List of Famous people born on May 26th
Yu Yan
Yu Yan is a Chinese singer and actress. She is best known for finishing 4th in the survival show Youth with You 2, making her a member of THE9. She is also well known for her sense of fashion and continually garners significant interest from fashion brands because of her style.
Mikel Nieve
Mikel Nieve Iturralde is a Spanish professional road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Team BikeExchange.
Gilles Pélisson
Gilles Pélisson is a French business executive.
Zhang Jianing
Zhang Jianing is a Chinese actress.
Yuri Lodygin
Yuri Vladimirovich Lodygin is a Russian-Greek professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for PAS Giannina.
Eugeny Giner
Evgeniy Lennorovich Giner is a Russian businessman, since February 2001 the president of PFC CSKA Moscow, head of the Financial Committee of Russian Football Union.
Edmilson Rodrigues
Edmilson Rodrigues is a Brazilian politician who served as mayor of Belém, Federal Deputy and State Deputy for the State of Pará. He is a member of the Socialism and Freedom Party (PSOL), previously having been a member of the Workers' Party (PT).
Gert Mittring
Gert Mittring is a German mental calculator. He was inspired by the late Wim Klein. He has competed in the MSO mental calculation event every year since 2004, failing to win the gold medal outright on only four occasions. He has held numerous world records for mental calculation, such as calculating the 89247th root of a 1000000 digit number. He has doctorates in statistics and mathematics education, and is a member of the Intelligence Research Committee of Intertel. Mittring is said to have been poor in math during his school years. He has written several books on mental calculation.
Mehmet Okur
Mehmet Murat Okur is a Turkish retired professional basketball player. Listed at 6 ft 11 in (2.11 m), he played as a power forward and center. He was known for his three-point shooting and ability to space the floor. In his 7 seasons with the Utah Jazz, Mehmet Okur emerged as one of the premier shooting players in the NBA. From 2004-10 Okur displayed a talent for making big shots in pressure situations - earning him the nickname of "The Money Man" and "Memo is Money" amongst Jazz fans. On 13 September 2016, Okur was named a player development coach for the Phoenix Suns, becoming the first Turkish citizen to enter the coaching world in the NBA.
Jung Gun-joo
Jung Gun-Joo is a South Korean actor. He has starred in several webdramas before venturing into TV broadcasts.