List of Famous people who died in 2000

Henri Gault was a French food journalist. He was co-founder of the Gault Millau guides with Christian Millau, and invented the phrase "nouvelle cuisine", though later he claimed to regret it.

Louis Leprince-Ringuet was a French physicist, telecommunications engineer, essayist and historian of science.

George Segal was an American painter and sculptor associated with the Pop Art movement. He was presented with the United States National Medal of Arts in 1999.

Penelope Mary Fitzgerald was a Booker Prize–winning novelist, poet, essayist and biographer from Lincoln, England. In 2008 The Times listed her among "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945". The Observer in 2012 placed her final novel, The Blue Flower, among "the ten best historical novels".

Nancy Lou Marchand was an American actress. She began her career in theatre in 1951. She was perhaps most famous for her television portrayals of Margaret Pynchon on Lou Grant and Livia Soprano on The Sopranos.

Ezequiel Ataucusi Gamonal, also known as Brother Ezequiel, was a Peruvian politician and prophet of the religious movement he founded. He was the founder of an Evangelical Association of the Israelite Mission of the New Universal Covenant (AEMINPU) and their theocratic party known as Agricultural People's Front of Peru (FREPAP).

Martin James Monti was a United States Army Air Forces pilot who defected to Nazi Germany in October 1944 and worked as a propagandist and writer. After the end of World War II, he was tried and sentenced for desertion; he was then pardoned but subsequently tried for treason and sentenced to 25 years in prison.

Leo Vincent Gordon was an American character actor and writer. During more than 40 years in film and television he was most frequently cast as a supporting actor playing brutish bad guys but occasionally played more sympathetic roles just as effectively.

Gloria Talbott was an American film and television actress.

Leah Rabin was the wife of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was assassinated in 1995.