List of Famous people born on May 5th

Alla Kostyantynivna Cherkasova is a Ukrainian wrestler. Competing in the 67 kg category, she is the 2010 World bronze medalist and 2012 European silver medalist. She competed in women's freestyle 75 kg at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. She won one of the bronze medals in the women's 68 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan.

Isaac Humala Núñez is a labour lawyer from Ayacucho and the ideological leader of the Movimiento Etnocacerista, a group of ethnic nationalists in Peru. He is a former communist leader who served as the model for a colourful character in Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa's novel "Conversation in the Cathedral." He was Vargas Llosa's teacher of Marxism-Leninism when the writer became a member of a university communist cell.

Commodore Dacre Henry Deudraeth Smyth, was a senior officer in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), an artist and a poet. He joined the RAN in 1940, and participated in the D-Day landings and the Battle of the Coral Sea before retiring as a commodore in 1978.