Famous birthdays
Famous people born on May 15
Short answer
Well-known people born on May 15 include Madeleine Albright (1937), Layal Abboud (1982), Paul Samuelson (1915) and Klemens von Metternich (1773). Our list below has 95 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives May 15 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1633 (Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban) and the most recent is 2002 (Amy Hunt). The most common fields on this date: football, writer, singer.
Who was born on May 15?
- Madeleine Albright 1937 United States Secretary of State from 1997 to 2001
- Layal Abboud 1982 Lebanese pop singer
- Paul Samuelson 1915 American economist
- Klemens von Metternich 1773 Austrian diplomat, foreign minister and Chancellor
- Andy Murray 1987 British tennis player
- Ousmane Dembélé 1997 French footballer
- Arthur Schnitzler 1862 Austrian writer
- Madhuri Dixit 1967 Indian actress
- L. Frank Baum 1856 American author of children's books
- Frank Wilczek 1951 American theoretical physicist
- Max Frisch 1911 Swiss playwrighter and novelist
- Patrice Evra 1981 French footballer
- Lars Løkke Rasmussen 1964 25th Prime Minister of Denmark
- Brian Eno 1948 British musician, music producer, music theorist and visual artist
- James Mason 1909 British actor
- Mike Oldfield 1953 English musician
- Frank de Boer 1970 Dutch association football player and manager
- Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban 1633 French military engineer
- Ulrich Beck 1944 German sociologist & scholar
- Mirek Topolánek 1956 Czech politician
- Birdy 1996 British singer
- Joseph Cotten 1905 American actor
- Kentaro Sawada 1970 Japanese association football player and manager
- Mary Wortley Montagu 1689 Noblewoman; writer and poet from England, editor
- Katherine Anne Porter 1890 American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist
- Williamina Fleming 1857 Astronoma escocesa
- Luis Monti 1901 Argentine and Italian footballer
- Ronald de Boer 1970 Dutch association football player
- Mireille Darc 1938 French actress and director
- Muhyiddin Yassin 1947 Prime Minister of Malaysia from 2020 to 2021
- Chazz Palminteri 1952 American actor
- Jasper Johns 1930 American painter and sculptor (1930)
- Jolene Marie Rotinsulu 1996 Indonesian beauty pageant winner
- Veronica Campbell-Brown 1982 Jamaican track and field sprint athlete
- Raí 1965 Brazilian and French association football player
- Zara Tindall 1981 British Olympic equestrian; daughter of Anne, Princess Royal
- Matías Fernandez 1986 Chilean footballer
- Ellen Axson Wilson 1860 First Lady of the United States from 1913 to 1914
- Eugenia Charles 1919 Prime Minister of Dominica
- Peter Shaffer 1926 English playwright and screenwriter
- Arletty 1898 French actress
- Simen Agdestein 1967 Norwegian chess player, chess coach and football player
- Alexandra Breckenridge 1982 American actress
- Maria Reiche 1903 Peruvian archaeologist, mathematician and technical translator
- Jacek Krzynówek 1976 Polish footballer
- Cecilia Malmström 1968 Swedish politician
- Ersan İlyasova 1987 Turkish basketball player
- Richard Avedon 1923 American photographer
- Trini Lopez 1937 American singer and musician
- Isa Mustafa 1951 Kosovo Albanian politician
- Ljupko Petrović 1947 Serbian footballer
- Dayana Yastremska 2000 Ukrainian female tennis player
- Prescott Bush 1895 American politician and US Senator from Connecticut
- Tomáš Kalas 1993 Czech association football player
- Linda Sembrant 1987 Swedish association football player
- Jusuf Kalla 1942 10th and 12th Vice President of Indonesia, businessman
- Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa 1989 French footballer
- Kathleen Sebelius 1948 United States Secretary of Health and Human Services
- Jessica Sutta 1982 American dancer and pop singer-songwriter
- Cristiane Rozeira 1985 Brazilian footballer
- Debendranath Tagore 1817 Indian philosopher
- Rimas Kurtinaitis 1960 Lithuanian basketball player and coach
- David Krumholtz 1978 American actor
- Ben Wallace 1970 British politician, UK Defence Secretary
- Vilhelm Hammershøi 1864 Danish artist
- Michael William Balfe 1808 Irish composer
- Sunny 1989 South Korean-American singer
- Khiuaz Dospanova 1922 Soviet Po-2 navigator in WWII and Hero of Kazakhstan
- Jamie-Lynn Sigler 1981 American actress
- Ksenia Sitnik 1995 Belarusian singer
- Segundo Castillo De Barberan 1982 Ecuadorian footballer
- Carl Medjani 1985 Algerian-French footballer
- Stella Maxwell 1990 Belgian-New Zealand supermodel
- Joseph Wiseman 1918 Canadian actor
- Carl Wernicke 1848 German physician and neuropathologist
- Nasrallah Peter Sfeir 1920 Lebanese Catholic cardinal
- Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini 1942 Prime Minister of Swaziland
- Grant Heslov 1963 American actor, producer and screenwriter
- Leonardo Mayer 1987 Argentine tennis player
- Archduke Ludwig Viktor of Austria 1842 Austrian archduke
- Maria Theresia Paradis 1759 Austrian musician and composer
- Renato Dirnei Florêncio 1979 Brazilian footballer
- Amy Hunt 2002 British sprinter
- Paul Konchesky 1981 English association football player
- Miruts Yifter 1944 Ethiopian long distance runner
- Claudia Roth 1955 German politician
- Tani Oluwaseyi 2000 Nigerian-Canadian soccer player
- Roger Ailes 1940 American TV executive and consultant
- Caroline Dhavernas 1978 Canadian actress
- Dwayne De Rosario 1978 Canadian soccer player
- John Glen 1932 English film director and editor
- Michel Audiard 1920 French screenwriter and film director
- Franco Selvaggi 1953 Italian footballer
- Jan Czerski 1845 Polish scientist
- Sofia Yablonska 1907 Ukrainian travel writer, photographer
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on May 15 share the 15th of May as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.