* 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

* Ed Furgol, winner of 1954 US Open at Baltusrol, champion golfer who overcame an unbending left arm from a broken elbow at age 12

One " Ed Sullivan Show " was broadcast on August 22, 1954 from the new studio, but it was mostly used for one-time-only specials such as Rodgers and Hammerstein's March 31, 1957 " Cinderella.

* The 1954 film White Christmas features a pivotal scene that occurs on " The Ed Harrison Show ", which was intentionally similar to Sullivan's show.

Mickey Spillane, Ed Robbins and Joe Gill's From the Files of ... Mike Hammer ( January 31, 1954 ).

* Hayes " Big Ed " Sanders ( 1930 – 1954 ), Olympic boxing champion

He got his first tastes of television in the early 1950s, appearing as a comic on The Ed Sullivan Show and hosting two game shows, Up To Paar ( 1952 ) and Bank on the Stars ( 1953 ), before hosting The Morning Show ( 1954 ) on CBS.

* Ed Nelson ... Guard ( 2 episodes, 1954 – 1955 )

* Ed Hinton ... Tyler ( 2 episodes, 1954 )

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* Barsky v. Board of Regents, Supreme Court of the United States, 1954, 347, US 442, 74 S. Ct. 650, 98 L. Ed.

Edward Andrew " Ed " Schultz ( born January 27, 1954 ) is an American television and radio host, a liberal political commentator, and a former sports broadcaster.

He defeated prohibition candidate Ed Woellhof by 1983 votes to enter the Republican Party ’ s 1954 primary.

She also appeared on episodes of The Ed Sullivan Show in 1954.

Ed Powers ( born Mark Krinsky ; October 25, 1954 ) is an American director, producer and actor of hardcore pornographic films.

It was created by writer Ed James in the 1940s, and ran on radio from 1949 to 1954 and on television from 1954 to 1960.

* Jail Bait ( 1954 ) Hollywood film directed by Ed Wood

Shakey's Pizza was founded in Sacramento, California, on April 30, 1954, by Sherwood " Shakey " Johnson and Ed Plummer.

Between February 1953 and November 1954, Boyd made five appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show.

In Hadley's second series, The Public Defender, which aired on CBS from 1954 – 1955, Beaumont appeared three times in the role of Ed McGrath.

Ed Vulliamy ( born 1 August 1954 ) is a British journalist and writer.

Motley took the 1954 season off and attempted a comeback in 1955 after the Browns, who still had rights to Motley under his contract, traded him to the Pittsburgh Steelers for Ed Modzelewski.

Edward L. " Ed " Jackson ( December 27, 1873-November 18, 1954 ) was an attorney, judge and politician, elected the 32nd Governor of the U. S. state of Indiana from January 12, 1925, to January 14, 1929.

James Edward, older sister Maxine, and younger sister Bonnie Brown sang individually in Pine Bluff, Arkansas until 1954, when Maxine and Jim Ed signed a record contract as a singing duo.