List of Famous people born in May

Daisuke Inoue is a Japanese businessman best known as the inventor of a karaoke machine. Inoue, a musician in his youth employed in backing businesspeople who wanted to sing in bars, invented the machine as a means of allowing them to sing without live back-up. He did not patent the machine and so did not directly profit, but he continued to work in the industry it generated, including patenting a pesticide for karaoke machines. Named one of Time Magazines "Most Influential Asians of the Century" in 1999, he was awarded the Ig Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 and in 2005 was the subject of the Japanese biographical film Karaoke.

Faustino Fudut Imbali is a Bissau-Guinean politician who was Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau from 21 March 2001 to 9 December 2001, and again from 29 October 2019 to 8 November 2019. He was the Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2012 to 2013.

Chan Siu Kwong is a Hong Kong former badminton player. He competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics and the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Sir Richard Peto is an English statistician and epidemiologist who is Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology at the University of Oxford, England.

T2ya, born Tetsuya Hashinaga , is a Japanese songwriter and keyboardist from Gunma Prefecture. In the 1990s, he supported the agency Rising Production, which was later renamed Vision Factory. He wrote both the music and the lyrics of Olivia Lufkin's "I.L.Y. (Yokubō)" and "Re-act." He also composed Mika Nakashima's "One Survive."

Casper Chan is a Hong Kong actress. Notable roles include a hotel employee in 7 Days in Life, and Legend of the Demigods as a magistrates daughter.