List of Famous people who born in 1954

Tsurutaro Kataoka is a Japanese television personality, actor, artist, and former professional boxer. For his role in the 1988 film The Discarnates, he won the award for best supporting actor at the 31st Blue Ribbon Awards, at the 13th Hochi Film Award, and at the 10th Yokohama Film Festival.

Katherine Pancol is a journalist and bestselling French novelist. Her books have been translated into some 30 languages, and sold millions of copies worldwide. In the United States, she is known as the author of The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles and its sequel, The Slow Waltz of Turtles, both translated by William Rodarmor.

Esteban Moctezuma Barragán is a Mexican politician formerly affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and is currently a member of MORENA. He is a former senator and served as secretary of social development and secretary of the interior in the cabinet of President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León. From that position, early in January 1995, he pursued peace talks in Chiapas with the EZLN insurgents; in February the government pursued a strategy of military intervention, followed by a resumption of peace talks with the insurgents. In 2018, he was appointed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador as Secretary of Education. On 16 December 2020, Moctezuma was nominated Ambassador of Mexico to the United States, subject to Senate confirmation.

Ramanathan Sarathkumar is an Indian film actor, politician, journalist and former body builder and former president of the South Indian Film Artistes' Association. He has acted in more than 130 Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada films. He is fluent in all South Indian languages and is quite proficient in Russian.

Saori Minami was born in Okinawa on July 2, 1954 to Japanese parents. In the 1970s she was active as an idol.

Clive Frederick Palmer is an Australian businessman and politician. He has iron ore, nickel and coal holdings.

Andrónico Luksic Craig is a businessman and chairman of Quiñenco, a holding of the Luksic Group, one of Chile's largest conglomerates.

Gilbert Duclos-Lassalle is a former French professional road racing cyclist who was a specialist at one-day classic cycling races. He raced from 1977 to 1995, one of the best French riders of a generation that included Bernard Hinault and Laurent Fignon.

Samuel Gerald Jones, known professionally as Sam J. Jones, is an American actor. He has arguably become best known for having played the title characters in the 1980 film Flash Gordon and in the short-lived TV series The Highwayman (1987–1988).

Leovegildo Lins da Gama Júnior, also known as Léo Júnior or simply Júnior, is a Brazilian football pundit and retired footballer who played as a left back or midfielder. He was nicknamed "capacete" because of his afro hairstyle.