List of Famous people who died in 2002

Aykut Yiğit was a Turkish professional football player who played as a striker, and a football manager until his death.

John Whitcome Reynolds Jr. was the 36th Governor of Wisconsin and a United States District Judge of the Eastern District of Wisconsin.

George Hall was a Canadian theatre, television, and film actor, best remembered by his role as the 93-year-old Indiana Jones in the TV series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1992). He debuted on Broadway in 1946. He also played Ernie Tuttle #2 and John the butler on the television soap opera The Edge of Night and as Mr. Eldridge in the AMC series Remember WENN, which aired in the mid-1990s.

Robin Estridge, a.k.a. Robin York and Philip Loraine was a British author of suspense fiction and a screenwriter.

Edward Ian MacNaughton was a Scottish actor-turned-television producer and director, best known for his work with the Monty Python team. MacNaughton was director and producer for all but four of the forty five episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus from 1969 to 1974, director of the group's first feature film And Now for Something Completely Different in 1971 and director of their two German episodes, Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus in 1971 and 1972. In 1973 the production team shared the BAFTA Award for Best Light Entertainment Programme for Monty Python's Flying Circus.

Arthur Newell Strahler was a geoscience professor at Columbia University who in 1952 developed the Strahler Stream Order system for classifying streams according to the power of their tributaries.