Well-known May birthdays
2 May · Vasantrao Deshpande2 May · Satyajit Ray7 May · Jeetan Patel13 May · Balasaraswati14 May · Natasha Rastogi14 May · Waheeda Rehman-119 May · Girish Karnad20 May · Kamal Haasan-122 May · Vanmala25 May · Kagiso Rabada28 May · N. T. Rama Rao28 May · N. T. Rama Rao-1
Most common Nakshatras among May births
Uttara Ashadha (9) · Revati (8) · Magha (7) · Purva Phalguni (7) · Shatabhisha (7)
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Everyone born in May
| Date | Name | Field | Moon sign | Nakshatra | Data |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 May | Anandamayi Ma (1896) | Writer | Sagittarius | Mula | Accurate |
| 1 May | John L. Burgess (1899) | Hollywood | Capricorn | Uttara Ashadha | Reference |
| 1 May | Suresh Kalmadi (1944) | Politics | Leo | Magha | Accurate |
| 1 May | William Lilly (1602) | Astrologer | Leo | Purva Phalguni | Accurate |
| 2 May | Brian Lara (1969) | Sports | Libra | Vishakha | Reference |
| 2 May | David Beckham (1975) | Sports | Capricorn | Uttara Ashadha | Reference |
| 2 May | Satyajit Ray (1921) | Bollywood | Aquarius | Shatabhisha | Reference |
| 2 May | Vasantrao Deshpande (1920) | Bollywood | Libra | Swati | Accurate |
| 3 May | Ann B. Davis (1926) | Hollywood | Sagittarius | Uttara Ashadha | Reference |
| 3 May | Bing Crosby (1903) | Hollywood | Cancer | Pushya | Reference |
| 3 May | Karl Abraham (1877) | Writer | Sagittarius | Purva Ashadha | Reference |
| 3 May | Sugar Ray Robinson (1921) | Sports | Pisces | Uttara Bhadrapada | Reference |
| 3 May | Tom Sutherland (1931) | Writer | Scorpio | Vishakha | Reference |
| 4 May | Audrey Hepburn (1929) | Hollywood | Aquarius | Shatabhisha | Accurate |
| 4 May | Randy Travis (1959) | Singer | Pisces | Uttara Bhadrapada | Reference |
| 4 May | Tyagaraja (1767) | Musician | Cancer | Pushya | Accurate |
| 5 May | Adele (1988) | Singer | Scorpio | Jyeshtha | Reference |
| 5 May | Gulshan Kumar (1955) | Singer | Virgo | Chitra | Reference |
| 5 May | Karl Marx (1818) | Writer | Aries | Bharani | Reference |
| 5 May | Tyrone Power (1914) | Hollywood | Leo | Purva Phalguni | Reference |
| 5 May | Zail Singh (1916) | Politics | Taurus | Mrigashira | Reference |
| 6 May | David Joseph Carpenter (1930) | Hollywood | Leo | Magha | Reference |
| 6 May | George Clooney (1961) | Hollywood | Capricorn | Uttara Ashadha | Reference |
| 6 May | Motilal Nehru (1861) | Politics | Pisces | Uttara Bhadrapada | Reference |
| 6 May | Orson Welles (1915) | Hollywood | Capricorn | Dhanishta | Reference |
| 6 May | Sigmund Freud (1856) | Writer | Taurus | Rohini | Reference |
| 6 May | Tony Blair (1953) | Politics | Capricorn | Shravana | Reference |
| 7 May | Anne Baxter (1923) | Hollywood | Capricorn | Dhanishta | Reference |
| 7 May | Jeetan Patel (1980) | Cricket | Capricorn | Uttara Ashadha | Reference |
| 7 May | Rabindranath Tagore (1861) | Writer | Pisces | Revati | Reference |
| 7 May | Traci Lords (1968) | Hollywood | Leo | Purva Phalguni | Reference |
| 8 May | Harry S. Truman (1884) | Politics | Libra | Swati | Reference |
| 9 May | Amjad Ali Khan (1945) | Musician | Pisces | Revati | Accurate |
| 9 May | Gopal Krishna Gokhale (1866) | Politics | Aquarius | Shatabhisha | Accurate |
| 9 May | Hank Snow (1914) | Musician | Libra | Swati | Reference |
| 9 May | James Barrie (1860) | Writer | Sagittarius | Purva Ashadha | Reference |
| 10 May | Fred Astaire (1899) | Hollywood | Taurus | Rohini | Accurate |
| 11 May | Martha Graham (1893) | Hollywood | Aquarius | Purva Bhadrapada | Accurate |
| 11 May | Natasha Richardson (1963) | Hollywood | Scorpio | Jyeshtha | Reference |
