List of Famous people who died in 1955

Luuk Tinbergen was a Dutch ornithologist and ecologist.

Sir Montagu Sherard Dawes Butler, was Governor of the Central Provinces of British-occupied India (1925–33), Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man (1933–37), and Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge (1937–48).

Myra Edith Keaton was an American vaudeville performer and film actress. She was the mother of actor Buster Keaton.

Nana Irene Bryant was an American film, stage, and television actress. She appeared in more than 100 films between 1935 and 1955. She was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and died in Hollywood, California.

Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett Amery,, usually known as Leo Amery or L. S. Amery, was a British Conservative politician and journalist, noted for his interest in military preparedness, British India and the British Empire and for his opposition to appeasement.

Brigadier General Alexander Gore Arkwright Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie, was a British Army officer who served as the 10th Governor-General of Australia, in office from 1936 to 1945. He was previously Governor of South Australia (1928–1934) and Governor of New South Wales (1935–1936).

Robert Cyril Layton Perkins FRS was a distinguished British entomologist, ornithologist, and naturalist noted for his work on the fauna of the islands of Hawaii and on Hymenoptera. He is not to be confused with his son John Frederick Perkins, also a hymenopterist.

Cyril Forster Garbett was an Anglican bishop and author. He was successively the Bishop of Southwark, the Bishop of Winchester and the Archbishop of York from 1942 to 1955.

Paul Harvey was a prolific American character actor who appeared in at least 177 films. He is not to be confused with Paul Harvey the broadcaster.