List of Famous people born in May

Ji Dong-won is a South Korean professional footballer who plays as a winger for Eintracht Braunschweig, on loan from 1. FSV Mainz 05, and the South Korea national team.

Thievy Guivane Bifouma Koulossa is a professional footballer who plays as a forward for Chinese club Shenzhen F.C. and the Congo national team.

Nenad Peruničić is a Serbian handball coach and former player.

Deng Xiaohua, better known by her pen name Can Xue, is a Chinese avant-garde fiction writer and literary critic. Her family was severely persecuted following her father being labeled a rightist in the Anti-Rightist Campaign of 1957. Her writing, which consists mostly of short fiction, breaks with the realism of earlier modern Chinese writers. She has also written novels, novellas, and literary criticisms of the work of Dante, Jorge Luis Borges, and Franz Kafka. Can Xue has been described as "China’s most prominent author of experimental fiction", and some of her fiction has been translated and published in English.

Makoto Kobayashi is a Japanese manga artist who is best known for his unusual drawing style. One of his best known manga is What's Michael?, a manga about a curious orange cat and his many adventures that is often compared with Garfield. His earliest work is Grapple Three Brothers, which won the Shōnen magazine New manga artist award. He has twice won the Kodansha Manga Award, for Sanshiro of 1, 2 (ja) in 1981 and What's Michael? in 1986.

Lisa Makas is an Austrian football striker, currently playing for SKN St. Pölten in the Austrian ÖFB-Frauenliga.

Francisco Fernando Alonso Martínez is a Spanish professional basketball player for Unicaja Málaga of the Liga ACB. He played college basketball for the UNC Greensboro Spartans.

Koki Yonekura is a Japanese footballer who plays for JEF United Chiba as a right full-back, and occasionally as an attacking midfielder.

Hichem Rostom is a Tunisian actor of Turkish origin. He has appeared in 28 films and television shows since 1987. He starred in Golden Horseshoes, which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1989 festival. He also directed the Carthage Theatre Festival for two sessions.

Sombat Banchamek a.k.a. Buakaw Banchamek is a Thai middleweight Muay Thai kickboxer of Kuy descent, who formerly fought out of Por. Pramuk Gym, in Bangkok, Thailand, under the ring name Buakaw Por. Pramuk.