| 12 May | Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895) | Writer | Sagittarius | Mula | Accurate |
| 12 May | Katharine Hepburn (1907) | Hollywood | Taurus | Krittika | Accurate |
| 12 May | Tony Hancock (1924) | Hollywood | Leo | Magha | Reference |
| 13 May | Balasaraswati (1918) | Bollywood | Gemini | Ardra | Accurate |
| 13 May | Carolyn Franklin (1944) | Singer | Capricorn | Shravana | Reference |
| 13 May | Dennis Rodman (1961) | Sports | Aries | Ashwini | Reference |
| 13 May | Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed (1905) | Politics | Leo | Magha | Reference |
| 13 May | Jim Jones (1931) | Politics | Pisces | Revati | Reference |
| 13 May | Osama Bin Laden (1957) | Other | Libra | Vishakha | Reference |
| 14 May | Joseph Mclaughlin (1954) | Politics | Virgo | Hasta | Reference |
| 14 May | Linda Lee Tracy (1957) | Writer | Scorpio | Anuradha | Reference |
| 14 May | Natasha Rastogi (1962) | Bollywood | Leo | Uttara Phalguni | Reference |
| 14 May | Richard Deacon (1922) | Hollywood | Sagittarius | Mula | Reference |
| 14 May | Waheeda Rehman-1 (1936) | Bollywood | Capricorn | Dhanishta | Reference |
| 15 May | Andy Murray (1987) | Sports | Scorpio | Jyeshtha | Reference |
| 15 May | Larry Pines (1942) | Astrologer | Taurus | Krittika | Reference |
| 16 May | Adrienne Rich (1929) | Writer | Leo | Purva Phalguni | Reference |
| 16 May | Garth Allen (1925) | Astrologer | Aquarius | Shatabhisha | Reference |
| 16 May | K. Natwar Singh (1931) | Politics | Aries | Bharani | Reference |
| 16 May | Manik Varma (1926) | Musician | Gemini | Punarvasu | Accurate |
| 17 May | Dennis Hopper (1936) | Hollywood | Pisces | Revati | Reference |
| 17 May | Mary Bell Vincent (1963) | Business | Aquarius | Shatabhisha | Reference |
| 18 May | H. D. Deve Gowda (1933) | Politics | Aquarius | Purva Bhadrapada | Accurate |
| 18 May | Sandra (1962) | Singer | Libra | Vishakha | Reference |
| 19 May | Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar (1890) | Singer | Taurus | Rohini | Accurate |
| 19 May | Girish Karnad (1938) | Bollywood | Capricorn | Uttara Ashadha | Accurate |
| 19 May | Jane Brody (1941) | Writer | Aquarius | Shatabhisha | Reference |
| 19 May | Neelam Sanjiva Reddy (1913) | Politics | Libra | Vishakha | Reference |
| 20 May | Al Bano (1943) | Hollywood | Scorpio | Anuradha | Reference |
| 20 May | Chandrashekarendra Saraswati (1894) | Writer | Scorpio | Anuradha | Accurate |
| 20 May | Cher (1946) | Hollywood | Sagittarius | Purva Ashadha | Reference |
| 20 May | Joe Cocker (1944) | Singer | Aries | Ashwini | Reference |
| 20 May | Kamal Haasan-1 (1954) | Bollywood | Scorpio | Jyeshtha | Reference |
| 20 May | Moshe Dayan (1915) | Politics | Cancer | Pushya | Reference |
| 20 May | P. T. Usha (1964) | Sports | Leo | Purva Phalguni | Accurate |
| 20 May | Ronald P. Reagan (1958) | Politics | Taurus | Mrigashira | Reference |
| 20 May | Sumitranandan Pant (1900) | Writer | Capricorn | Shravana | Accurate |
| 20 May | William E. Kullgren (1885) | Writer | Cancer | Ashlesha | Reference |
| 21 May | Jeffrey Dahmer (1960) | Hollywood | Pisces | Revati | Reference |
| 21 May | Maurice Andre (1933) | Musician | Aries | Ashwini | Reference |
| 21 May | R Santhanam (1944) | Astrologer | Aries | Krittika | Accurate |
| 22 May | Arthur Conan Doyle (1859) | Writer | Capricorn | Uttara Ashadha | Reference |
| 22 May | Marcia Moore (1928) | Astrologer | Gemini | Punarvasu | Reference |
| 22 May | Naomi Campbell (1970) | Hollywood | Scorpio | Jyeshtha | Reference |
| 22 May | Novak Djokovic (1987) | Sports | Pisces | Uttara Bhadrapada | Reference |
