List of Famous people born in May

Riivo Sinijärv is an Estonian politician and a former Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Peter Howard Gilmore is an American composer, artist, and author. He is the current High Priest of the Church of Satan. Gilmore graduated from NYU with both a bachelor's and master's degree in music composition.. As a representative of the Church of Satan, Gilmore has been interviewed on numerous television and radio programs dealing with the topic of Satanism, including appearances on History, the BBC, Syfy, Point of Inquiry, and Bob Larson's Christian radio show.

Frank Stanley Nugent was an American screenwriter, journalist, and film reviewer, who wrote 21 film scripts, 11 for director John Ford. He wrote almost a thousand reviews for The New York Times before leaving journalism for Hollywood. He was nominated for an Academy Award in 1953 and twice won the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written American Comedy. The Writers Guild of America, West ranks his screenplay for The Searchers (1956) among the top 101 screenplays of all time.

John Charles Carney Jr. is an American politician who is the 74th governor of Delaware, serving since 2017. He is a member of the Democratic Party, and served as the U.S. Representative for Delaware's at-large congressional district from 2011 to 2017. Carney was also the 24th Lieutenant Governor of Delaware from 2001 to 2009 and served as Delaware's Secretary of Finance. He first unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for governor in 2008, losing to Jack Markell. He ran for governor again in 2016 and won, succeeding Markell, who was term-limited. He was reelected in 2020, defeating Republican Julianne Murray with 59.5% of the vote.

Bradley Howard Friedel is an American professional soccer coach and former player who played as a goalkeeper.

Claude Jean Pierre Dagens is a French prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, serving as bishop of Angoulême.

Yuriy Kosiuk is a Ukrainian billionaire, and CEO of the country's largest agricultural company MHP, and chairman of PJSC Myronivsky Hliboproduct.