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Authors30% (14 people)
Actors24% (11 people)
Entrepreneurs22% (10 people)
Athletes20% (9 people)
Creators20% (9 people)
Politicians20% (9 people)
Artists11% (5 people)
Countries
27 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States6 (6 people)
France4 (4 people)
United Kingdom4 (4 people)
Germany3 (3 people)
Italy3 (3 people)
Spain3 (3 people)
India2 (2 people)
Life timeline
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Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, was a British Army officer and statesman. A leading figure in early-19th-century British politics, Wellesley served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and as Commander-in-Chief of the Forces.
Thomas Lawrence, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Anushka Sharma is an Indian film actress and producer who works in Hindi films. One of the leading actresses of the 2010s, she is the recipient of several accolades, including one Filmfare Award and three IIFA Awards.
Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Santiago Ramón y Cajal was a Spanish neuroscientist, pathologist, and histologist specialising in neuroanatomy, and the central nervous system. He and Camillo Golgi received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1906.
Wikimedia Commons, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
James Peter Maxwell Dornan is an actor and model from Northern Ireland. His accolades include two Irish Film and Television Awards, in addition to nominations for a BAFTA Television Award and a Golden Globe Award.
Dublin International Film Festival, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Patrice Guillaume Athanase Talon is a Beninese politician and businessman who serves as the first president of the Senate since 2026. He previously served as the eighth president of Benin from 2016 to 2026.
Office of USAID Administrator, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Ali Falih Kadhim al-Zaidi is an Iraqi banker, businessman, politician, and the current prime minister of Iraq since 2026. Taking office at the age of 41, he is the youngest prime minister in the history of Iraq.
White House https://x.com/WhiteHouse%7CThe White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Yael Arad is an Israeli judoka. She was the first Israeli to win an Olympic medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona in 1992. She is widely recognized as one of Israel's most successful athletes and is credited with bringing judo into the athletic mainstream.
https://www.flickr.com/people/69061470@N05, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Charli Grace D'Amelio is an American social media personality and dancer. She was a competitive dancer for over a decade before she came to prominence in late 2019, when she began posting dance videos on the video-sharing platform TikTok and joined The Hype House that same year.
Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford, known as Glenn Ford, was a Canadian-born American actor. He was most prominent during Hollywood's Golden Age as one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, and had a career that lasted more than 50 years.
Columbia Pictures, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Leonardo Bonucci is an Italian professional football coach and former player who played as a centre-back. He is assistant coach of the Italy national under-20 team and technical assistant of the Italy national team.
Clément Bucco-Lechat, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Theodorus van Gogh was a Dutch art dealer and a younger brother of Vincent van Gogh. His support of his older brother's artistic ambitions and well-being allowed Vincent to devote himself entirely to painting.
Wikimedia Commons, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Joseph Heller was an American author of novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays. His best-known work is his debut novel Catch-22 (1961), a satire on war and bureaucracy, whose title has become a synonym for an absurd or contradictory choice.
Photograph: Thomas R. Koeniges, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Mary G. Harris Jones, known as Mother Jones from 1897 onward, was an American labor organizer, schoolteacher, and dressmaker who became a prominent union organizer, community organizer, and activist.
Bertha Howell., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Oliver Bierhoff is a German association football official and former player who played as a striker. He has previously served as the technical director of the Germany national team.
Steindy (talk) 10:07, 27 June 2011 (UTC), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Malcolm Scott Carpenter was an American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aeronautical engineer, astronaut, and aquanaut. He was one of the Mercury Seven astronauts selected for NASA's Project Mercury in April 1959.
Darijo Srna is a Croatian former professional footballer and current director of football of Ukrainian Premier League club Shakhtar Donetsk. During most of his career he played as a right wing-back.
Ольга Щербицька, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Isabelle Geffroy, known professionally as Zaz, is a French singer and songwriter who mixes jazz, French variety, soul and acoustic. She is best known for her single "Je veux", taken from her self-titled debut album, released on 10 May 2010.
Michaël Bemelmans, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Joseph Addison was a British writer and politician. He was the eldest son of Lancelot Addison. His name is usually remembered alongside that of his long-standing friend Richard Steele, with whom he founded The Spectator magazine.
After Godfrey Kneller, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Yasmina Reza is a French playwright, actress, novelist and screenwriter best known for her plays 'Art' and God of Carnage. Many of her brief satiric plays have reflected on contemporary middle-class issues.
Ralf Gustav Dahrendorf, Baron Dahrendorf, was a German-British sociologist, philosopher, political scientist and liberal politician. A class conflict theorist, Dahrendorf was a leading expert on explaining and analysing class divisions in modern society.
Tomás Robredo Garcés is a Spanish former professional tennis player. His career-high singles ranking was world No. 5, which he reached in August 2006 as a result of winning the Hamburg Masters earlier in the year.
Carine06 from UK, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Secondino Tranquilli, best known by the pseudonym Ignazio Silone, was an Italian politician and writer. He became famous during World War II for his anti-fascist novels.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Yiannis Ritsos was a Greek poet and communist and an active member of the Greek Resistance during World War II. While he disliked being regarded as a political poet, he has been called "the great poet of the Greek left".
José Martiniano de Alencar was a Brazilian novelist, lawyer, politician, orator, and dramatist. He is considered to be one of the most famous and influential Brazilian Romantic novelists of the 19th century, and a major exponent of the literary tradition known as "Indianism".
Alberto Henschel, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Edcel Castelar Lagman Sr. was a Filipino human rights lawyer and politician from the province of Albay. He was elected as a member of the House from 1987 to 1998 and 2004 to 2013 and from 2016 up until his death.
House of Representatives of the Philippines, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 46 people born on May 1, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 2 of them carry a dated net-worth estimate citing Forbes or Bloomberg; combined wealth is the sum of the low end of those estimates, the newest as of 2023. Rankings compare all 366 dates in the dataset built on 2026-09-28. Milestone ages come from dated Wikidata statements; a tilde marks year-only dates. Nothing on this page is a prediction about anyone born on May 1. Read the full methodology.
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