List of Famous people born in May

Donna Theo Strickland, is a Canadian optical physicist and pioneer in the field of pulsed lasers. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2018, together with Gérard Mourou, for the practical implementation of chirped pulse amplification. She is a professor at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.

James William Nantz III is an American sportscaster who has worked on telecasts of the National Football League (NFL), NCAA Division I men's basketball, the NBA, and the PGA Tour for CBS Sports since the 1980s. He has anchored CBS' coverage of the Masters Tournament since 1989 and been the play-by-play announcer on CBS' top NFL game since 2004.

Frank Schätzing, is a German writer, mostly known for his best-selling science fiction novel The Swarm (2004).

Kirti Kulhari is an Indian actress and model predominantly works in Hindi-language films. She made her acting debut in an Odia film Dharini in 2002. Her first Bollywood appearance was in Khichdi: The Movie in 2010, followed by a role in Shaitaan in 2011. She then appeared in successful films including Pink (2016), Uri: The Surgical Strike (2019) and Mission Mangal (2019). The latter two rank among the highest-grossing Bollywood films.

Pierre Vernier is a French actor.

Mark Andrew Foster is an English former competitive swimmer who represented Great Britain in the Olympics and world championships, and swam for England in the Commonwealth Games. Foster is a former world champion and won multiple medals in international competition during his long career. He competed primarily in butterfly and freestyle at 50 metres.

Halston Sage is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Grace on the Nickelodeon television series How to Rock (2012), Amber on the NBC television series Crisis (2014), Lacey in the film Paper Towns (2015), Lt. Alara Kitan on the Fox television series The Orville (2017–2019), and Ainsley Whitly on the Fox television series Prodigal Son (2019–present).

Clint N'Dumba Capela is a Swiss professional basketball player for the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

Katja Hessel is a German lawyer and politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Bavaria since 2017.

François Bayrou is a French centrist politician and the president of the Democratic Movement (MoDem), who was a candidate in the 2002, 2007 and 2012 French presidential elections. He is also president of the European Democratic Party.