List of Famous people born in May

Kana Kobayashi is a Japanese idol who is a former member of AKB48 who was part of Team B and later Team K. She has appeared in a number of television shows, feature films and stage productions. Kobayashi is represented with Promage.

Zita Maria de Seabra Roseiro is a Portuguese politician and publisher.

Hellmut Heinz Krug is a retired German football referee. Krug officialed both the 1994 World Cup and the Euro 96. In 1998, he refereed the Champions League final between Real Madrid-Juventus and 2000 UEFA Cup Galatasaray-Leeds United semi final first leg match. He also refereed two UEFA European Football Championship tournaments in 1992 and in 1996.

Satoyama Kōsaku is a retired professional sumo wrestler from Ōshima, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. A former amateur sumo champion at Nihon University, he entered professional sumo in 2004 and first reached the top makuuchi division in 2007. His highest rank was maegashira 12. He spent much of his career in the jūryō and makushita divisions, and won a yusho or tournament championship in each. He won promotion back to the top division in 2014 after a seven-year and 37-tournament absence, the longest ever. He was a member of Onoe stable. He retired in November 2018 and is an elder of the Japan Sumo Association under the name of Chiganoura.

Yu Nakamura is a Japanese singer, professional model and Japanese television personality. In 2005 she won the Japanese Miss Magazine Idol contest and won the "Jury's Special Award", 2005, after which she began appearing as a professional model and on various television shows. For a time she was reporter for the Tokyo Broadcasting System. In 2007–2008 she released three Japanese idol videos.

Yu Kosuge is a Japanese classical pianist.

Jean-Jacques Bridey is a French politician representing La République En Marche!, formerly a member of the Socialist Party. He was elected to the French National Assembly on 18 June 2017, representing the department of Val-de-Marne.

Andrés Palacios is a Chilean-Mexican actor.

Angela Anna Margareta Kovács is a Swedish with Hungarian descent, as her family name indicates. She studied at the Gothenburg Theatre Academy from 1987 until 1990. She then began her career as a stage actress, working at the Gothenburg City Theatre, the Helsingborg City Theater, and the Royal Dramatic Theatre. She began her film career in 2001 in Hans och hennes by Daniel Lind Lagerlöf. From 2005 to 2007 she played Ann-Britt Höglund in the Wallander series of television films based on the eponymous novels. More recently she has been seen as Irene Huss in a television series by that name based on the novels of Helene Tursten.

Yoko Yamada is a Japanese female arm wrestler, professional wrestler, mixed martial artist and occasional ring girl. Nicknamed The Sturdy Arm and Iron Beauty, she also works as a talent for the Tokyo-based agency KT Project .