List of Famous people born in May

Kevin De Weert is a former Belgian professional road bicycle racer. In October 2014 it was announced would join LottoNL–Jumbo on a two-year deal from 2015, with the team's directeur sportif Nico Verhoeven describing his role as a domestique for the team's general classification riders in stage races. De Weert retired on his 33rd birthday due to the continuing effects of injuries sustained earlier in his career. In February 2016 he succeeded Carlo Bomans as coach of the Belgian national cycling team.

John Rettie "Jock" McKernan Jr. is an American politician who served two terms as the 71st Governor of Maine, from 1987 to 1995.

Man Arai was a Japanese writer and singer. In 1987, he won the Noma Literary New Face Prize for Vexation and Akutagawa Prize in 1988 for Tazunebito no Jikan.

Peter R. Adam is a film editor. He has worked on such films as An American Werewolf in Paris, Good Bye, Lenin!, and Anonymous. Adam was one of the first to use digital editing tools. He won the Deutscher Filmpreis for editing in 1998 for his work on Comedian Harmonists.

Mikel Zarrabeitia Uranga is a Spanish former road bicycle racer.

Brewster Hopkinson Shaw Jr. is a retired NASA astronaut, U.S. Air Force colonel, and former executive at Boeing. Shaw was inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame on May 6, 2006.

Gilbert Guillaume Marie-Jean Aubry is the Réunionnais bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint-Denis-de-La Réunion, as well as a poet and a singer. Aubry has served as the bishop of the diocese, which is based in the city of Saint-Denis, Réunion, since his episcopal consecration on May 2, 1976.