Editing 1954 in television (section)

==Births==
{| class="wikitable"
! Date || Name || Notability 
|-
| January 2
| [[Cynthia Sikes Yorkin]]
| Actress (''[[St. Elsewhere]]'')
|-
| January 5
| [[Alex English]]
| [[NBA]] basketball player
|-
| January 6
| [[Trudie Styler]]
| Actress
|-
| January 7
| [[Jodi Long]]
| Actress
|-
| January 8
| [[Jerry Vivino]]
| American musician
|-
| January 12 
| [[Howard Stern]]
| Radio and TV personality (''[[America's Got Talent]]'')
|-
|January 17
|[[Robert F. Kennedy Jr.]]
|Politician<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=September 27, 2023 |title=What to know about Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/robert-kennedy-jr-running-president/story?id=103202315 |access-date=2024-08-09 |website=ABC News |language=en}}</ref>
|-
| January 19 
| [[Katey Sagal]]
| Actress and singer (''[[Married... with Children]]'', ''[[Futurama]]'', ''[[Sons of Anarchy]]'')
|-
| January 24
| [[William Allen Young]]
| Actor (''[[Moesha]]'')
|-
|rowspan="2"|January 27
| [[Ed Schultz]]
| Talk show host and sportscaster (d. 2018)
|-
| [[Adrian Taylor (producer)|Adrian Taylor]]
| Producer (d. 2014)
|-
| January 28
| [[Simon Templeman]]
| Actor
|-
| January 29 
| [[Oprah Winfrey]]
| Actress and talk-show host (''[[The Oprah Winfrey Show]]'')
|-
| February 1 
| [[Bill Mumy]]
| Actor and musician (''[[Lost in Space]]'')
|-
| February 2 
| [[Christie Brinkley]]
| Model and actress
|-
| February 6
| [[David Hart (actor)|David Hart]]
| Actor (''[[In the Heat of the Night (TV series)|In the Heat of the Night]]'')
|-
| February 9
| [[René Balcer]]
| Writer
|-
| February 15 
| [[Matt Groening]]
| Creator of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' and ''[[Futurama]]''
|-
| February 17 
| [[Rene Russo]]
| Actress
|-
|rowspan="2"|February 18 
| [[John Travolta]]
| Actor (''[[Welcome Back, Kotter]]'')
|-
| [[John Mankiewicz]]
| Director
|-
|rowspan="2"|February 20
| [[Anthony Head]]
| English actor (''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV series)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'')
|-
| [[Patty Hearst]]
| Actress
|-
| rowspan="2"| March 1 
| [[Catherine Bach]]
| Actress ([[Daisy Duke]] on ''[[The Dukes of Hazzard]]'')
|-
| [[Ron Howard]]
| Actor ([[Opie Taylor]] on ''[[The Andy Griffith Show]]'', [[Richie Cunningham]] on ''[[Happy Days]]'') and director
|-
| March 3
| [[Robert Gossett]]
| Actor
|-
| March 4
| [[Catherine O'Hara]]
| Actress
|-
| rowspan="2"| March 5
| [[Marsha Warfield]]
| Actress and comedian (''[[Night Court]]'')
|-
| [[Marla Pennington]]
| Actress (''[[Small Wonder (TV series)|Small Wonder]]'')
|-
| rowspan="3"| March 9
| [[Michele Marsh (reporter)|Michele Marsh]]
| Journalist (d. 2017)
|-
| [[Martin P. Robinson]]
| Puppeteer
|-
| [[Kevin Wade]]
| Producer
|-
| March 12
| [[Eugene Robinson (journalist)|Eugene Robinson]]
| Journalist
|-
| March 13
| [[Robin Duke]]
| Canadian actress and comedian (''[[Saturday Night Live]]'')
|-
| March 14
| [[Adrian Zmed]]
| Actor (''[[T.J. Hooker]]'')
|-
| March 15 
| [[Craig Wasson]]
| Actor (''[[One Life to Live]]'')
|-
| March 17 
| [[Lesley-Anne Down]]
| Actress (''[[The Bold and the Beautiful]]'')
|-
| rowspan="2"| March 24
| [[Donna Pescow]]
