List of Famous people born in May

Frank Donald Drake is an American astronomer and astrophysicist. He is involved in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, including the founding of SETI, mounting the first observational attempts at detecting extraterrestrial communications in 1960 in Project Ozma, developing the Drake equation, and as the creator of the Arecibo Message, a digital encoding of an astronomical and biological description of the Earth and its lifeforms for transmission into the cosmos.

Dashiell Raymond Mihok is an American actor and director best known for playing Brendan "Bunchy" Donovan in the Showtime drama Ray Donovan.

Stefan Posch is an Austrian footballer who plays as a defender for 1899 Hoffenheim.

Michael Fleischhacker is an Austrian journalist. He was director and editor-in-chief of Austrian daily Die Presse from 2004 until 2012.

Feryal Özel is a Turkish astrophysicist born in Istanbul, Turkey, specializing in the physics of compact objects and high energy astrophysical phenomena. As of 2020, Özel is a professor at the University of Arizona in Tucson, in the Astronomy Department and Steward Observatory.

Erwin Jan Feuchtmann Pérez is a Chilean handballer for Ademar Leon and the Chilean national team.

Justine Fedronic is a French middle-distance runner. She competed in the 800 metres at the 2014 and 2016 European Athletics Championships.

Takuya Mizoguchi is a Japanese actor. Mizoguchi is also a member of the 5-dimensional idol group DearDream from DreamFes!

Michael Levitt, is a South African-born Jewish biophysicist and a professor of structural biology at Stanford University, a position he has held since 1987. Levitt received the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, together with Martin Karplus and Arieh Warshel, for "the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems".

Toni Markus Nieminen is a Finnish former ski jumper who competed from 1991 to 2004, with a brief comeback in 2016. He is one of the most successful contemporary ski jumpers from Finland, having won both the World Cup overall title and the Four Hills Tournament in 1992, and three medals at the 1992 Winter Olympics. He remains the youngest ever Winter Olympic gold medalist, at 16 years and 261 days. Additionally, he is known for being the first male ski jumper to land a jump surpassing 200 metres (660 ft), which he achieved in 1994 with a world record of 203 m (666 ft) on the ski flying hill in Planica.