List of Famous people born in May

Joseph Zito is an American film director and producer, best known for directing several cult and genre films throughout the 1980s, such as Missing in Action, Invasion U.S.A., Red Scorpion, The Prowler, and Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, In 1985–1986, Zito spent a year of pre-production on the Cannon version of Spider-Man, a film that was evidently never actually made.

Itzik Manger was a prominent Yiddish poet and playwright, a self-proclaimed folk bard, visionary, and 'master tailor' of the written word. A Jew from Bucovina, Manger lived in Romania, Poland, France, England, the US and finally Israel.

Veit Heiduschka is an Austrian film producer. He has produced 50 films since 1985. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture for Amour along with Margaret Ménégoz, Stefan Arndt and Michael Katz in 2013.

Jerome Williams is an American retired professional basketball player active in the NBA between 1996 and 2005. Williams played for the Detroit Pistons, Toronto Raptors, Chicago Bulls, and the New York Knicks.