| 22 May | Sophia Abrahao (1991) | Singer | Virgo | Uttara Phalguni | Reference |
| 22 May | Vanmala (1915) | Bollywood | Leo | Magha | Accurate |
| 23 May | Anatoly Karpov (1951) | Sports | Sagittarius | Mula | Accurate |
| 23 May | Jugal Kishore Birla (1883) | Business | Scorpio | Jyeshtha | Reference |
| 23 May | Kirk Shaw (1956) | Hollywood | Libra | Vishakha | Reference |
| 24 May | Bob Dylan (1941) | Musician | Aries | Krittika | Reference |
| 24 May | Kazi Nazrul Islam (1889) | Writer | Pisces | Uttara Bhadrapada | Reference |
| 25 May | Josip Broz Tito (1882) | Politics | Leo | Purva Phalguni | Reference |
| 25 May | Kagiso Rabada (1995) | Cricket | Pisces | Revati | Reference |
| 25 May | Mary Wells Lawrence (1928) | Politics | Leo | Magha | Reference |
| 25 May | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803) | Writer | Cancer | Pushya | Reference |
| 25 May | Vilasrao Deshmukh (1945) | Politics | Libra | Swati | Accurate |
| 27 May | Christopher Lee (1922) | Hollywood | Taurus | Mrigashira | Accurate |
| 27 May | Henry Kissinger (1923) | Writer | Virgo | Chitra | Reference |
| 27 May | Isadora Duncan (1878) | Hollywood | Pisces | Revati | Accurate |
| 27 May | Jay Gould (1836) | Business | Libra | Chitra | Reference |
| 27 May | John Barth (1930) | Writer | Taurus | Krittika | Reference |
| 27 May | Rachel Carson (1907) | Writer | Scorpio | Anuradha | Reference |
| 27 May | Ravi Shastri (1962) | Sports | Aquarius | Shatabhisha | Accurate |
| 27 May | Sitaram Jaipuria (1926) | Business | Scorpio | Vishakha | Reference |
| 28 May | Ian Fleming (1908) | Writer | Aries | Bharani | Reference |
| 28 May | Jerry West (1938) | Sports | Taurus | Krittika | Reference |
| 28 May | Krista Lea Harrison (1971) | Other | Cancer | Pushya | Reference |
| 28 May | N. T. Rama Rao (1923) | Bollywood | Libra | Swati | Accurate |
| 28 May | N. T. Rama Rao-1 (1933) | Bollywood | Gemini | Punarvasu | Reference |
| 28 May | Nellie Melba (1861) | Hollywood | Capricorn | Uttara Ashadha | Accurate |
| 28 May | Phil Foden (2000) | Football | Pisces | Purva Bhadrapada | Reference |
| 28 May | Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (1883) | Politics | Aquarius | Dhanishta | Reference |
| 28 May | William Ii Pitt (1759) | Politics | Gemini | Ardra | Reference |
| 29 May | David Gaines (1945) | Musician | Sagittarius | Purva Ashadha | Reference |
| 29 May | Hirabai Badodekar (1905) | Singer | Pisces | Revati | Accurate |
| 29 May | John F. Kennedy (1917) | Politics | Leo | Purva Phalguni | Accurate |
| 30 May | Suresh Shahasane (1949) | Astrologer | Gemini | Ardra | Accurate |
| 30 May | Wynonna Judd (1964) | Musician | Capricorn | Uttara Ashadha | Reference |
| 31 May | Brooke Shields (1965) | Hollywood | Taurus | Mrigashira | Reference |
| 31 May | Clint Eastwood (1930) | Hollywood | Cancer | Pushya | Reference |
| 31 May | Lea Thompson (1961) | Hollywood | Sagittarius | Mula | Reference |
| 31 May | Walt Whitman (1819) | Writer | Leo | Magha | Reference |
Listings are factual birth data from public records. Inclusion does not imply endorsement or approval of any person.
Data grade: Accurate = documented source for the birth time; Reference = published but unverified. People with uncertain data are not listed.
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Frequently asked questions
Which famous people were born in May?
Our database has 122 people born in May with Accurate or Reference birth data. The table above gives each person's Moon sign and Nakshatra.
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