List of Famous people who died in 2009

Pat Quinn was an Irish publican, hotelier, music promoter, storyteller, former millionaire and founder of the Quinnsworth group, Ireland's first supermarket chain. He invented the term "yellow pack". According to The Irish Times, he was "one of the country's best-known business figures in the 1960s and 1970s", "the whizz kid of the Irish grocery business" and "a well-known figure in the Irish-Canadian community" at his death. He worked, honeymooned and eventually settled with his family in Toronto. The Toronto Sun described him as "County Leitrim's favourite son".

Arturo Salazar Mejía was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pasto, Colombia.

Piet Alexander Tallo was an Indonesian politician. He was governor of East Nusa Tenggara in 1998-2008. Because he was seriously ill since 2007, the governor often handed tasks over to his vice governor, Frans Lebu Raya, who was elected as governor through the election in 2008. He received a law degree from the Gadjah Mada University in 1970. Tallo also served as regent of South Central Timor Regency in 1983-1993. Tallo died from an acute asthma attack on 25 April 2009.

Wang Yu-yun was a Taiwanese politician. He was the Mayor of Kaohsiung City in 1973–1981.