List of Famous people born in May

Özcan Deniz is a Turkish actor, singer, composer, writer and director, who is of Kurdish descent.

Christian Wade is an English American football player and former rugby union player, currently a running back for the practice squad of the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League (NFL). He previously played rugby union for Wasps, and won one cap for England, as a wing.

Tobias Reichmann is a German handball player for MT Melsungen and the German national team.

Sir James Dyson is a British inventor, industrial designer, landowner and entrepreneur who founded Dyson Ltd. Traditionally, he is best known as the inventor of the Dual Cyclone bagless vacuum cleaner, which works on the principle of cyclonic separation. According to the Sunday Times Rich List 2020, he is Britain's richest person with an estimated net worth of £16.2 billion. He served as the Provost of the Royal College of Art from August 2011 to July 2017, and opened a new University, the Dyson Institute of Engineering and Technology, on Dyson's Wiltshire Campus in September 2017.

Pamela Suzette Grier is an American actress. She achieved fame for her starring roles in a string of 1970s action, blaxploitation and women in prison films for American International Pictures and New World Pictures, most notably Coffy (1973) and Foxy Brown (1974). Her other major films during this period included The Big Doll House (1971), Women in Cages (1971), The Big Bird Cage (1972), Black Mama, White Mama (1973), Scream Blacula Scream (1973), The Arena (1974), Sheba, Baby (1975), Bucktown (1975), and Friday Foster (1975).

Denise Ho Wan-see, is a Hong Kong-based Cantopop singer and actress, as well as a pro-democracy and Hong Kong human rights activist. Ho has been blacklisted by the Government of China for her active participation in the 2014 Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong. Ho was the first "mainstream female singer in Hong Kong to come out of the closet" by announcing herself as a lesbian in 2012.

Hessy Levinsons Taft, a German Jew, was featured as an infant in Nazi propaganda after her photo won a contest to find "the most beautiful Aryan baby" in 1935. Taft's image was subsequently distributed widely by the Nazi party in a variety of materials, such as magazines and postcards, to promote Aryanism.

Faiq Jefri Bolkiah is a member of the Bruneian Royal Family and a Bruneian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Portuguese club Marítimo and the Brunei national team. He has served as the captain of the national team.

Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey is a French-Spanish actress and model. She is best known for playing Suzanne in The Sea Wall, the mermaid Syrena in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and Sofi in I Origins. She received the Prix Suzanne Bianchetti in 2009 and the Trophée Chopard Award for Female Revelation of the Year at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival and a nomination at the 2016 David di Donatello in Rome.

Asaduddin Owaisi is an Indian politician, who is the President of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen. He is a four-time Member of Parliament (MP), representing the Hyderabad constituency in Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Indian Parliament. For years, he has been regularly listed one among the 500 Most Influential Muslims of the world.