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Famous people born on May 21
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Well-known people born on May 21 include Andrei Sakharov (1921), Sergei Shoigu (1955), Mary Robinson (1944) and Mario Mandžukić (1986). Our list below has 83 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives May 21 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1759 (Joseph Fouché) and the most recent is 1998 (Ari Ólafsson). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, actress.
Who was born on May 21?
- Andrei Sakharov 1921 Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist
- Sergei Shoigu 1955 Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation since 2024 and former…
- Mary Robinson 1944 Former President of Ireland and former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
- Mario Mandžukić 1986 Croatian association football player
- Willem Einthoven 1860 Dutch physiologist
- Henri Rousseau 1844 French painter
- Mengistu Haile Mariam 1937 Former General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Ethiopia
- Charles Albert Gobat 1843 Swiss politician and lawyer
- Emile Verhaeren 1855 Belgian poet
- Romain Gary 1914 French writer and diplomat
- Mary Anning 1799 British fossil collector and palaeontologist
- Joseph Fouché 1759 French statesman
- Günter Blobel 1936 German American biologist (1999 Nobel Prize)
- Lázaro Cárdenas 1895 51st President of Mexico
- Masato Morishige 1987 Japanese association football player
- Abdulla Yameen 1959 President of the Maldives from 2013 to 2018
- Lisa Edelstein 1966 American actress
- Tom Daley 1994 British diver
- Hideo Hashimoto 1979 Japanese association football player
- Malcolm Fraser 1930 Australian politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Australia
- Édouard-Henri Avril 1849 French painter
- Mr. T 1952 American actor and professional wrestler
- Bengt I. Samuelsson 1934 Swedish biochemist
- Mark Cavendish 1985 British professional road racing cyclist
- Uwe Rahn 1962 German association football player
- Shōma Doi 1992 Japanese association football player
- Lucien Bonaparte 1775 1st Prince of Canino and Musignano
- Fats Waller 1904 American jazz pianist and composer
- Gotye 1980 Belgian-Australian musician
- Rade Bogdanović 1970 Serbian association football player
- Raymond Burr 1917 Canadian actor
- Hermann Lotze 1817 German philosopher
- Hal Robson-Kanu 1989 Welsh association football player
- Harold Robbins 1916 American novelist
- Ivo Viktor 1942 Czech footballer
- Al Franken 1951 American comedian and politician
- Princess Stéphanie of Belgium 1864 Archduchess of Austria
- Rene Krhin 1990 Slovenian footballer
- Fairuza Balk 1974 American actress
- Nick Cassavetes 1959 American film actor, director, and screenwriter
- Karen Khachanov 1996 Russian tennis player
- Robert Montgomery 1904 American actor
- Hikari Takagi 1993 Japanese association football player
- Lucie Hradecká 1985 Czech tennis player
- Pedro Eugenio Aramburu 1903 Dictator of Argentina
- Stuart Bingham 1976 English snooker player
- Inese Jaunzeme 1932 Latvian javelin thrower
- Tiril Eckhoff 1990 Norwegian biathlete
- Curtis T. McMullen 1958 American mathematician and Fields medallist
- Jonathan Hyde 1948 Australian actor
- Quinton Fortune 1977 South African footballer
- Loretta Lynch 1959 American attorney
- Ivan Bella 1964 Slovak astronaut
- Sofiko Chiaureli 1937 Soviet and Georgian actress
- Vladimir Salnikov 1960 Soviet and Russian swimmer
- Giorgi Ghonghadze 1969 Ukrainian journalist
- Judge Reinhold 1957 American actor
- Matías Kranevitter 1993 Argentine association football player
- José Batlle y Ordóñez 1856 President of Uruguay in 1903-1907 and 1911-1915
- Elizabeth Fry 1780 Social reformer from England
- Glenn Curtiss 1878 American aviator and industrialist
- Laura Loomer 1993 American political activist
- Charles Paul de Kock 1793 French novelist
- Giuseppe Mercalli 1850 Italian volcanologist
- Catherine Pavlovna of Russia 1788 Queen of Wurttemburg
- Princess Sophie of Sweden 1801 Swedish princess
- İlber Ortaylı 1947 Turkish historian
- Da'Vine Joy Randolph 1986 American actress
- Olivia Olson 1992 American actress and singer
- Mohanlal 1960 Indian actor and filmmaker
- Dušan Kuciak 1985 Slovak footballer
- Gleb Panfilov 1934 Soviet and Russian film director and film screenwriter
- Varvara Lepchenko 1986 Ukrainian-American tennis player
- Tay Zonday 1982 American YouTube personality
- Leo Sayer 1948 British singer
- Stephen Allen Benson 1816 Former President of Liberia
- Ari Ólafsson 1998 Icelandic singer
- Aditya Chopra 1971 Indian film director and producer
- Itagaki Taisuke 1837 Japanese politician
- Anna Rogowska 1981 Polish athletics competitor
- Maurice Andrés 1933 French trumpeter born in Occitania
- Alexander Dale Oen 1985 Norwegian swimmer
- Suzan Kahramaner 1913 Turkish mathematician
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on May 21 share the 21st of May as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.