoso was a noted Portuguese civil engineer and university professor. In Portugal, Edgar Cardoso was a pioneer of experimental analysis of structures and of high precision instruments developed to measure parameters affecting structural behavior on small models of his own works.