List of Famous people who died in 1957

The Rt Hon. Arthur Kenlis Maxwell, 11th Baron Farnham,, was British Army officer, an Irish Representative peer and a Nova Scotia baronet.

Billy Bevan was an Australian-born vaudevillian, who became an American film actor. He appeared in 254 American films between 1916 and 1950.

Sydney Hugh ("Syd") de Kantzow was the Australian co-founder of Cathay Pacific Airways with American Roy Farrell.

Giovanni Battista Caproni, 1st Count of Taliedo, known as "Gianni" Caproni, was an Italian aeronautical engineer, civil engineer, electrical engineer, and aircraft designer who founded the Caproni aircraft-manufacturing company.

Charles Kay Ogden was an English linguist, philosopher, and writer. Described as a polymath but also an eccentric and outsider, he took part in many ventures related to literature, politics, the arts and philosophy, having a broad effect particularly as an editor, translator, and activist on behalf of a reformed version of the English language. He is typically defined as a linguistic psychologist, and is now mostly remembered as the inventor and propagator of Basic English.

Josef Casimir Hofmann was a Polish American pianist, composer, music teacher, and inventor.

Clair Maxwell (1890–1957) was a 20th-century American magazine publisher.

Alexander Nikolayevich Vertinsky was Russian and Soviet artist, poet, singer, composer, cabaret artist and actor who exerted seminal influence on the Russian tradition of artistic singing.

Caro Dana Dawes, was the wife of former Vice President Charles G. Dawes, who served from 1925 to 1929, and was the Second Lady of the United States during that period.