List of Famous people born on March 5th

Josef Emanuel Hubertus "Sepp" Piontek is a German former footballer and manager.

Jon Andoni Pérez Alonso, known as Bolo, is a Spanish football manager and former player who played as a centre forward. He is the current manager of Real Oviedo.

Nicholas Hugh Sebag-Montefiore is a British writer. He trained as a barrister before becoming a journalist and then a non-fiction writer. His second book Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man was published in 2006. His previous book is Enigma: The Battle for the Code, the story of breaking the German Enigma machine code at Bletchley Park during the Second World War. His family owned Bletchley Park until they sold it to the British government in 1938.

Georgios Papastamkos is a Greek politician and was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2004 to 2014 for New Democracy; part of the European People's Party.

Miyoko Hirose is a former volleyball player from Japan, who was a member of the Japan Women's National Team that won the bronze medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics.

Ece Hocaoğlu is a Turkish female volleyball player. She is 186 cm (6.10 ft) tall at 82 kg (181 lb) and plays in the wing spiker position. Currently, she plays for Beşiktaş Women's Volleyball in Istanbul. In the 2011-12 season, she was with Nilüfer Belediyespor in her hometown. Hocaoğlu is a member of the Turkey women's youth national volleyball team, and wears number 10.