List of Famous people born on May 6th

Bernhard Nebel, born on 6 May 1956, is a German Artificial Intelligence scientist. He is a full professor at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg where he holds the chair for foundations of Artificial Intelligence.

James Turrell is an American artist known for his work within the Light and Space movement. Much of Turrell's career has been devoted to a still-unfinished work, Roden Crater, a natural cinder cone crater located outside Flagstaff, Arizona, that he is turning into a massive naked-eye observatory; and for his series of skyspaces, enclosed spaces that frame the sky.

Rebecca Frayn is an English documentary film maker, screenwriter, novelist and actress.

Paul Linke is an American actor, known for his role as Officer Arthur "Artie" Grossman in the television series CHiPs. Linke has worked in film and extensively in television, mostly portraying mild-mannered everyman roles.

David Cornell Leestma is a former American astronaut and retired Captain in the United States Navy.

Sy-David Friedman is an American and Austrian mathematician and a (retired) professor of mathematics at the University of Vienna and the former director of the Kurt Gödel Research Center for Mathematical Logic. His main research interest lies in mathematical logic, in particular in set theory and recursion theory.

Michael Löwy is a French-Brazilian Marxist sociologist and philosopher. He is emeritus research director in social sciences at the CNRS and lectures at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales. Author of books on Karl Marx, Che Guevara, Liberation Theology, György Lukács, Walter Benjamin, Lucien Goldmann and Franz Kafka, he received the CNRS Silver Medal in 1994.