diff --git a/pkgs/development/python2-modules/numpy/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python2-modules/numpy/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 0bb01ef6812a..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/python2-modules/numpy/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,99 +0,0 @@
-{ lib
-, fetchPypi
-, python
-, buildPythonPackage
-, gfortran
-, pytest
-, blas
-, lapack
-, writeTextFile
-, isPyPy
-, cython
-, setuptools
- }:
-
-assert (!blas.isILP64) && (!lapack.isILP64);
-
-let
-  cfg = writeTextFile {
-    name = "site.cfg";
-    text = (lib.generators.toINI {} {
-      ${blas.implementation} = {
-        include_dirs = "${lib.getDev blas}/include:${lib.getDev lapack}/include";
-        library_dirs = "${blas}/lib:${lapack}/lib";
-        runtime_library_dirs = "${blas}/lib:${lapack}/lib";
-        libraries = "lapack,lapacke,blas,cblas";
-      };
-      lapack = {
-        include_dirs = "${lib.getDev lapack}/include";
-        library_dirs = "${lapack}/lib";
-        runtime_library_dirs = "${lapack}/lib";
-      };
-      blas = {
-        include_dirs = "${lib.getDev blas}/include";
-        library_dirs = "${blas}/lib";
-        runtime_library_dirs = "${blas}/lib";
-      };
-    });
-  };
-in buildPythonPackage rec {
-  pname = "numpy";
-  version = "1.16.6";
-  format = "pyproject";
-
-  src = fetchPypi {
-    inherit pname version;
-    extension = "zip";
-    sha256 = "e5cf3fdf13401885e8eea8170624ec96225e2174eb0c611c6f26dd33b489e3ff";
-  };
-
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ gfortran pytest cython setuptools ];
-  buildInputs = [ blas lapack ];
-
-  patches = lib.optionals python.hasDistutilsCxxPatch [
-    # We patch cpython/distutils to fix https://bugs.python.org/issue1222585
-    # Patching of numpy.distutils is needed to prevent it from undoing the
-    # patch to distutils.
-    ./numpy-distutils-C++.patch
-  ];
-
-  preConfigure = ''
-    sed -i 's/-faltivec//' numpy/distutils/system_info.py
-    export NPY_NUM_BUILD_JOBS=$NIX_BUILD_CORES
-    export OMP_NUM_THREADS=$((NIX_BUILD_CORES > 64 ? 64 : NIX_BUILD_CORES))
-  '';
-
-  preBuild = ''
-    ln -s ${cfg} site.cfg
-  '';
-
-  enableParallelBuilding = true;
-
-  doCheck = !isPyPy; # numpy 1.16+ hits a bug in pypy's ctypes, using either numpy or pypy HEAD fixes this (https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/13807)
-
-  checkPhase = ''
-    runHook preCheck
-    pushd "$out"
-    ${python.interpreter} -c 'import numpy; numpy.test("fast", verbose=10)'
-    popd
-    runHook postCheck
-  '';
-
-  passthru = {
-    # just for backwards compatibility
-    blas = blas.provider;
-    blasImplementation = blas.implementation;
-    inherit cfg;
-  };
-
-  # Disable test
-  # - test_large_file_support: takes a long time and can cause the machine to run out of disk space
-  NOSE_EXCLUDE="test_large_file_support";
-
-  meta = {
-    description = "Scientific tools for Python";
-    homepage = "https://numpy.org/";
-    license = lib.licenses.bsd3;
-    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ fridh ];
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python2-modules/numpy/numpy-distutils-C++.patch b/pkgs/development/python2-modules/numpy/numpy-distutils-C++.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index b2626ea26e5b..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/python2-modules/numpy/numpy-distutils-C++.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/numpy/distutils/unixccompiler.py b/numpy/distutils/unixccompiler.py
---- a/numpy/distutils/unixccompiler.py
-+++ b/numpy/distutils/unixccompiler.py
-@@ -44,8 +44,6 @@ def UnixCCompiler__compile(self, obj, src, ext, cc_args, extra_postargs, pp_opts
-         if opt not in llink_s:
-             self.linker_so = llink_s.split() + opt.split()
- 
--    display = '%s: %s' % (os.path.basename(self.compiler_so[0]), src)
--
-     # gcc style automatic dependencies, outputs a makefile (-MF) that lists
-     # all headers needed by a c file as a side effect of compilation (-MMD)
-     if getattr(self, '_auto_depends', False):
-@@ -54,8 +52,15 @@ def UnixCCompiler__compile(self, obj, src, ext, cc_args, extra_postargs, pp_opts
-         deps = []
- 
-     try:
--        self.spawn(self.compiler_so + cc_args + [src, '-o', obj] + deps +
--                   extra_postargs, display = display)
-+        if self.detect_language(src) == 'c++':
-+            display = '%s: %s' % (os.path.basename(self.compiler_so_cxx[0]), src)
-+            self.spawn(self.compiler_so_cxx + cc_args + [src, '-o', obj] + deps +
-+                       extra_postargs, display = display)
-+        else:
-+            display = '%s: %s' % (os.path.basename(self.compiler_so[0]), src)
-+            self.spawn(self.compiler_so + cc_args + [src, '-o', obj] + deps +
-+                       extra_postargs, display = display)
-+
-     except DistutilsExecError:
-         msg = str(get_exception())
-         raise CompileError(msg)
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python2-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python2-packages.nix
index 526ebb4d7ec6..507935b0d5c2 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python2-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python2-packages.nix
@@ -51,8 +51,6 @@ with self; with super; {
 
   more-itertools = callPackage ../development/python2-modules/more-itertools { };
 
-  numpy = callPackage ../development/python2-modules/numpy { };
-
   packaging = callPackage ../development/python2-modules/packaging { };
 
   pip = callPackage ../development/python2-modules/pip { };