* 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

He had a daughter, Michelle ( born August 21, 1954 ) with Karen Truesdell.

* Karen Moras-Olympic bronze medallist in swimming and world record holder, was born in Ryde in 1954.

* Karen Leigh King ( born 1954 ), American academic working in the field of early Christianity and Gnosticism.

* 1954 – John Bowe, Australian race car driver

Past Australian censuses were conducted in 1911, 1921, 1933, 1947, 1954, and 1961-2011 every five years.

* 1954 – Kim Hughes, Australian cricketer

* 1954 – Kay Cottee, Australian maritime sailor

* 1954 – Susan Kiefel, Australian lawyer and judge

* 1954 – Greg Towns, Australian rules footballer

* 1954 – Dick Gross, Australian politician

* 1954 – Mark Brandon Read, Australian criminal

* 1954 – David Worrall, Australian composer and polymedia artist

* 1954 – Malcolm Turnbull, Australian politician

* 1954 – Peter Bakowski, Australian poet

The aftermath of the 1954 election caused a split in the Labor Party, with several anti-Communist members from Victoria defecting to form the Australian Labor Party ( Anti-Communist ).

FRACP ), elected him to Honorary Fellowships, and the Australian Academy of Science, for which he supported its establishment in 1954, made him a fellow ( FAAS ) in 1958.

* 1954 – Ray Hadley, Australian broadcaster

Stephen Philip " Steve " Bracks AC ( born 15 October 1954 ) is a former Australian politician and the 44th Premier of Victoria.

Pauline Lee Hanson ( née Seccombe ; born 27 May 1954 ) is an Australian politician and former leader of Pauline Hanson's One Nation, a political party with a populist and anti-multiculturalism platform.

Rod Taylor began his acting career in Australia, appearing in such Australian films as Long John Silver ( 1954 ) before transferring to the United States to become a Hollywood leading man of the 1960s and 70s, with starring roles in The Time Machine ( 1960 ) and The Birds ( 1963 ).

Since its inception in 1954, the Australian team has dominated the Rugby League World Cup, having won the competition nine times.

In 1954, the Australian journalist and author, George Johnston, wrote a well-researched series of biographical articles on Finch, his life, and his work, which appeared in The Sun-Herald ( Sydney ), on four consecutive Sundays, which were certainly the first detailed account of Finch's life ever published.

In 1954 TAA became the first airline outside Europe to introduce the Vickers Viscount ' propjet ', and in 1981 it introduced the Airbus A300, the first wide-body aircraft to be purchased by an Australian domestic airline.

It is the first of many novels by Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin ( 1879 – 1954 ), one of the major Australian writers of her time.

* James Baker ( musician ) ( born 1954 ), Australian rock drummer and songwriter

* Walter Cresswell O ' Reilly ( 1877 – 1954 ), Australian Commonwealth Film Censor and founding President of the National Trust of Australia

Queen Elizabeth II opened the parliaments of some of the Australian states in 1954 and of New South Wales in 1992.