List of Famous people born in May

Thomaz Koch is a former tennis player from Brazil, who was a quarterfinalist at the French Open, Wimbledon and the U.S. National Championships.

Farhad Safinia is an Iranian-American screenwriter, film/TV producer and director, best known for Apocalypto, Boss and The Professor and the Madman. He was credited under the pseudonym P. B. Shemran in the latter.

Carlos Humberto Rivas Torres is a Chilean Canadian retired professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

Bruce Peter Weitz is an American actor who is perhaps best known for his role as Sgt. Michael "Mick" Belker in the NBC police drama Hill Street Blues, which ran from 1981 until 1987. Weitz won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 1984 for his role in the series.

Marrit Leenstra is a Dutch former long track speed skater.

Michel Camdessus is a French economist and administrator who was Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 16 January 1987 to 14 February 2000. To date, he is the longest serving Managing Director of the IMF.

Sergiu Klainerman is a mathematician known for his contributions to the study of hyperbolic differential equations and general relativity. He is currently the Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University, where he has been teaching since 1987.