List of Famous people who died in 1955

Clarence Daniel Martin was the 11th Governor of the state of Washington — the first born in the territory of the state. A Democrat, he served two terms from 1933 to 1941.

John Hodiak was an American actor who worked in radio, stage and film.

Giovanni Gerbi was an Italian road racing cyclist.

Yevgeny Viktorovich Tarle was a Soviet historian and academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is known for his books about Napoleon's invasion of Russia and on the Crimean War, and many other works. Yevgeny Tarle was one of the founders of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Russia's diplomatic university.

Francis Donald Klingender was a Marxist art historian and exponent of Kunstsoziologie whose uncompromising views meant that he never quite fitted into the British art history establishment.

Francis Tiburtius Roche was the first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tuticorin.

Franz Kieslinger was an Austrian art historian and art dealer, who was a Nazi and involved in art theft during the Nazi era.