List of Famous people born in May

Henri Parot is a member of the Basque separatist group ETA. He was born in Algiers in 1958, the son of a Basque-French marriage that migrated to Algeria. When the Algerian War ended and he was three years old, he returned to France and in the Basque-French city of Bayona when he was 16 years old, where he learned the Basque language.

Yoko Kumada is a Japanese gravure idol and singer originally from Gifu city, Gifu Prefecture, Japan.

Ethan Suplee is an American film and television actor best known for his roles as Seth Ryan in American History X, Louie Lastik in Remember the Titans, Frankie in Boy Meets World, Randy Hickey in My Name Is Earl, Toby in The Wolf of Wall Street, Elwood in Without a Paddle, and his roles in Kevin Smith’s films.

Pamela Ferris is a Welsh actress. She has starred in numerous television series, including Connie (1985), The Darling Buds of May (1991–1993), Where the Heart Is (1997–2000), Rosemary & Thyme (2003–2006), and Call the Midwife (2012–2016). Ferris also played Miss Trunchbull in Matilda, Aunt Marge in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), Mrs. Bevan in Nativity! (2009) and Mrs. Faulkner in the film Tolkien (2019)

Sumner Murray Redstone was an American billionaire businessman and media magnate. He was the majority owner and chairman of the National Amusements theater chain. Through National Amusements, Redstone, up until his death, was, and his family remain, majority voting shareholders of mass media conglomerate ViacomCBS, in turn, the parent company of the Paramount Pictures film studio, the CBS television network, and various cable networks. According to Forbes, as of April 2020, he was worth US$2.6 billion.

Ashley Elisabeth Wagner is an American former figure skater. She is the 2016 World silver medalist, a 2014 Olympic bronze medalist in the team event, the 2012 Four Continents champion, a three-time Grand Prix Final medalist, winner of five Grand Prix events, and a three-time U.S. national champion.

Sorj Chalandon is a French writer and journalist. From 1973 until 2007 he worked as a journalist on Libération where, among other things, he covered events in Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, Somalia and Afghanistan. In 1988 he received the Albert Londres Prize for his articles on Northern Ireland and the Klaus Barbie trial. Since then he has worked for the satirical-investigative newspaper Le Canard enchaîné. His second novel, Une promesse (2006), won the Prix Médicis. His 2011 novel Return to Killybegs won the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française and was shortlisted for the Prix Goncourt.

Monique Luiz, also known as "Daisy Girl" or "Peace, Little Girl", is an American former child model best known for starring in the Daisy advertisement, part of the incumbent president Lyndon B. Johnson's re-election campaign. Working under the stage name Monique Cozy, her first commercial came at age two. She appeared in advertisements for various American companies like Kodak, Velveeta and Prudential Insurance. She moved to France in 1975, where she remained until her adulthood, and returned to the US in 1983. She appeared in the 2014 documentary Bombs Away, and was enlisted by the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton to appear in a "sequel" for her presidential campaign against Donald Trump.

Jean-François Copé is a French politician. He is Mayor of Meaux. He was Spokesperson for the French Government between 2002 and 2007, and assumed other tenures in the government—including Minister of the Budget—at the same time. He was also Deputy (Député) for the 6th constituency of Seine-et-Marne, and President of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) Group in the French National Assembly. In November 2010 he became General Secretary of the UMP. In August 2012 he announced that he would run for the presidency of the UMP, facing the former Prime Minister François Fillon.

Brian Urlacher is a former American football linebacker who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 13 seasons with the Chicago Bears. He played college football at the University of New Mexico, where he became one of the school's most decorated athletes and was recognized as a consensus All-American in 1999. Following his collegiate success, he was selected ninth overall by the Bears in the 2000 NFL Draft.