List of Famous people born on June 5th

Vyacheslav Alekseyevich Nikonov is a Russian political scientist.

Vijayalakshmi Yeedi, better known as Rambha, is an Indian film actress. Throughout her career, Rambha acted in many Indian films across eight languages, while appearing alongside most of India's leading actors.

Marcus Terrell Thornton is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for Kilgore College and LSU before being drafted in the second round of the 2009 NBA draft by the Miami Heat. He has since played for the New Orleans Hornets, Sacramento Kings, Brooklyn Nets, Boston Celtics, Phoenix Suns, Houston Rockets and Washington Wizards.

Chad Allen is an American former actor and psychologist. Beginning his career at the age of seven, Allen is a three-time Young Artist Award winner and GLAAD Media Award honoree. He was a teen idol during the late 1980s as David Witherspoon on the NBC family drama Our House and as Zach Nichols on the NBC sitcom My Two Dads before transitioning to an adult career as Matthew Cooper on the CBS western drama Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman. He announced his retirement from acting in April 2015.

Marques E. Colston is a former American football wide receiver. He played college football at Hofstra University, and was drafted by the New Orleans Saints in the seventh round of the 2006 NFL Draft. He helped the Saints achieve victory in Super Bowl XLIV with seven receptions for 83 yards against the Indianapolis Colts. He is the Saints' all-time franchise leader in receiving yards, yards from scrimmage, receiving touchdowns, total touchdowns, and total receptions. Despite favorable statistics compared to other Pro Bowl or All-Pro players in the same position like Brandon Marshall, and Reggie Wayne, Colston was never selected for either in his career.

Billy Don Moyers is an American journalist and political commentator. He served as the ninth White House Press Secretary under the Johnson administration from 1965 to 1967. He also worked as a network TV news commentator for ten years. Moyers has been extensively involved with public broadcasting, producing documentaries and news journal programs. He has won numerous awards and honorary degrees for his investigative journalism and civic activities. He has become well known as a trenchant critic of the corporately structured U.S. news media.

Lisa Schmidla is a German rower. She won a total of three gold medals at the World U23 Championships. At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, she competed in women's quadruple sculls competition in which the German team won the gold medal.

Edward Adam Davis is an American professional basketball player for the Minnesota Timberwolves of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played high school basketball at Benedictine High School in Richmond, Virginia. He is the son of former NBA player Terry Davis, who played 10 seasons (1989–2001) with the Miami Heat, Dallas Mavericks, Washington Wizards and Denver Nuggets. He was selected with the 13th overall pick in the 2010 NBA draft by the Toronto Raptors.

Kevin Troy Faulk is an American football coach and former running back who is the running backs coach at LSU. An LSU alumnus, he played in the National Football League (NFL) for 13 seasons with the New England Patriots. Faulk was selected in the second round of the 1999 NFL Draft by the Patriots where he established himself as a versatile player and a contributor to three Super Bowl titles in Super Bowl XXXVI, Super Bowl XXXVIII, and Super Bowl XXXIX. For his accomplishments in New England, he was inducted to the Patriots Hall of Fame in 2016. After retiring, Faulk returned to LSU and has served as the running backs coach since 2020.

Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo is an Equatoguinean politician who has been the 2nd president of Equatorial Guinea since August 1979. He ousted his uncle, Francisco Macías Nguema, in a military coup that took place in August 1979 and has overseen Equatorial Guinea's emergence as an important oil producer, beginning in the 1990s. Obiang was Chairperson of the African Union from 31 January 2011 to 29 January 2012. He is the second longest consecutively serving current non-royal national leader in the world. Obiang has been widely accused of widespread human rights abuses, corruption and abuse of power. In marked contrast to the trend toward democracy in most of Africa, Equatorial Guinea is currently a dominant-party state, in which Obiang's Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea (PDGE) holds virtually all governing power in the nation. The constitution provides Obiang sweeping powers, including the right to rule by decree, effectively making his government a legal dictatorship.