List of Famous people born on May 5th

Sir John Mackintosh MacLeod, 1st Baronet was a Scottish MP for the Unionist Party. He sat for Glasgow Central from a by-election in 1915 to 1918, and for Glasgow Kelvingrove from 1918 to 1922. He was elected in 1918 as a supporter of David Lloyd George's coalition government.

Aurélien Recoing is a French actor and stage director.

Major general Fei Junlong is a Chinese military pilot and an astronaut. He flew on the second crewed spaceflight of the Shenzhou program.

Roger Overholt Hirson was an American dramatist and screenwriter best known for his books of the Broadway musicals, Pippin, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award, and Walking Happy. He contributed extensively for original television anthology series episodes since the 1950s and also wrote the screenplays or stories for several prominent films such as The Bridge at Remagen (1969).