List of Famous people who died in 2000

Sub-Lieutenant Saburō Sakai was a Japanese naval aviator and flying ace of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. Sakai had 28-64 aerial victories by official Japanese records, while his autobiography Samurai!, co-written by Martin Caidin and Fred Saito, claims 64 aerial victories. Such discrepancies are common, and pilots' official scores are often lower than those claimed by the pilots themselves, due to difficulties in providing appropriate witnesses or verifying wreckage, and variations in military reports due to loss or destruction.

Mary Eleanor Jessie Knox née Shepard was an English illustrator of children's books. She is best known for the Mary Poppins stories written by P. L. Travers : "Mary Shepard: Putting Mary Poppins in the picture", The Times of London titled an obituary article,. She used her married name Mary Knox outside the publishing industry.

Germaine Montero (1909–2000) was a French singer and a stage, television and film actress.

W. James Riddell MBE was a British champion skier and author who was involved in the early days of skiing as a competitive sport and holiday industry. Like his near contemporary, Sir Arnold Lunn, he matched his adventurism on the slopes and knowledge of the Alpine countries with an elegant record of his times.

Lewis Gilbert Wilson was an American actor, who was most famous for being the first actor to play DC Comics character Batman on screen in the 1943 film serial Batman.

Giuseppe Medici was an Italian politician and economist.

Judith Barrett, also known as Nancy Dover, was an American film actress of the late 1920s and through the 1930s, up until 1940.