List of Famous people who died in 2003

Xela Arias Castaño was a Galician poet and translator.

Sarah Jane Parkinson was a British producer and writer of radio and television programmes, as well as an occasional actress. She was a regular performer on Week Ending in the latter years of its run.

Marjorie Moehlenkamp Finlay was an American opera singer and television personality. A coloratura soprano, she performed concert, opera, and supper club singing. After winning a talent contest in 1950, Finlay toured on the ABC radio network show Music With the Girls. She later had her own television program and served as an MC for El Show Pan-Americano in Puerto Rico. Finlay toured in South America and released an album in Mexico.

Françoise Giroud, born Lea France Gourdji was a French journalist, screenwriter, writer, and politician.

Nataliya Georgiyevna Medvedeva was a Russian poet, writer, singer, and frontwoman of the hard rock bands Tribunal Natalii Medvedevoy and NATO.

Elem Germanovich Klimov was a Soviet Russian filmmaker. He studied at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, and was married to film director Larisa Shepitko. Klimov is best known in the West for his final film, 1985's Come and See, which follows a teenage boy in German-occupied Byelorussia during the Great Patriotic War and is often considered one of the greatest war films ever made. He also directed dark comedies, children's movies, and historical pictures.

Bernard Daniel Jacques Loiseau was a French chef. He died by suicide by self-inflicted gunshot in 2003 when newspaper reports hinted that his restaurant might lose its 3-star status. This decision was likely due to increased bouts of clinical depression.

Jason Johnson, also known as Camoflauge, was an American rapper, famous for his songs "Cut Friends" and "Laying My Stunt Down". He released his final album Keepin It Real in 2002.

Eduardo Estrada Palomo (Spanish pronunciation: [eˈðwaɾðo paˈlomo]; was a Mexican actor. Palomo became famous across Mexico and Latin America after his 1993 characterization of Juan del Diablo in Corazón salvaje.

Masato Furuoya was a Japanese actor. He won the award for best actor at the 2nd Yokohama Film Festival and at the 5th Hochi Film Award for Disciples of Hippocrates and at the 12th Yokohama Film Festival for Uchū no hōsoku. He committed suicide on March 25, 2003 by hanging himself.