List of Famous people born on May 5th
Lyne Catherine Jeanne Chardonnet
Lyne Catherine Jeanne Chardonnet was a French actress. She appeared in more than forty films from 1966 to 1981.
Vitor Faverani
Vítor Luiz Faverani Tatsch is a Brazilian former professional basketball player who last played for Delteco GBC of the Liga ACB. He has also represented Brazil in international competition and holds a Spanish passport.
Anatoly Artamonov
Anatoly Dmitriyevich Artamonov is Russian politician, former governor of Kaluga Oblast. In November, 1996, Artamonov was elected vice-governor of the Kaluga region. On November 12, 2000 he was elected governor of the Kaluga region with 56.72% of the vote; and re-elected on March 14, 2004 with 66.86% of the vote. On July 21, 2005, President Vladimir Putin nominated Artamonov to retain his position; the nomination was confirmed by the Kaluga duma on July 26. In 2002, Artamonov was named governor of the year by the Russian Biographical Institute.
Hans-Günther Thalheim
Hans-Günther Thalheim was a German professor of German language and linguistics and of Literary sciences. He was also a writer and literary editor.
Dimitris Tsatsos
Dimitris Th. Tsatsos was a Greek legal scholar and former Member of the European Parliament. He was the son of the politician and lawyer Themistoklis Tsatsos (1906–1971) and a nephew of former President of Greece Konstantinos Tsatsos (1899–1987). He was the brother of Constantine Tsatsos and Annita Alevras.
María Belén Toimil
María Belén Toimil Fernández is a Spanish athlete specialising in the shot put. She represented her country at the 2017 World Championships without qualifying for the final.
Jaime Rosenthal
Jaime Rolando Rosenthal Oliva was a Honduran politician, and leader of one of Liberal Party of Honduras's (PLH) wings, and was a perennial candidate for President. On March 20, 1974 he founded the Banco Continental. On October 7, 2015, Rosenthal was labeled a "specially designated narcotics trafficker" under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act.
Andy Tsang
Andy Tsang Wai-hung is the current Deputy Director of the National Narcotics Control Commission of the Ministry of Public Security of China. He was former Commissioner of the Hong Kong Police Force until 4 May 2015. In November 2019, he missed out a top posting with the United Nations despite the strong support from the People's Republic of China.
Michel Zink
Michel Zink is a French writer, medievalist, philologist, and professor of French literature, particularly that of the Middle Ages. He is the Permanent Secretary of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, a title he has held since 2011, and was elected to the Académie française in 2017. In addition to his academic work, he has also written historical crime novels, one of which continues the story of Arsène Lupin.
Yigong Shi
Shi Yigong is a Chinese biophysicist in the field of protein X-ray crystallography. He was the Dean of School of Life Sciences of Tsinghua University, and has been the first President of Westlake University since April 2018.