List of Famous people who died in 2000

Louis Nucéra was an award-winning 20th-century French writer. He published his first novel L'obstiné in 1970.

Pia Maria of Orléans-Braganza was member of the former House of Orléans-Braganza and the former Brazilian Imperial Family.

Noel Gilroy Annan, Baron Annan, OBE was a British military intelligence officer, author, and academic. During his military career, he rose to the rank of colonel and was appointed to the Order of the British Empire as an Officer (OBE). He was provost of King's College, Cambridge, 1956–66, provost of University College London, 1966–78, vice-chancellor of the University of London, and a member of the House of Lords.

Robert Alexander Kennedy Runcie, Baron Runcie, was an English Anglican bishop. He was the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1980 to 1991, having previously been Bishop of St Albans. He travelled the world widely to spread ecumenicism and worked to foster relations with both Protestant and Catholic churches across Europe. He was a leader of the Liberal Anglo-Catholicism movement. He came under attack for expressing compassion towards bereaved Argentines after the Falklands War of 1982, and generated controversy by supporting women's ordination.

Mikhail Abramovich Schweitzer was a Soviet film director, People's Artist of the RSFSR and People's Artist of the USSR.

Colonel Ilya Grigoryevich Starinov was a Soviet military officer.

The Right Reverend Roderic Norman Coote OBE was a British Anglican Bishop who held three different posts in an ecclesiastical career spanning half a century.