List of Famous people born in May

Peyton Elizabeth Lee is an American actress. She is known for playing the title role on the Disney Channel series Andi Mack.

Claudio Matías Kranevitter is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Liga MX club Monterrey.

Juan José Padilla is a Spanish torero ('bullfighter'). He became a matador de toros, 'killer of (full-grown) bulls', in the town of his birth, Jerez de la Frontera, on June 18, 1994 when he was 21 years old. He was known as the 'Cyclone of Jerez' and featured heavily, both personally and professionally, in Into The Arena: The World Of The Spanish Bullfight, a shortlisted nominee for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year in 2011.

Edison Michael Flores Peralta, is a Peruvian footballer who currently plays as a winger for MLS side D.C. United and the Peru national team.

Waylon Albright Jennings, known professionally as Shooter Jennings, is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. The only son of country music singers Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter, he has been active since 1996, releasing seven albums and numerous EPs. He also has made some appearances and cameos in films. Jennings is active mainly in outlaw country and Southern rock genres.

Jean Pierre Noher is a French-born Argentine actor.

William Dawbney Nordhaus is an American economist, a Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University, best known for his work in economic modeling and climate change, and one of the 2 recipients of the 2018 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Nordhaus received the prize "for integrating climate change into long-run macroeconomic analysis".

Gelson Dany Batalha Martins is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a winger for Ligue 1 club Monaco and the Portugal national team.

Joshua Orobosa Zirkzee is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a forward for Bayern Munich.

Jeremy Dickson Paxman is a British broadcaster, journalist, author, and television presenter. Born in Leeds, Paxman was educated at Malvern College and St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he edited the undergraduate newspaper Varsity. At Cambridge, he was a member of a Labour Party club and described himself as a socialist, although in later life described himself as a one-nation conservative. He joined the BBC in 1972, initially at BBC Radio Brighton, although relocated to London in 1977. In coming years, he worked on Tonight and Panorama before becoming a newsreader for the BBC Six O'Clock News and later a presenter on Breakfast Time.