List of Famous people who died in 1957

Fred Lawrence 18 June 1887 – 4 January 1964 was an English Billiards and snooker player. In 1919 he won a second-class professional billiards tournament at Thurston's Hall. He won the Midland Counties Billiards Championship in 1920, and 1921. Lawrence lost 13 - 16 to Joe Davis in the final of the 1928 World Snooker Championship.

Henry Février was a French composer.

George Alan Cleveland was a Canadian film actor. He appeared in more than 180 films between 1930 and 1954.

Major-General Gerald Harry George Lloyd-Verney DSO & Bar MVO was a senior British Army officer who commanded the 7th Armoured Division during World War II. He changed his name by Deed poll from Gerald Lloyd Verney to Gerald Lloyd-Verney in 1941.

Jan Herman van Heek was a Dutch industrialist, textile manufacturer, patron of the arts, art collector and nature conservationist and owner of Huis Bergh.

Kay Rasmus Nielsen was a Danish illustrator who was popular in the early 20th century, the "golden age of illustration" which lasted from when Daniel Vierge and other pioneers developed printing technology to the point that drawings and paintings could be reproduced with reasonable facility. Nielsen is also known for his collaborations with Disney for whom he contributed many story sketches and illustrations, not least for Fantasia.

Óscar M. Domínguez was a Spanish surrealist painter.

Guillaume Grandidier was a French geographer, ethnologist, zoologist who studied the island of Madagascar.