List of Famous people who died in 2010

Jack Herer, sometimes called the "Emperor of Hemp", was an American cannabis rights activist and the author of The Emperor Wears No Clothes, a book—in 2020 in its fourteenth edition after having been continuously in print for 35 years—frequently cited in efforts to decriminalize and legalize cannabis and to expand the use of hemp for industrial use. Herer also founded and served as the director of the organization Help End Marijuana Prohibition (HEMP). The Jack Herer Cup is held in Amsterdam, Colombia, Jamaica, Las Vegas, Oklahoma City and Thailand each year to honor the Worldwide Cannabis Legalization Movement that Jack Herer helped start.

Leroy Matthiesen was a Catholic bishop in the United States. He served as the sixth bishop of the Diocese of Amarillo in the state of Texas from 1980 to 1997.

Sergio Valech Aldunate was the Roman Catholic Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santiago de Chile, Chile. He was the head of the eight-member National Commission on Political Imprisonment and Torture panel in Chile, which investigated instances of torture that occurred under the military regime of Augusto Pinochet. After a six-month investigation, and another six months of preparation, the panel released the Valech Report.

Jacques Faivre, was the French Catholic bishop of Le Mans from 1997 to 2008.

Kerstin "Kiki" Håkansson is a Swedish model and beauty queen who was the winner of the first Miss World beauty pageant after being crowned Miss Sweden World in 1951.

Imre Polyák was a featherweight Greco-Roman wrestler from Hungary. He competed in the 1952, 1956, 1960 and 1964 Olympics and won three silver and one gold medal. He won the world title in 1955, 1958 and 1962, and placed second in 1961 and 1963. Nationally Polyák won 12 Hungarian titles and was named Sportsman of the Year in 1958 and 1962.

Carolina van den Heuvel-de Blank, known as Ien van den Heuvel, was a Dutch Labour Party (PvdA) politician.

Ignatius P. Lobo was an Indian prelate of the Catholic Church. As of 2009, he was one of oldest Roman Catholic Bishops from India.