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Famous people born on May 3
Short answer
Well-known people born on May 3 include Golda Meir (1898), James Brown (1933), Steven Weinberg (1933) and Pete Seeger (1919). Our list below has 95 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives May 3 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1678 (Amaro Rodríguez Felipe) and the most recent is 2004 (Andrey Santos). The most common fields on this date: football, politician, actress.
Who was born on May 3?
- Golda Meir 1898 Prime Minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974
- James Brown 1933 American musician
- Steven Weinberg 1933 American theoretical physicist
- Pete Seeger 1919 American folk singer
- George Paget Thomson 1892 English physicist
- Alfred Kastler 1902 French physicist
- Carl XV of Sweden 1826 King of Sweden and Norway
- Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès 1748 French priest and statesman
- Mary Astor 1906 American actress and author
- Nona Gaprindashvili 1941 Soviet chess player
- Bernhard von Bülow 1849 German and Prussian politician
- Rebecca Hall 1982 English actress and filmmaker
- Florian Wirtz 2003 German association football player
- Christina Hendricks 1975 British-American actress
- Carlo Acutis 1991 Italian Catholic saint
- Rachel Zegler 2001 American actress
- Jeffrey C. Hall 1945 American geneticist and chronobiologist
- Ezequiel Lavezzi 1985 Argentine association football player
- Satoru Yamagishi 1983 Japanese association football player
- Alex Iwobi 1996 Nigerian association football player
- Kiro Gligorov 1917 President of the Republic of Macedonia
- Sugar Ray Robinson 1921 American boxer
- Luce Irigaray 1930 Belgian-born French feminist, philosopher, linguist, psycholinguist, psychoanalyst and…
- Věra Čáslavská 1942 Czechoslovak sports official, artistic gymnast and coach
- August von Kotzebue 1761 German dramatist and writer
- Vito Volterra 1860 Italian mathematician and mathematical physicist
- Pom Klementieff 1986 French actress
- Park Jung-yang 1872 Korean Joseon dynasty and Japanese-ruled Korean bureaucrat, politician, liberalism and…
- Mikhail Prokhorov 1965 Russian entrepreneur and politician
- Leyla Zana 1961 Turkish statesperson
- Genevieve Nnaji 1979 Nigerian actress, producer, and director
- Leopoldo Luque 1949 Argentine footballer
- Bertha Benz 1849 German automobile pioneer, with husband Karl Benz
- Eduard Heger 1976 Slovak politician
- Aldo Rossi 1931 Italian architect
- Amaro Rodríguez Felipe 1678 Spanish corsair
- Amy Ryan 1968 American actress
- Georges Moustaki 1934 Greek-French singer
- Alexandre Benois 1870 Russian artist
- Katinka Hosszú 1989 Hungarian swimmer
- Kensō Soai 1950 Japanese organic chemist
- Frankie Valli 1934 American singer
- David Koch 1940 American billionaire heir and businessman
- Jaron Lanier 1960 American computer scientist, musician, and author
- Danila Kozlovsky 1985 Russian actor, writer, producer, film director
- Dodie Smith 1896 English children's novelist and playwright
- Aleksandar Pavlović 2004 German footballer
- Sanae Mishima 1957 Japanese association football player
- Steve McClaren 1961 English association football manager and former player
- Alexander Gerst 1976 German ESA astronaut and geophysicist
- Yehuda Amichai 1924 Israeli poet
- Kamila Beregszásziová 1980 Slovak association football player
- Mary Hopkin 1950 Welsh singer
- Jacob Riis 1849 American photographer, journalist and activist
- Michael Reiziger 1973 Dutch footballer
- Mayo Doko 1996 Japanese association football player
- Domantas Sabonis 1996 Lithuanian basketball player
- Carlo Rovelli 1956 Italian physicist
- Hashem Safieddine 1964 Lebanese politician
- Jim Risch 1943 American lawyer and politician
- Juan Gelman 1930 Argentine poet
- Marcel Dupré 1886 French organist and composer
- Noel Valladares 1977 Honduran footballer
- Princess Haya bint Al-Hussein of Jordan 1974 Jordanian Royal
- Andrey Santos 2004 Brazilian footballer
- Princess Élisabeth of France 1764 French Princess, Sister of King Louis XVI, Martyr and Servant of God
- Karl Abraham 1877 German psychoanalyst
- William Inge 1913 American playwright and novelist
- Benoît Cheyrou 1981 French footballer
- Bernd Förster 1956 German footballer
- Ron Wyden 1949 American politician and educator
- Bärbel Bas 1968 German politician, former President of the Bundestag
- Gino Cervi 1901 Italian actor
- Massimo Ranieri 1951 Italian actor and singer
- Jan Krzysztof Bielecki 1951 Polish politician and economist
- Anwar El Ghazi 1995 Dutch association football player
- Mohamed Simakan 2000 Guinean and French footballer
- Tatyana Tolstaya 1951 Russian writer
- Noah Munck 1996 American actor
- Dulé Hill 1975 American actor
- Joseph Kosinski 1974 American film director
- Romeo Castelen 1983 Dutch footballer
- Clément Noël 1997 French alpine ski racer
- Katrin Göring-Eckardt 1966 German politician
- Ann B. Davis 1926 American actress
- Butch Otter 1942 American politician
- David Vitter 1961 American politician
- Desiigner 1997 American rapper and singer
- John Scott Haldane 1860 British physiologist
- John Jensen 1965 Danish footballer
- Henri Pitot 1695 French hydraulic engineer
- Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon 1896 Indian politician
- Debora Caprioglio 1968 Italian actress
- Yuji Unozawa 1983 Japanese association football player
- Joan Alcover Masponcio 1854 Spanish author
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on May 3 share the 3rd of May as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.