List of Famous people who died in 2000

Carlo M. Cipolla was an Italian economic historian.

Ji Pengfei was a politician of China.

Paul Young was a British singer and songwriter. He achieved success in the bands Sad Café and Mike + the Mechanics.

Pierre Plantard de Saint-Clair was a French draughtsman, best known for being the principal perpetrator of the elaborate Priory of Sion hoax, by which he claimed from the 1960s onwards that he was a direct and legitimate male line Merovingian descendant of Dagobert II and the "Great Monarch" prophesied by Nostradamus. Today in France, he is commonly regarded as a con artist.

Roebuck "Pops" Staples was an American gospel and R&B musician. A "pivotal figure in gospel in the 1960s and 1970s," he was an accomplished songwriter, guitarist and singer. He was the patriarch and member of singing group The Staple Singers, which included his son Pervis and daughters Mavis, Yvonne, and Cleotha.

Russ Conway, DSM was an English popular music pianist and composer. Conway had 20 piano instrumentals in the UK Singles Chart between 1957 and 1963, including two number one hits.

Klaus Wagner was a German mathematician known for his contributions to graph theory.

Julián Infante Martín-Nieto was a Spanish guitarist and composer.

Christian Götz was a German trade unionist and politician.

Anne Hébert, was a French Canadian author and poet. She won Canada's top literary honor, the Governor General's Award, three times, twice for fiction and once for poetry.