List of Famous people born on May 8th
Tommaso Ciampa
Tommaso Whitney is an American professional wrestler currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the NXT brand under the ring name Tommaso Ciampa.
Madhu Mantena
Madhu Varma Mantena is an Indian film producer and entrepreneur involved in the production and distribution of films across Hindi, Telugu, and Bengali cinema. In 2008, Madhu Mantena co-produced Ghajini (2008) which was the highest grossing Indian film for that year. Since then Madhu has produced films such as the trilingual sleeper-hit Rakht Charitra (2010), the political thriller Rann (2010) screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, and the Bengali hit Autograph.
Trisha Paytas
Trisha Kay Paytas is an American media personality, YouTuber, model, and singer. Born in Riverside, California, Paytas was raised in Illinois before relocating to Los Angeles in her teens. After moving, she became a stripper and began acting on the side, primarily as an extra. She went on to appear in a number of music videos for artists including Eminem, Amy Winehouse and The All-American Rejects. In 2006, Paytas created blndsundoll4mj, a lifestyle-oriented YouTube vlog channel, and in 2014, she created a companion' channel, TrishasLife, later Trisha Paytas, which featured personal vlog videos. Following the success of several viral videos, Paytas garnered a significant following on her main channel, reaching 100,000 subscribers in 2012 and 1,000,000 in 2014. As of May 2020, she has accumulated roughly 4.88 million subscribers and roughly 1.7 billion lifetime views.
Jordyn Huitema
Jordyn Pamela Huitema is a Canadian professional footballer who plays as a forward for French Division 1 Féminine club Paris Saint-Germain and the Canada national team. Having scored her first national team goal at the age of 16, she became the top Canadian scorer in the history of the UEFA Women's Champions League before she turned 20, and has been named as a potential heir to Canadian legend Christine Sinclair.
Mike D'Antoni
Michael Andrew D'Antoni is an American professional basketball coach and former player who is an assistant coach for the Brooklyn Nets of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Rebeca Andrade
Rebeca Andrade de Rodrigues is an artistic gymnast who represented Brazil at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Vadim Garbuzov
Vadim Garbuzov is a Canadian and Austrian ballroom dancer, showman and choreographer of Ukrainian descent. He was the ten-dance world semi-finalist 2006 in amateurs, the winner of the Austrian TV program Dancing Stars in 2012, 2014 and 2020, and professional world champion in Latin and Standard show dance 2015-2017.
Toni Tennille
Cathryn Antoinette "Toni" Tennille is an American singer-songwriter and keyboardist, best known as one-half of the 1970s duo Captain & Tennille with her former husband Daryl Dragon; their signature song is "Love Will Keep Us Together". Tennille has also done some musical work independently of her husband, including solo albums and session work.
Potap
Potap is a Ukrainian producer, songwriter, composer, performer, director, scriptwriter, TV presenter, master of sports at water polo, coach and mentor of the vocal show on 1+1 “The Voice”. Has been involved as a performer and/or producer of such iconic music acts as “Potap y Nastya”, “Vremya I Steklo”, MOZGI and many more releasing over 300 songs the vast majority of which became international hits.
Aubrey Dawkins
Aubrey Lafell Dawkins is an American basketball player for BG Göttingen of the Basketball Bundesliga. He played college basketball for the UCF Knights. He transferred to UCF after he completed his sophomore season for the 2015–16 Michigan Wolverines. He is the son of Johnny Dawkins who became the UCF coach following the 2015–16 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. Dawkins was raised in North Carolina until spending his high school years in Northern California at St. Francis High School and Palo Alto High School and a post graduate year in New England at New Hampton Prep. As a collegiate freshman for the 2014–15 Wolverines, he began the season on the bench, but became a starter when injuries plagued the team in January 2015. In his more prominent role later in the season, Dawkins led the 2014–15 Big Ten Conference in effective field goal percentage and true shooting percentage during conference play.