| Actress and director (''[[Out of This World (American TV series)|Out of This World]]'', ''[[Even Stevens]]'')
|- 
| [[Robert Carradine]]
| Actor (''[[Lizzie McGuire]]'')
|-
| March 29
| [[Dianne Kay]]
| Actress (''[[Eight is Enough]]'')
|-
| April 3
| [[Glenn Gordon Caron]]
| Writer
|-
| April 7
| [[Jackie Chan]]
| Hong Kong-born Chinese actor, filmmaker, martial artist and stuntman
|-
| April 9
| [[Dennis Quaid]]
| Actor
|-
| rowspan="2"| April 10
| [[Peter MacNicol]]
| Actor (''[[Chicago Hope]]'', ''[[Ally McBeal]]'', ''[[Numbers (TV series)|Numb3rs]]'')
|-
| [[Deborah Rush]]
| Actress
|-
| April 16
| [[Ellen Barkin]]
| Actress
|-
| April 17
| [[Roddy Piper]]
| Actor (d. 2015)
|-
| April 18
| [[Cynthia Ettinger]]
| Actress
|-
| rowspan="2"| April 21
| [[James Morrison (actor)|James Morrison]]
| Actor (''[[24 (TV series)|24]]'')
|-
| [[Janet Zarish]]
| Actress
|-
| April 28
| [[John Pankow]]
| Actor (''[[Mad About You]]'', ''[[Episodes (TV series)|Episodes]]'')
|-
| April 29 
| [[Jerry Seinfeld]]
| Actor and comedian (''[[Seinfeld]]'')
|-
| rowspan="2" | April 30
| [[Thom Bray]]
| Actor (''[[Riptide (U.S. TV series)|Riptide]]'')
|-
| [[David Bohrman]]
| American news executive (died 2023)
|-
| rowspan="3" | May 8
| [[Pam Arciero]]
| American voice artist
|-
| [[David Keith (actor)|David Keith]]
| American actor
|-
| [[Stephen Furst]]
| American actor (''[[Babylon 5]]'', ''[[Buzz Lightyear of Star Command]]'', ''[[St. Elsewhere]]'') (d. 2017)<ref>{{Cite news |date=June 19, 2017 |title=Stephen Furst, who played Flounder in the hit comedy 'Animal House', dies at 63 |language=en-US |work=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/stephen-furst-who-played-flounder-in-the-hit-comedy-animal-house-dies-at-63/2017/06/19/ecd6f89e-5507-11e7-ba90-f5875b7d1876_story.html |access-date=June 25, 2023 |issn=0190-8286}}</ref>
|-
| May 10
| [[Mike Hagerty]]
| Actor (d. 2022)
|-
| May 15
| [[John Blyth Barrymore]]
| Actor
|-
| May 18
| [[Patrick St. Esprit]]
| Actor
|-
|rowspan="2"| May 21
| [[Janice Karman]]
| Actress
|-
| [[Jean Kasem]]
| Actress
|-
|May 28
|[[Townsend Coleman]]
|Actor (''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 TV series)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'', ''[[The Tick (1994 TV series)|The Tick]]'') 
|-
| June 2
| [[Dennis Haysbert]]
| Actor (''[[24 (TV series)|24]]'', ''[[The Unit]]'')
|-
| June 5
| [[Nancy Stafford]]
| Actress (''[[Matlock (1986 TV series)|Matlock]]'')
|-
| June 7
| [[Bobby Di Cicco]]
| Actor
|-
| June 10
| [[Rich Hall]]
| Writer
|-
| June 11
| [[Greta Van Susteren]]
| Television news anchor
|-
| June 12
| [[Ella Joyce]]
| Actress (''[[Roc (TV series)|Roc]]'')
|-
|rowspan="2"|June 14
| [[Kim Lankford]]
| Actress (''[[Knots Landing]]'')
|-
| [[Will Patton]]
| Actor
|-
| June 15 
| [[Jim Belushi]]
| Actor (''[[According to Jim]]'')
|-
| June 17
| [[Mark Linn-Baker]]
| Actor ([[Larry Appleton]] on ''[[Perfect Strangers (TV series)|Perfect Strangers]]'')
|-
|rowspan="2"|June 22 
| [[Chris Lemmon]]
| Actor (''[[Duet (TV series)|Duet]]'')
|-
| [[Freddie Prinze]]
| Actor and comedian (''[[Chico and the Man]]'') (d. 1977)
|-
| June 28 
| [[Alice Krige]]
| Actress
|-
| July 2
| [[Wendy Schaal]]
| Actress (''[[It's a Living (1980 TV series)|It's a Living]]'', ''[[American Dad!]]'')
