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Famous people born on May 27
Short answer
Well-known people born on May 27 include Christopher Lee (1922), Rachel Carson (1907), Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894) and Donna Strickland (1959). Our list below has 96 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives May 27 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1626 (William II, Prince of Orange) and the most recent is 2003 (Franco Colapinto). The most common fields on this date: football, singer, actor.
Who was born on May 27?
- Christopher Lee 1922 English actor and singer
- Rachel Carson 1907 American marine biologist and conservationist
- Louis-Ferdinand Céline 1894 French writer
- Donna Strickland 1959 Canadian physicist, Nobel laurate
- John Cockcroft 1897 British physicist
- Hubert Humphrey 1911 Vice president of the United States from 1965 to 1969
- Yasuhiro Nakasone 1918 Japanese politician
- Vincent Price 1911 American actor
- Paul Bettany 1971 British actor
- Giuseppe Tornatore 1956 Italian film director and screenwriter
- Richard Schiff 1955 American actor
- Paul Gascoigne 1967 English association football player and manager
- João Cancelo 1994 Portuguese footballer
- Max Brod 1884 Bohemian-Israeli author, composer, and journalist
- Lily-Rose Depp 1999 French-American actress
- Gervinho 1987 Ivorian association football player
- Arnold Bennett 1867 English writer
- Atsushi Yanagisawa 1977 Japanese association football player
- Aymeric Laporte 1994 Spanish-French footballer
- Cornelius Vanderbilt 1794 American businessman and tycoon
- Jamie Oliver 1975 British chef and media personality
- Jonas Hector 1990 German association football player
- Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria 1756 King of Bavaria
- Chris Colfer 1990 Actor, singer, book author
- Harlan Ellison 1934 American writer
- Matheus Cunha 1999 Brazilian association football player do brazilian player
- Jérémy Doku 2002 Belgian association footballer
- Joseph Fiennes 1970 English film and stage actor
- Roberto Soldado 1985 Spanish association football player
- Louis Gossett Jr. 1936 American actor
- Philip Kotler 1931 American marketing author, consultant, and professor
- John Cheever 1912 American novelist and short story writer
- Herman Wouk 1915 American writer
- Birkir Bjarnason 1988 Icelandic footballer
- Alessandro Cambalhota 1973 Brazilian association football player
- Lasse Schöne 1986 Danish footballer
- William II, Prince of Orange 1626 Prince of Orange and Stadtholder of Holland
- Lawrence M. Krauss 1954 American particle physicist and cosmologist
- John Barth 1930 American writer
- Celso Borges 1988 Costa Rican association football player
- Jeison Murillo 1992 Colombian association football player
- Armando Sadiku 1991 Albanian footballer
- Konrad Laimer 1997 Austrian footballer
- Tomoe Kato 1978 Japanese association football player
- Georg V of Hanover 1819 King of Hanover
- Daniel da Silva 1973 Brazilian association football player
- Faten Hamama 1931 Egyptian producer and actress.
- Émile Benveniste 1902 French linguist
- Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate, Duchess of Orléans 1652 German princess; wife of Philippe I, Duke of Orléans
- Mário Rui 1991 Portuguese association football player
- Johan Elmander 1981 Swedish association football player
- Marjorie Taylor Greene 1974 American politician
- Julia Ward Howe 1819 American abolitionist, social activist, and poet
- Franco Colapinto 2003 Argentine Formula One driver
- Pat Cash 1965 Australian tennis player
- Maximilian Arnold 1994 German association football player
- Wild Bill Hickok 1837 American folk hero and lawman
- Chris Dodd 1944 American lawyer and politician
- Bella Heathcote 1987 Australian actress
- Ivete Sangalo 1972 Brazilian singer, songwriter, instrumentalist, actress, presenter and businesswoman
- Amelia Bloomer 1818 Women's rights activist
- Fromental Halévy 1799 French composer
- Karl Bühler 1879 German psychologist
- Nattie 1982 Canadian professional wrestler and professional wrestling manager
- Marius Wolf 1995 German footballer
- Teddy Kollek 1911 Israeli politician
- Kazimierz Fajans 1887 Polish-American scientist
- Lisa Lopes 1971 American singer and rapper
- Dee Dee Bridgewater 1950 American singer
- Lee Meriwether 1935 American actress and model
- Takafumi Akahoshi 1986 Japanese association football player
- Ana Belén 1951 Spanish actress and singer
- Jaime Lusinchi 1924 Venezuelan Politician
- Ben Feldman 1980 American actor and producer
- Melissa Hortman 1970 American lawyer and politician
- André 3000 1975 American rapper, singer-songwriter, record producer and actor
- Jetty Paerl 1921 Dutch singer
- Cilla Black 1943 English singer and media personality
- Jack McBrayer 1973 American actor
- Brunette 2001 Armenian singer-songwriter
- Nadine Beiler 1990 Austrian singer
- Tyias Browning 1994 British-Chinese footballer
- Tim Farron 1970 British politician
- Nacer Barazite 1990 Dutch association football player
- Otto Carius 1922 German pharmacist, military officer and highly decorated tank commander
- Mathilde Bonaparte 1820 Princess of France
- Jay Gould 1836 American railroad magnate and financier
- Lucile Watson 1879 Canadian actress
- Shawnacy Barber 1994 Canadian pole vaulter
- Kees Rijvers 1926 Dutch footballer and manager
- Louis Durey 1888 French composer
- Henry McMaster 1947 Governor of South Carolina since 2017
- Fujio Yamamoto 1966 Japanese association football player
- Branko Oblak 1947 Slovenian footballer
- Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Volkov 1948 Soviet cosmonaut
- Gabriel Veiga Novas 2002 Spanish association football player
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on May 27 share the 27th of May as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.