List of Famous people who died in 2009

Luis Rojas Mena was a Mexican Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church.

Wilton Gbakolo Sengbe Sankawulo, Sr. was a Liberian politician and author.

Kidane-Mariam Teklehaimanot was a bishop of the Ethiopian Catholic Church. He served as the Eparch of Adigrat, in the northern Tigray Region, from his consecration on 12 October 1984, until his retirement on 16 November 2001. He was succeeded by Tesfasellassie Medhin.

John Joseph "Johnny" Palermo was an American television actor.

Ravindra Nath Sudan was an Indian-American electrical engineer and physicist who specialized in plasma physics. He was known for independently discovering the whistler instability in 1963, an instability which causes audible low-frequency radio waves to be emitted in the magnetosphere in the form of whistler waves. He also pioneered the study of the generation and propagation of intense ion beams, and contributed to theories of plasma instabilities and plasma turbulence.

Grand Ayatollah Mohammad-Taqi Bahjat Foumani was an Iranian Twelver Shia Marja'.