List of Famous people born on May 1st

Edgar Miguel Ié is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays for Turkish club Trabzonspor primarily as a central defender but also as a right back.

Saidi Ntibazonkiza is a Burundian footballer who plays as a winger for Yanga and the Burundi national team.

Maximiliano Joel Falcón Picart is a Uruguayan footballer who plays as a defender for Colo-Colo in the Chilean Primera División.

Makoto Niwano is a Japanese manga artist known for several works, including The Momotaroh, Bomber Girl and Jinnairyū Jyūjyutsu Butouden Majimakun Suttobasu!!. Niwano has also written a manga adaptation of Deltora Quest which was adapted into an anime series, and was a mentor to Takeshi Obata of Hikaru no Go and Death Note fame.

Diego Hernán Valeri is an Argentine footballer who currently plays as an attacking midfielder for MLS club Portland Timbers. Valeri played on the Lanús team that won Argentina's 2007 Apertura and the Porto team that won the 2009–10 Portuguese Cup.

Awa Diop was a Senegalese politician and an early militant of the Senegalese Democratic Party (PDS). She was a deputy in the National Assembly and a minister under the presidency of Abdoulaye Wade.

Leonardo Rodríguez Alcaine was a Mexican trade union leader and a long-serving legislator of the Institutional Revolutionary Party. He presided over the Confederation of Mexican Workers (CTM) from July 21, 1997, until his death at the age of 86.

John David FitzGerald, Baron FitzGerald, PC, PC (Ire) was an Irish judge and Liberal politician.

Akito Fukuta is a Japanese football player for Albirex Niigata.

Yuri Khachaturov is a former Secretary-General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and former Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Armenia.