List of Famous people who died in 2001

Saul Elkins was an American writer, producer and director in the film industry.

Simone Benmussa was an Algerian born writer and theatre director in France. One of her best known plays was The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs

Paolo Bertoli S.T.D. JUD was an Italian Roman Catholic Cardinal and Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints.

Stephen Ailes was a prominent member of the District of Columbia Bar and a partner in the firm of Steptoe & Johnson. He served as the United States Under Secretary of the Army from February 9, 1961, to January 28, 1964, and as United States Secretary of the Army from January 28, 1964, to July 1, 1965. He received his undergraduate education at Princeton University, and attended the law school of West Virginia University, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity.

Alexandra Adler was an Austrian neurologist and the daughter of psychoanalyst Alfred Adler. She has been described as one of the "leading systematizers and interpreters" of Adlerian psychology. In 1937, Adler and Tracy Jackson Putnam conducted a study on a brain of a multiple sclerosis victim. Illustrations from the study are frequently used in medical literature. Adler's detailed studies on 500 survivors of the Cocoanut Grove fire is noted as some of the earliest research on posttraumatic stress disorder. Adler discovered that many of the survivors suffered from unsettled grief, particular changes in personality such as guilt and diminished vitality, and an increase in sleep disturbances and anxiety. Her sister was Socialist activist Valentine Adler.

Tamara Mikhaylovna Smirnova was a Soviet/Russian astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets and comets.