The Padma Bhushan Award is a prestigious and honourable civilian award presented by the Government of India. The award is given to the Indian citizens who have excelled in their respective fields, with a view to recognise their excellence. The year 1955 was the second year for the Padma Bhushan award to be presented and a total of 12 people from different fields receive the award in 1955.
A detailed list of the 1955 Padma Bhushan Awardees is given below:
| Name | Field | State | Country |
| Lalit Mohan Banerjee | Medicine | West Bengal | India |
| Pran Krishna Parija | Literature & Education | Orissa | India |
| Suniti Kumar Chatterjee | Literature & Education | West Bengal | India |
| Vasant Ramji Khanolkar | Medicine | Maharashtra | India |
| Maneklal Sankalchand Thacker | Literature & Education | Delhi | India |
| Attur Rangaswami Venkatachari | Civil Service | Tamil Nadu | India |
| Fatah Chand Badhwar | Civil Service | Punjab | India |
| Madapati Hanumantha Rao | Social Work | Andhra Pradesh | India |
| Sunder Das Khungar | Civil Service | Punjab | India |
| Surinder Kumar Dey | Civil Service | United States | |
| Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay | Social Work | West Bengal | India |
| Rameshwari Nehru | Social Work | Uttar Pradesh | India |
