List of Famous people born in May

Ryūichi Yamamoto , known by his shikona Yamamotoyama Ryūta , or simply Yama, is a Japanese retired sumo wrestler from the city of Saitama in Saitama Prefecture. He made his professional debut in January 2007, and reached the top makuuchi division in January 2009. His highest rank was maegashira 9. At 265 kg (584 lb), Yamamotoyama is the heaviest Japanese-born sumo wrestler in history, and is also thought to be the heaviest Japanese person ever. In April 2011, he was told to retire by the Japan Sumo Association after he and several other wrestlers were found to be involved in match-fixing. He currently resides in Los Angeles and participates in sumo exhibitions and amateur tournaments.

Serhii Shakhov is a public leader, an entrepreneur, ukrainian politician. A People's Deputy of Ukraine of the VIIIth convocation.

Kento Fujishima is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays pitcher for the Chunichi Dragons.

Jumpei Takahashi is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.

Daniel Baier is a former German professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

Mehmet Özhaseki, is a Turkish politician of the Justice and Development Party and former Minister of Environment and Urban Planning. He is a former Mayor of Kayseri.

Arthur Iturria is a French rugby union player, who plays for French Top 14 side, Clermont Auvergne. Iturria was part of the French squad for the 2017 Six Nations Championship.

Alexander Radszun is a German actor. He appeared in more than ninety films since 1975.

Wols was the pseudonym of Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze, a German painter and photographer predominantly active in France. Though broadly unrecognized in his lifetime, he is considered a pioneer of lyrical abstraction, one of the most influential artists of the Tachisme movement. He is the author of a book on art theory entitled Aphorismes de Wols.

Miho Morikawa is a Japanese singer and model.