List of Famous people born on May 3rd
Alex Iwobi
Alexander Chuka Iwobi is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays as a winger and forward for Premier League club Everton and the Nigeria national team.
Natalya Andrejchenko
Natalya Eduardovna Andreychenko is a Russian actress. Her most famous roles include the title character in Mary Poppins, Goodbye and Lyuba in Wartime Romance. She has the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1984)
Demetress Bell
Demetress Carte Bell is a former American football offensive tackle. After playing college football for Northwestern State, he was drafted by the Buffalo Bills in the seventh round of the 2008 NFL Draft. He played for the Bills for four seasons and one season in Philadelphia. Impressively, Bell made the NFL and played for half a decade without ever having played a down of high school football, or having gone to college with the intent of playing football. He is the son of former basketball star Karl Malone.
Father John Misty
Joshua Michael Tillman, better known by his stage name Father John Misty, is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and record producer. He has also performed and released studio albums under the name J. Tillman.
Katinka Hosszú
Katinka Hosszú is a Hungarian competitive swimmer specialized in individual medley events. She is a three-time Olympic champion and a nine-time long-course world champion. She is owner of a Budapest based swim school and swim club called Iron Swim Budapest, and co-owner and captain of Team Iron, founding member of the International Swimming League.
Monique Luiz
Monique Luiz, also known as "Daisy Girl" or "Peace, Little Girl", is an American former child model best known for starring in the Daisy advertisement, part of the incumbent president Lyndon B. Johnson's re-election campaign. Working under the stage name Monique Cozy, her first commercial came at age two. She appeared in advertisements for various American companies like Kodak, Velveeta and Prudential Insurance. She moved to France in 1975, where she remained until her adulthood, and returned to the US in 1983. She appeared in the 2014 documentary Bombs Away, and was enlisted by the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton to appear in a "sequel" for her presidential campaign against Donald Trump.
Reza Aslan
Reza Aslan is an Iranian-American scholar of religious studies, writer, and television host. A convert to evangelical Christianity from Shia Islam as a youth, Aslan eventually reverted to Islam but continued to write about Christianity. He has written four books on religion: No God but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam, Beyond Fundamentalism: Confronting Religious Extremism in the Age of Globalization, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth and God: A Human History.
Tatyana Tolstaya
Tatyana Nikitichna Tolstaya is a Russian writer, TV host, publicist, novelist, and essayist from the Tolstoy family, known for her fiction and "acerbic essays on contemporary Russian life".
Jaron Lanier
Jaron Zepel Lanier is an American computer philosophy writer, computer scientist, visual artist, and composer of contemporary classical music. Considered a founder of the field of virtual reality, Lanier and Thomas G. Zimmerman left Atari in 1985 to found VPL Research, Inc., the first company to sell VR goggles and Wired Glove. In the late 1990s, Lanier worked on applications for Internet2, and in the 2000s, he was a visiting scholar at Silicon Graphics and various universities. In 2006 he began to work at Microsoft, and from 2009 has worked at Microsoft Research as an Interdisciplinary Scientist.
Mohamed Simakan
Mohamed Simakan is a French professional footballer who plays as a defender for Bundesliga club RB Leipzig.