List of Famous people born on May 2nd

Sir Robert Cotton was an English politician. He sat as a Member of Parliament from 1679 to 1701 and briefly in 1702.

John Moody was an American financial analyst, businessman and investor. He pioneered the rating of bonds and founded Moody's Investors Service. Moody's Manuals are still issued, carrying on the tradition begun by Moody's Manual of Railroads and Corporation Securities and continued by the annual Moody's Analyses of Investments.

Reino Ragnar Lehto served as caretaker Prime Minister of Finland from 1963 to 1964. He then served as governor of Uusimaa province from 1964 until his death on 13 July 1966. Lehto was a lawyer by profession.

John Camel Heenan, also known as the Benicia Boy was an American bare-knuckle prize fighter. Though highly regarded, he had only three formal fights in his career, losing two and drawing one.