List of Famous people who died in 1957

Walther Wilhelm Georg Bothe was a German nuclear physicist, who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1954 with Max Born.

Heinrich Otto Wieland was a German chemist. He won the 1927 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research into the bile acids.

Martin Wagner (1885–1957) was a German architect, city planner, and author, best known as the driving force behind the construction of modernist housing projects in interwar Berlin.

Victor Arménise was an Italian cinematographer. Arménise worked on over eighty feature films during his lifetime. He began his career working on Italian silent films. He later made films in several other countries including Britain and Germany but primarily in France. He worked with a number of leading directors including Raoul Walsh and Maurice Tourneur.

Percy Wyndham Lewis was an English writer, painter, and critic. He was a co-founder of the Vorticist movement in art and edited BLAST, the literary magazine of the Vorticists.