List of Famous people born on May 27th

Riivo Sinijärv is an Estonian politician and a former Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Thea Musgrave CBE is a Scottish composer of opera and classical music. She has lived in the United States since 1972.

Kenneth Lerner is an American television, stage and film actor. He played Principal Flutie in the first episodes of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Conrad Arnold Elvehjem (May 27, 1901 – July 27, 1962) was internationally known as an American biochemist in nutrition. In 1937 he identified two vitamins, nicotinic acid, also known as niacin, and nicotinamide, which were deficient directly in human pellagra, once a major health problem in the United States. Collectively, nicotinic acid and nicotinamide are termed vitamin B₃ and are now understood to be precursors of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide.

Linda Pastan is an American poet of Jewish background. From 1991–1995 she was Poet Laureate of Maryland. She is known for writing short poems that address topics like family life, domesticity, motherhood, the female experience, aging, death, loss and the fear of loss, as well as the fragility of life and relationships. Her most recent collections of poetry include Insomnia, Traveling Light, and A Dog Runs Through It.

Yuriy Kosiuk is a Ukrainian billionaire, and CEO of the country's largest agricultural company MHP, and chairman of PJSC Myronivsky Hliboproduct.