One of the most famous was The Apu Trilogy ( 1955 – 1959 ) from critically acclaimed Bengali film director Satyajit Ray, whose films had a profound influence on world cinema, with directors such as Akira Kurosawa, Martin Scorsese, James Ivory, Abbas Kiarostami, Elia Kazan, François Truffaut, Steven Spielberg ,< ref name = unmaderay >

Nawabzada Mohammed Ali Bogra (; October 19, 1909 — January 23, 1963 ) was a well-known and notable Pakistani Foreign service officer of Bengali origin, serving as the third Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1953 until 1955, and prior to that, was also the Foreign Minister of Pakistan from 1954 to 1955.

** Mamata Shankar ( born 1955 ), actress in the Bengali language film industry of India

As a representative of Pakistan, he participated at the South East Asia Conference in Manila in 1955, at the International Folk Music Conference in Germany in 1956 and at the Bengali Cultural Conference in Rangoon in 1957.

Bangla Academy (), established on 3 December 1955, is the national academy for promoting the Bangla ( Bengali ) language in Bangladesh.

Jagdishlal Arun Lal ( जगद ी शल ा ल अर ु ण ल ा ल ) Bengali: অর ু ন ল া ল ( born 1 August 1955 in Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh ) is a retired Indian cricketer, and a cricket commentator.

Alamgir was born in 1955, in East Pakistan ( modern-day Bangladesh ) into a Bengali family.

* 1955 – Dimitra Liani, Greek air hostess, widow of Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou

* 1955 – Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom amid indications of failing health.

Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC, FRS ( 3 January 1883 – 8 October 1967 ) was a British Labour politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951, and as the Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955.

* 1883 – Alexander Papagos, Prime Minister of Greece ( d. 1955 )

Politicians with Scottish connections continued to play a prominent part in UK political life, with Prime Ministers including the Conservatives Harold Macmillan ( whose father was Scottish ) from 1955 – 57 and Alec Douglas-Home from 1963-64.

* 1955 – Meles Zenawi, Ethiopian politician, Prime Minister of Ethiopia ( d. 2012 )

* 1955 – Matti Vanhanen, Finnish politician, former Prime Minister

* March 4 – Mihály Károlyi, former Prime Minister of Hungary and President of Hungary ( d. 1955 )

** Meles Zenawi, 3rd President and 10th Prime Minister of Ethiopia ( b. 1955 )

Bao Dai was deposed by Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem in 1955, who proclaimed himself president after a referendum.

The province was merged into the province of West Pakistan in 1955 under the One Unit policy announced by Prime Minister Chaudhry Mohammad Ali.

Prime Minister Ngô Đình Diệm ousted him in a fraudulent referendum vote in 1955.

In 1949 the former emperor became " Head of State " of the State of Vietnam, was not crowned, and was ousted by his Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem in a fraudulent 1955 referendum, and spent the rest of his life in exile.

He acceded to the Tax and Revenue Service, then joined the staff of Prime Minister Edgar Faure ( 1955 – 1956 ).

In 1955, when Vietnam was partitioned and the State of Vietnam controlled the southern half under Prime Minister Ngô Đình Diệm, Minh led the VNA in decisively defeating the Bình Xuyên paramilitary crime syndicate in street combat and dismantling the Hòa Hảo religious tradition's private army.

The Unknown Prime Minister ( 1955 ) ( a biography of Bonar Law )

* former Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt was born and raised in Dendermonde ( b. 1953 ), as was his younger brother the political scientist Dirk Verhofstadt ( b. 1955 ).

In 1955, on holiday in Sicily soon after his resignation as Prime Minister, Winston Churchill discussed with Sir John Colville and Lord Cherwell the possibility of founding a new institution.

In 1955, by the order of Prime Minister Diem, the VNA crushed the armed forces of the Binh Xuyen.

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.

When Eden succeeded Churchill as Prime Minister in 1955 he promoted Home to the cabinet as Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations.

A founding member of the Democratic Party along with Celal Bayar, Adnan Menderes, and Refik Koraltan, Köprülü served under Menderes as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1950 to 1955 and briefly as Deputy Prime Minister in 1956.

After the war finished in 1945, Churchill was busy, first writing his history of that conflict and then as Prime Minister again between 1951 and 1955, and so it was not until the late 1950s, when Churchill was in his early eighties, that he was able to finish the work.

