List of Famous people who died in 1955

Sir Richard Augustine Studdert Redmayne was a British civil and mining engineer. Redmayne worked as manager of several mines in Britain and South Africa before becoming a professor at the University of Birmingham. He was a leading figure in improving mine safety in the early twentieth century and would become the first Chief Inspector of Mines, leading investigations into many of the mine disasters of his time. He became the president of three professional associations, namely the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, the Institution of Professional Civil Servants and the Institution of Civil Engineers.

Paul McAllister, was an American film actor. He appeared in 37 films between 1913 and 1940.

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Piers Walter Legh was a British Army officer and a senior member of the Royal Household.

Louis Charles Breguet was a French aircraft designer and builder, one of the early aviation pioneers.

Silvio D'Amico was an Italian theatre critic, journalist, and theorist of Italian theater. Not a Fascist himself, D'Amico was the major theater critic during the ventennio, the twenty years (1922-1945) of Fascist rule in Italy. He was the first editor of the nine volume Enciclopedia dello Spettacolo, published between 1954 and 1965, that covered theater, music, cinema, and dance. Most notably, he held an eminent position in theatrical study in Italy, giving his name to the Silvio D'Amico National Academy of Dramatic Art in Rome, Italy's most prestigious drama school.

Anthony William "Nick" Winter was an Australian athlete, who was born in Brocklesby, New South Wales.

Sōtarō Yasui was a Japanese painter, noted for development of yōga (Western-style) portraiture in early twentieth-century Japanese painting.

Sir Rhys Rhys-Williams, 1st Baronet,, born Rhys Williams, was a British Liberal Party politician from Wales. He later left the Liberal Party for the Conservatives.

Sir Richard Valentine Nind Hopkins, GCB, PC was a British civil servant. Born in 1880 to businessman Alfred Nind Hopkins and Eliza Mary Castle, Hopkins was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. First serving with the Board of Inland Revenue, 'Hoppy' was appointed chairman in 1922. In 1927 Hopkins was transferred to the Treasury, where he became the Permanent Secretary to the Treasury in 1942 and served in that position until 1945. He is credited with the (re)introduction of economist John Maynard Keynes in the Treasury during the Second World War, whose influence proved to be essential in many economic policy decisions.

Léon Werth was a French writer and art critic, a friend of Octave Mirbeau and a close friend and confidant of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.