List of Famous people born on May 2nd

James Stratton Holmes was an American-Dutch poet, translator, and translation scholar. He sometimes published his work using his real name James S. Holmes, and other times the pen names Jim Holmes and Jacob Lowland. In 1956 he was the first non-Dutch translator to receive the prestigious Martinus Nijhoff Award, the most important recognition given to translators of creative texts from or into Dutch.

William Bakewell was an American actor who achieved his greatest fame as one of the leading juvenile performers of the late 1920s and early 1930s.

Alan Marshall, was an Australian writer, story teller, humanist and social documenter.

Willi Bredel was a German writer and president of the DDR Academy of Arts, Berlin. Born in Hamburg, he was a pioneer of socialist realist literature.

Thaddeus O'Sullivan is an Irish director, cinematographer, and screenwriter.

Gotthold Schwarz is a German bass-baritone singer and conductor. Based in Leipzig, he started as a member of the Thomanerchor and has conducted the Gewandhausorchester. He is the 17th Thomaskantor after Johann Sebastian Bach.