List of Famous people born in May

Patrick Ortlieb is a former World Cup alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medalist from Austria. A specialist in the speed events, he was also a world champion in the downhill event.

Dmitry Yevgenevich Strashnov is a Russian businessman and manager, General Director of the Russian Post from 2013-2017.

Hernando Guerra-García Campos is a Peruvian businessman and politician. In 2016, he ran for the Presidency under the National Solidarity-UPP alliance for the general elections for the same year. However, after a few months he withdrew from the electoral campaign. He is currently Keiko Fujimori's campaign manager in the 2021 general election.

Marielle Gallo is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament elected in the 2009 European election for the Île-de-France constituency.

Nicola Thost is a German snowboarder and Olympic champion. She won a gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano.

Hervé Gaymard is a French politician and a member of The Republicans conservative party. He served as the country's Minister of Finances from 30 November 2004 until his resignation on 25 February 2005.

Carlos Diegues, also known as Cacá Diegues, is a Brazilian film director. He was born in Maceió, Alagoas, and is best known as a member of the Cinema Novo movement. He is popularly known for his unconventional, yet intriguing film techniques among other film producers of the Cinema Novo movement. Diegues is also widely known for his dynamic use visuals, ideas, plots, themes, and other cinematic techniques. He incorporated many musical acts in his film as he favored musical pieces to be complementary of his ideas. Diegues remains very popular and is regarded one the most cinematic producers of his generation. Of the Cinema Novo directors, he would go on to produce films, plays, musicals and other forms of entertainment in Brazil.

Anne Charlotte Clark is an English poet, Her first album, The Sitting Room, was released in 1982, and she has released over a dozen albums since then.

Hideaki Sorachi is the pen name of a Japanese manga artist best known for Gin Tama. As of May 2016, the Gin Tama manga has sold 50 million units in Japan.

Frédérique Dumas is a French film producer and the CEO of Studio 37, the film production subsidiary of Orange.