List of Famous people born on May 5th

William Dickson was an American politician who represented Tennessee in the United States House of Representatives 1801 to 1807.

John Porter East was a Republican U.S. senator from the state of North Carolina from 1981 until his suicide in 1986.

António Almeida Henriques was a Portuguese politician and lawyer. A member of the Social Democratic Party, he served as Mayor of Viseu from 2013 until his death in 2021, and as a member of the Assembly of the Republic from 2002 to 2011. He served as Deputy State Secretary for Economy and Regional Development in the XIX Constitutional Government of Portugal from 2011 to 2013. He was also vice-president of the Confederação da Indústria Portuguesa from 2005 to 2010.

Mitsunari Okamoto is a Japanese politician from Komeito who represents Tokyo's 12th district in the House of Representatives.

Guillaume Connesson is a French composer born in 1970 in Boulogne-Billancourt.

Sir Gordon Richards was an English jockey. He was the British flat racing Champion Jockey 26 times and is often considered the world's greatest jockey ever. He remains the only flat jockey to have been knighted.