List of Famous people who died in 2000

Eric Douglas Morley was a British TV host and the founder of the Miss World pageant and Come Dancing TV programme. His widow, Julia Morley, is now head of the pageant and his son Steve Douglas is one of its presenters.

Anton Polenec was a Slovene zoologist and specialist arachnologist.

Logan Carlisle Ramsey, Jr. was an American character actor of television and film for nearly 50 years.

Kenneth Jon Barwise was an American mathematician, philosopher and logician who proposed some fundamental revisions to the way that logic is understood and used.

Klaus Bargsten was the captain and sole survivor of the sunken U-521. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.

Enric Miralles Moya was a Spanish architect from Barcelona. He graduated from the Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB) at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) in 1978. After establishing his reputation with a number of collaborations with his first wife Carme Pinós, the couple separated in 1991. Miralles later married fellow architect Benedetta Tagliabue, and the two practiced together as EMBT Architects. Miralles' magnum opus and his largest project, the new Scottish Parliament Building, was unfinished at the time of his death.

Kirsten Rolffes was a Danish actress, internationally mostly recognized for her roles in The Kingdom and Matador. She also had a leading role in Denmark's first sitcom, Een stor familie, set in an early 1980s office building. She attended drama school at Frederiksberg Theater (1947-48) and at the National Theater.

Josef Ertl was a German politician who served as the minister of agriculture in different cabinets of Germany and was a member of the Free Democratic Party (FDP).

Herman Feshbach was an American physicist. He was an Institute Professor Emeritus of physics at MIT. Feshbach is best known for Feshbach resonance and for writing, with Philip M. Morse, Methods of Theoretical Physics.