List of Famous people who died in 1954

Thea Gabriele von Harbou was a German screenwriter, novelist, film director, and actress. She is remembered as the screenwriter of the science fiction film classic Metropolis (1927) and the story on which it was based. Harbou collaborated as a screenwriter with film director Fritz Lang, her husband, during the period of transition from silent to sound films.

Pieter Nicolaas/Nicolaus van Eyck

Carl T. Fischer (1912–1954) was a Native American jazz pianist and composer. He worked with Frankie Laine, and composed Laine's 1945 hit song We'll Be Together Again, and You've Changed with lyrics by Bill Carey.

James Hilton was an English novelist best remembered for several best-sellers, including Lost Horizon and Goodbye, Mr. Chips. He also wrote Hollywood screenplays.

Agamemnon Schliemann was the Greek ambassador to the United States in 1914.

Alessandro "Sandro" Ruffini was an Italian actor and voice actor.

Edgard Maxence was a French Symbolist painter.