List of Famous people born in May

José Alberto Castro is a Mexican producer and director.

Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. is an American novelist. A MacArthur Fellow, he is noted for his dense and complex novels. His fiction and non-fiction writings encompass a vast array of subject matter, genres and themes, including history, music, science, and mathematics. For Gravity's Rainbow, Pynchon won the 1973 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.

Daniel 'Dani' Nieto Vela is a Spanish footballer who plays as a winger.

Nacer Barazite is a Dutch professional footballer who can play either as an attacking midfielder or striker. Most recently, he played for Thai club Buriram United.

Teruo Iwamoto is a former Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team.

Elsa Jacquemot is a French tennis player.

Fred Fortin is a Canadian rock singer-songwriter. Formerly associated with the bands Galaxie, Gros Mené and Les Breastfeeders, he has also released several solo albums. His 2009 album Plastrer la lune was a longlisted nominee for the 2010 Polaris Music Prize.

Geneviève Callerot is a French farmer and novelist. In World War II, with her father and sister, she assisted more than 200 people in passing the demarcation line from the occupied french territory to Zone libre, the unoccupied territory of Vichy France.

Brendan Adam Mathew Gallagher is a Canadian professional ice hockey winger and alternate captain for the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected by the Canadiens in the fifth round, 147th overall, of the 2010 NHL Entry Draft.

Benoît Dorémus is a French singer-songwriter. He is the fourth of five children and grew up in France.