List of Famous people who died in 2009

Martino Gomiero was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Adria-Rovigo, Italy.

Jacobus (Jaap) Wessels was a Dutch mathematician and Professor of Stochastic Operations Research at the Eindhoven University of Technology., known for his contributions in the field of Markov decision processes.

Ulla-Maija "Uma" Aaltonen was a Finnish author, journalist, and Green League politician.

Gianfranco Mingozzi was an Italian director and screenwriter.

Barbara Novak Marshall was an American television broadcast journalist and politician. She was elected three times to the Honolulu City Council in Honolulu, Hawaii following her retirement from broadcasting.

Reginald Evans was a British-born actor active in Australian television, theatre, and cinema from the 1960s.

Hideaki Motoyama was a Japanese badminton player. He competed in the men's singles tournament at the 1992 Summer Olympics.

Pierre Barbotin was a French racing cyclist, riding professionally from about 1948 to 1961. He was born in Nantes and died in the same city.