List of Famous people born in May

María Teresa Portela Rivas is a Spanish sprint canoer who has competed since the early 2000s. Portela competed in six Summer Olympics, earning a silver medal on her sixth games at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Women's K-1 200 m. Previously she finished fourth on one occasion and fifth on three occasions.

Weng Li-you, known as Only You, is a Taiwanese Hokkien pop singer.

Leonard Arthur 'Lenny' Davidson is an English musician, best known as the guitarist for the Dave Clark Five.

Homayoun Shajarian is an Iranian classical music and classical crossover vocalist, and a tombak and kamancheh player.

Jeremy Emmanuel Lamb is an American professional basketball player for the Indiana Pacers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). As a freshman, he was the second-leading scorer on the 2011 national champion UConn Huskies team.

Owain Daniel Doull is a Welsh road and track cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Ineos Grenadiers. Doull specialises in the team pursuit on the track, and won a gold medal in the discipline at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro; as a result, he became the first Welsh-speaking athlete to win Olympic gold.

Thomas John Rowe is an American ice hockey executive, former player and coach.

Danny Moir is a Canadian former competitive ice dancer. He competed for most of his career with his cousin Sheri Moir. They are the 2001 Canadian national junior silver medalists and placed 11th at the 2001 World Junior Championships. They competed for two seasons on the Junior Grand Prix and placed 11th at the 2001 Nebelhorn Trophy. After that partnership ended, Moir competed with Kristina Lenko in the 2002-2003 season.

Mickaël Madar is a French former professional footballer who played as a striker. Madar played for the France national football team. Madar works as a football pundit on French TV channel Canal+.

Bernd Tauber is a German actor. He is best known for his role as Navigator Kriechbaum in the 1981 film Das Boot.