List of Famous people who born in 1954

Andrew Klavan is an American conservative commentator and writer of crime and suspense novels. Klavan has been nominated for the Edgar Award five times and has won twice.

Thomas Edgar Rothman is an American film executive and current chairman of Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group. In this role, Rothman oversees all of the studio's motion picture production and distribution activities worldwide, including Columbia Pictures, TriStar Pictures, Screen Gems, Sony Pictures Imageworks, Sony Pictures Animation, and Sony Pictures Classics. Rothman joined Sony Pictures in late-2013 as chairman of TriStar Productions and in 2015 was promoted to Chairman of Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, followed by the release in 2017 and 2018 of titles such as Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, Venom, Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation, Peter Rabbit, and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Previously, he was chairman and chief executive officer of Fox Filmed Entertainment with Jim Gianopulos until his resignation on September 14, 2012, effective January 1, 2013. Rothman began at Fox in 1994 as the founder and President of Fox Searchlight Pictures and served the company for 18 years.

Xie Fuzhan is a Chinese economist and politician who serves as the President of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Previously he served as the Communist Party Secretary and governor of Henan province, and before that, the Director of China's National Bureau of Statistics and the State Council Research Office.