List of Famous people who died in 1955

Erik Gottfrid Christian Brandt was a Swedish politician and a deputy in the Swedish Parliament in the years 1938–1943.

Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown, FBA was an English social anthropologist who developed the theory of structural functionalism and coadaptation.

Ernest Mercier was a French industrialist, director of the French Petroleum Company (CFP), the forerunner of the French petroleum conglomerate Total. His father, Jean Ernest Mercier, was an historian and the mayor of Constantine, Algeria, Algeria, where Ernest was born.

Dorothy Caruso was an American socialite and the wife of the Italian operatic tenor Enrico Caruso.

Emma Jung was a Swiss Jungian analyst and author. She married Carl Jung, financing and helping him to become the prominent psychiatrist and founder of analytical psychology, and together they had five children. She was his "intellectual editor" to the end of her life. After her death, Jung described her as "a Queen".

Robert Emmet Sherwood was an American playwright and screenwriter.

Maurice Utrillo, born Maurice Valadon, was a French painter of School of Paris who specialized in cityscapes. Born in the Montmartre quarter of Paris, France, Utrillo is one of the few famous painters of Montmartre who were born there.

Béla Horovitz was a Hungarian-born British publisher, and the co-founder in 1923, with Ludwig Goldscheider, of Phaidon Press.

Farkas Heller was a Hungarian Economist, author and professor, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.