List of Famous people born on May 5th

Hiroshi Hase is a Japanese politician who served as the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology under Prime Minister Shinzō Abe. Prior to his appointment in the Cabinet, he also served as a member of the House of Representatives of the National Diet, representing the 1st district of Ishikawa Prefecture.

Nicolas Demorand is a French journalist who works as a producer, host and editor of French public radio station France Inter. He was the executive editor of French daily Libération from 2011 to 2014.

Delia Ann Derbyshire was an English musician and composer of electronic music. She carried out pioneering work with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop during the 1960s, including her electronic arrangement of the theme music to the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who. She has been referred to as "the unsung heroine of British electronic music", having influenced musicians including Aphex Twin, the Chemical Brothers and Paul Hartnoll of Orbital.

Mattia Caldara is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a centre back for Serie A club Atalanta, on loan from Milan, and the Italy national team.

William Horace de Vere Cole was an eccentric prankster born in Ballincollig, County Cork, Ireland. His most famous prank was the Dreadnought hoax where he and several others, pretending to be an Abyssinian prince and his entourage, were given a tour of the Royal Navy ship HMS Dreadnought.

Hideki Irabu was a Japanese professional baseball player of American and Japanese mixed ancestry. He played professionally in both Japan and the United States. Irabu left Japan for the San Diego Padres under a controversial deal that would lead to future changes. In 1997, he joined the New York Yankees to much fanfare; however, he was ultimately unsuccessful in the MLB. Due to the money and players spent to get him, and his eventual lack of success, Yankee fans sometimes joked his name was I-rob-you. Irabu died by suicide in 2011.

Bernard Pivot is a French journalist, interviewer and host of cultural television programmes. He has been Chairman of the Académie Goncourt since 2014.

Yuma Kagiyama is a Japanese figure skater. He is the 2021 World silver medalist, the 2020 Four Continents bronze medalist, the 2020 Youth Olympic champion, the 2020 World Junior silver medalist, the 2019–20 Japanese junior national champion, and the 2019–20 and 2020-21 Japanese national bronze medalist.

Lynsi Lavelle Snyder-Ellingson is an American billionaire businesswoman, the owner and heiress of the In-N-Out Burger company. She is the only child of Lynda and H. Guy Snyder and the only grandchild of Harry and Esther Snyder, who founded In-N-Out in 1948.

Jean Pierre Noher is a French-born Argentine actor.