List of Famous people who died in 2011

Gita Dey was an Indian actress in Bengali cinema, theatre and Bengali folk theater. She became a stage artist at the age of 6 years. She came to the film industry in 1943. Her first film release was Ahuti (1941) as a child actress. She acted in over two hundred Bengali language films and over two thousand stage shows. She acted in the movie Teen Kanya under the direction of Satyajit Ray and Rittik Ghatak's Meghe Dhaka Tara, Subarnarekha, Komal Gandhar, Kato Ajanare. She also acted in Hindi movies such as Parineeta (2005) with Vidya Balan and Sanjay Dutt and other movies. She was associated with All India Radio for a long time doing Shruti Natok. She received the Presidential Award for Lifetime Achievement from Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and many other awards during her lifetime.

Fernando Charrier was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Alessandria della Paglia, Italy.

Angelo D'Alessandro (1926–2011) was an Italian screenwriter and film director who worked on feature films and television. He worked as assistant director on Federico Fellini's Variety Lights (1950).

Sir Oliver Napier was the first leader of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland. In 1974 he served as the first and only Legal Minister and head of the Office of Legal Reform in the Northern Ireland power-sharing executive set up by the Sunningdale Agreement.

Laurence Henry "Larry" Holden was an actor best known for his roles in several of Christopher Nolan's films, including Batman Begins as Finch, Memento as Jimmy and Insomnia as Farrell.

José de Aquino Pereira was a Brazilian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.

Héctor Rueda Hernández was a Colombian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.

Bernhard Luginbühl was a Swiss sculptor.

Ambrose Christian Congreve CBE was an Irish industrialist, best known for his world-famous garden at Mount Congreve.