List of Famous people who died in 2010

Maurice Félix Charles Allais was a French physicist and economist, the 1988 winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "for his pioneering contributions to the theory of markets and efficient utilization of resources", for Maurice Allais contribution, along with John Hicks and Paul Samuelson, to neoclassical synthesis. They formalize the self-regulation of markets, that Keynes refuted, while reiterating some of his ideas.

Frederick Jelinek was a Czech-American researcher in information theory, automatic speech recognition, and natural language processing. He is well known for his oft-quoted statement, "Every time I fire a linguist, the performance of the speech recognizer goes up".

Richard Stanley Francis was a British crime writer, and former steeplechase jockey, whose novels centre on horse racing in England.

Reha Oğuz Türkkan was Turkish academic, journalist and a leading ideologue of Turkish racism. During his lifetime he published many books which focused on Turkish nationalism and Pan-Turkism. He was the grandnephew of Fakhri Pasha.

Jacqueline "Jackie" Burroughs was an English-born Canadian actress.