List of Famous people born in May

Francis Joseph Coquelin is a French professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Spanish La Liga club Villarreal. He has also featured for Valencia, Arsenal, Lorient, Freiburg and Charlton Athletic in his career.

Helen Patricia Sharman, CMG, OBE, HonFRSC is a chemist who became the first British astronaut and first Western European woman in space as well as the first woman to visit the Mir space station in May 1991.

Jurij Rodionov is an Austrian tennis player.

Luke Samuel Garbutt is an English professional footballer who plays as a defender for Blackpool. Usually a left back, he is also capable of playing as a winger.

Brian Matthew Krzanich is an American engineer and businessman currently serving as the chief executive officer of CDK Global. Krzanich joined Intel as an engineer in 1982 and served as chief operating officer (COO) before being promoted to CEO. As CEO, Krzanich was credited for diversifying Intel's product offerings and workforce. However, during Krzanich's term as CEO, Intel went through major restructurings and pulled out of the mobile chip market. Because of Krzanich's decisions, Intel also struggled to produce 10-nanometer chips, compared to chip manufacturers TSMC and Samsung, resulting in numerous delays and a loss of market share in the computer chip business to rivals like AMD.

María Soledad Ayuso Domínguez better known as Marisol Ayuso is a Spanish stage, movie and television actress. Her father, Pedro Pablo Ayuso, was also an actor, and her mother, María Soledad Domínguez Giraldes, was an aristocrat.

Lyne Renée is a Belgian actress.

Boris Akunin is the pen name of Grigori Chkhartishvili, a Russian writer. He is best known as writer of detective and historical fiction. He is also an essayist and literary translator. Grigory Chkhartishvili has also written under pen names Anatoly Brusnikin, Anna Borisova, and Akunin-Chkhartishvili.

Manon Massé is a Canadian politician in Quebec and one of the two current leaders for Québec solidaire since 2017. She has represented Sainte-Marie–Saint-Jacques in the National Assembly of Quebec since the 2014 general election. Before her time in political office, she was a community organizer and one of the co-founders for the political movement Option citoyenne.

Daniel Sallis Huston is an American actor, writer, and director. Huston got his start directing Mr. North, starring Anthony Edwards, Robert Mitchum, and Huston's half-sister, Anjelica Huston. Later, Huston gave his breakthrough acting performance in the independent film Ivans Xtc and was nominated for Best Male Performance at the Independent Spirit Awards in 2003.