Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 2002

Eduardo Chillida Juantegui fue un escultor y grabador español conocido por sus trabajos en hierro y en hormigón, destacado continuador de la tradición de Julio González y Pablo Picasso.

Valentin Nikolayevich Pluchek was a Russian theatre director. He is known as a stage director of the Physical Culture Day parade in Moscow during the Stalinist epoch. The Physical Culture Day took place each summer at central squares of major Soviet cities.

Lotte Ulbricht was a Socialist Unity Party of Germany official and the second wife of the East German leader Walter Ulbricht.

Nikolai Mikhailovich Amosov, Doctor of Science, Professor was a Soviet and Ukrainian doctor of Russian origin, heart surgeon, inventor, best-selling author, and exercise enthusiast, known for his inventions of several surgical procedures for treating heart defects.

Hernando Casanova Escobar conocido como El Culebro Casanova, fue un actor, director, cantante y presentador colombiano de cine y televisión. Es considerado como uno de los precursores de la comedia y uno de los actores más importantes de la historia de Colombia. Su versatilidad como actor lo llevó a convertirse en uno de los máximos iconos no sólo del humor, sino de la actuación. Fue considerado durante el apogeo de su carrera, como el mejor actor de Colombia. A lo largo de su carrera, recibió múltiples reconocimientos por sus logros artísticos, de los cuales se destaca su nominación como actor revelación en los premios Ondra de España y el premio a mejor actor dramático en los APE.

Hans Hartz was a German singer and Liedermacher.

Bunjaku Han was a Japanese-speaking Taiwanese actress who lived and worked in Japan.

Metin Toker was a Turkish journalist and writer.

Hilde (Wundsam) Zimmermann, was a member of the Austrian Resistance. Arrested for her efforts to fight fascism, she was deported with her mother and childhood friend by Nazi officials to the Ravensbrück concentration camp in Germany; she then went on to survive both her imprisonment there and a death march.

Charles Everett Traynor was an American businessman and talent agent best known for having promoted the careers of pornographic film stars Linda Lovelace and Marilyn Chambers, both of whom were also married to him.