|-
|rowspan="2"|July 5
| [[Don Stark]]
| Actor (''[[That '70s Show]]'')
|-
| [[Debra McGrath]]
| Actress
|-
| July 7
| [[Ron Jones (composer)|Ron Jones]]
| Composer
|-
| July 9
| [[Kevin O'Leary]]
| Television personality
|-
| July 10
| [[Lee David Zlotoff]]
| Producer
|-
| July 13
| [[Danitra Vance]]
| Actress and comedian (''[[Saturday Night Live]]'') (d. 1994)
|-
|rowspan="2"|July 19
| [[Mark O'Donnell]]
| Writer (d. 2012)
|-
| [[Steve O'Donnell (writer)|Steve O'Donnell]]
| Writer
|-
| July 22
| [[Dianne Houston]]
| Screenwriter
|-
| rowspan="2"|July 28
| [[Bruce Abbott]]
| Actor
|-
| [[Andrew Adelson]]
| Producer
|-
| July 29
| [[Jeannetta Arnette]]
| Actress (''[[Head of the Class]]'')
|-
| July 30
| [[Ken Olin]]
| Actor, director and producer (''[[thirtysomething]]'', ''[[Brothers & Sisters (TV series)|Brothers & Sisters]]'')
|-
| July 31
| [[Rainer Bock]]
| Actor
|-
| August 2 
| [[Lisa Brown (actress)|Lisa Brown]]
| Actress (d. 2021)
|-
| August 12 
| [[Sam J. Jones]]
| Actor
|-
| August 16 
| [[James Cameron]]
| Canadian filmmaker
|-
| August 20
| [[Al Roker]]
| American weather presenter
|-
| August 23
| [[Marc Vann]]
| Actor (''[[Early Edition]]'', ''[[Angel (1999 TV series)|Angel]]'', ''[[CSI: Crime Scene Investigation]]'')
|-
| August 28
| [[Bob Bendetson]]
| Writer
|-
| August 30
| [[Jim Vallely]]
| Writer
|-
| September 2
| [[Vance DeGeneres]]
| Actor
|-
|rowspan="2"|September 7
| [[Corbin Bernsen]]
| Actor and director (''[[L.A. Law]]'', ''[[Psych]]'')
|-
| [[Michael Emerson]]
| Actor (''[[Lost (2004 TV series)|Lost]]'', ''[[Person of Interest (TV series)|Person of Interest]]'')
|-
|rowspan="2"|September 8 
| [[Anne Diamond]]
| Television presenter (''[[The Wright Stuff]]'')
|-
| [[Joe Cipriano]]
| Voice actor
|-
| September 10
| [[Clark Johnson]]
| Actor (''[[Homicide: Life on the Street]]'', ''[[The Wire]]'')
|-
| September 11
| [[Reed Birney]]
| Actor
|-
| September 14
| [[Michael Patrick King]] 
| American director, writer, and producer of television and film
|-
| September 15
| [[Barry Shabaka Henley]]
| Actor
|-
| September 16
| [[Mark McEwen]]
| TV host
|-
| September 21
| [[John Mengatti]]
| Actor (''[[The White Shadow (TV series)|The White Shadow]]'')
|-
| September 22
| [[Shari Belafonte]]
| Actress (''[[Hotel (U.S. TV series)|Hotel]]''), daughter of [[Harry Belafonte]]
|-
| September 29
| [[Cindy Morgan]]
| Actress (''[[Falcon Crest]]'') (d. 2023)
|-
| rowspan="2"| September 30 
| [[Barry Williams (actor)|Barry Williams]]
| Actor (''[[The Brady Bunch]]'')
|-
| [[Patrice Rushen]]
| Singer
|-
| October 1
| [[Richard Schlesinger (journalist)|Richard Schlesinger]]
| Journalist
|-
| October 2
| [[Lorraine Bracco]]
| Actress
|-
| October 3
| [[Al Sharpton]]
