List of Famous people who died in 1954

Harald Paulsen was a German stage and film actor and director. He appeared in 125 films between 1920 and 1954.

Albrecht Julius Theodor Bethe was a German physiologist. He was the father of physicist Hans Bethe (1906–2005).

John Flournoy Montgomery was an American businessman and diplomat. His sole diplomatic posting was as U.S. Minister to Hungary, between 1933 and 1941. This ambassadorial assignment placed Montgomery at the center of the seething intrigue and gathering storm that characterized 1930's Hungary and Central Europe; in particular he was witness to the rise of Adolf Hitler's influence in Budapest, and the complex struggle over the alliance between Hungary and Nazi Germany. His memoirs, entitled Hungary: The Unwilling Satellite, are considered a valuable document of that era.

Hermann Robert Dietrich was a German politician of the liberal German Democratic Party and served as a minister during the Weimar Republic.

Dorothy Ursula Cundall was an English badminton player. Born in 1883 in Richmond, London she was a prominent player before the First World War winning three All England titles. In 1912 she married Douglas Moore Henry who died in 1917. In 1922 she remarried an Irish badminton player called Bertram Bisgood. She died in Bournemouth on 8 February 1954.

Jacques Edwin Brandenberger was a Swiss chemist and textile engineer who in 1908 invented cellophane. He was awarded the Franklin Institute's Elliott Cresson Medal in 1937.

Werner Bischof was a Swiss photographer and photojournalist. He became a full member of Magnum Photos in 1949, the first new photographer to join its original founders. Bischof's book Japan (1954) was awarded the Prix Nadar in 1955.

Gustav Dietrich Dahrendorf was a German SPD politician.