List of Famous people born in May

Baroness Maria Augusta von Trapp DHS was the stepmother and matriarch of the Trapp Family Singers. She wrote The Story of the Trapp Family Singers, which was published in 1949 and was the inspiration for the 1956 West German film The Trapp Family, which in turn inspired the 1959 Broadway musical The Sound of Music and its 1965 film version.

Ian Stephen McCulloch is an English singer-songwriter and musician, best known as the frontman of the rock group Echo & the Bunnymen.

Agustina Elvira Vivero, popularly known by her pseudonym Cumbio and given the nickname La Reina de Los Floggers, is an Argentine photoblogger. She is recognized as being the most influential member of the flogger subculture, from which her nickname derives, having been credited with its creation and organization of several meetups of its members. She has been recognized internationally, being interviewed by The New York Times and El País.

Coby Scott Bell is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Jesse Porter on the USA Network original series Burn Notice and professional football player Jason Pitts on The CW/BET comedy-drama The Game. He also co-starred as police officer Tyrone "Ty" Davis, Jr. on the NBC drama Third Watch and as Aaron in the Amazon original series Mad Dogs.

Leandro Carvalho da Silva, known as Leandro Carvalho, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as forward for Saudi club Náutico, on loan from Ceará.

Chris Mavinga is a professional footballer who plays for Toronto FC in Major League Soccer. He operates primarily in the center of defence, but can also play in the role of a left-back. A French youth international, who was a part of the team that won the 2010 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship on home soil, he has chosen to represent DR Congo at senior level.

John Bonello is a retired Maltese football player.

Bernd Hobsch is a German former professional footballer who played as a striker.

Shintaro Ito is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet. A native of Tokyo and graduate of Keio University, he received his master's degrees from Keio University and Harvard University and completed a program at the American Film Institute. He was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 2001.

Alex Gough is a retired Canadian luger who competed between 2002 and 2018. Gough is a two-time Olympic luge medalist winning bronze in women's and silver in the team relay at the 2018 Winter Olympics. She was the first Canadian to win a luge medal at the Olympics. Gough won a bronze medal in the women's singles event at the FIL World Luge Championships 2011 in Cesana, the first ever for a Canadian woman and only the second overall. Gough has won a total of six World Championship medals, two bronze in women's singles and a silver and three bronze in the mixed team relay events.