List of Famous people who died in 1954

Abraham Oyanedel Urrutia was Acting President of Chile in 1932.

Frederick Robert Zimmerman was a German American politician from Milwaukee, who served as the 25th Governor of Wisconsin. He served before and after his governorship as Wisconsin Secretary of State—for a total of eighteen years in that office. He also served one term in the Wisconsin State Assembly. His son, Robert C. Zimmerman, was also Wisconsin Secretary of State from 1957 until 1975.

Natale Rosario Scalero was an Italian violinist, music teacher and composer.

William Nolan was an American animated cartoon writer, animator, director, and artist. He is best known for creating and perfecting the rubber hose style of animation and for streamlining Felix the Cat. From 1925 to 1927, he worked on a loose animated adaptation of George Herriman's Krazy Kat for Margaret J. Winkler and from 1929 to 1934, worked as an animator, storyman, and director at the Walter Lantz Studio on the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit series. Nolan also worked at MGM on The Captain and the Kids series based on the comic strip The Katzenjammer Kids.

Yonezō Maeda was a politician and cabinet minister in the pre-war Empire of Japan.

Antoinette Corisande Élisabeth, Duchess of Clermont-Tonnerre was a French writer of the early 20th century, best known for her long-term lesbian relationship with Natalie Clifford Barney, an American writer. Élisabeth de Gramont had grown up among the highest aristocracy; when she was a child, according to Janet Flanner, "peasants on her farm... begged her not to clean her shoes before entering their houses". She looked back on this lost world of wealth and privilege with little regret, and became known as the "red duchess" for her support of socialism and feminism.

Achille Longo was an Italian composer and music teacher.

Armando Falconi (1871–1954) was an Italian stage and film actor who appeared in more than forty films during his career. He played the lead in the 1931 comedy The Charmer.

William Bradley Umstead was an American politician who served as a United States Senator and the 63rd Governor of North Carolina from 1953 to 1954.