List of Famous people born in May

Arturo López Rodríguez is a former professional baseball player. He played one season in Major League Baseball as an outfielder for the New York Yankees in 1965. He also played in Nippon Professional Baseball from 1968 until 1973.

Christiane Arp is a German journalist and has served as the editor-in-chief of the German edition of the magazine Vogue since March 2003. She is influential in the popularization and dissemination of German fashion sensibilities in Europe and around the globe. Christiane Arp's work with German Vogue magazine and within fashion has helped make Berlin a global fashion hot spot.

Rodrigo Marques de Santana, known as Rodrigo Santana, is a Brazilian football manager and former player who played as an attacking midfielder.

Armistead Jones Maupin, Jr. is an American writer who wrote Tales of the City, a series of novels set in San Francisco.

Daniele Emilio Massaro is an Italian former footballer who played as a forward. He is mainly remembered for his highly successful career with A.C. Milan during the late 1980s and 1990s, under managers Arrigo Sacchi and Fabio Capello, with whom he went on to achieve notable domestic, European, and international success. Massaro was also a member of the Italian national team that won the 1982 FIFA World Cup, although he did not make an appearance in the tournament, and he was a member of the team that reached the final of the 1994 FIFA World Cup, scoring a goal during the tournament; in the final, he missed one of Italy's penalties in the resulting shoot-out, as Brazil went on to lift the trophy.

Jan Mojto is a film producer and international distributor of TV- and theatre rights and operates several classical music channels in Europe.

Hernán Jesús Garrido Lecca Montañez is a Peruvian economist, writer, producer, inventor and politician. A popular children's literature author in Peru, he is most recognized by his work Pirates in Callao, which was adapted into the first CGI motion picture in Peruvian cinematography. At political level, he is a member of the Peruvian Aprista Party, serving in Alan García's second administration as cabinet minister, from 2006 to 2008.

Adolfo Domínguez Fernández is a Spanish fashion designer. In 2014, he won the National Designer Prize. Dominguez studied Philosophy and Arts, specialising in Art at Santiago University.

Francisca Antonia Lachapel is a Dominican actress, TV host, and beauty pageant titleholder, who was crowned Nuestra Belleza Latina 2015 on 12 April 2015. She is currently a co-host on the popular morning show ¡Despierta América! on the Univision Network.

Kate Ashfield is an English actress, who has appeared in stage, TV, and film roles, most famously in her role as Liz in the 2004 zombie comedy Shaun of the Dead. She is the co-writer of the 2017 TV series Born to Kill.