List of Famous people born in May

Rodney King Thorn is an American basketball executive and a former professional player and coach, Olympic Committee Chairman, with a career spanning over 50 years. In 2018, Thorn was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

Tom Maniatis, is an American professor of molecular and cellular biology. He is a Professor at Columbia University, and serves as the Scientific Director and CEO of the New York Genome Center.

José Manuel Lasa is a former Spanish cyclist. He competed in the individual road race at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Dale Weldeau Jorgenson is the Samuel W. Morris University Professor at Harvard University, teaching in the Department of Economics and John F. Kennedy School of Government. He served as Chairman of the Department of Economics from 1994 to 1997.

Charles Gordon was an American film producer and brother to Lawrence Gordon. The Gordons were raised in a Jewish family in Belzoni, Mississippi.

Ralph Idris Steadman is a British illustrator best known for his collaboration and friendship with the American writer Hunter S. Thompson. Steadman is renowned for his political and social caricatures, cartoons and picture books.

Diane English is an American screenwriter, producer and director, best known for creating the television show Murphy Brown and writing and directing the 2008 feature film The Women.

Sergey Vasilyevich Andreyev is a football manager and a former Soviet and Russian player.