List of Famous people born in May
Beth Mowins
Elizabeth Mowins is an American play-by-play announcer and sports journalist for ESPN and CBS. She typically calls women's college sports, and became the second woman to call nationally televised college football games for ESPN in 2005. She began doing play-by-play for NFL games in 2017.
Chris Young
Christopher Ryan Young is an American baseball executive currently serving as the general manager of the Texas Rangers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He is also a former professional baseball pitcher.
Fernando León de Aranoa
Fernando León de Aranoa is a Spanish screenwriter and film director. He achieved acclaim with his film Mondays in the Sun.
Aneurin Barnard
Aneurin Barnard is a Welsh actor. He is known for playing Davey in Hunky Dory, Claude in The Truth About Emanuel, Bobby Willis in Cilla, Tim in Thirteen, King Richard III in The White Queen, William in Dead in a Week, Gibson in Dunkirk, and Boris Pavlikovsky in The Goldfinch.
Yuki Tsunoda
Yuki Tsunoda is a Japanese racing driver who is due to race for Scuderia AlphaTauri in Formula One in 2021. He was the 2018 Japanese F4 champion and is a member of the Honda Formula Dream Project and the Red Bull Junior Team. He finished third in the 2020 Formula 2 Championship and is due to make his Formula One debut in 2021 for AlphaTauri, a team owned by Red Bull and using Honda engines.
Naohisa Takato
Naohisa Takato is a Japanese judoka.
Leslie Uggams
Leslie Marian Uggams is an American actress and singer. Beginning her career as a child in the early 1950s, Uggams is recognized for portraying Kizzy Reynolds in the television miniseries Roots (1977), earning Golden Globe and Emmy Award nominations for her performance. She had earlier been highly acclaimed for the Broadway musical Hallelujah, Baby!, winning a Theatre World Award in 1967 and the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical in 1968. Later in her career, Uggams received renewed notice with appearances alongside Ryan Reynolds in Deadpool (2016) and in a recurring role on Empire.
Erin Phillips
Erin Victoria Phillips is an Australian former professional basketball player and an Australian rules footballer for Adelaide. She played nine seasons in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) for five different teams and is a two-time WNBA champion. She also represented Australia on the women's national basketball team, winning a gold medal at the 2006 FIBA World Championship for Women and serving as a co-vice captain at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Additionally, Phillips has played four seasons in the AFL Women's (AFLW) competition, in which she is a two-time premiership player and two-time league best and fairest.
Alekseev
Mykyta Volodymyrovych Alieksieiev, better known by his stage name Alekseev, is a Ukrainian singer and songwriter. He first began his career in 2014 after placing as a semifinalist on season four of The Voice of Ukraine. He subsequently released the single "Pyanoye solntse", which went on to become a number-one hit throughout the CIS and kickstarted his music career. He represented Belarus in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 in Portugal with his song "Forever".
Molly Sims
Molly Sims is an American fashion model and actress. She has been featured in campaigns by a number of major brands, including Jimmy Choo, Escada, Giorgio Armani, Michael Kors, and Chanel. She was a frequent model in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue in the early 2000s, and walked the runway for the annual Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in 2001.