List of Famous people born on May 15th
Reinhard Löffler
Dmitry Lanskoy
Philipp Murmann
Philipp Murmann is a German businessman and politician. He is a member of the CDU party. Murmann is also federal treasurer of the CDU and thus a federal board member of the party. Between 2009 and 2017, he was an MP of the German Bundestag.
Peter Strieder
Chase Hudson
Cole Chase Hudson, also known as Lil Huddy, is an Internet celebrity known for his relationship with Charli D’Amelio and as one of the co-founders of the TikTok collective known as the Hype House. According to Billboard, he is one of the top 10 music influencers on TikTok, with over 20 million followers, and one of the most influential people on the platform. Hudson is known for popularizing the e-boy style.
Jan van Hooff
Johan Antoon Reinier Alex Maria van Hooff is a Dutch biologist best known for his research involving primates. He was professor of comparative physiology at Utrecht University from 1980 to 2001.
S. Hareesh
S. Hareesh is an Indian writer, translator and screenwriter of Malayalam literature and cinema. He is best known for his short stories and his acclaimed but controversial debut novel, Meesa, which explores caste in Kerala in the mid-20th century. The novel, initially serialized in the Mathrubhumi weekly, was withdrawn after protests by right-wing Hindutva groups and caste-community organizations for “maligning Hindu women and temple priests.”. It was later published as a full novel by DC Books. Hareesh is the recipient of several honours including the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Novel and the Geetha Hiranyan Endowment of the Kerala Sahitya Akademi. In November 2020, the English translation of Meesa, titled Moustache, was selected for the JCB Prize for Literature, the Indian literary award with the highest prize money.
Johannes Vogel
Johannes Christian Vogel FLS FAAAS is a German botanist, who since 1 February 2012 has been Director General of the Museum für Naturkunde and Professor of Biodiversity and Public Science at Humboldt University, both in Berlin. He previously held the post of Keeper of Botany at the Natural History Museum in the United Kingdom from 2004 to 2012.