title: 1955 in Portugal
text: # 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).
  