* 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

* 1954 – Mark Fidrych, American baseball player ( d. 2009 )

* 1954 – Mark Warner, American politician, United States Senator from Virginia and 69th Governor of Virginia

( 1952 ); Mark Antony in Joseph L. Mankiewicz's 1953 film adaptation of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar ; and as Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver in Sayonara ( 1957 ), Joshua Logan's adaption of James Michener's 1954 novel.

in 1952, Julius Caesar in 1953 as Mark Antony, and On the Waterfront in 1954.

* 1954 – Mark Brandon Read, Australian criminal

* 1954 – Mark Lindsay Chapman, English actor

* 1954 – Mark Foley, American politician

** Mark Slavin, Israeli wrestler ( b. 1954 )

Silver City Bristol Superfreighter | Bristol 170 Mark 32 Superfreighter loading a car at Southampton Airport | Southampton during 1954

* Jughead, nickname for a version of the 1954 Mark 16 nuclear bomb

Privately bisexual, Elliott was married twice ; first to the British actress Virginia McKenna for a few months in 1954 and later, in an open marriage, to actress Susan Robinson, with whom he had two children, a son named Mark and a daughter named Jennifer ( 1964-2003 ).

* Lotus Mark VIII ( 1954 ): sports racer

The theme for Mogambo was loosely adapted by Mark Barber for the Auckland University Tramping Club Revue in 1954.

In 1954, Landrieu married Verna Satterlee, with whom he had nine children ( Mary, Mark, Melanie, Michelle, Mitchell, Madeleine, Martin, Melinda, and Maurice Jr .).

They had five children: Robert Sargent Shriver III ( born April 28, 1954 ), Maria Owings Shriver ( born November 6, 1955 ), Timothy Perry Shriver ( born August 29, 1959 ), Mark Kennedy Shriver ( born February 17, 1964 ), and Anthony Paul Kennedy Shriver ( born July 20, 1965 ).

* Mark van Allen ( born 1954 ), American musician

Katharine Ingrid Mary Isabel Fraser, Deputy Lieutenant of Aberdeenshire since 2005, ( born 11 October 1957 ) m. Mark Nicolson ( born 29 September 1954 ).

Mark portrays the 1950s rock-a-billy era complete with exact replicas of all of Elvis ' performance guitars and stage clothes from 1954 to 1958, as well as old 1950s RCA microphones and even a full-size Nipper dog statue on-stage ( Mark is the only impersonator that uses RCA's Nipper ).

Mark Oliphant ( left ) with Homi J. Bhabha | Homi Bhabha ( 1954 )

Mark Steven Fidrych (; August 14, 1954 – April 13, 2009 ), nicknamed " The Bird ", was a Major League Baseball pitcher.

* Mark Berger ( born 1954 ), Canadian Olympic silver & bronze ( judo heavyweight )

* Mark Lindsay Chapman ( born 1954 ), British-born TV and film actor

Mark William Hofmann ( born December 7, 1954 ) is an American counterfeiter, forger and convicted murderer.