List of Famous people who died in 2002

Keene Holbrook Curtis was an American character actor.

Ramon John Hnatyshyn QC(Sask) HonFRHSC, commonly known as Ray Hnatyshyn, was a Canadian statesman who served as Governor General of Canada, the 24th since Canadian Confederation.

Jean-Pierre Vasarely (1934–2002), professionally known as Yvaral, was a French artist working in the fields of op-art and kinetic art from 1954 onwards. He was the son of Victor Vasarely, who was a pioneer of op-art.

Charlotte von Mahlsdorf was a transgender woman who founded the Gründerzeit Museum in Berlin-Mahlsdorf.

Boris Vladimirovich Ivanov was a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1981).

Stephen Edward Ambrose was an American historian and biographer of U.S. Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. He was a longtime professor of history at the University of New Orleans and the author of many bestselling volumes of American popular history.