List of Famous people born in May

Philippe Blain is a former French volleyball player, member of the France men's national volleyball team in 1984–1987, participant of the Olympic Games Seoul 1988, medalist of the European Championship, assistant coach of the Japan men's national volleyball team.

Wang Xiaoshuai is a Chinese film director, screenwriter and occasional actor. He is commonly grouped under the loose association of filmmakers known as the "Sixth Generation" of the Cinema of China. Like others in this generation, and in contrast with earlier Chinese filmmakers who produced mostly historical drama, Wang proposed a “new urban Chinese cinema [that] has been mainly concerned with bearing witness of a fast- paced transforming China and producing a localized critique of globalization.”

Yves Pozzo di Borgo is a French politician of Corsican origin. He is a member of the Senate of France, representing the city of Paris for the Centrist Union.

Cristina Comencini is an Italian film director, screenwriter and novelist.

Dubravka Šuica is a Croatian politician who has been Vice-President of the European Commission for Democracy and Demography since 2019. She previously served as a member of the European Parliament from 2013 to 2019, and as mayor of Dubrovnik from 2001 to 2009.

Ayaka Sayama is a Japanese gravure idol from Kanagawa Prefecture.

Karl Ludwig Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg was a member of the German anti-Nazi resistance. He was executed in the aftermath of the failure of the 20 July plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.

Jan Polanc is a Slovenian racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam UAE Team Emirates. He is a two time Giro d'Italia stage winner.