List of Famous people who died in 1959

Archibald Selwyn was an American play broker, theater owner and stage producer who had many Broadway successes. He and his brother Edgar Selwyn were partners. They were among the founders of Goldwyn Pictures, later to be merged into MGM.

Bhogaraju Pattabhi Sitaramayya was an Indian independence activist and political leader in the state of Andhra Pradesh. He was also the first governor of Madhya Pradesh.

Adolf Valentin "Adi" Lindfors was a heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler from Finland. He competed at the 1912, where we became injured and had to withdraw, and 1920 Olympics, where he won a gold medal, aged 41.

Adolf Ziegler was a German painter and politician. He was tasked by the Nazi Party to oversee the purging of what the Party described as "degenerate art", by most of the German modern artists. He was Hitler's favourite painter.

Heinz Klingenberg may refer to:

• Heinz Klingenberg (actor) (1905–1959), German actor
• Heinz Klingenberg (philologist), German philologist