List of Famous people who died in 2010

Antoine Choueiri was a Lebanese media executive. He was the founder of Choueiri Group, the Middle East's largest media broker. He was born in Beirut in 1939 to a Maronite Christian family from Bsharri and married his wife Rose Salameh in 1961 who gave birth to two children. He died on March 9, 2010 of health complications, he is buried in his ancestral home of Bsharri in his honor one of Bsharri's main streets will be named "Antoine Choueiri" in homage to him and his achievements.

Vice Admiral Ko Tun-hwa was a geostrategist, former Vice Minister of Defense of Taiwan and former National Policy Advisor to the President of the Taiwan. Admiral Ko Tun-hwa graduated in 1957 with the first class of the Naval Command Course, the first course for international officers, at the United States Naval War College.

Osamu Yoshioka was a renowned Japanese lyricist. Vice-president of the Japan Lyricists' Association. Earlier he used the pen name "吉岡オサム".

Ed Wilson, born Edson Vieira de Barros, was a Brazilian rock singer-songwriter and founder of the musical group Renato e Seus Blue Caps. Once part of the Jovem Guarda movement, he was later linked to the Gospel music scene.

Orhan Alp was a Turkish mechanical engineer, politician and former government minister.

Şerife Feriha Sanerk was the first female police chief in Turkey.

Abdullah ibn Abdur-Rahman al-Ghudayyan was a Saudi Arabian Islamic scholar, a leading proponent of the Salafi form of Islam and a member of the Saudi Council of Senior Scholars. His ancestry was of the tribe of Banu Anbar.