List of Famous people born on May 8th

Jumpei Takahashi is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.

Li Xiaoran is a Chinese actress. She graduated from Beijing Dance Academy at the age of 17, and was the only dancer recruited into the Oriental Song and Dance Troupe from Beijing.

José de Jesús Arellano Alcocer, is a retired Mexican football player. He last played for CF Monterrey in the Primera División de México, with whom he has played most of his career.

Yasuko Tajima is a former medley swimmer from Japan. She won the silver medal in the 400m Individual Medley at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.

Takanori Hoshino is a Japanese voice actor. He is best known for his role as Jack Atlas in Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's.

Kōta Kagami , known professionally as K Dub Shine, is a Japanese rapper.

Michel Gondry is a French director, screenwriter, and producer noted for his inventive visual style and distinctive manipulation of mise en scène. He won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay as one of the writers of the 2004 film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, a film he also directed.

Sylvain Cossette is a French-Canadian singer-songwriter from Grand-Mère, Quebec. Sylvain was a founding member of the Quebec-based English language band Paradox in 1984, before becoming a French language solo artist by 1994.

Martha Wainwright is a Canadian-American folk-rock singer-songwriter.

Arkady Viktotovich Bakhin is a retired military officer of the Russian Federation with the rank of General of the Army.