List of Famous people born on May 15th
Diane Nash
Diane Judith Nash is an American civil rights activist, and a leader and strategist of the student wing of the Civil Rights Movement.
Ilia Calderón
Ilia Calderón Chamat is a Colombian journalist. Born in Chocó, Calderón currently works as the news anchor for Univision's national evening newscast along with Jorge Ramos.
Layal Abboud
Layal Mounir Abboud is a Lebanese pop singer, folk music entertainer, sound-lyric poet, concert dancer, fit model and Muslim humanitarian.
Monique Pinçon-Charlot
Monique Pinçon-Charlot is a French sociologist, research director at CNRS until 2007, year of her retiring, attached to the Research Institute on Contemporary Societies/ l'Institut de recherche sur les sociétés contemporaines (IRESCO).
André Abujamra
André Cibelli Abujamra is a Brazilian score composer, musician, singer, guitarist, actor, and comedian of Lebanese and Italian origin. His father, Antônio Abujamra, was also an actor.
Laurence Boone
Laurence Boone is a French economist whose fields of interest include macroeconomics, European politics and public finance. She served as an economic advisor to the President of the French Republic between July 2014 and March 2016 under François Hollande's presidency.
Narsing Yadav
Narsing Yadav was an Indian film actor known for his comic villain roles. He acted in more than 300 films predominantly in Telugu, in additon to Hindi and Tamil languages. He debuted as a small character artist and was primarily cast as a villain and comedy actor. He died on 31 December 2020 from kidney-related ailments.
Anatoly Antonov
Anatoly Ivanovich Antonov is a Russian politician, military officer and diplomat who is currently the Ambassador of Russia to the United States, formally replacing Sergey Kislyak on 21 August 2017 by presidential decree. With a reputation as a hardliner and tough negotiator, Antonov took up his post in Washington, D.C. on 1 September 2017. He was formerly Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Minister of Defence. Since 2015, he has been under sanctions of the European Union and Canada, in response to Russia's military intervention in Ukraine.
Laura Codruța Kövesi
Laura Codruța Kövesi is the first European Chief Prosecutor and the former chief prosecutor of Romania's National Anticorruption Directorate, a position she held from 2013 until she was fired on the order of Justice Minister Tudorel Toader on 9 July 2018. Prior to this, between 2006 and 2012 Kövesi was the Prosecutor General of Romania, attached to the High Court of Cassation and Justice.
Yang Chiu-hsing
Yang Chiu-hsing is a Taiwanese politician. He was a Minister without Portfolio in the Executive Yuan and Magistrate of Kaohsiung County.