List of Famous people born on May 16th

Thomas William Edward Coke, 5th Earl of Leicester MVO GOC DL, was a British peer.

Charles Cecil John Manners, 6th Duke of Rutland KG, styled Marquess of Granby before 1857, was an English Conservative politician.

Walter Edward Grimston was an English amateur cricketer.

Anette Hoff is a Norwegian actress. She has played hotel manager Juni Anker-Hansen in Hotel Cæsar since 1998. In autumn 2005, spring 2010 and autumn 2011 she took breaks to play on stage. During the 2010 break, she left the show in April 2010 and returned in December 2010. Hoff is as of 2020 the longest serving television soap opera actor in Norway.

Adrienne Cecile Rich was an American poet, essayist and feminist. She was called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century", and was credited with bringing "the oppression of women and lesbians to the forefront of poetic discourse." Rich criticized rigid forms of feminist identities, and valorized what she coined the "lesbian continuum," which is a female continuum of solidarity and creativity that impacts and fills women's lives.

Margono Djojohadikusumo was an Indonesian politician and banker. He was the founder and the first president of Bank Negara Indonesia, and was also a member of the Investigating Committee for Preparatory Work for Independence.