List of Famous people who died in 2002

Nándor Hidegkuti was a Hungarian football player and manager. He played as a forward or attacking midfielder and spent the majority of his playing career at MTK Hungária FC. During the 1950s he was also a key member of the Hungarian National Team team known as the Golden Team. Other members of the team included Ferenc Puskás, Zoltán Czibor, Sándor Kocsis and József Bozsik. In 1953, playing as a deep lying centre-forward, he scored a hat-trick for Hungary when they beat England 6–3 at Wembley Stadium. Playing from deep, Hidegkuti was able to distribute the ball to the other attackers and cause considerable confusion to defences. This was an innovation at the time and revolutionised the way the game was played.

Prameela Devi popularly known as Devika was an Indian actress who worked in Tamil, Telugu with few Malayalam, Kannada,Hindi film industry.

Bruno Arturovich Freindlich was a Soviet/Russian actor who became People's Artist of the USSR in 1974. His daughter Alisa Freindlich is also a notable actress.

Tilly Lauenstein (1916–2002) was a German film and television actress.

Julien Rassam was a French actor.

John Francis "Jack" Buck was an American sportscaster, best known for his work announcing Major League Baseball games of the St. Louis Cardinals. His play-by-play work earned him recognition from numerous halls of fame. He has also been inducted as a member of the St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame Museum.

Daniel Yves Alfred Gélin was a French film and television actor.

Lotfia Elnadi was an Egyptian aviator. She was the first Egyptian woman as well as the first woman from Arab world to earn a pilot's license.

Hugo Arndt Rodolf, Baron van Lawick was a Dutch wildlife filmmaker and photographer.

John George Agar Jr. was an American film and television actor. He is best known for starring alongside John Wayne in the films Sands of Iwo Jima, Fort Apache, and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon. In his later career he was the star of B movies, such as Tarantula, The Mole People, The Brain from Planet Arous, Revenge of the Creature, Flesh and the Spur and Hand of Death. He was the first husband of Shirley Temple.