List of Famous people born on May 5th

Denys Berinchyk is a Ukrainian professional boxer. As an amateur, he won silver medals in the light-welterweight division at the 2011 World Championships and the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Lee Na-eun is a South Korean singer and actress. She is a member of South Korean girl group April. Besides from her group's activities, Naeun also has roles in A-Teen (2018), A-Teen 2 (2019) and Extraordinary You (2019). She has been a host of SBS Inkigayo since October 2019 together alongside with Jaehyun of NCT and Minhyuk of Monsta X.

Yataro Tsuda is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet. A native of Takayama, Gifu, he was elected for the first time in 2004.

Yasuhiro Higuchi is a former Japanese football player and manager.

Heike Henkel is a German former athlete competing in high jump. She was Olympic, World and European champion. She won the high jump gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.

Sophie Charlotte Elisabeth Ursinus was a German serial killer believed to have been responsible for poisoning her husband, aunt, and lover, and of attempting to poison her servant. Her trial led to a method of identifying arsenic poisoning.

Frédéric Gérard Saldmann is a French cardiologist and physician of preventive medicine at the Hôpital Européen Georges-Pompidou. He has treated many actors, businessmen and politicians, including French President François Hollande. Through his consulting firm Sprim, he has advised The Coca-Cola Company, Danone and Nestlé on diet and gluten-free products. He is the author of twelve books on preventive medicine.

Jorge "Jordi" Llopart Ribas was a Spanish race walker.

Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher, theologian, poet, social critic, and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher. He wrote critical texts on organized religion, Christendom, morality, ethics, psychology, and the philosophy of religion, displaying a fondness for metaphor, irony, and parables. Much of his philosophical work deals with the issues of how one lives as a "single individual", giving priority to concrete human reality over abstract thinking and highlighting the importance of personal choice and commitment. He was against literary critics who defined idealist intellectuals and philosophers of his time, and thought that Swedenborg, Hegel, Fichte, Schelling, Schlegel, and Hans Christian Andersen were all "understood" far too quickly by "scholars".

Robert Spaemann was a German Catholic philosopher. He is considered a member of the Ritter School.