List of Famous people born in May

Asil Nadir is a British Turkish Cypriot businessman, who was chief executive of Polly Peck, which he took over as a small textile company, growing it during the 1980s to become one of the United Kingdom's top 100 FTSE-listed companies, with interests in consumer electronics, fruit distribution and packaging.

Lisa Selesner is an American model, actress and Channel V veejay and an international model based in Hong Kong.

Zhou Ye is a Chinese actress. She is best known for her role as Gu Xiang in the danmei novel adaptation series Word of Honor and as Wei Lai in the film Better Days.

Rima Maktabi is a Lebanese TV presenter and award-winning journalist who returned to al-Arabiya after hosting CNN's monthly program Inside the Middle East for two years and previously working at the Arab satellite channel since 2005. She was among several female Arab journalists who first became known through her reporting during the 2006 Lebanon War and who had successful careers afterward, including Maktabi and her former colleague at al-Arabiya Najwa Qassem.

Hanane el-Fadili is a Moroccan actress and comedian. She was born on May 2, 1974 in Casablanca, Morocco. She specializes in parody, focusing on famous personalities and controversial figures. She addresses social and political issues relevant to Moroccan public opinion.

Suat Suna is a Turkish pop music singer, composer and songwriter. Throughout his professional music career, he has released 12 studio albums.

Alford Corley is an American actor, singer and producer. Corley is best known as the first actor to play Steven Carrington on the 1980s soap opera Dynasty and his 1984 hit single "Square Rooms".

Edemar Cid Ferreira is a former Brazilian economist, banker, and art collector. He was the founder and head of Banco Santos, which went bankrupt in September 2005. Ferreira was convicted in Brazil of bank fraud, tax evasion, and money laundering. He began serving 21-year prison sentence in December 2006. As part of the case, a judge ordered the search, seizure and confiscation of assets that were acquired with illegally obtained funds from Banco Santos. Ferreira assembled a 12,000-piece art collection while he controlled Banco Santos. Before his arrest, he smuggled his collection out of Brazil. The United Stated government seized items from a storage facility in New York that didn't comply with customs laws. They returned Basquiat's Hannibal painting, a Roy Lichtenstein, a painting by Joaquin Torres Garcia, a Serge Poliakoff and other works with an estimated value of $20 million to $30 million.

Liesl Dorothy Tesch AM is an Australian wheelchair basketball player, sailor, and politician. She is a Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, representing Gosford since the 2017 Gosford state by-election.

Daniel Siebert is a German football referee who is based in Berlin. He referees for FC Nordost Berlin of the Berlin Football Association. He is a FIFA referee, and is ranked as a UEFA first category referee.