List of Famous people who died in 2002

Herbert Vesely was an Austrian film director and screenwriter. He directed 17 films between 1955 and 1988.

Kenneth Jesse Tobey was an American stage, film, and television actor, who performed in hundreds of productions during a career that spanned more than half a century, including his role as the star of the 1957-1960 Desilu Productions TV series Whirlybirds.

Mohamed Haji Ibrahim Egal was a veteran Somali politician. He was the President of Somaliland from 1993 to 2002. He previously served as the first Prime Minister of the Somali Republic during the early and late 1960s.

Ellis Larkins was an American jazz pianist born in Baltimore, Maryland, perhaps best known for his two recordings with Ella Fitzgerald: the albums Ella Sings Gershwin (1950) and Songs in a Mellow Mood (1954). He was also the leader in the first solo sides by singer Chris Connor on her album Chris (1954).

Archer John Porter Martin was a British chemist who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the invention of partition chromatography with Richard Synge.

William Maurice Denham, OBE was an English character actor, who appeared in over 100 television programmes and films in his long career.

Sandiah, also known as Ibu Kasur was an Indonesian artist, television presenter and educationist.

Christian Graf von Krockow, was a German writer and political scientist,