1950s

* Desi Arnaz
* Carl Perkins
* Abbott and Costello
* Paul Anka
* Lucille Ball
* Jack Benny
* Chuck Berry
* Humphrey Bogart
* Pat Boone
* Marlon Brando
* Maria Callas
* June Carter
* Johnny Cash
* Tony Curtis
* Dalida
* James Dean
* Sandra Dee
* Bo Diddley
* Margot Fonteyn
* Ava Gardner
* Judy Garland
* The Goons
* Cary Grant
* Tony Hancock
* Thelonious Monk
* Audrey Hepburn
* Charlton Heston
* Alfred Hitchcock
* Dizzy Gillespie
* Buddy Holly
* Grace Kelly
* Ernie Kovacs
* Mario Lanza
* Jerry Lewis
* Miles Davis
* Jerry Lee Lewis
* Dean Martin
* Groucho Marx
* Marilyn Monroe
* Paul Newman
* Laurence Olivier
* Charlie Parker
* Elvis Presley
* Lionel Hampton
* George Reeves
* Debbie Reynolds
* Little Richard
* Jimmie Rodgers
* James Stewart
* Art Pepper
* Gale Storm
* Jacques Tati
* Elizabeth Taylor
* John Wayne
* Jack Webb
* Ed Wynn

World leaders

* Emperor Haile Selassie (Ethiopia)
* Prime Minister Robert Menzies (Australia)
* Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent (Canada)
* Prime Minister John Diefenbaker (Canada)
* Chairman Mao Zedong (People's Republic of China)
* President Chiang Kai-shek (Republic of China on Taiwan)
* President Gamal Abdel Nasser (Egypt)
* President Vincent Auriol (France)
* President Rene Coty (France)
* President Charles de Gaulle (France)
* Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru (India)
* Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion (Israel)
* Emperor Hirohito (Japan)
* Pope Pius XII
* Pope John XXIII
* Taoiseach John A. Costello (Ireland)
* Taoiseach Eamon de Valera (Ireland)
* Taoiseach Sean Lemass (Ireland)
* Joseph Stalin (Soviet Union)
* Nikita Khrushchev (Soviet Union)
* President Celal Bayar (Turkey)
* Prime Minister Adnan Menderes (Turkey)
* King George VI (United Kingdom)
* Queen Elizabeth II (United Kingdom)
* Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill (United Kingdom)
* Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden (United Kingdom)
* Prime Minister Harold Macmillan (United Kingdom)
* Prime Minister George Borg Olivier (Malta)
* President Harry S. Truman (United States)
* President Dwight D. Eisenhower (United States)
* Chancellor Konrad Adenauer (West Germany)
* President Josip Broz Tito (Yugoslavia)

See also

* United States in the 1950s
* List of rock and roll albums in the 1950s

External links

* WWW-VL: 1950s History
* The 1950s Week-By-Week includes news, trends & pop culture
*Pop Culture Madness 50s Music Lists
* Top 40 music of the '50s

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