mother, artist and holistic health practitioner || |-id=381 | 55381 Lautakwah || || Andy Lau (born 1961) is a Hong Kong actor, singer and film producer. Lau was entered into the Guinness World Records for the `Most Awards Won by a Cantopop Male Artist' with a total unprecedented 292 awards won by year 2000. In 1999, he was also awarded the Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the World. || |-id=382 | 55382 Kootinlok || || Louis Koo (born 1970) is a Hong Kong actor and film producer. He started his career in television and won TVB's Best Actor award in both 1999 and 2001. Koo is one of the most popular and talented actors of the Hong Kong film industry. He is also a low-key donor who had helped build close to 100 schools in China. || |-id=383 | 55383 Cheungkwokwing || || Leslie Cheung (1956–2003) was a leading Hong Kong singer and actor, with charisma comparable to James Dean. Cheung won the 1991 Hong Kong Film Award for best actor. || |-id=384 | 55384 Muiyimfong || || Anita Mui (1963–2003) was a Hong Kong singer and actress who made great contributions to the Cantopop music scene and received numerous awards and honors. She remained an idol throughout most of her career, and was generally regarded as a Cantopop diva. || |-id=397 | 55397 Hackman || || Gene Hackman (born 1930) is an American actor and novelist. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for the 1971 movie The French Connection and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in the 1992 movie Unforgiven. With Daniel Lenihan, he has written three historical fiction novels and also two solo novels. || |} 55401–55500 |-id=418 | 55418 Bianciardi || || Giorgio Bianciardi, researcher at the University of Siena || |-id=428 | 55428 Cappellaro || || Enrico Cappellaro, Italian chief astronomer of the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (National Institute for Astrophysics) and director of the Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova (Padua Astronomical Observatory) || |-id=477 | 55477 Soroban || || Soroban, the Japanese abacus † || |} 55501–55600 |-id=543 | 55543 Nemeghaire || || Jean Nemeghaire, Belgian assistant at the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium, the discoverer's physics teacher || |-id=555 | 55555 DNA || || DNA, deoxyribonucleic acid || |-id=559 | 55559 Briancraine || || Brian L. Craine (born 1951) is molecular biologist, physician and inventor. He has been an active research