List of Famous people born in May
Armando Sadiku
Armando Durim Sadiku is an Albanian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Bolivian club Bolívar and the Albania national team.
Hala Al Turk
Hala Al Turk is a Bahraini singer. She became popular when she was selected for Arabs Got Talent in 2011. She subsequently sang to Platinum Records. In early 2015 she moved to "AlTurk Productions" which was sponsored by an Iranian Banking Firm. She won Favourite Female Artist award in Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards Abu Dhabi 2019.
Horst Köppel
Horst Köppel is a German football manager and former player who last worked as manager for FC Ingolstadt 04.
Nico Marquardt
Nico Marquardt is a German politician, non-executive director and consultant. At the age of 13, he became internationally known with his astronomy research work entitled The Killer Asteroid 99942 Apophis.
Soo Yeon Lee
Soo Yeon Lee is a former South Korean table tennis player, model, actress and coach. Lee started playing table tennis at a very early age and was also trained extensively in the sport by an Olympic gold medalist Jung Hwa Hyun in South Korea. Soon thereafter she went on to successively win the Korean National Junior Championship six times since the age of 12. She has been featured in advertisement campaigns for a number of prominent brands including Nike, Adidas, K-Swiss, Red Bull, and Target. She is the brand ambassador for SPiN, a chain of table tennis restaurants and bars.
Ryan Burnett
Ryan Burnett is a Northern Irish former professional boxer who competed from 2013 to 2019. He is a former unified bantamweight world champion, having held the WBA (Unified) and IBF titles between 2017 and 2018. At regional level he held the British bantamweight title from 2015 to 2017. As an amateur, he represented Ireland at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics and won a gold medal in the light-flyweight division.
Genie Francis
Eugenie Ann "Genie" Francis is an American actress. She is best known for playing the role of Laura Spencer on the television soap opera General Hospital from 1977 to present, for which she won a Daytime Emmy Award in 2007.
Jim Calhoun
James A. Calhoun is the men's basketball coach for the University of Saint Joseph in West Hartford, Connecticut. Calhoun is the former head coach of the University of Connecticut men's basketball team. His teams won three NCAA national championships, played in four Final Fours, won the 1988 NIT title, and seven Big East tournament championships. With his team's 2011 NCAA title win, the 68-year-old Calhoun became the oldest coach to win a Division I men's basketball title. He won his 800th game in 2009 and finished his NCAA Division I career with 873 victories, ranking 11th all-time as of February 2019. Calhoun is one of only six coaches in NCAA Division I history to win three or more championships, and is widely considered one of the greatest coaches of all time. In 2005, he was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame.
Brett Phillips
Brett Maverick Phillips is an American professional baseball outfielder in the Baltimore Orioles organization. He has previously played in MLB for the Milwaukee Brewers, Kansas City Royals, and Tampa Bay Rays.
Alexandra Park
Alexandra Park is an Australian actress. She is known for her role as Claudia Hammond in the Australian soap opera Home and Away in 2009. She also starred in the E! drama series The Royals as Princess Eleanor from 2015 to 2018.