1955 in Portugal
# 1955 in Portugal

Events in the year 1955 in Portugal.

## Incumbents

* President: Francisco Craveiro Lopes
* Prime Minister: António de Oliveira Salazar

## Events

* United Nations Security Council Resolution 109: Portugal and several other countries are admitted to membership to the United Nations

## Sports

* AD Fundão founded
* Liga Feminina de Basquetebol founded

## Births

* 27 January – Maria do Carmo Seabra, politician
* 28 February – Rui Reininho, singer
* 30 June – Luís Santos, chess player and International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster
* 25 July – Miguel Esteves Cardoso, writer, translator, critic and journalist
* 29 August – Francisco Lopes, politician
* 1 November – Amarilis de Varennes, academic

## Deaths

* 3 January – José Norton de Matos, military officer and politician (born 1867)
* 27 June
   * Victor Hugo de Azevedo Coutinho, politician, Prime Minister 1914–15 (born 1871)
   * Artur de Oliveira Santos, journalist and local politician (born 1884)
* 27 November – Luís de Freitas Branco, composer (born 1890)
* 13 December – António Egas Moniz, neurologist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (1949) (born 1874).
