List of Famous people born on May 12nd

Johan Frederik (Frits) Nikolai Vermehren, also known as Frederik Vermehren, a genre and portrait painter in the realist style.

Pauline Lapointe was a Canadian film and television actress and singer from Quebec. She was most noted for her performance in the 1993 film La Florida, for which she garnered a Genie Award nomination for Best Actress at the 14th Genie Awards.

William Maurice "Doc" Ewing was an American geophysicist and oceanographer.

James Edward Caulfeild, 8th Viscount Charlemont, PC (NI), DL was an Irish Peer, elected to the British House of Lords as a Representative Peer and to the Parliament of Northern Ireland as a Senator. He sat in Stormont's upper house from 1925 to 1937 and was Minister for Education for all but the first of his years.

Guy Davis is an American blues guitarist, banjo player, and actor. He is the second child and the only son of the actors Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis.