List of Famous people born on May 12nd

Naohiro Ishikawa is a former Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team.

Masaaki Higashiguchi is a Japanese footballer who currently plays for Gamba Osaka and the Japan national football team as a goalkeeper. He previously played for Albirex Niigata.

Viktor Petrovich Tomenko, is a Russian statesman who is currently Governor of Altai Krai, elected 17 September 2018.

Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin was a Nobel Prize-winning British chemist who advanced the technique of X-ray crystallography to determine the structure of biomolecules, which became an essential tool in structural biology.

Manuel Godoy y Álvarez de Faria, Prince of the Peace, 1st Duke of Alcudia, 1st Duke of Sueca, 1st Baron of Mascalbó was First Secretary of State of Spain from 1792 to 1797 and from 1801 to 1808. He received many titles, including príncipe de la Paz, by which he is widely known. He is best known for his diplomacy with Napoleon.

Marco Denev was an Argentine author of novels and short stories, as well as a lawyer and journalist. His work is characterized by its originality and depth, as well as a criticism of human incompetence. His first work, a mystery novel titled Rosaura a las diez (1955), was a Kraft award winner and a bestseller. In 1964, it was translated into English as Rosa at Ten O'Clock. Other famous works of his include Los expedientes (1957), Ceremonia Secreta (1960), El cuarto de la noche (1962), and Falsificaciones (1966).

Peggy Sastre is a French journalist. She is also a Doctor of Philosophy and a specialist on Nietzsche and Darwin.

Takashi Kondō is a Japanese voice actor represented by Vi-vo. He is known for providing the voice of the video game character Terry Bogard, which he has done since 2016, starting with The King of Fighters XIV.

Aaron Yoo is a Korean American actor. He is best known for appearing in the films Disturbia (2007), 21 (2008) and Friday the 13th (2009) as well as playing Russell Kwon in the sci-fi series The Tomorrow People (2013–14).

Jean-Baptiste Henri-Dominique Lacordaire, often styled Henri-Dominique Lacordaire, was a French ecclesiastic, preacher, journalist, theologian and political activist. He re-established the Dominican Order in post-Revolutionary France. Lacordaire was reputed to be the greatest pulpit orator of the nineteenth century.