List of Famous people born on May 12nd

Luigi Vanvitelli, known in Dutch as Lodewijk van Wittel, was an Italian engineer and architect. The most prominent 18th-century architect of Italy, he practised a sober classicising academic Late Baroque style that made an easy transition to Neoclassicism.

Peter Joseph Salett is an American singer-songwriter. He is best known as a musician for his song "Heart of Mine" in the movie Keeping the Faith, his song score for the 2006 film Down in the Valley, and for co-writing the Dracula puppet musical finale, "A Taste for Love", in the Judd Apatow produced film, Forgetting Sarah Marshall.

Cristián Monckeberg Bruner is a Chilean lawyer and politician. He was deputy for the 2006–2018 period, president of Renovación Nacional (2014–2018), three–time minister during the second government of the President Sebastián Piñera (2018–2022) and Constituent Conventional of the Republic of Chile.

Joseph Lloyd Dombrowski is an American professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam UAE Team Emirates. A professional since 2011, Dombrowski has also competed for Bontrager–Livestrong, Team Sky and EF Education First.

Mario Torelli was an Italian scholar of Italic archaeology and the culture of the Etruscans. He taught at the University of Perugia.

David Kostelecký is a male Czech sports shooter. He won the gold medal in the Men's Trap event at the 2008 Summer Olympics. He also finished second in the 2006 ISSF World Cup final.

Gregory Harold "Box" Johnson is a NASA astronaut and a retired colonel in the United States Air Force. Johnson is a veteran of two space flights, STS-123 and STS-134. He served as pilot on his first mission, which delivered the Kibo logistics module and the Dextre robot arm to the International Space Station. Johnson was also assigned as the pilot to the STS-134 mission, which launched on May 16, 2011 and landed on June 1, 2011. Greg Johnson has also served in numerous roles for NASA including as a Capcom for several missions. At present time Gregory H. Johnson is the President and Executive Director for the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS).

Richard Boyle, 4th Earl of Shannon, styled Viscount Boyle until 1842, was a British politician of the Whig party. He served as Member of Parliament for Cork County from 1830 to 1832.

Deborah Warner is a British director of theatre and opera, known for her interpretations of the works of Shakespeare, Bertolt Brecht, Benjamin Britten, and Henrik Ibsen.