List of Famous people who died in 2011

Patrick Galvin was an Irish poet, singer, playwright, and prose and screenwriter born in Cork's inner city.

Julius Blank was a semiconductor pioneer. A member of the so-called traitorous eight, he left Nobel-winning physicist William Shockley's company to form Fairchild Semiconductor.

Jean Gratton was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mont-Laurier, Canada.

Will Insley was an American painter, architect, and planner of utopian urban models. As a painter of geometric abstraction, he is known for his large-area geometrical picture elements.

Cesare Del Cancia was an Italian road cyclist. After finishing fifth in the road race at the 1935 World Championships he turned professional and competed until 1945. He won the 1936 Milano–Torino, 1937 Milan–San Remo and 1938 Giro del Lazio races.

Ernst-Jürgen Dreyer was a German writer, translator, playwright and musicologist.