List of Famous people who died in 2000

Philip Childs Keenan was an American astronomer.

Arthur Henry Krawczak was an American Bishop of the Catholic Church. He served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Detroit from 1973 to 1982.

Rayford Barnes was an American film and TV character actor from Whitesboro, Texas who appeared in films, mainly westerns, such as Hondo, The Burning Hills, Fort Massacre, The Wild Bunch, The Hunting Party, and Cahill U.S. Marshal. He also appeared in the 1955 comedy Bowery to Bagdad.

Robert Swink was an American film editor who edited nearly 60 feature films during a career that spanned 46 years.

Samuel Alexander O'Steen was an American film editor and director. He had an extended, notable collaboration with the director Mike Nichols, with whom he edited 12 films between 1966 and 1994. Among the films O'Steen edited are Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Cool Hand Luke, The Graduate, Rosemary's Baby, and Chinatown.

Gregory Hill, better known by the pen name Malaclypse the Younger, was an American author. He was one of the two primary writers of the Principia Discordia, along with Kerry Wendell Thornley. He was also adapted as a character in The Illuminatus! Trilogy (1975). During the early years of circulation of the Principia Discordia, rumors claimed that the author of the book was Richard Nixon, Timothy Leary, or Robert Anton Wilson; or that the book and Malaclypse the Younger were both fictional inventions of Robert Anton Wilson, as with Abdul Alhazred's Necronomicon.