List of Famous people born on May 9th
Tracy Brabin
Tracy Lynn Brabin is a British actor and Labour and Co-operative politician, who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Batley and Spen since October 2016, following a by-election after the murder of Jo Cox. She was appointed as Shadow Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport by Jeremy Corbyn in January 2020, succeeding former Deputy Labour Leader Tom Watson. In April 2020, new Labour Leader Keir Starmer appointed her Shadow Minister for Cultural Industries.
Nemanja Bjelica
Nemanja Bjelica is a Serbian professional basketball player for the Sacramento Kings of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He also represents the senior Serbian national basketball team internationally. Bjelica was an All-Euroleague First Team selection as well as the Euroleague MVP in 2015. Bjelica started his NBA career as a 27-year-old rookie which he signed in 2015 and previously played for the Timberwolves for 3 seasons before signing with the Kings in 2018 offseason.
Billy Joel
William Martin Joel is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and composer. Commonly nicknamed the "Piano Man" after his first major hit and signature song of the same name, he has led a commercially successful career as a solo artist since the 1970s, having released 12 studio albums from 1971 to 1993 as well as one studio album in 2001. He is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, as well as the sixth best-selling recording artist and the third best-selling solo artist in the United States, with over 150 million records sold worldwide. His 1985 compilation album, Greatest Hits Vol. 1 & 2, is one of the best-selling albums in the US.
Jace Peterson
Jace Ryan Peterson is an American professional baseball second baseman for the Milwaukee Brewers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously played in MLB for the San Diego Padres, Atlanta Braves, New York Yankees, and Baltimore Orioles.
Trey Lance
Trey Lance is an American football quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at North Dakota State and was selected third overall by the 49ers in the 2021 NFL Draft.
Hardy Krüger Jr.
Hardy Krüger Jr. is a German actor. He is the son of the German actor-writer Hardy Krüger and the Italian painter Francesca Marazzi.
Anil Deshmukh
Anil Vasantrao Deshmukh is an Indian politician from the Nationalist Congress Party, and has been Member of 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th and 14th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly, representing Katol. At present, he serves as Cabinet Minister for Home Affairs in the Maharashtra state government led by Chief minister Uddhav Thackeray.
Sophie Scholl
Sophia Magdalena Scholl was a German student and anti-Nazi political activist, active within the White Rose non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany.
Ryūhei Matsuda
Ryuhei Matsuda is a Japanese film and television actor. Matsuda's best known film roles include the young and desirable samurai Sōzaburō Kanō in Taboo and the rock star Ren Honjo in Nana.
Richard Moore
Richard Peter Moore, is a British civil servant, currently the Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) and formerly the Director General, Political, at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. He was the first member of the British secret service to openly use Twitter, when on 2 October 2020 his tweets from his first day as Chief of MI6 made the news for their humorous hashtags and emojis. He was previously the British Ambassador to Turkey.