| Civil rights activist
|-
| rowspan="2"| October 9 
| [[Scott Bakula]]
| Actor (''[[Quantum Leap (1989 TV series)|Quantum Leap]]'', ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]'', ''[[NCIS: New Orleans]]'')
|-
| [[John O'Hurley]]
| Actor
|-
| October 14
| [[Elizabeth Sung]]
| Actress (d. 2018)
|-
| rowspan="2"| October 15
| [[Ingrid Tarrant]]
| Wife of [[Chris Tarrant]]
|-
| [[Jere Burns]]
| Actor
|-
| October 18
| [[Arliss Howard]]
| Actor
|-
| October 24
| [[Doug Davidson]]
| Actor (''[[The Young and the Restless]]'')
|-
| rowspan="2"| October 26
| [[D. W. Moffett]]
| Actor (''[[For Your Love (TV series)|For Your Love]]'', ''[[Friday Night Lights (TV series)|Friday Night Lights]]'', ''[[Switched at Birth (TV series)|Switched at Birth]]'')
|-
| [[James Pickens, Jr.]]
| Actor (''[[The X-Files]]'', ''[[Grey's Anatomy]]'')
|-
| November 3
| [[Kathy Kinney]]
| Actress and comedian (''[[The Drew Carey Show]]'')
|-
| November 6
| [[Catherine Crier]]
| American journalist
|-
| November 7
| [[Gil Junger]]
| Director
|-
| November 12 
| [[Rhonda Shear]]
| TV personality, actress
|-
| November 13
| [[Chris Noth]]
| Actor (''[[Law & Order]]'', ''[[Sex and the City]]'', ''[[The Good Wife]]'')
|-
| November 14
| [[Yanni]]
| Composer
|-
| November 15
| [[Kevin S. Bright]]
| Producer
|-
| November 19
| [[Kathleen Quinlan]]
| Actress
|-
| November 23
| [[Bruce Hornsby]]
| Composer
|-
| November 24
| [[Emir Kusturica]]
| Actor
|-
|rowspan="2"|November 27
| [[Patricia McPherson]]
| Actress (''[[Knight Rider (1982 TV series)|Knight Rider]]'')
|-
| [[Kimmy Robertson]]
| Actress (''[[Twin Peaks]]'')
|-
| November 28
| [[Marty Grabstein]]
| Actor (''[[Courage the Cowardly Dog]]'')
|-
|rowspan="2"|December 1
| [[Bob Goen]]
| Game show host
|-
| [[Alan Dedicoat]]
| English announcer
|-
|rowspan="3"|December 2
| [[Dan Butler]]
| Actor (''[[Frasier]]'', ''[[Hey Arnold!]]'')
|-
| [[Patty Petersen]]
| Actress
|-
| [[Stone Phillips]]
| American television reporter
|-
| December 4 
| [[Tony Todd]]
| Actor and producer
|-
| December 7
| [[Priscilla Barnes]]
| Actress (''[[Three's Company]]'')
|-
| December 10
| [[Jeff Fager]]
| American producer
|-
| December 18
| [[Ray Liotta]]
| Actor (d. 2022)
|-
| December 20
| [[Michael Badalucco]]
| Actor (''[[The Practice]]'')
|-
| December 26
| [[Tony Rosato]]
| Actor (''[[Saturday Night Live]]'', ''[[The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3]]'', ''[[Super Mario World (TV series)|Super Mario World]]'') (d. 2017)
|-
|rowspan="3"|December 28 
| [[Gayle King]]
| Television personality
|-
| [[Denzel Washington]]
| Actor (''[[St. Elsewhere]], [[Malcolm X (1992 film)|Malcolm X]], [[Training Day]]'')
|-
| [[Lanny Poffo]]
| Actor (d. 2023)
|}