List of Famous people born on May 10th

João Henrique Pereira Villaret was a Portuguese actor.

Augustin-Jean Fresnel was a French civil engineer and physicist whose research in optics led to the almost unanimous acceptance of the wave theory of light, excluding any remnant of Newton's corpuscular theory, from the late 1830s  until the end of the 19th century. He is perhaps better known for inventing the catadioptric (reflective/refractive) Fresnel lens and for pioneering the use of "stepped" lenses to extend the visibility of lighthouses, saving countless lives at sea. The simpler dioptric stepped lens, first proposed by Count Buffon  and independently reinvented by Fresnel, is used in screen magnifiers and in condenser lenses for overhead projectors.

Bella Kaufman was an American teacher and author, well known for writing the bestselling 1964 novel Up the Down Staircase.

Adriano Giannini is an Italian actor and voice actor.

John Ernest was a Duke of Saxe-Coburg.