* 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

Kaye starred in several movies with actress Virginia Mayo in the 1940s, and is well known for his roles in films such as The Secret Life of Walter Mitty ( 1947 ), The Inspector General ( 1949 ), On the Riviera ( 1951 ) co-starring Gene Tierney, Knock on Wood ( 1954 ), White Christmas ( 1954, in a role originally intended for Fred Astaire, then Donald O ' Connor ), The Court Jester ( 1956 ), and Merry Andrew ( 1958 ).

* 1954 – McCarthyism: CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, " A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy ", produced by Fred Friendly.

His credits in this period include The Howerd Crowd ( 1952 ), Frankie Howerd's Korean Party, Nuts in May and The Frankie Howerd Show, as well as The Big Man ( 1954 ) starring Fred Emney and Edwin Styles.

* Fred Pereira, ( 1954 -) professional soccer player

* 1954: Gray Beck, Richard Thompson, Albert Losvar, Fred Allen, Henry Brown

Mascot J. Fred Muggs and companion with Dave Garroway, 1954

* Edward R. Murrow and Fred W. Friendly 1954 investigation for CBS's See It Now of Senator Joseph McCarthy's conduct in the anti-communism hearings and their 1960 CBS Reports television documentary, along with David Lowe, Harvest of Shame on the condition of migrant workers in agriculture.

Savoy's artistic directors have included Buck Ram, Teddy Reig, Ralph Bass ( 1948 ‒ 1952 ), Fred Mendelsohn ( 1953 ), and Ozzie Cadena ( 1954 ‒ 1962 ) ( father of punk rock musician, Dez Cadena ).

* Fred Trueman ( top right ) and the 1954 Yorkshire team

In 1942, Acuff and songwriter Fred Rose ( 1897 – 1954 ) formed Acuff-Rose Music.

It was written by Fred Bodsworth, a Canadian newspaper reporter and naturalist, and published in 1954.

* Symposium, In Memoriam: Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson, 49 Northwestern University Law Review 1 – 75, ( 1954 ).

Photo from DuMont advertising the show, with 14 year-old Dick Harrison, Herb Polesie, Fred Van Deventer, Florence Rinard, and actor Aldo Ray as guest panelist ( February 1, 1954 )

* Fred H. Madden ( born 1954 ), New Jersey State Senator and former superintendent of the New Jersey State Police

On June 9, 1954, on the 30th day of the Army-McCarthy Hearings, McCarthy launched an attack against Fred Fisher ( a junior attorney working at the same law firm as the Army's attorney, Joseph Welch ) for having associated with the NLG while in law school.

Preferring to be known as Fred C. Bartholomew, he became the television director of independent television station WPIX in New York City from 1949 through 1954.

On June 9, 1954, the 30th day of the Army – McCarthy hearings, McCarthy accused Fred Fisher, one of the junior attorneys at Welch's law firm, of associating while in law school with the National Lawyers Guild ( NLG ), a group which J. Edgar Hoover sought to have the U. S. Attorney General designate as a Communist front organization.

Charles Frederick ( Fred ) Root ( 16 April 1890 – 20 January 1954 ) was an English cricketer who played for England in 1926 and for Derbyshire between 1910 to 1920 and for Worcestershire between 1921 and 1932.

The station first went on the air in 1954 and was founded by Fred A. Lynds and his company, Moncton Broadcasting.

Fred Levin graduated from Pensacola High School in 1954.

* The novel Jemmy Button by the Chilean writer Benjamin Subercaseaux was published in the 1950s and translated from Spanish by Mary and Fred del Villar ( New York: The Macmilllan Company, 1954 ).

His most regular run on the show was alternating weeks with comedian Fred Allen following the departure of regular panelist Steve Allen, beginning in 1954 through early 1955 ; Fred Allen ultimately took the spot on the panel on a regular basis for approximately a year until his death.