List of Famous people born in May

Joseph "Josef" or "Sepp" Benz was a Swiss bobsledder who competed from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he won four medals with one gold, two silvers, and one bronze.

Arto Kalervo Bryggare is a Finnish former hurdling athlete. He was a member of the Parliament of Finland, representing the Social Democratic Party of Finland from 1995 to 1999 and 2003 to 2007. His personal best time 13.35, made during trials in 1984 Los Angeles Games, is still the record time in Finland and in Nordic countries. Bryggare made Finnish history by becoming the first Finn to medal in a sprint event shorter than 400 metres.

Wong Yeung-tat is a Hong Kong social activist and the founder and former leader of radical populist group Civic Passion.

Bernardo Vieira de Souza, better known as Bernardo, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder and is currently a free agent.

Yoshimitsu Shimoyama is a male Japanese voice actor from Kanagawa Prefecture. He revealed himself as Satomi Arai's husband, having married since 2008 and had a son in 2010, though Yoshimitsu revealed his marital status in 2016.

Gustavo Matías Alustiza is an Argentine professional footballer who plays for Atlético Tucumán as a forward.

Yasuko Tajima is a former medley swimmer from Japan. She won the silver medal in the 400m Individual Medley at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.

Protógenes Pinheiro Queiroz is a Brazilian former Federal Police officer, who has led investigations in some of the country's most high-profile corruption cases. Queiroz was responsible for investigations leading to imprisonment of the former mayor of São Paulo, Paulo Maluf. He was a key figure in two investigations, in 2005 and 2007, into corruption scandals in Brazilian football, the latter against Boris Berezovsky's MSI group for money laundering in Corinthians. From 2004 to July 2008 Quieroz led Operation Satiagraha, a major operation into misuse of public funds, money laundering and corruption, leading to the arrest of the banker Daniel Dantas and several other prominent figures, including Celso Pitta, another former mayor of São Paulo.

Vladimir Padrino López is a Venezuelan four-star general the current Minister of Defense for the National Armed Forces of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

Abdallah Yaisien is a French professional footballer who plays for Al Mokawloon in the Egyptian Premier League.