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).