List of Famous people born on May 12nd

Ariana Mamiko Miyamoto is a Japanese model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Universe Japan 2015. She represented Japan at the Miss Universe 2015 pageant and was placed Top 10. She was the first hafu (mixed) woman to be Miss Japan.

Kieron Adrian Pollard is a Trinidadian cricketer. He captains the West Indies cricket team in limited overs cricket. An aggressive all-rounder, Pollard is a medium-pace bowler and big-hitting batsman in the middle-order. After shining during the 2009 Champions League, he was signed by both the Southern Redbacks and Somerset for their domestic Twenty20 campaigns. He was the joint highest paid player in the 2010 Indian Premier League, playing for Mumbai Indians.

Otto Heinrich Frank was a German businessman who later became a resident of the Netherlands and Switzerland. He was the father of Anne and Margot Frank and husband of Edith Frank-Holländer, and was the sole member of his family to survive the Holocaust. He inherited Anne's manuscripts after her death, arranged for the publication of her diary as The Diary of a Young Girl in 1947, and oversaw its adaptation to both theater and film.

Asmik Grigorian is an Armenian-Lithuanian operatic soprano.

Muzaffar Iqbāl is a Pakistani-Canadian Islamic scholar and author. Iqbal earned his doctorate (1983) in Chemistry from the University of Saskatchewan and then left the field of experimental science to devote himself fully to his chosen fields: literature, history, philosophy, Islamic intellectual and spiritual traditions. Between 1984 and 1990, he taught Urdu at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1984–85), wrote two acclaimed novels in Urdu, Inkhila (Uprooting) and Inqta (Severance). During 1980 and 1990, he published a number of translations of poetry of Latin American poets and wrote a series of literary essays on American and South American writers including Herman Melville, Nabokov, Borges, Pablo Neruda, and Garcia Marquez. He also wrote on literary theory.

Catherine Jane Ford, known professionally as Catherine Tate, is an English actress, comedian and writer. She has won numerous awards for her work on the BBC sketch comedy series The Catherine Tate Show (2004–2007), as well as being nominated for an International Emmy Award and seven BAFTAs. Tate played Donna Noble in the 2006 Christmas special of Doctor Who, and later reprised her role, becoming the Tenth Doctor's regular companion for the fourth series in 2008.

Stephen Lawrence Winwood is an English singer, songwriter and musician whose genres include progressive rock, blue-eyed soul, rhythm and blues, blues rock, pop rock, and jazz. Though primarily a vocalist and keyboard player, Winwood also plays a wide variety of other instruments; on several of his solo albums he has played all instrumentation, including drums, mandolin, guitars, bass and saxophone.

Victoria Dayneko is a singer, songwriter, and actress. In 2004, she started her career in Russia after her victory at the Star Factory-5 All-Russian TV show. Dayneko's songs have topped the Russian charts, and the music video of the "Bei Sebia" song has garnered more than 30 million YouTube views. Dayneko has also won Russian music award Golden Gramophone several times. She was declared as a Singer of the Year by Russian Glamour magazine and by Russian Fashion TV. She has appeared on the Russian Playboy magazine cover three times.

Antony Gordon Hawksworth, MBE, known professionally as Tony Hawks, is a British comedian and author.

Lutz Pfannenstiel is a German former professional football goalkeeper and current football board member. He is the first footballer in the world to belong to a professional football club in each of the six recognised continental associations. From 2010 to 2018, he was an expert on various television channels – including ZDF, BBC, CNN, ORF, SRF, DAZN and Eurosport. Pfannenstiel was appointed sporting director for MLS side St. Louis City SC ahead of their entry to the league in 2023.