In 1955, the Workers-Peasant Party, Communist Party, and the Marxist-Leninist Party named Abu Hussain Sarkar as the Chief minister of the State who ruled the state in two non-consecutive terms until 1958 when the martial law was imposed.

* 1955 – Ivan Šubašić, Croatian-Yugoslav politician, Kingdom of Yugoslavia prime minister and last ban of Croatia ( b. 1892 )

Amin Gargurah ( left ), Mayor of Nazareth, with Israeli prime minister Moshe Sharett, 1955

In 1955 Stroessner fired the country's finance minister, who was unwilling to implement reforms, and in 1956 accepted an International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) stabilization plan that abolished export duties, lowered import tariffs, restricted credit, devalued the currency, and implemented strict austerity measures.

At the time the Hallstein Doctrine was born ( or at least named ), Heinrich von Brentano was the foreign minister, a post that had been recently created, after West Germany largely regained its sovereignty in 1955 — before this, political responsibility for foreign policy had been retained by the chancellor, Konrad Adenauer.

However, Ben-Gurion temporarily served as acting prime minister when Sharett visited the United States in 1955.

Pineau was designated as prime minister by president Coty after the February 1955 resignation of Pierre Mendès-France, but the National Assembly refused to ratify his cabinet by 312 votes against 268 ; his prime ministership lasted for two days between 17 and 19 February 1955.

He served as prime minister of North Vietnam from 1955 through 1976, and was prime minister of a unified Vietnam from 1976 until he retired in 1987 under the rule of Le Duan and Nguyen Van Linh.

At the 5th session of the DRV First National Congress ( 1955 ), Dong was appointed prime minister.

Macmillan served as Foreign Secretary in April – December 1955 in the government of newly appointed prime minister Anthony Eden, who had taken over from the retiring Winston Churchill.

* Clement Attlee, who served as Labour Party leader from 1935 to 1955 ( from 1945 to 1951 as prime minister ) was born at Putney in 1883.

This was the boyhood home of Bishop Clare Purcell ( 1884 – 1964 ) who, in 1955, was elected President of the United Methodist Council of Bishops, the highest place of recognition ever achieved by a native-born Alabama Methodist minister.

* Billie Wayne Lemons ( 1955 – 2008 ), Church of Christ minister in Lubbock and player for Cleveland Browns in 1977

Moreover, the early balloon and leaflet operations initiated by the National Committee for Free Europe during Nagy's first term as Hungarian prime minister ( 1953 – 1955 )— namely " Operation Focus "— arguably antagonized Nagy and spawned a stern neutralism ( later, hostility ) toward him among U. S. diplomats and RFE broadcasters during the crisis.

Outstanding Greek public figures in the 20th century include Cretan-born Eleutherios Venizelos, prominent statesman of the interwar period ; Ioannis Metaxas, dictator from 1936 until his death ; Constantine Karamanlis, prime minister ( 1955 – 63, 1974 – 80 ) and president ( 1980 – 85 ) of Greece ; George Papandreou, head of the Center Union Party and prime minister ( 1963 – 65 ); and his son Andreas Papandreou, the PASOK leader who became prime minister in 1981.

When his father was elected chief minister of Jamaica in 1955, Manley resisted entering politics, not wanting to be seen as capitalizing on his family name.

* In the Sherifian kingdom of Morocco ( historically a sultanate till the incumbent assumed the higher royal style of Malik on 14 August 1957, shortly after the end of the simultaneous French and Spanish protectorates ; the additional Islamic title Amir al-Mu ´ minin " Commander of the Faithful " stayed in use ), a Sadr al-A ' zam ( Grand Vizier ) was in office until 22 November 1955, replaced since 7 December 1955 a ( part-political ) Prime Minister ; Vizier was the style of a minister of state ( other titles for various portfolios ).

In 1955 and 1956, Glenn E. Smiley, a white Methodist minister, was assigned by the FOR to assist the Rev.

He became a member of the first Bundestag ( Federal Parliament ) in 1949 and, in 1953, Federal Minister for Special Affairs in the second cabinet of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, in 1955 Federal Minister of Nuclear Energy, and in 1956 defence minister, charged with the build-up of the new Bundeswehrthe youngest man to hold this office at the time.