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Famous people born on May 19

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Well-known people born on May 19 include Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881), Ho Chi Minh (1890), Malcolm X (1925) and Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762). Our list below has 85 people for this date, most widely covered first.

This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives May 19 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1593 (Jacob Jordaens) and the most recent is 2003 (JoJo Siwa). The most common fields on this date: football, actress, singer.

Who was born on May 19?

  1. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1881 Founding father of the Republic of Turkey
  2. Ho Chi Minh 1890 Vietnamese communist leader, founder of North Vietnam
  3. Malcolm X 1925 American Black rights activist
  4. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 German philosopher
  5. Natalia Oreiro 1977 Uruguayan actress, singer, host, and model
  6. Ashraf Ghani 1949 President of Afghanistan from 2014 to 2021
  7. Diego Forlán 1979 Uruguayan association football player and manager
  8. Andrea Pirlo 1979 Italian association football player and manager
  9. Innocent XI 1611 Pope of the Catholic Church from 1676 to 1689
  10. Gitanas Nausėda 1964 President of Lithuania since 2019
  11. Nora Ephron 1941 American film director and writer
  12. Sam Smith 1992 British singer-songwriter
  13. Max Perutz 1914 Austrian-born British molecular biologist
  14. James Gosling 1955 Canadian computer scientist
  15. Pete Townshend 1945 British musician
  16. Nicholas Winton 1909 British stockbroker who saved 669 Jewish children during 1938–39
  17. Neelam Sanjiva Reddy 1913 Sixth President of India
  18. Kevin Garnett 1976 American basketball player
  19. Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz 1744 Queen consort of Great Britain and Ireland from 1761 to 1818
  20. Grace Jones 1948 Jamaican singer, model and actress
  21. Manuel Almunia 1977 Spanish association football player
  22. Peter Mayhew 1944 British-American actor
  23. Malo Gusto 2003 French footballer
  24. André the Giant 1946 French professional wrestler and actor
  25. Bert van Marwijk 1952 Dutch football manager
  26. Riccardo Calafiori 2002 Italian association football player
  27. Víctor Ibarbo 1990 Colombian association football player
  28. Jacob Jordaens 1593 Flemish painter, draftsman and designer of prints and tapestries
  29. Edward de Bono 1933 Maltese physician and writer
  30. Thomas Vinterberg 1969 Danish film director
  31. Nawazuddin Siddiqui 1974 Indian actor
  32. Nellie Melba 1861 Australian opera singer
  33. Michele Placido 1946 Italian actor and film director
  34. Georges St-Pierre 1981 Canadian mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter
  35. Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor 1879 First female Member of Parliament to take her seat
  36. Joey Ramone 1951 American punk rock singer
  37. Bérénice Marlohe 1979 French actress
  38. Dick Scobee 1939 American astronaut
  39. Jorge Alessandri 1896 Chilean politician and President
  40. Elena Poniatowska 1932 French-born Mexican journalist and author
  41. JoJo Siwa 2003 American dancer, singer, actress, and YouTube personality
  42. Eleanor Tomlinson 1992 British actress
  43. Gary Kildall 1942 American computer scientist and entrepreneur
  44. Phil Rudd 1954 Australian drummer
  45. Jodi Picoult 1966 American author
  46. Heather Watson 1992 British female tennis player
  47. Rudolf E. Kálmán 1930 Hungarian-born American electrical engineer
  48. Morten Tyldum 1967 Norwegian film director
  49. Lorraine Hansberry 1930 African-American playwright and author
  50. Colin Chapman 1928 English design engineer
  51. Girish Karnad 1938 Indian playwright, theatre personality
  52. Kitarō Nishida 1870 Japanese philosopher
  53. Queen Maria Isabel of Spain 1797 Queen consort of Spain
  54. Nikolai Shvernik 1888 Soviet politician, chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet
  55. Gadi Eisenkot 1960 Israeli military officer
  56. Honoka Hayashi 1998 Japanese association football player
  57. Jānis Lūsis 1939 Latvian javelin thrower
  58. Moeneeb Josephs 1980 South African footballer
  59. Drew Fuller 1980 American actor and former male model
  60. Johns Hopkins 1795 American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and abolitionist
  61. Nancy Kwan 1939 Chinese-American actress
  62. Alex Král 1998 Czech association football player
  63. James Fox 1939 English actor
  64. Felix Zwayer 1981 German football referee
  65. Alfred Schmidt 1931 German philosopher and social scientist
  66. Rahel Varnhagen 1771 German writer
  67. Nana Sahib 1824 Indian rebel
  68. Theo de Raadt 1968 Leader of the OpenBSD project
  69. Teresa Ribera 1969 Spanish politician
  70. Dolph Schayes 1928 American basketball player and coach
  71. Mario Chalmers 1986 American basketball player
  72. Dusty Hill 1949 American bassist
  73. Tania Mallet 1941 British actress and model
  74. Zhang Ning 1975 Chinese female badminton player
  75. Ruskin Bond 1934 Indian writer of British descent
  76. Livio Berruti 1939 Italian sprinter
  77. Mário de Sá-Carneiro 1890 Portuguese poet
  78. Bruce Bennett 1906 American actor
  79. Abraham Pais 1918 Dutch-American physicist and science historian
  80. Jan Janssen 1940 Dutch cyclist
  81. Marinella 1938 Greek singer
  82. Miloslav Mečíř 1964 A Slovak tennis player and trainer
  83. Percy Williams 1908 Canadian athlete
  84. Cecil Bolocco 1965 Chilean television presenter and beauty pageant contestant
  85. José Ramón Alexanko 1956 Spanish footballer

Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on May 19 share the 19th of May as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.

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