List of Famous people who died in 2002

Boris Viktorovich Alexandrov was a Soviet and Kazakh professional ice hockey player. Boris Alexandrov competed for Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk in 1972-1973 and in 1982-1996, and for CSKA Moscow from 1973 to 1978. He became USSR Champion in 1975, 1977 and 1978.

Sohn Kee-chung, a Korean, was an Olympic athlete and long-distance runner. He became the first Korean to win a medal at the Olympic Games, winning gold in the marathon at the 1936 Berlin Olympics as a member of the Japanese delegation.

Anatoliy Kyrylovych Yevdokymenko was a Ukrainian musician, director of Chervona Ruta. He is a People's Artist of Ukraine, husband of Sofia Rotaru.

Ne Win was a Burmese politician and military commander who served as Prime Minister of Burma from 1958 to 1960 and 1962 to 1974, and also President of Burma from 1962 to 1981. Ne Win was Burma's military dictator during the Socialist Burma period of 1962 to 1988.

Ivan Desny, born Ivan Nikolaevich Desnitskij was a Swiss actor of Russian descent, born in China.

Pauline Chan Bo-Lin was a Chinese-Hong Kong actress who aroused significant attraction and controversies in the Greater China Area during her active years in the 1990s.

Sanaa Gamil, born Thoraya Youssef Atallah, was an Egyptian actress.

Victor Frederick "Viki" Weisskopf was an Austrian-born American theoretical physicist. He did postdoctoral work with Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger, Wolfgang Pauli and Niels Bohr. During World War II he was Group Leader of the Theoretical Division of the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, and later campaigned against the proliferation of nuclear weapons.

Winnie Markus (1921–2002) was a Czech-born German film and television actress.

Colin Clark was a British writer and filmmaker who specialised in films about the arts, for cinema and television.