* 1954 – Jon Krakauer, American author

* 1954 – Pat Travers, Canadian singer and musician

* 1954 – Thom Bray, American actor

* 1954 – Jane Campion, New Zealand director

* 1954 – Frank-Michael Marczewski, German footballer

* 1954 – John Lloyd, English tennis player

* 1954 – Derek Warwick, English race car driver

* 1954 – Paul Steigerwald, American sportscaster

* 1954 – Ray Jennings, South African cricketer and coach

* 1954 – Radio Pakistan broadcasts the " Qaumī Tarāna ", the national anthem of Pakistan for the first time.

* 1954 – Nico Assumpção, Brazilian bass player ( d. 2001 )

In 1954 – 55, Australia's batsmen had no answer to the pace of Frank Tyson and Statham.

* 1954 – James Charles Kopp, American murderer of Barnett Slepian

* 1954 – Sammy McIlroy, Irish footballer and manager

* 1993 – Alan Kulwicki, American race car driver ( b. 1954 )

After 1890 came philosopher Josiah Royce ( 1855 – 1916 ), botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey ( 1858 – 1954 ), the Southern Agrarians of the 1920s and 1930s, novelist John Steinbeck ( 1902 – 1968 ), historian A. Whitney Griswold ( 1906 – 1963 ), environmentalist Aldo Leopold ( 1887 – 1948 ), Ralph Borsodi ( 1886 – 1977 ), and present-day authors Wendell Berry ( b. 1934 ), Gene Logsdon ( b. 1932 ), Paul Thompson, and Allan C. Carlson ( b. 1949 ).

Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS ( ; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954 ), was a British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist.

* 1954 – James Gleick, American author, journalist, and biographer

* 1954 – Benno Möhlmann, German footballer

* 1954 – Gary Peters, English footballer

Other post war productions included a live performance of Richard II, directed by Royston Morley and starring Alan Wheatley as Richard and Clement McCallin as Bolingbroke ( 1950 ); a made-for-TV production of Henry V, directed by Royston Morley and Leonard Brett, and starring Clement McCallin as Henry and Marius Goring as the Chorus ( 1951 ); a Sunday Night Theatre made-for-TV production of The Taming of the Shrew, directed by Desmond Davis, and starring Stanley Baker as Petruchio and Margaret Johnston as Katherina ( 1952 ); a television adaptation of John Barton's Elizabethan Theatre Company production of Henry V, starring Colin George as Henry and Toby Robertson as the Chorus ( 1953 ); a live performance of Lionel Harris ' production of The Comedy of Errors starring David Pool as Antipholus of Ephesus and Paul Hansard as Antipholus of Syracuse ( 1954 ); and The Life of Henry the Fifth, the inaugural programme of BBC's new World Theatre series, directed by Peter Dews and starring John Neville as Henry and Bernard Hepton as the Chorus.

* The cricketer Colin Dredge was born in Frome in 1954.

* Colin Frederick Campbell, 1st Baron Colgrain ( 1866 – 1954 )

Trevor Colin Mallard ( born 17 June 1954 ) is a New Zealand politician.

Paris: Armand Colin, 1954.

* Colin Ireland ( born 1954 ), British serial killer known as the " Gay Slayer "

* Lieutenant-General Sir Colin Callander, 1954 – 1957

Colin Ireland ( 16 March 1954 – 21 February 2012 ) was a British serial killer known as the " Gay Slayer " because he killed gay men.

The mountain was first climbed May 30, 1954 via the south ridge by Colin Todd and Geoff Harrow of a New Zealand expedition.

Cochrane Ranch provided the corral setting for the 1954 National Film Board of Canada documentary Corral, by Colin Low, whose father had worked as a foreman at the ranch.

* Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Colgrain ( 1866 – 1954 ), British banker

His first novel, the autobiographical The Golden Valley, was finished in 1954 but not published until 1958 as by Colin Murry.

Colin Dawkins provided the writing for the majority of the stories for 1954 and 1955, with contributions from Davis, Evans and Severin.

Colin Newman ( born 16 September 1954, Salisbury, Wiltshire ) is an English musician, record producer and record label owner.

Cricket writer, Colin Bateman, noted that Crapp was a " sound rather than spectacular batsman who scored 1, 000 runs in all but one of his fifteen seasons-that was 1954, when he struggled with the Gloucestershire captaincy ".

* 1954 – David Newman, American composer and conductor

In February 1954, Newman appeared in a screen test with James Dean, directed by Gjon Mili, for East of Eden ( 1955 ).

* The Silver Chalice ( 1954 ) starring Paul Newman ( film debut )

Various promotional schemes were tried: in 1954 the small town of Saranac Lake, New York ( home of the Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium ) won a nationwide competition selling Christmas Seals, the reward for which was hosting the world premiere of the Paul Newman film, The Silver Chalice ; the cast participated in a parade in the town's annual winter carnival.

Danny Newman was the company's long-time press agent from 1954 until his retirement in the 2001 / 02 season ; Newman is largely credited as the founder of subscription-based arts marketing, the standard economic model for not-for-profit arts organizations in the United States.

He married Marie Newman in 1954 ; they had two daughters.

A young Warren Buffett studied under Prof. Ben Graham, took his course and worked for his small investment firm, Graham Newman, from 1954 to 1956.

* David Newman ( composer ) ( born 1954 ), American composer

* David Newman ( priest ) ( born 1954 ), Archdeacon of Loughborough since 2009

Fuller was Lecturer in Biblical Studies at Allen Hall, St Edmund's College, Ware, Hertfordshire from 1936 – 1949, for the Newman Association from 1950 – 1954, and at St Mary's College, Strawberry Hill, Twickenham from 1968-1972.

Other books published by Newman during his Sunday Times years include the popular collections Opera Nights ( 1944, an unexpected wartime bestseller ), Wagner Nights ( 1949 ) and More Opera Nights ( 1954 ), published in the U. S. under the title Seventeen Famous Operas ( 1955 ).

At one of these many gigs, he met Ray Charles, and in 1954, Newman joined Charles in his band as the baritone saxophone player ( although he is more famous as a tenor saxophone and flute player ) and began a twelve year gig with Charles.

David Louis Newman ( born March 11, 1954 ) is an American composer and conductor known particularly for his film scores.

Newman was elected as a Windsor alderman in 1954, and served on the city council from 1955 to 1960.