List of Famous people who died in 2002

Umar Kayam was an Indonesian sociologist and writer.

Sabri Khalil al-Banna, known by his nom de guerre Abu Nidal, was the founder of Fatah: The Revolutionary Council, a militant Palestinian splinter group more commonly known as the Abu Nidal Organization (ANO). At the height of its militancy in the 1970s and 1980s, the ANO was widely regarded as the most ruthless of the Palestinian groups.

Muhammad Hamidullah 19 February 1908 – 17 December 2002) D. Phil., D. Litt., HI, was a Muhaddith, Faqih, scholar of Islamic law and an academic author with over 250 books. A prolific writer, his extensive works on Islamic science, history and culture have been published in several languages and many thousands of articles in learned journals. His scholarship is regarded by many as unparalleled in the last century. A double doctorate and a polymath, he was fluent in 22 languages including Urdu, Persian, Arabic, French, English, German, Italian, Greek, Turkish, Russian etc. He learned Thai at the age of 84.

Hugo Banzer Suárez was a Bolivian politician and military officer who served as the 51st President of Bolivia. He held the Bolivian presidency twice: from 1971 to 1978 in a military dictatorship; and then again from 1997 to 2001, as a democratically elected president.

Glenn John McQueen was a Canadian supervisor of digital animation and supervising character animator at Pixar and PDI.

Louise Carletti (1922–2002) was a French film actress. She was married to the director Raoul André. As a young actress, Carletti made a minor appearance in The Sentinel (1942) with Frederic Forrest and Barbara Stanwyck as a murder victim. When performing in the 1956 adaptation of Ford Madox Ford 's The Day of the Jackal (1959), she performed the part of a prostitute, but it was not until the 1989 film based on Amaury Lévy's The Wife's Revenge (1989) that she performed the role as a homemaker.

Infanta Beatriz of Spain, Princess of Civitella-Cesi was a daughter of King Alfonso XIII of Spain and Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, wife of Alessandro Torlonia, 5th Prince di Civitella-Cesi. She was a paternal aunt of King Juan Carlos I.

Juan Antonio Bardem Muñoz was a Spanish film director and screen writer. He was a member of the Communist Party. Bardem was best known for Muerte de un ciclista (1955) which won the FIPRESCI Prize at the 1955 Cannes Film Festival, and El puente (1977) which won the Golden Prize at the 10th Moscow International Film Festival. His 1979 film Seven Days in January won the Golden Prize at the 11th Moscow International Film Festival. In 1981 he was a member of the jury at the 12th Moscow International Film Festival. In 1993 he was a member of the jury at the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival. In 1953 he and Luis García Berlanga founded a film magazine, Objetivo, which existed until 1956. Bardem is the father of director Miguel Bardem and uncle of actor Javier Bardem. He died of complications resulting from liver disease.

Princess Lilian of Belgium, Princess of Réthy was the second wife of King Leopold III of Belgium.

Ahmed Hafez Mazhar was an Egyptian actor. He graduated from the military academy in 1938 and his colleagues included Gamal Abdel Nasser and Anwar Sadat.