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Famous people born on May 12

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Well-known people born on May 12 include Florence Nightingale (1820), Katharine Hepburn (1907), Dorothy Hodgkin (1910) and Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895). Our list below has 114 people for this date, most widely covered first.

This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives May 12 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1590 (Cosimo II de' Medici) and the most recent is 2004 (Mateo Chávez). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, actress.

Who was born on May 12?

  1. Florence Nightingale 1820 English social reformer, statistician, and founder of modern nursing
  2. Katharine Hepburn 1907 American actress
  3. Dorothy Hodgkin 1910 British chemist
  4. Jiddu Krishnamurti 1895 Indian spiritual philosopher, mystic, speaker and writer
  5. George Carlin 1937 American stand-up comedian
  6. Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 English poet, illustrator, painter, and translator
  7. Justus von Liebig 1803 German chemist
  8. Rami Malek 1981 American actor
  9. Marcelo Vieira 1988 Brazilian association football player
  10. Emilio Estevez 1962 American actor, director, and writer
  11. Gabriel Fauré 1845 French composer, organist, pianist and teacher
  12. Augustus II the Strong 1670 King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania and Elector of Saxony
  13. Frenkie de Jong 1997 Dutch association football player
  14. Jules Massenet 1842 French composer
  15. William Giauque 1895 American chemist
  16. Edward Lear 1812 British artist, illustrator, author and poet
  17. Joseph Beuys 1921 German artist, teacher, and theorist of art
  18. Masaaki Higashiguchi 1986 Japanese association football player
  19. Sam Nujoma 1929 President of Namibia from 1990 to 2005
  20. Malin Akerman 1978 Swedish actress
  21. David A. R. White 1970 American actor
  22. Burt Bacharach 1928 American pianist, composer, producer
  23. Andrei Voznesensky 1933 Soviet poet
  24. Ving Rhames 1959 American actor
  25. Domhnall Gleeson 1983 Irish actor
  26. Gabriel Byrne 1950 Irish actor
  27. Naohiro Ishikawa 1981 Japanese association football player
  28. Stephen Baldwin 1966 American actor and political activist
  29. Tony Hawk 1968 American professional skateboarder and actor
  30. Emily VanCamp 1986 Canadian actress
  31. Ayaz Mutallibov 1938 President of Azerbaijan from 1990 to 1992
  32. Yogi Berra 1925 American baseball player, manager, and coach
  33. Erik Durm 1992 German association football player
  34. Daniel Libeskind 1946 Polish-American architect (1946)
  35. Julius Maada Bio 1964 President of Sierra Leone since 2018
  36. Jason Biggs 1978 American actor
  37. Kurt Student 1890 German Luftwaffe general
  38. Hiroki Itō 1999 Japanese association football player
  39. Alan Ball Jr. 1945 English footballer and manager
  40. Kostas Tsimikas 1996 Greek association football player
  41. Jonah Lomu 1975 New Zealand rugby union player
  42. Manuel Godoy 1767 Prime Minister of Spain
  43. Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire 1802 French preacher and journalist
  44. Frère Roger 1915 Swiss monk
  45. Chris Patten 1944 British politician and colonial administrator
  46. John Russell Hind 1823 English astronomer
  47. Carl Schuhmann 1869 German athlete
  48. Jesús Franco 1930 Spanish filmmaker, composer, and actor
  49. Deborah Kara Unger 1966 Canadian actress
  50. Ágnes Heller 1929 Hungarian philosopher and academic
  51. Kristrún Mjöll Frostadóttir 1988 Icelandic politician
  52. Frank Stella 1936 American painter and printmaker
  53. Johan Ferrier 1910 Dutch-Surinamese politician
  54. Steve Winwood 1948 English rock musician
  55. Eleftheria Eleftheriou 1989 Greek Cypriot singer
  56. Yoshie Kasajima 1975 Japanese association football player
  57. Hermes da Fonseca 1855 President of Brazil
  58. Michael Ignatieff 1947 Canadian professor, writer and politician
  59. Otto Heinrich Frank 1889 Father of Holocaust diarist Anne Frank
  60. Johan Vilhelm Snellman 1806 Finnish politician and author
  61. Giovanni Battista Viotti 1755 Italian violinist and composer of the classical period
  62. Claribel Alegría 1924 Nicaraguan writer
  63. Luke Benward 1995 American actor
  64. Bruce Boxleitner 1950 American actor, science fiction and suspense writer
  65. Jared Polis 1975 American politician
  66. Helene Weigel 1900 German actress and artistic director
  67. Cosimo II de' Medici 1590 Grand Duke of Tuscany
  68. Massimo Bontempelli 1878 Italian writer
  69. Gavin Hood 1963 South African filmmaker
  70. Malcolm David Kelley 1992 American actor
  71. Samantha Mathis 1970 American actress and trade union leader
  72. Lincoln Ellsworth 1880 American explorer
  73. Virginie Razzano 1983 French tennis player
  74. Darren Randolph 1987 Irish association football player
  75. Zdeněk Zeman 1947 Czech soccer coach
  76. Nicholas Kaldor 1908 Hungarian-British economist
  77. Abelardo L. Rodríguez 1889 President of Mexico
  78. Joaquim Rodríguez 1979 Spanish road bicycle racer
  79. Henry Cabot Lodge 1850 American statesman
  80. Emily Beecham 1984 English-born British-American actress
  81. Sofia Okunevska 1865 First woman who graduated university and became a doctor in Austria-Hungary, the first…
  82. Timo Horn 1993 German association football player
  83. Harutaka Ono 1978 Japanese association football player
  84. Graeme Dott 1977 Scottish snooker player
  85. Im Dong-hyun 1986 South Korean archer
  86. Eric Singer 1958 American drummer
  87. Alejandro Scopelli 1908 Argentine association football player
  88. Liu Hong 1987 Chinese racewalking athlete
  89. Jens Juel 1745 Danish painter
  90. Vilis Lācis 1904 Latvian writer, politician
  91. Ismael Díaz 1997 Panamanian footballer
  92. Kenton Duty 1995 American actor
  93. Millie Perkins 1938 American actress
  94. Robbie Rogers 1987 American soccer player
  95. Anton Korošec 1872 Austrian member of Austrian empire council
  96. Ian Dury 1942 British new wave singer
  97. Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans 1725 French royal
  98. Babett Peter 1988 German footballer
  99. Luigi Vanvitelli 1700 Italian architect
  100. Anastasia Rodionova 1982 Russian-Australian tennis player
  101. Wendy Holdener 1993 Swiss alpine skier
  102. Ivan Marchuk 1936 Ukrainian artist
  103. Thomas Horsfield 1773 U.S. naturalist and physician
  104. Susan Hampshire 1937 British actress
  105. Issa Kaboré 2001 Burkinabè association football player
  106. Fabrice Olinga 1996 Cameroonian association football player
  107. Vilém Flusser 1920 Czech philosopher and photographer
  108. Thomas Dooley 1961 German-American soccer player and manager
  109. Hossein Rezazadeh 1978 Iranian weightlifter
  110. Odeya Rush 1997 Israeli actress and model
  111. Takayuki Nishigaya 1973 Japanese association football player and manager
  112. Mateo Chávez 2004 Mexican footballer
  113. Lidia Kopania 1978 Polish singer
  114. Guillermo Endara 1936 President of Panama

Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on May 12 share the 12th of May as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.

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