List of Famous people born on May 19th

Barbara Schöne is a German actress. She has more than a hundred credited appearances. Primarily a television actress, she has also appeared in several films including the sports comedy Willi Manages the Whole Thing (1972)

George Dario Marino Franchitti, MBE is a Scottish former racing driver and current motorsport commentator. He is a four time IndyCar Series champion, a three-time winner of the Indianapolis 500 as well as a winner of the 24 Hours of Daytona (2008).

Alexander Dmitryevich Beglov ; born 19 May 1956 in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR ) is a Russian politician. He was appointed acting Governor of Saint Petersburg on 3 October 2018. In the 2019 Saint Petersburg gubernatorial election Beglov won with 64.43% of the votes.

Daniel Yves Alfred Gélin was a French film and television actor.

Hélène Elizabeth Louise Amélie Paula Dolores Poniatowska, known professionally as Elena Poniatowska is a French-born Mexican journalist and author, specializing in works on social and political issues focused on those considered to be disenfranchised especially women and the poor. She was born in Paris to upper-class parents, including her mother whose family fled Mexico during the Mexican Revolution. She left France for Mexico when she was ten to escape the Second World War. When she was eighteen and without a university education, she began writing for the newspaper Excélsior, doing interviews and society columns. Despite the lack of opportunity for women from the 1950s to the 1970s, she wrote about social and political issues in newspapers, books in both fiction and nonfiction form. Her best known work is La noche de Tlatelolco about the repression of the 1968 student protests in Mexico City. Due to her leftwing views, she has been nicknamed "the Red Princess". She is considered to be "Mexico's grande dame of letters" and is still an active writer.

Euclides Gomes Vaz, known as Bebé, is a Portuguese futsal player who plays as a goalkeeper for Leões de Porto Salvo and the Portugal national team.

Lorraine Vivian Hansberry was a playwright and writer. She was the first African-American female author to have a play performed on Broadway. Her best known work, the play A Raisin in the Sun, highlights the lives of Black Americans living under racial segregation in Chicago. The title of the play was taken from the poem "Harlem" by Langston Hughes: "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?" At the age of 29, she won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award — making her the first African-American dramatist, the fifth woman, and the youngest playwright to do so. Hansberry's family had struggled against segregation, challenging a restrictive covenant and eventually provoking the 1940 Supreme Court case Hansberry v. Lee.

Malo Gusto is a French professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Ligue 1 club Lyon.

Sodiq Olamide Yusuff is a Nigerian–American mixed martial artist who competes in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) in the Featherweight division. As of October 19, 2020, he is #10 in the UFC featherweight rankings.

Isaac Alfredo Barnechea García is a Peruvian journalist and politician. In 2016 he ran for President of Peru with Acción Popular, finishing in fourth place. He was among the potential candidates for the 2021 Peruvian general election until he withdrew his pre-candidacy in November 2020.