List of Famous people born on May 1st

Espen Barth Eide is a Norwegian politician and political scientist. He is Member of the Norwegian Parliament for 2017–2021, representing the Norwegian Labour Party. He was elected to this post in the Norwegian Parliamentary Election on 11 September 2017.

Samuel Wensley Blackall was an Irish soldier and politician, who was the second Governor of Queensland from 1868 until he died in office in 1871.

Laila Soueif is an Egyptian human and women's rights activist, a mathematician and professor at Cairo University. Al Jazeera has called her "an Egyptian revolutionary". She is the widow of fellow activist Ahmed Seif El-Islam, and all three of their children are noted activists: Alaa Abd El-Fattah, Sanaa Seif, and Mona Seif. Her sister is the novelist Ahdaf Soueif.

Hugues-Bernard Maret, 1st Duc de Bassano, was a French statesman, diplomat and journalist.

David T. Friendly is an American film producer best known for co-producing the 2006 film Little Miss Sunshine, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.

John Meredyth Lucas was an American writer, director and producer, primarily for television.

Albert Victor Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough,, was a British Labour Co-operative politician. He was three times First Lord of the Admiralty, including during the Second World War, and then Minister of Defence under Clement Attlee.