List of Famous people born in May

Iván de la Peña López is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a central midfielder. During his career, he earned the nicknames Pequeño Buddha and Lo Pelat due to his shaven head and slight frame.

Monika Hauser is a Swiss-born Italian physician gynecologist and humanitarian. She is the founder of Medica Mondiale, an internationally renowned women’s rights and aid organization. Hauser lives and works in Cologne.

Dominik Moll is a German-born French film director and screenwriter. He was born in Bühl, West Germany.

Burak Canatan, better known by his stage name Burak King, is a Turkish rapper, songwriter and musician.

Marco St. John is an American actor who has appeared in films and television programs. He is known for his role as the perverted truck driver in the 1991 film Thelma & Louise and for playing Sheriff Tucker in the 1985 horror film Friday the 13th: A New Beginning.

Cheng Yen (Chinese: 證嚴法師; pinyin: Zhèngyán Fǎshī; Wade–Giles: Chêng⁴ Yen² Fa³-shih¹; born Chin-Yun Wong; 14 May 1937) is a Taiwanese Buddhist nun (bhikkhuni), teacher, and philanthropist. She is the founder of the Buddhist Compassion Relief Tzu Chi Foundation, ordinarily referred to as Tzu Chi, a Buddhist humanitarian organization based in Taiwan. In the West, she is sometimes referred to as the "Mother Theresa of Asia".

Marcela Paz Vacarezza Etcheverry is a Chilean television presenter and psychologist. She is the wife of TV presenter Rafael Araneda with whom she has three children, Martina, Florencia and Vicente.

Ergün Penbe, known by his nickname Kemik –literally meaning the Bone–, is a Turkish former professional footballer who played mostly as a left midfielder and left back, and is currently the manager of Tarsus İdman Yurdu.

Ullrich Fichtner is a senior German journalist and editor-in-chief of Der Spiegel magazine.

Luis Alberto Moreno Mejía is a Colombian businessman and former diplomat who served as president of the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) from 2005 to 2020. He was Colombia's Ambassador to the United States under president Andrés Pastrana Arango and the former President of the Instituto de Fomento Industrial.