The following is a list of Playboy Playmates of 1955. Playboy magazine named its Playmate of the Month each month throughout the year.
| Bettie Page | |
| Birth Name: | Betty Mae Page |
| Birth Place: | Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Birth Date: | 22 April 1923 |
| Death Place: | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Height: | 5 ft 5.5 in |
Bettie Page (April 22, 1923 – December 11, 2008) was an American model who became famous in the 1950s for her fetish modeling and pin-up photos. She has often been called the "Queen of pinups". Her look, including her jet black hair and trademark bangs, has influenced many artists. She was also one of the earliest Playmates of the Month for Playboy magazine.[1]
| Jayne Mansfield | |
| Birth Name: | Vera Jean Peers |
| Birth Place: | Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Birth Date: | 19 April 1933 |
| Death Place: | Slidell, Louisiana, U.S. |
| Height: | 5 ft 5.5 in |
Jayne Mansfield (April 19, 1933 – June 29, 1967) was an American actress working both on Broadway and in Hollywood. One of the leading blonde sex symbols of the 1950s, Mansfield starred in several popular Hollywood films that emphasized her platinum-blonde hair, hourglass figure and cleavage-revealing costumes. Mansfield had been a Playboy Playmate of the Month and appeared in the magazine several additional times. She died in an automobile accident at age 34.
No issue was published for March 1955.
| Marilyn Waltz (Margaret Scott) | |
| Birth Name: | Marilyn Ardith Waltz |
| Birth Place: | Waukesha, Wisconsin, U.S. |
| Birth Date: | 5 November 1931 |
| Death Place: | Medford, Oregon, U.S. |
| Height: | 5 ft 4 in |
Marilyn Ardith Waltz (November 5, 1931 – December 23, 2006) was an American actress and model. She was Playboys Playmate of the Month in the February 1954, April 1954, and April 1955 issues.[2]
She was the first of two women to become a three-time Playmate (the other being Janet Pilgrim). In her first Playboy appearance, Waltz was billed as Margaret Scott. For years thereafter, many assumed that Marilyn and Margaret were two different women. It was not until the mid-1990s that they were determined to be one and the same.
| Marguerite Empey | |
| Birth Name: | Diane Marguerite Empey |
| Birth Place: | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Birth Date: | 1932 7, mf=yes |
| Death Place: | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Height: | 5 ft 2 in (160 cm) |
See main article: Diane Webber. Marguerite Empey (July 29, 1932 – August 19, 2008) was an American model, dancer and actress.[3] She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month in May 1955 and in February 1956. The photos for her 1956 appearance were taken by soft core porn director Russ Meyer.
| Eve Meyer | |
| Birth Name: | Evelyn Eugene Turner |
| Birth Place: | Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. |
| Birth Date: | 13 December 1928 |
| Death Place: | Tenerife, Canary Islands |
| Height: | 5 ft 6 in |
See main article: Eve Meyer. Eve Meyer (December 13, 1928 – March 27, 1977) was an American pin-up model, motion picture actress, and later, film producer.[4] Much of her work was done in conjunction with sexploitation filmmaker Russ Meyer to whom she was married from April 2, 1952, until 1969. Eve perished in the Tenerife airport disaster on board Pan Am Flight 1736.
| Janet Pilgrim | |
| Birth Name: | Charlaine Edith Karalus |
| Birth Date: | 13 June 1934 |
| Birth Place: | Wheaton, Illinois, U.S. |
| Death Place: | Norwalk, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Height: | 5 ft 6 in |
See main article: Janet Pilgrim (model). Janet Pilgrim (June 13, 1934 – May 1, 2017) was an American model and office worker for Playboy.[5] She was chosen as Playboy's Playmate of the Month three times: July 1955, December 1955 and October 1956.
| Pat Lawler | |
| Birth Name: | Patricia Joan Lawler |
| Birth Date: | 29 December 1933 |
| Birth Place: | Burbank, California, U.S. |
| Death Place: | Oakhurst, California |
| Height: | 5 ft 4 in (165 cm) |
Pat Lawler (December 29, 1933 – November 21, 2017) was an American model. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for the August 1955 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Hal Adams.[6] Lawler died in Oakhurst, California on November 21, 2017, at the age of 83.[7]
| Anne Fleming | |
| Birth Date: | October 4, 1930 |
| Birth Place: | Fort Sill, Oklahoma, U.S. |
| Height: | 5 ft 3 in (162 cm) |
Anne Fleming (born December 1, 1929) is an American actress and model. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for the September 1955 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Hal Adams.[8]
| Jean Moorhead | |
| Birth Name: | Barbara Jean Moorhead |
| Birth Date: | 4 February 1935 |
| Birth Place: | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Height: | 5 ft 4 in (165 cm) |
See main article: Jean Moorhead. Jean Moorhead (born February 4, 1935) is an American actress and model. Using the slightly differently spelled name Jean Moorehead, she was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for the October 1955 issue.[9] Her centerfold was photographed by Hal Adams. A former Miss Hollywood, Moorhead acted in television and in movies such as the Ed Wood-scripted The Violent Years (1956).
| Barbara Cameron | |
| Birth Date: | March 21, 1930 |
| Birth Place: | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Height: | 5 ft 5 in (167 cm) |
Barbara Cameron is an American model. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its November 1955 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Lawrence Tirschel.[10]
See main article: Janet Pilgrim (model). See July entry above