List of Famous people who died in 2001

Neil E. Tillotson was the inventor of the modern latex balloon and latex gloves and founder of Tillotson Rubber Company. Later, as a resident of Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, he was the first voter in every American presidential primary and presidential election from the time he took residence there to his death in 2001.

Mordecai Richler was a Canadian writer. His best known works are The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959) and Barney's Version (1997). His 1970 novel St. Urbain's Horseman and 1989 novel Solomon Gursky Was Here were shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He is also well known for the Jacob Two-Two children's fantasy series. In addition to his fiction, Richler wrote numerous essays about the Jewish community in Canada, and about Canadian and Quebec nationalism. Richler's Oh Canada! Oh Quebec! (1992), a collection of essays about nationalism and anti-Semitism, generated considerable controversy.

Frédéric de Pasquale was a French actor. He appeared in 50 films and television shows between 1960 and 2001.

Robert Edward "Bob" Treuhaft was an American lawyer and the second husband of Jessica Mitford.

Jacques de Bourbon, Count de Busset was a French novelist, essayist and politician. He was elected to the Académie française on 4 June 1981. He was a senior member of the House of Bourbon-Busset.

Mitsuo Kagawa was a Japanese archaeologist and a professor at Beppu University in Ōita Prefecture, Japan. He committed suicide by hanging himself on March 9, 2001 as a result of the Japanese Paleolithic hoax.

Prince Constantin Franz Nikolaus Karl Heinrich Dagobert Anton von Padua Ildefons Maria von Liechtenstein was a Liechtenstein prince and alpine skier who competed in the 1948 Winter Olympics.

Friedrich Franz, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin was the heir apparent to the throne of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and a member of the Waffen-SS.

Cranley Gordon Douglas Onslow, Baron Onslow of Woking, was a British politician and served as the Conservative MP for Woking from 1964 to 1997, and a British Peer from 1997 until his death.