List of Famous people born in May

Purificación Carpinteyro Calderón is a Mexican politician.

Josef "Sepp" Straka, is an Austrian professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour.

Marianne Vos is a Dutch multi-discipline cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's Continental Team Team Jumbo–Visma. Vos has drawn comparison to Eddy Merckx as being "the finest cyclist of [her] generation".

Nadine Chandrawinata is an Indonesian actress, award-winning film producer, model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned as Puteri Indonesia 2005, She is representing Indonesia at the Miss Universe 2006 pageant. She was the second of Puteri Indonesia to participate in the pageant after a long hiatus in 1996. She measures 175 cm in height and 60 kg in weight.

Halis Özkahya is a Turkish football referee. He officiated the 2012–13 UEFA Europa League group stage match between Lyon and Ironi Kiryat Shmona.

Debold Menorias Sinas is a Filipino police officer. He is the chief of the Philippine National Police since 2020.

Vladimiro Lenin Ilich Montesinos Torres is a former long-standing head of Peru's intelligence service, National Intelligence Service (SIN), under President Alberto Fujimori. In the year 2000, the infamous "Vladi-videos" came to light through the television: they were secret videos recorded by Montesinos that showed him bribing elected congressmen into leaving the opposition and joining the pro-Fujimori group of the Congress. The ensuing scandal caused Montesinos to flee the country and prompted Fujimori's resignation.

Frank Ragnow is an American football center for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Arkansas, and was selected by the Lions in the first round of the 2018 NFL Draft.

Laurence Boone is a French economist whose fields of interest include macroeconomics, European politics and public finance. She served as an economic advisor to the President of the French Republic between July 2014 and March 2016 under François Hollande's presidency.

Jerry Irwin Mander is an American activist and author, best known for his 1978 book, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television. His most recent book, The Capitalism Papers argues against capitalism as a sustainable and viable system on which to base an economy.