List of state leaders in 1955
1954 state leaders - Events of 1955 - 1956 state leaders - State leaders by year
Africa
- Egypt - President - Gamal Abdel Nasser, President (1954-1970) and Prime Minister (1954-1962)
- Liberia - William V.S. Tubman, President of Liberia (1944-1971)
- South Africa
- Monarch - Elizabeth II, Queen of South Africa (1952-1961)
- Governor-General - Ernest George Jansen, Governor-General of South Africa (1951-1959)
- Prime Minister - Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom, Prime Minister of South Africa (1954-1958)
Asia
- Afghanistan
- Monarch - Mohammed Zahir Shah, King of Afghanistan (1933-1973)
- Prime Minister - Sardar Mohammad Daud Khan, Prime Minister of Afghanistan (1953-1963)
- Brunei - Omar Ali Saifuddin III, Sultan of Brunei (1950–1967)
- People's Republic of China
- Head of State - Mao Zedong, Chairman of the People's Republic of China (1954-1959)
- Premier - Zhou Enlai, Premier of the State Council (1949-1976)
- Head of Communist Party - Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Communist Party of China (1935-1976)
- India -
- President - Rajendra Prasad, President of India (1950-1962)
- Prime Minister - Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India (1947-1964)
- Indonesia - Soekarno, President of Indonesia (1945 - 1967)
- Israel -
- President - Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, President of Israel (1952-1963)
- Prime Minister -
- Japan -
- Monarch - Showa Emperor, Emperor of Japan (1926-1989)
- Prime Minister - Ichiro Hatoyama, Prime Minister of Japan (1954 - 1956)
- South Korea - Syngman Rhee, President of the Republic of Korea (1948-1960)
- Oman - Said Bin Taimur, Sultan of Oman (1932-1970)
- Pakistan -
- Monarch - Elizabeth II, Queen of Pakistan (1952-1956)
- Governor-General -
- Prime Minister -
- Taiwan (Republic of China)
- President - Chiang Kai-Shek, President of the Republic of China (1947-1975)
- Premier - Yü Hung-chün, President of the Executive Yuan (1954-1958)
- Thailand
- Monarch - Bhumibol Adulyadej (King Rama IX), (1946 -)
- Prime Minister - Luang Phibunsongkhram, Prime Minister of Thailand {1948 - 1957}
Australia and Oceania
- Australia -
- Monarch - Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom, and of Australia (1953-1973)
- Governor-General - Sir. William Joseph Slim, Governor-General of Australia (1953-1960)
- Prime Minister - Sir. Robert Menzies, Prime Minister of Australia (1949-1966)
Europe
- Belgium
- Monarch - Baudouin, King of the Belgians (1951-1993)
- Prime Minister - Achille Van Acker, Prime Minister of Belgium (1954-1958)
- Czechoslovakia
- Communist Party Leader - Antonín Novotný, First Secretary of the Czechoslovak Communist Party (1953-1968)
- Head of State - President of Czechoslovakia - Antonín Novotný (1957-1968)
- Prime Minister - Viliam Široký, Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia (1953-1963)
- Denmark
- Monarch - Frederick IX, King of Denmark (1947-1972)
- Prime Minister -
- Finland -
- President - Juho Kusti Paasikivi, President of Finland (1946-1956)
- Prime Minister - Urho Kekkonen, Prime Minister of Finland (1954-1956)
- France -
- President - René Coty, President of France (1954-1959)
- Prime Minister -
- Federal Republic of Germany -
- President - Theodor Heuss, President of the Federal Republic of Germany (1949-1959)
- Chancellor - Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (1949-1963)
- German Democratic Republic -
- Communist Party Leader - Walter Ulbricht, General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (1950-1971)
- President - Wilhelm Pieck, President of the German Democratic Republic (1949-1960)
- Premier - Otto Grotewohl, Chairman of the Council of Ministers (1949-1964)
- Greece -
- Monarch - Paul, King of Greece (1947-1964)
- Prime Minister -
- Iceland -
- President - Ásgeir Ásgeirsson, President of Iceland (1952-1968)
- Prime Minister - Ólafur Thors, Prime Minister of Iceland (1953-1956)
- Ireland -
- President - Seán T. O'Kelly, President of Ireland (1945-1959)
- Prime Minister - John A. Costello, Taoiseach (1954-1957)
- Italy -
- President -
- Prime Minister -
- Luxembourg
- Monarch - Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (1919-1964)
- Prime Minister - Joseph Bech, Prime Minister of Luxembourg (1953-1958)
- Netherlands
- Monarch - Juliana, Queen of the Netherlands (1948-1980)
- Prime Minister - Willem Drees, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1948-1958)
- Norway -
- Monarch - Haakon VII, King of Norway (1905-1957)
- Prime Minister -
- Poland
- Communist Party Leader - Bolesław Bierut, First Secretary of the Central Committee of Polish United Workers' Party (1954-1956)
- Head of State - Council of State, Chairman - Aleksander Zawadzki (1952-1964)
- Premier - Józef Cyrankiewicz, President of the Council of Ministers (1954-1970)
- Portugal -
- President - Francisco Higino Craveiro Lopes, President of Portugal (1951-1958)
- Prime Minister - António de Oliveira Salazar, Prime Minister of Portugal (1932-1968)
- Soviet Union -
- Head of Communist Party - Nikita Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1953-1964)
- Spain - Francisco Franco, Head of State and Caudillo (1939-1975)
- Sweden -
- Monarch - Gustav VI Adolf, King of Sweden (1950-1973)
- Prime Minister - Tage Erlander, Prime Minister of Sweden (1946-1969)
- United Kingdom -
- Monarch - Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom (1952-present)
- Prime Minister -
- Vatican City
- Pope - Pius XII, Bishop of Rome (1939-1958)
- Secretary of State - Domenico Cardinal Tardini, Cardinal Secretary of State (1952-1961)
North America and the Caribbean
- Canada
- Monarch - Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada (1952-present)
- Governor General - Vincent Massey, Governor General (1952-1959)
- Prime Minister - Louis St. Laurent, Prime Minister (1948-1957)
- United States - Dwight Eisenhower, President of the United States (1953-1961)
- Mexico - Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, President of Mexico (1952-1958)
- Dominican Republic - Hector Trujillo, President of the Dominican Republic {1952-1960}
- Haiti - Paul Magloire, President of Haiti {1950-1956}
- Cuba - Fulgencio Batista, President of Cuba {1952-1959}
- Guatemala - Carlos Castillo Armas, President of Guatemala {1954-1957}
- Honduras - Julio Lozano Díaz, President of Honduras {1954-1956}
- El Salvador - Óscar Osorio, President of El Salvador {1950-1956}
- Nicaragua - Anastasio Somoza García, President of Nicaragua {1937-1956}
- Costa Rica - José Figueres Ferrer, President of Costa Rica (1953-1958)
- Panama
South America
- Argentina
- Bolivia - Víctor Paz Estenssoro, President of Bolivia (1952-1956)
- Brazil - João Café Filho, President of Brazil (1954-1956)
- Chile - Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, President of Chile (1952-1958)
- Colombia - Gustavo Pinilla, President of Colombia (1953-1957)
- Ecuador - José Maria Velasco Ibarra, President of Ecuador (1952-1956)
- Paraguay - Alfredo Stroessner Mattianda , President of Paraguay (1954-1989)
- Peru - Manuel A. Odría, President of Peru (1948-1956)
- Uruguay
- Venezuela - Marcos Pérez Jiménez, President of Venezuela (1952-1958)