List of Famous people born on May 1st

António Alberto Bastos Pimparel, known as Beto, is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper.

Sultan bin Turki (II) bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (Arabic: سلطان بن تركي الثاني بن عبد العزيز آل سعود‎ is a member of the House of Saud.

Norbert Kückelmann was a German film director, screenwriter and lawyer. He was born in Munich, During the 1950s he studied law and worked part-time as a film critic. After graduation, he worked as a lawyer in Munich and Mainz. In 1965 he founded together with Alexander Kluge and Hans-Rolf Strobel the Young German Film Committee (German: Kuratorium Junger Deutscher Film. Continuing to work as a lawyer he directed his first film Die Sachverständigen in 1973. At the 23rd Berlin International Film Festival the film won a Silver Bear. His first film also won the Deutscher Filmpreis - Best Feature Film. At the 34th Berlin International Film Festival, his film Man Under Suspicion also won a Silver Bear. Two years later, he was a member of the jury at the 36th Berlin International Film Festival.

Francisco Vázquez González, more commonly known as Fran Vázquez, is a retired Spanish professional basketball player who most recently played for Zaragoza of the Liga ACB. Originally drafted by the Orlando Magic in 2005, Vázquez decided to remain in the Spanish ACB League rather than enter the National Basketball Association (NBA).

Francisco Abel Murrieta Gutiérrez was a Mexican lawyer and politician who was a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He served as deputy of the LXIII Legislature of the Mexican Congress from 2015 to 2018, representing Sonora's sixth district. Previously, he was a member of the Congress of Sonora and the attorney general of the same state.

Qazi Muhammad was an Iranian Kurdish separatist leader who founded the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan and headed the short-lived, Soviet-backed Republic of Kurdistan. He was hanged by the Pahlavi dynasty for treason in 1947.

Giovannino Oliviero Giuseppe Guareschi was an Italian journalist, cartoonist and humorist whose best known creation is the priest Don Camillo.

Ralf Gustav Dahrendorf, Baron Dahrendorf, was a German-British sociologist, philosopher, political scientist and liberal politician. A class conflict theorist, Dahrendorf was a leading expert on explaining and analyzing class divisions in modern society. Dahrendorf wrote multiple articles and books, his most notable being Class Conflict in Industrial Society (1959) and Essays in the Theory of Society (1968).

Florence Ogilvy Bell, later Florence Sawyer, was a British scientist who contributed to the discovery of the structure of DNA. She was an X-ray crystallographer in the lab of William Astbury. In 1938 they published a paper in Nature that described the structure of DNA as a "Pile of Pennies".

Maya Kuliyeva was a Turkmeni operatic soprano and actress of the Soviet era.