Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 2002

Richard Henry Bolt Ph.D., better known as Richard Bolt or Dick Bolt, was an American physics professor at MIT with an interest in acoustics. He was one of the founders of the company Bolt, Beranek and Newman, which built the ARPANET, a forerunner of the Internet.

Harry W. Gerstad was an American film editor who sometimes directed films. The Academy Award-winning editor also worked on television. He edited as well as directed for the 1950s program Adventures of Superman. In the 1960s he worked for Bing Crosby Productions and Batjac Productions. Gerstad retired to Palm Springs, California in 1973 and lived there until his death in 2002.

Keith A. Wester was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He worked on nearly 60 films between 1966 and 2002.

Alexander Murray "Alex" Hannum fue un jugador y entrenador profesional de baloncesto. Con 2,01 metros de altura, jugaba en la posición de ala-pívot.

Herb Ritts, fotógrafo de modas estadounidense que se caracterizaba por hacer obras en blanco y negro y por sus retratos de estilo similar a las escultura de la Grecia clásica. Algunas de sus fotos más célebres son desnudos tanto masculinos como femeninos. Sus famosos retratos en blanco y negro incluyen a celebridades como Kofi Annan, Cindy Crawford, Tenzin Gyatso, Madonna, Jack Nicholson y Elizabeth Taylor.

Roberto Vidal Bolaño fue un escritor y actor de teatro español al que se le dedicó el Día de las Letras Galegas del año 2013.

Susie Garrett fue una actriz estadounidense de teatro y televisión, vocalista de jazz y profesora suplente. Es más conocida por haber interpretado a Betty Johnson en la serie de televisión Punky Brewster.

Koreyoshi Kurahara was a Japanese screenwriter and director. He is perhaps best known for directing Antarctica (1983), which won several awards and was entered into the 34th Berlin International Film Festival. He also co-directed Hiroshima (1995) with Roger Spottiswoode, which was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Miniseries.

F.X. Toole is the pen name of boxing trainer Jerry Boyd. Toole is most noted for writing the collection of short stories Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner, which were adapted into the Oscar-winning movie Million Dollar Baby in 2004. F.X. Toole's posthumous novel Pound for Pound was released in 2006 to rave reviews. Cutman, a one-hour dramatic series set in the world of boxing, drawn from short stories by F.X. Toole, is in development by AMC Television.