In 1957, Vajpayee was elected to the Lok Sabha, where his oratorical skills so impressed the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru that he predicted that Vajpayee would someday become India's Prime Minister.

A special screening was held in Rashtrapati Bhavan ( presidential quarter ) in New Delhi on 23 October 1957 ; the event was attended by the President of India Rajendra Prasad, the Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and his daughter Indira Gandhi.

When Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru became president of All India Congress Committee, he was elected its general secretary ; in 1957, he was selected for Lok Sabha.

A 17-foot high equestrian bronze statue of Shivaji was unveiled by Jawaharlal Nehru, then Prime Minister of India, on the 30th of November 1957, the same year a road was constructed by the Public Works Department from Kumbhrosi village up to fort.

Nehru had led the Congress to a major victory in the 1957 elections, but his government was facing rising problems and criticism.

Roy on the 25th of December, 1956 and concluding session was graced by Pandit Jawarlal Nehru on 14 January 1957.

He was appointed an MBE in the 1945 New Year Honours List. Nehru became the secretary of economic affairs in 1957.

* 1957 – Farhat Basir Khan, Indian theoretician and activist

* 1957 – Randhir Singh, Indian cricketer

* 1892 – Archie Wiles, Indian cricketer ( d. 1957 )

* 1957 – Mukesh Ambani, Indian businessman

* 1957 – Gul Mohammed, Indian primordial dwarf ( d. 1997 )

* 1957 – Dimple Kapadia, Indian actress

* 1957 – Reena Roy, Indian actress

* 1957 – Mira Nair, Indian director

* 1957 – Kumar Sanu, Indian singer

* Butterflies of the Indian Region by Col M. A. Wynter-Blyth, Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India ( 1957 ).

McKinley Fisher, a Chemehuevi man employed by the Indian Service at Colorado Agency, Arizona in 1957.

The Streaks were discontinued the same year the Indian Head emblems were ; 1957.

Mira Nair ( born October 15, 1957 ) is an Indian film director and producer based in New York.

* 1957 A Prehistoric Indian site at Cowhead Mesa is recorded by Emmet Shedd of Post.

La Monte Young discovered Indian music in 1957 on the campus of UCLA.

The Malaysian Indian Congress ( MIC ) () is a Malaysian political party and is one of the founding members of the ruling coalition, Barisan Nasional, previously known as the Alliance, that has been in power since the country achieved independence in 1957.

Franklin Lakes, Oakland and Wyckoff ( FLOW district ) approved creation of a regional high school in 1954 by a vote of 1, 060 to 51, with Ramapo High School ( in Franklin Lakes ) opened in 1957 and Indian Hills High School in 1960.

He played an important role in the landslide successes of the Congress Party in the Indian General Elections of 1952, 1957 and 1962.

* Conrad Hunte ( former West Indian Test cricketer, lived in Chorley before the 1957 Test Series against England )

He was granted honorary membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1933 ; in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1955 ; the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, in 1955 ; the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, in 1962 ; was elected Corresponding Member of the German Academy of Sciences, Berlin, in 1955 ; member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists, Leopoldina ( Halle-Saale ) in 1956 ; Foreign Member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences, Copenhagen, in 1962 ; Vice-President of the International Union of Physics from 1951 to 1957 ; President and first honorary member of the Polarographic Society, London ; honorary member of the Polarographic Society of Japan ; honorary member of the Chemical Societies of Czechoslovakia, Austria, Poland, England and India.

His Tamil film Nayagan along with Satyajit Ray's The Apu Trilogy ( 1955 – 1959 ) and Guru Dutt's Pyaasa ( 1957 ) are the only Indian films to have appeared in Time magazine's All-Time 100 Greatest Movies.

Rajaji tendered his official resignation from the Indian National Congress and along with a number of other dissidents organised the Congress Reform Committee ( CRC ) in January 1957.

The Congress Reform Committee also contested 12 Lok Sabha seats during the 1957 Indian elections.

* 1957 – Sir Feroz Khan Noon replaces Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar as Prime Minister of Pakistan.

Overseeing the nation's independence from British colonial rule in 1957, Nkrumah was the first President of Ghana and the first Prime Minister of Ghana.

* Kevin Rudd ( born 1957 ), an Australian politician and former Prime Minister

Louis Stephen St. Laurent, PC, CC, QC ( Saint-Laurent or St-Laurent in French, baptized Louis-Étienne St-Laurent ), ( 1 February 188225 July 1973 ) was the 12th Prime Minister of Canada from 15 November 1948, to 21 June 1957.

* 1957 – Kevin Rudd, Australian politician, 26th Prime Minister of Australia

However, when Macmillan replaced Eden as Prime Minister, Powell was offered the office of Financial Secretary to the Treasury on 14 January 1957.

Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC, FRS ( 10 February 1894 – 29 December 1986 ) was Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 10 January 1957 to 18 October 1963.

At the age of De Jong is the oldest living and earliest serving former Prime Minister of the Netherlands and the second oldest living former member of the Council of Ministers of the Netherlands, after former Minister of Colonial Affairs Gerard Helders ( currently aged ) who served in the Third Drees cabinet ( 1957 – 1958 ) and the Second Beel cabinet ( 1958 – 1959 ).

* Édouard Herriot ( 1872 – 1957 ), Radical politician of the Third Republic who served three times as Prime Minister of France.

Malaysia grew rapidly after its independence in 1957 under the " Father of Modernisation ", the second Prime Minister of Malaysia, Allahyarham Tun Abdul Razak Hussein.

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 ).

was a Japanese politician and the 56th and 57th Prime Minister of Japan from 25 February 1957 to 12 June 1958 and from then to 19 July 1960.

Her first, The Comforters ( 1957 ), concerns a woman who becomes aware that she is a character in a novel ; The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie ( 1961 ), at times takes the reader briefly into the distant future to see the various fates that befall its characters.

Macmillan was appointed Prime Minister on 10 January 1957.

The only person to have been both Prime Minister and Governor-General of New Zealand, Holyoake was National Party Prime Minister from 20 September 1957 to 12 December 1957, then again from 12 December 1960 to 7 February 1972.

Holyoake became Prime Minister two months before the 1957 election, when outgoing Prime Minister Sidney Holland retired due to ill-health, and also became Minister of Māori Affairs on the retirement of Ernest Corbett.

Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat ( Thai: สฤษด ิ์ ธนะร ั ชต ์, alternatively spelled Dhanarajata ), ( June 16, 1908 – December 8, 1963 ) was a Thai career soldier who staged a coup in 1957, thereafter serving as Thailand's Prime Minister until his death in 1963.