List of Famous people born on March 5th

Meral Onuktav Çetinkaya is a Turkish film actress. She has appeared in more than twenty films since 1962.

Sefer Seferi is an Albanian professional boxer. His older brother Nuri Seferi is also a professional boxer.

Mélanie Johanna de Jesus dos Santos is a French artistic gymnast and a three-time French national all-around champion (2017-2019). Internationally, she is the 2019 European all-around champion and a two time European champion on floor exercise.

Paul Nicholas Whelan is a Canadian-born American resident with British and Irish citizenship.

Faisal Al-Meslim Al-Osaimi Al-Otaibi is a former Kuwaiti politician, representing the third district. Born in 1962, Al-Meslim studied Political History at the University of Wales and worked as a professor before being elected to the National Assembly in 2003. Al-Otaibi is considered an Independent deputy and affiliates with the Islamist members.

Mason Alexander Plumlee is an American professional basketball player for the Detroit Pistons of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He primarily plays the forward and center positions. As a freshman in 2009–10, he was a back-up forward for the Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team's national championship team, playing with his older brother Miles. He was a 2009 McDonald's All-American in high school. During his senior year at Duke, he also played with his younger brother Marshall. He was selected with the 22nd overall pick by the Brooklyn Nets in the 2013 NBA draft. Plumlee was also a member of the United States national team that won a gold medal in the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup.

Aasif Hakim Mandviwala, known professionally as Aasif Mandvi, is a British-American actor and comedian of Indian descent. He began appearing as an occasional contributing correspondent on The Daily Show on August 9, 2006. On March 12, 2007, he was promoted to a regular correspondent. He is the lead actor, co-writer and producer of the web series Halal in the Family, which premiered on Funny or Die in 2015, and an actor, writer and co-producer of the HBO comedy series The Brink. Mandvi is also the author of the book No Land's Man. In June 2019, he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters Degree by the Macaulay Honors College after delivering the commencement speech that year. He currently appears in the role of Ben Shakir in the CBS psychological drama Evil written and created by Robert and Michelle King.

Mahmoud Abdelrazek Hassan Fadlala, commonly known as Shikabala, is an Egyptian professional footballer who plays for Egyptian Premier League club Zamalek and the Egypt national team.

Mariya Yamada is a Japanese actress and a gravure idol. She won the title of "Miss Young Magazine" in 1996.

Shirley Bousquet is a French actress.