List of Famous people who died in 2020

Ip Kwok-him, GBM, GBS, JP is an unofficial member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong, having been in the position since March 2016. He is also former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong for the District Council (First) functional constituency and Hong Kong delegate to the National People's Congress and the former convenor of the caucus of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB) in the Legislative Council. He was awarded the Grand Bauhinia Medal (GBM) by the Hong Kong SAR Government in 2017.

Joel Shatzky was an American writer and literary professor at the State University of New York.

Leila Benitez-McCollum was a Filipino-born American radio and television host, presenter, journalist and broadcaster.

Peter James Niven Sinclair was a British economist. He was Professor, and subsequently Emeritus Professor, in Economics at the University of Birmingham. Previously, he had been a fellow and tutor at Brasenose College, Oxford.