List of Famous people born on May 6th

David Joseph Carpenter, a.k.a. The Trailside Killer, is an American serial killer and serial rapist known for stalking and murdering a variety of individuals on hiking trails in state parks near San Francisco, California. Carpenter killed at least ten individuals, with two attempted victims, Steven Haertle and Lois Rinna, the mother of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Lisa Rinna, surviving. He used a .38 caliber handgun in all but one of the killings; a .44 caliber handgun was used in the killing of Edda Kane on Mount Tamalpais.

Giovanna Jazmín Grandón Caro, also known as Tía Pikachu or Baila Pikachu is a Chilean preschool teacher, political activist, and politician. She obtained great attention during the 2019 Chilean protests, mostly due to her wearing a costume of the character Pikachu from the Japanese media franchise Pokémon. On 16 May 2021, she was elected as a member of the assembly that will write the new Chilean constitution as a response to the 2019 protests.

Kyōta Fujiwara is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays outfielder for the Chiba Lotte Marines.

Shamier Anderson is a Canadian actor. He is known for playing U.S. Deputy Marshal Xavier Dolls on the television series Wynonna Earp.

Kavan Joel Smith is a Canadian actor known for playing Major Evan Lorne in Stargate Atlantis and Stargate SG-1, as Agent Jed Garrity in The 4400, and as Leland Coulter in When Calls the Heart.

Craig Dawson is an English professional footballer who plays as a defender for Premier League club West Ham United, on loan from Watford. He has previously played for Radcliffe Borough, Bolton Wanderers, Rochdale and West Bromwich Albion.

Lynn Whitfield is an American actress. She began her acting career in television and theatre before progressing to supporting roles in film. She won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie and received a Golden Globe Award nomination for her breakout performance as Josephine Baker in the HBO biographical film The Josephine Baker Story (1991).

Xie Na, also known as "Nana," is a Chinese host, singer and actress. She is famous for co-hosting the Hunan Satellite TV program Happy Camp with fellow hosts He Jiong, Li Weijia, Du Haitao, and Wu Xin. She graduated from Sichuan Normal University, where she majored in performance. She has over one hundred million followers on Weibo as of April 2018, making her one of the most widely followed celebrities in China.

Chiaki Mukai is a Japanese physician and JAXA astronaut. She was the first Japanese woman in space, the first Japanese citizen to have two spaceflights, and the first Asian woman in space. Both were Space Shuttle missions; her first was STS-65 aboard Space Shuttle Columbia in July 1994, which was a Spacelab mission. Her second spaceflight was STS-95 aboard Space Shuttle Discovery in 1998. In total she has spent 23 days in space.

Takashi Usami is a Japanese footballer who plays for Gamba Osaka in the J1 League. He plays as an attacking midfielder, second striker or winger.