List of Famous people born on May 26th

Alexander Medawar Garland is an English writer and filmmaker. He rose to prominence as a novelist in the late 1990s with his novel The Beach, which led some critics to call Garland a key voice of Generation X. He subsequently received praise for the screenplays of the films 28 Days Later (2002), Sunshine (2007), Never Let Me Go (2010), and Dredd (2012). He co-wrote the video game Enslaved: Odyssey to the West (2010) and was a story supervisor on DmC: Devil May Cry (2013).

Joseph Léo François Legault is a Quebecois politician and businessman serving as the 32nd and current premier of Quebec since 2018. He has been Leader of the Coalition Avenir Québec party since its founding in 2011 and a cabinet minister during the premierships of Lucien Bouchard and Bernard Landry. Prior to becoming a politician, he was the co-founder of the Canadian airline Air Transat.

Luca Toni is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a striker. A prolific goalscorer, Toni scored over 300 goals throughout his career, and is one of the top-five highest scoring Italians in all competitions; with 322 career goals, he is currently the fourth-highest scoring Italian player of all time.

Nao Kodaira is a Japanese long track speed skater who specialises in the sprint distances.

Gong Myung is a South Korean actor. He is a member of 5urprise.

Tomoaki Maeno is a Japanese voice actor from Shimotsuma, Ibaraki Prefecture. He is attached to Arts Vision.

Aldrich Hazen "Rick" Ames is a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer turned KGB double agent, who was convicted of espionage in 1994. He is serving a life sentence, without the possibility of parole, in the Federal Correctional Institution in Terre Haute, Indiana, United States. Ames was formerly a 31-year CIA counterintelligence officer who committed espionage against the U.S. by spying for the Soviet Union and Russia. At the time of his arrest, Ames had compromised more highly classified CIA assets than any other officer in history until Robert Hanssen's arrest seven years later in 2001.

Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark, Count of Monpezat, is the heir apparent to the Danish throne. He is the elder son of Queen Margrethe II and the late Prince Henrik.

Brandi Cyrus is an American actress, singer, and DJ. She is a co-host of the Bravo show Cyrus vs. Cyrus: Design and Conquer and a co-host of the Your Favorite Thing podcast.

Joseph Salvatore Altobelli is an American former professional baseball first baseman / outfielder, manager, and coach, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) with both the Cleveland Indians and Minnesota Twins. In 1983, he succeeded Hall of Famer Earl Weaver as manager of the Baltimore Orioles and led the team to their sixth American League (AL) pennant and their third World Series championship.