List of Famous people who died in 1954

John Meehan was a Canadian screenwriter.

Julian Lowell Coolidge was an American mathematician, historian and a professor and chairman of the Harvard University Mathematics Department.

Karl Julius Fritzsche (1883–1954) was a German film producer. He is best known for his role as managing director of the German major studio Tobis Film during the Nazi era.

Kenneth Richard Davidson was an English first-class cricketer, who played thirty 30 matches for Yorkshire County Cricket Club from 1933 to 1935, and one game for Scotland against Yorkshire in 1938. Slightly unusually for someone who played comparatively little, he was awarded his county cap in 1935. He was an amateur until after the 1933 season, but turned professional and scored 1,241 runs. He ultimately thought he was too old for a professional career in cricket.

Leona Roberts was an American stage and film actress.

William March was an American writer of psychological fiction and a highly decorated US Marine. The author of six novels and four short-story collections, March was praised by critics but never attained great popularity.

Ruth Baird Bryan Leavitt Owen Rohde, also known as Ruth Bryan Owen, was elected to two terms in the U.S. House of Representatives and was the first woman appointed as a United States ambassador. The daughter of attorneys William Jennings Bryan and Mary E. Baird, she was a Democrat, who in 1929 was elected from Florida's 4th district as Florida's first female U.S. Representative and the second from the South after Alice Mary Robertson. Representative Owen was also the first woman to earn a seat on the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs. She campaigned for prohibition.

Moroni Olsen was an American actor.

Marian "May" Fry Pease was a British schoolteacher. She was one of the first women to attend University College, Bristol where she would later lecture and become a doctor of letters. She and Hilda Cashmore founded the Bristol University Settlement.

Katharine Blunt was an American chemist, professor, and nutritionist who specialized in the fields of home economics, food chemistry and nutrition. Most of her research was on nutrition, but she also made great improvements to research on calcium and phosphorus metabolism and on the basal metabolism of women and children. She served as the third president of Connecticut College.