Famous birthdays
Famous people born on May 1
Short answer
Well-known people born on May 1 include Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769), Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852), Joseph Addison (1672) and Anushka Sharma (1988). Our list below has 99 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives May 1 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1592 (Johann Adam Schall von Bell) and the most recent is 2004 (Charli D'Amelio). The most common fields on this date: football, singer, politician.
Who was born on May 1?
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 British Field Marshal, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1828–1830, 1834
- Santiago Ramón y Cajal 1852 Spanish scientist
- Joseph Addison 1672 English essayist, poet, playwright and politician
- Anushka Sharma 1988 Indian actress
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 1881 French philosopher, Jesuit priest, and paleontologist
- Mary Harris Jones 1830 Irish-born American labor and community organizer
- Leonardo Bonucci 1987 Italian association football player
- Joseph Heller 1923 American writer
- Ahmad Yasin 1937 Palestinian political and religious leader
- Patrice Talon 1958 President of Benin between 2016 and 2026
- Wes Anderson 1969 American filmmaker
- Darijo Srna 1982 Croatian footballer
- Zaz 1980 French singer
- Charli D'Amelio 2004 American social media personality
- Glenn Ford 1916 Canadian-American actor
- Johann Jakob Balmer 1825 Swiss mathematician
- Aliaksandr Hleb 1981 Belarusian footballer
- Oliver Bierhoff 1968 German association football official and former player
- Jamie Dornan 1982 Northern Irish actor
- Julie Benz 1972 American actress
- Scott Carpenter 1925 American test pilot, astronaut and aquanaut
- Yannis Ritsos 1909 Greek poet
- Yasuyuki Moriyama 1969 Japanese association football player
- Oliver Neuville 1973 German association football player
- Beto 1982 Portuguese association football player
- Yasmina Reza 1959 French actor and writer
- Giovannino Guareschi 1908 Italian journalist, cartoonist and humorist
- Danielle Darrieux 1917 French actress and singer
- Ignazio Silone 1900 Italian writer and politician
- Mitch Nichols 1989 Australian association football player
- Ralf Dahrendorf 1929 German-British sociologist, politician
- Theo Van Gogh 1857 Dutch art dealer, brother of painter Vincent van Gogh
- Joanna Lumley 1946 British actress and former model
- Tommy Robredo 1982 Spanish tennis player
- José de Alencar 1829 Brazilian writer
- Diego Contento 1990 German footballer
- Peter Lax 1926 American mathematician of Hungarian origin
- Calamity Jane 1852 American scout and frontierswoman
- Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn 1850 British prince, Governor General of Canada from 1911 to 1916
- Olaf Thon 1966 German association football player and manager
- Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse 1868 German prince
- Diana Hayden 1973 Indian actress, television host, beauty queen and the winner of Miss World 1997
- Shahar Pe'er 1987 Israeli female tennis player
- Mark W. Clark 1896 United States Army general
- Ajith Kumar 1971 Actor, racer and producer
- Tim McGraw 1967 American country singer and actor
- Jacob Bekenstein 1947 Mexican-Israeli physicist
- Khamzat Chimaev 1994 Russian-Emirati mixed martial artist
- Jo Jorgensen 1957 American politician, 2020 Libertarian Party presidential candidate
- Judy Collins 1939 American singer-songwriter and musician
- Jules Breton 1827 French painter
- Dan O'Herlihy 1919 Irish actor
- Mary Lou McDonald 1969 Irish politician and President of Sinn Féin
- Arisa Matsubara 1995 Japanese association football player
- Rita Coolidge 1945 American recording artist; singer
- Marie Corelli 1855 British writer
- Herbert Backe 1896 German politician
- Hamaguchi Osachi 1870 Japanese politician
- Albert Zafy 1927 President of Madagascar
- Teya Dora 1992 Serbian singer-songwriter
- James Badge Dale 1978 American actor
- J. Allen Hynek 1910 American astronomer
- Charley Patton 1891 American Delta blues musician
- Matěj Vydra 1992 Czech association football player
- Elijah Just 2000 New Zealand association football player
- Rema 2000 Nigerian singer-songwriter and rapper
- Bartosz Salamon 1991 Polish association football player
- Yang Jiechi 1950 Politburo member of the Chinese Communist Party
- Maia Morgenstern 1962 Romanian actress
- Christian Benítez 1986 Ecuadorian footballer
- Catherine Frot 1956 French actress
- Manna Dey 1919 Indian playback singer, music director, musician and vocalist
- Mišo Brečko 1984 Slovenian footballer
- Hugo Alfvén 1872 Swedish composer, conductor, violinist, and painter
- Nicholas Braun 1988 American actor
- Little Walter 1930 American blues harmonica player
- Alain Bernard 1983 French swimmer
- Johann Adam Schall von Bell 1592 German astronomer and Jesuit missionary active in China
- Levina 1991 German singer
- Grégoire Kayibanda 1924 Rwandan politician, 1st and former President of Rwanda
- Henry Koster 1905 American film director
- Sammy Ameobi 1992 English-Nigerian footballer
- Jean-Christophe Bahebeck 1993 French and Cameroonian footballer
- Otto Kretschmer 1912 German admiral and U-boat commander during World War II
- Antal Szerb 1901 Hungarian literary scholar and writer
- Patricia Hill Collins 1948 African-American scholar
- Cecilia Beaux 1855 American artist
- Romaine Brooks 1874 American artist
- Ray Parker Jr. 1954 American musician
- Alfred Schmidt 1898 Estonian weightlifter and sportsperson
- S. M. Krishna 1932 Indian politician
- Rodoljub Vulović 1955 Serbian singer
- Madeline Brewer 1992 American actress
- Donald Kagan 1932 American historian
- Amira Casar 1971 French actress
- Masaki Yanagawa 1987 Japanese association football player
- Tadaaki Hirakawa 1979 Japanese association football player and manager
- Alexey Smertin 1975 Russian footballer
- Javi Gracia 1970 Spanish association football player and manager
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on May 1 share the 1st of May as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.