The Japan Self-Defense Forces Act of 1954 explicitly vests this role as commander-in-chief with the Prime Minister.

He also served as Prime Minister of Albania from 1944 to 1954 and at various times served as foreign minister and defence minister as well.

* 1954 – Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkish politician, Prime Minister ( 2003 – present )

* 1954 – Pierre Mendès-France becomes Prime Minister of France.

* 1875 – Andrass Samuelsen, Faroese politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands ( d. 1954 )

* Patrick Kerwin ( as Chief Justice, 1 July 1954 – 2 February 1963 ; appointed a Puisne Justice under Prime Minister Richard Bennett, 20 July 1935 )

* François Fillon, born in 1954, Prime Minister of France.

* 1954 – Shinzō Abe, Japanese politician, 90th Prime Minister of Japan

Urho Kaleva Kekkonen (; 3 September 1900-31 August 1986 ), was a Finnish politician who served as Prime Minister of Finland ( 1950 – 1953, 1954 – 1956 ) and later as the eighth and longest-serving President of Finland ( 1956 – 1982 ).

Known for his authoritarian personality, he was ousted in 1953 but returned as Prime Minister from 1954 to 1956.

To diminish the differences between the two regions, the government decided to reorganize the country into two distinct provinces under the One Unit policy announced by Prime Minister Chaudhry Muhammad Ali on November 22, 1954.

On July 1, 1954 Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru wrote a memo directing that the maps of India be revised to show definite boundaries on all frontiers.

In 1953, Ben-Gurion announced his intention to withdraw from government and was replaced by Moshe Sharett, who was elected the second Prime Minister of Israel in January 1954.

Esko Tapani Aho ( born May 20, 1954 ) is a statesman and former Prime Minister of Finland.

7 July was the ninth anniversary of Diệm's 1954 ascension to Prime Minister of the State of Vietnam.

Zahir's cousin, Mohammad Daoud Khan, served as Prime Minister from 1954 to 1963.

The Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China (), sometimes also referred to as the " Prime Minister " informally, is the Leader of the State Council of the People's Republic of China ( the " Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China " after 1954 ), who is the head of government and holds the highest-ranking ( Level 1 ) of the Civil service of the People's Republic of China.

On 7 February 1954 Lord Moran, doctor to the Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill, recorded in his diary: " Randolph, who is writing a life of the late Lord Derby for Longman's, brought to luncheon a young man of that name.

Paul Henri Charles Spaak ( 25 January 1899 – 31 July 1972 ) was a Belgian Socialist politician and statesman, who served as Prime Minister of Belgium ( 1938 – 1939, 1946 and 1947 – 1949 ), as the first President of the United Nations General Assembly ( 1946 – 1957 ), as the first President of the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community ( 1952 – 1954 ), and as the second Secretary General of NATO ( 1957 – 1961 ).

In 1954 Guareschi was charged with libel after he had published two facsimile wartime letters from resistance leader and former Prime Minister Alcide De Gasperi requesting the Allies to bomb the outskirts of Rome in order to demoralize German collaborators.

( 22 September 1878 – 20 October 1967 ) was a Japanese diplomat and politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 1946 to 1947 and from 1948 to 1954.

was a Japanese politician and the 52nd, 53rd and 54th Prime Minister of Japan, serving terms from 10 December 1954 through 19 March 1955, from then to 22 November 1955, and from then through 23 December 1956.

Sato gradually rose through the ranks of Japanese politics, becoming Chief Cabinet Secretary to Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida from January 1953 to July 1954.

Having experience in actions such as the 1954 Guatemalan coup d ' état, Dulles was confident that the CIA was capable of overthrowing the Cuban government as led by Prime Minister Fidel Castro since 16 February 1959.

Holt as Minister for Labour at a Raymond Terrace, New South Wales Masonite factory in 1954.

The efforts of this commission were overseen by Govind Ballabh Pant, who served as Nehru's Home Minister from December 1954.

Kekkonen also served as Minister of Foreign Affairs for periods in 1952 – 1953 and 1954 concurrent with his prime ministership.

In 1954, he resigned and served as Minister of Defense, before returning to office in 1955.

During 1954 he served as Vice-Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Macmillan served as Minister of Defence from October 1954, but found his authority restricted by Churchill's personal involvement.

He formally became a cabinet member in 1954 when he was appointed Minister for External Affairs.

While Nehru exempted Muslim law from legislation and they remained un-reformed, he did pass the Special Marriage Act in 1954.

In 1954 Nehru signed with China the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, known in India as the Panchsheel ( from the Sanskrit words, panch: five, sheel: virtues ), a set of principles to govern relations between the two states.

He taught at the Delhi School of Economics ( DSE ) ( 1954 ), and was Jawaharlal Nehru fellow ( 1970 – 72 ) and secretary to the ministry of external affairs ( 1976 ).

Commenting on the 1954 enunciation of them, Peter Lyon, a UK academic specializing in international relations, wrote: " Though neutralists in general, and at that time Mr Nehru in particular, seemed to regard these principles as being a special contribution to world politics, they were not at all original, were repetitious, and really boiled down to the edict that a state's independence should not be infringed.

Nehru later claimed that because China did not bring up the border issue at the 1954 conference, the issue was settled.

But meetings in late 1954 with India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Burma's Premier U Nu made him receptive to the appeal of nonalignment.

* 1954 – Atira Laboratory building opened by Pundit Nehru.

Nehru Planetarium in Pune was the first one in Asia, established in 1954.

Premier Zhou Enlai of the People's Republic of China proposed the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence in 1953 during negotiations with India over Tibet and these were written into the Agreement Between the People's Republic of China and the Republic of India on Trade and Intercourse Between the Tibet Region of China and India signed in 1954 by Zhou and Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru.

Shri Nehru worked as Executive Director in the World Bank ( 1949 ) and Economic Minister at the Indian Embassy in Washington ( 1954 ).

Though the idea of the National Gallery was floated in 1949, it was formally inaugurated by Vice-president Dr S. Radhakrishnan in 1954, in the presence of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.