* 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 – Michael Sembello, American musician and songwriter

* 1954 – Michael Badalucco, American actor

* 1954 – Michael Holding, Jamaican cricketer

* Children: Michael Francis Compton ( b. 25 November 1940 ) Doreen Crick ; Gabrielle Anne ( b. 15 July 1951 ) and Jacqueline Marie-Therese Nichols ( b. 12 March 1954, d. 28 February 2011 ) Odile Crick ;

* J. Michael Straczynski ( born 1954 ), contemporary fiction and television writer

* 1954 – John Michael Talbot, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

On his return to Britain in 1954, he found he faced hostility for having left the Goons to the extent that his picture had been excised from early pictures and wasn't replaced until Bentine complained to DG Michael Checkland in the 1990s.

* 1954 – Michael D. Brown, U. S. Federal Emergency Management Agency director

* 1954 – Michael Dudikoff, American actor

* 1954 – Michael Emerson, American actor

* 1954 – Michael Shermer, American historian and writer, founded The Skeptics Society

Yet conflicts between the so-called Darmstadt school, which included composers like Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Karel Goeyvaerts, Luciano Berio and Gottfried Michael Koenig, soon arose, receiving explicit expression in Adorno's 1954 lecture, " The Aging of the New Music ", where he argued that atonality's freedom was being restricted to serialism in much the same way as it was once restricted by twelve-tone technique.

Joseph Michael Straczynski (; born July 17, 1954 ), known professionally as J. Michael Straczynski and informally as Joe Straczynski or JMS, is an American writer and television producer.

* Michael L. Gross ( ethicist ) ( born 1954 ), political and medical ethicist

* Saunders, Hilary St. George, The Red Beret – The Story Of The Parachute Regiment 1940 – 1945, Michael Joseph Ltd, 1954

When his career took him to London in 1954 after his provincial apprenticeship, his agent informed him that there was already a Michael Scott performing as an actor in London and that he had to come up with a new name immediately.

Speaking to his agent from a telephone box in Leicester Square, London, he looked around for inspiration, noted that The Caine Mutiny was being shown at the Odeon Cinema in 1954, and decided to change his name to " Michael Caine ".

* The Egyptian ( film ), a 1954 film by Michael Curtiz, based on Waltari's novel

Rear Window is a 1954 American suspense film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, written by John Michael Hayes and based on Cornell Woolrich's 1942 short story " It Had to Be Murder ".

* The Egyptian, motion picture ( 1954, directed by Michael Curtiz, Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation ), based on the novel by Mika Waltari.

Michael Roe ( born October 12, 1954 ) is an American record producer, songwriter, guitarist and singer.

Michael Rolfe Gira () ( born February 19, 1954 ) is an American musician, author, and artist.

In 1954, he accepted a position as a professor at the California Institute of Technology ( Caltech ) where he performed his most famous experiments with his then student Michael Gazzaniga.