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Famous people born on May 5
Short answer
Well-known people born on May 5 include Karl Marx (1818), Søren Kierkegaard (1813), Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846) and Adele (1988). Our list below has 87 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives May 5 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1747 (Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor) and the most recent is 2004 (Samu Aghehowa). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, singer.
Who was born on May 5?
- Karl Marx 1818 German-born philosopher
- Søren Kierkegaard 1813 Danish theologian, philosopher, poet and social critic
- Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 Polish writer, novelist, journalist, philanthropist and Nobel Prize laureate
- Adele 1988 English singer-songwriter
- Henry Cavill 1983 British actor
- Arthur Leonard Schawlow 1921 American physicist
- Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor 1747 Holy Roman Emperor from 1790 to 1792
- Nellie Bly 1864 American journalist
- Carlos Alcaraz 2003 Spanish tennis player
- Michael Palin 1943 English actor, comedian, writer, and television presenter
- Aryna Sabalenka 1998 Belarusian tennis player
- Zail Singh 1916 President of India from 1982 to 1987
- Eugénie de Montijo 1826 Empress consort of the French from 1853 to 1870
- John Rhys-Davies 1944 Welsh actor
- Raúl Jiménez 1991 Mexican association football player
- Tyrone Power 1914 American actor
- Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell 1883 British Army general and Viceroy of India
- Craig David 1981 British singer
- Georgios Papadopoulos 1919 Dictator of Greece from 1967 to 1973
- Justin Kluivert 1999 Dutch association football player
- Boban Babunski 1968 Macedonian association football player
- Yossi Benayoun 1980 Israeli association football player
- Trần Đức Lương 1937 Vietnamese politician
- Sergey Stanishev 1966 Bulgarian politician
- Googoosh 1950 Iranian singer and actor
- Emanuele Giaccherini 1985 Italian footballer
- Ferdinand von Richthofen 1833 German traveller, geographer and scientist
- Carlos Alberto Dias 1967 Brazilian association football player
- Malam Bacai Sanhá 1947 President of Guinea-Bissau
- Brigitta Boccoli 1972 Actress
- Juan Pablo Sorín 1976 Argentine footballer
- Douglas Mawson 1882 Australian geologist and explorer of the Antarctic
- Sylvia Pankhurst 1882 English feminist and socialist
- Albert Marth 1828 German astronomer
- Henri Konan Bédié 1934 President of Ivory Coast from 1993 to 1999
- Richard E. Grant 1957 British-Swazi actor
- Mio Otani 1979 Japanese association football player
- Jerzy Skolimowski 1938 Polish film director, screenwriter, dramatist and actor
- Tammy Wynette 1942 American country singer
- John William Draper 1811 British-American academic
- Noriko Ishibashi 1970 Japanese association football player
- Alice Faye 1915 American actress and singer
- Kimberlé Crenshaw 1959 American legal academic
- James LaBrie 1963 Canadian singer
- Gims 1986 Congolese singer and rapper
- Asako Ideue 1987 Japanese association football player
- Virginie Efira 1977 Belgian and French actress and television presenter
- Bill Ward 1948 English drummer
- Miklós Radnóti 1909 Hungarian Jewish Christian poet
- Sviatoslav Shevchuk 1970 Major archbishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Church
- Jayden Adams 2001 South African soccer player
- Devin Townsend 1972 Canadian singer, guitarist and record producer
- Łukasz Skorupski 1991 Polish association football player
- Ratnasiri Wickremanayake 1933 Sri Lankan politician
- Sage Stallone 1976 American actor, film director, and producer
- Tsepo Masilela 1985 South African footballer
- Sergey Akhromeyev 1923 Soviet marshal
- Samu Aghehowa 2004 Spanish association football player
- Dorothy Garrod 1892 British archaeologist and first female Professor at the University of Cambridge
- Javier Manquillo 1994 Spanish association football player
- Pietro Gasparri 1852 Cardinal of the Catholic Church
- Andor Lilienthal 1911 Hungarian chess player
- Mattia Caldara 1994 Italian footballer
- Jim Kelly 1946 American athlete, actor, and martial artist
- Nathan Chen 1999 American figure skater
- Marija Šestić 1987 Bosnian singer
- Fei Junlong 1965 Chinese military pilot and an astronaut
- Mike J. Dunleavy 1961 Governor of Alaska since 2018
- Morten Thorsby 1996 Norwegian footballer
- Joan Verdú 1983 Spanish footballer
- Max Tegmark 1967 Swedish-American physicist and cosmologist
- Ángel Bossio 1905 Argentine association football player
- Francine Niyonsaba 1993 Burundian distance runner
- Pierre Schoendoerffer 1928 French film director
- Heike Henkel 1964 German high jumper
- Jorge Quiroga 1960 President of Bolivia from 2001 to 2002
- Hank Green 1980 American author, vlogger, and science communicator
- Hans Pfitzner 1869 German composer
- Raphael 1943 Spanish recording artist; singer and actor
- Salah ad-Din al-Bitar 1912 Syrian politician
- Santiago Cabrera 1978 Venezuelan-Chilean actor
- Vincent Kartheiser 1979 American actor
- Brooke Hogan 1988 American singer and television personality
- Rudolf Spielmann 1883 Austrian chess player
- Peter Molyneux 1959 English video game designer and game programmer
- Lazarus Fuchs 1833 German mathematician
- Taichi Hara 1999 Japanese 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 5 share the 5th of May as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.