List of Famous people born on May 1st

Brigitte Barèges is a member of the National Assembly of France. She represents the Tarn-et-Garonne department, The Republicans.

Victor Starffin, nicknamed "the blue-eyed Japanese" , was an ethnic Russian baseball player in Japan and the first professional pitcher in Japan to win 300 games. With 83 career shutouts, he ranks number one all-time in Japanese professional baseball.

Andressa Cavalari Machry, commonly known as Andressa or Andressinha, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for SE Palmeiras and the Brazil women's national team. She participated in the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup and the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup.

Tahsin Şahinkaya was a Turkish Air Force general. He was Commander of the Turkish Air Force from 1978 to 1983, and previously Secretary-General of the National Security Council (1977–1978). He was one of the five leaders of the 1980 military coup, and after the coup he was a member of the Presidential Council.

María Dolores Amaya Vega, better known by her stage name Remedios Amaya, is a Spanish flamenco singer. She represented Spain at the 1983 Eurovision Song Contest.

Eruviel Ávila Villegas is a Mexican politician, member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, and the Governor of the State of Mexico from 2011 to 2017. Before that, he was Mayor of Ecatepec de Morelos twice, from 2003 to 2006 and from 2009 to 2012, and deputy of the State of Mexico's Congress.

Johann Adam Schall von Bell was a German Jesuit and astronomer. He spent most of his life as a missionary in China and became an adviser to the Shunzhi Emperor of the Qing dynasty.

Hasret Şükrü Gültekin was a Kurdish musician and poet. He was murdered in what is known as the Sivas massacre, along with 37 other people, in the Sivas Province of Turkey when an Islamist mob set fire to the Madımak Hotel. He was Alevi.

Asil Nadir is a British Turkish Cypriot businessman, who was chief executive of Polly Peck, which he took over as a small textile company, growing it during the 1980s to become one of the United Kingdom's top 100 FTSE-listed companies, with interests in consumer electronics, fruit distribution and packaging.

Miguel de Sacadura Cabral Portas was a Portuguese politician and a Member of the European Parliament for the Left Bloc, part of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left group. He was a member of the Committee on Culture and Education of the European Parliament and a member of the Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries.