List of people who died of starvation:

• Maud de Braose, who accused king John of England of the murder of the young duke Arthur of Brittany
• Robert Burke and William Wills, explorers, first men to cross Australia from south to north.
• Chandragupta Maurya, emperor of the Mauryan empire (300 BC)
• George Washington DeLong, North pole explorer, and his crew
• Eratosthenes, eminent Greek thinker
• Kurt Gödel, groundbreaking mathematician
• Blessed Thomas Johnson and nine other Carthusian martyrs, who refused the Oath of Supremacy
• Nanook_of_the_North, Inuit, subject of early documentary
• Pausanius, Spartan general
• Pope John XIV, of starvation or poisoning
• A. A. Troitzky, a leading chess composer
• Bobby Sands and nine others, Irish nationalists
• Carl Schlechter, a leading chess master
• Ugolino della Gherardesca , Florentine, figure in The Divine Comedy
• Some settlers during "the starving time" in Jamestown, Virginia.
• Several members of the Roman Imperial family, including Agrippina the elder.
• Members of the Donner Party

See also

• Lists of people by cause of death
• Angola
• Famine relief
• Great Leap Forward
• History of Sudan
• Irish potato famine
• North Korea
• Siege of Leningrad