Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 2001

Jesús Aguirre y Ortiz de Zárate, duque consorte de Alba, fue un editor literario, escritor, traductor y académico español. Su formación académica se desarrolló hasta ser ordenado sacerdote católico, y tras abandonar el ministerio ocupó los puestos de director literario de la editorial Taurus y director general de Música y Danza del Ministerio de Cultura (1977-1980).

Johnny Micheal "Mike" Spann was a paramilitary operations officer in the Central Intelligence Agency's Special Activities Division. Spann was the first American killed in combat during the United States invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. He died at the Qala-i-Jangi fortress in a Taliban prisoner uprising.

Boris Borisovich Ryzhy, or Ryzhii, was a Russian poet and geologist. Some poems by Ryzhy have been translated into English, Italian, German, Dutch and Serbian. He committed suicide on May 7, 2001, at the age of 26. He was born and died in Yekaterinburg.

Juan José Arreola Zúñiga fue un escritor, académico y editor mexicano.

Joan Sims fue una actriz inglesa recordada por sus papeles en los filmes de la serie Carry On, así como por su papel de Madge Hardcastle en As Time Goes By.

John Lee Hooker fue un cantante y guitarrista de blues estadounidense.

Paul Richard Averitt was an American soldier serving as a member of the US Army 92nd Signal Corps Battalion. He was one the first photographers taking pictures at Dachau concentration camp during its liberation on April 29, 1945.

Eugene Bondurant Sledge fue un biólogo investigador y profesor universitario estadounidense en la Universidad de Montevallo, fue un marine (1941-1946) veterano de la Segunda Guerra Mundial en el Océano Pacífico.

Emerson "Bud" Dunn was a Tennessee Walking Horse trainer from Kentucky who spent most of his career in northern Alabama. He trained horses for over forty years and won his first Tennessee Walking Horse World Grand Championship at age 74 with Dark Spirit's Rebel; at the time, he was the oldest rider to win the honor. He was inducted into the Tennessee Walking Horse Hall of Fame in 1987 and named trainer of the year in 1980 and 1991. In 1999 at age 81, Dunn surpassed his own record for the oldest winning rider by winning his second World Grand Championship, riding RPM. He died of a heart attack in January 2001.

Matild Manukyan was a wealthy Turkish businesswoman of Armenian descent. She was a real property investor and madam who made a fortune in the brothel business, whereby she became the top taxpayer in Istanbul for five consecutive years during the 1990s.