List of Famous people who died in 2000

John Sutherland Egerton, 6th Duke of Sutherland, was a British peer from the Egerton family. He was styled Viscount Brackley until 1944 when he became the 5th Earl of Ellesmere on inheriting his father's substantive title and inherited his ducal title in 1963 from a distant cousin.

Jean Marie Faircloth MacArthur was the second wife of U.S. Army General of the Army Douglas MacArthur.

Adam Bruno Ulam was a Polish-American historian of Jewish descent and political scientist at Harvard University. Ulam was one of the world's foremost authorities and top experts in Sovietology and Kremlinology, he authored multiple books and articles in these academic disciplines.

Patricia Pakenham-Walsh, also known as Patricia Moyes was a British mystery writer. Her mystery novels feature C.I.D. Inspector Henry Tibbett. One of them, Who Saw Her Die was nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award in 1971. She wrote several juveniles and short stories.