May 10 is the birthday of 55 notable people we've found so far, including authors, entrepreneurs, historical figures and creators, and 3 of them are billionaires.
Stephen Michael Ross is an American real estate developer, philanthropist, and sports team owner. Ross is the chairman of Related Companies, a global real estate development firm he founded in 1972.
Stephen Davison Bechtel Jr. was an American billionaire businessman, civil engineer, and co-owner of the Bechtel Corporation. He was the son of Stephen Davison Bechtel Sr. and grandson of Warren A. Bechtel, who founded the Bechtel Corporation.
Share of the 55 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors29% (16 people)
Entrepreneurs22% (12 people)
Athletes18% (10 people)
Creators18% (10 people)
Actors16% (9 people)
Musicians16% (9 people)
Scientists16% (9 people)
Countries
21 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States12 (12 people)
France9 (9 people)
United Kingdom7 (7 people)
Canada3 (3 people)
Italy3 (3 people)
Japan3 (3 people)
Turkey2 (2 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on May 10 doing at your age?
Dated milestones from Wikidata (company foundings, awards, top jobs, notable works), placed at the age each person reached them. Add your birth year above to see the ones you have passed.
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~25Marina VladyReceived the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress (1963)
David Andrew Leo Fincher is an American filmmaker. Often described as one of the pre-eminent directors of his generation, his films have collectively grossed over $2.1 billion worldwide.
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Peter Greene was an American actor. A character actor, he was generally known for portraying villains, corrupt police officers, and criminals. He began his acting career in 1990, landing small roles in television and film with his film debut being Laws of Gravity.
Rob DiCaterino from Clifton, NJ, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Paul David Hewson, known by the nickname Bono, is an Irish singer-songwriter and activist. He is a founding member, the lead vocalist, and primary lyricist of the rock band U2.
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Fred Astaire was an American dancer, actor, singer, musician, choreographer, and presenter, whose career in stage, film, and television spanned 76 years. He is widely regarded as the "greatest popular-music dancer of all time".
Studio publicity still, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Gustav Ernst Stresemann was a German statesman during the Weimar Republic who served as chancellor of Germany from August to November 1923 and as foreign minister from 1923 to 1929.
Miuccia Bianchi Prada is an Italian billionaire fashion designer and businesswoman. She is the head designer of Prada and the founder of its subsidiary Miu Miu. As of October 2021, Forbes estimated her net worth at US$4.8 billion.
Cory M. Grenier, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
David O. Selznick was an American film producer, screenwriter and film studio executive who produced Gone with the Wind (1939) and Rebecca (1940), both of which earned him an Academy Award for Best Picture.
Unknown photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton, 1st Baronet was a Scottish businessman and company founder of Lipton Tea, merchant, philanthropist and yachtsman who lost 5 America's Cup races.
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Sir Denis Thatcher, 1st Baronet, was an English businessman and the husband of Margaret Thatcher, who served as the first female British prime minister from 1979 to 1990; thus, he became the first male prime ministerial spouse.
John Wilkes Booth was an American stage actor who assassinated United States president Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865.
Alexander Gardner, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Richarlison de Andrade, known mononymously as Richarlison, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur and the Brazil national team.
Assembleia Legislativa do Espírito Santo, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Dennis Nicolaas Maria Bergkamp is a Dutch professional football coach and former player. Originally a wide midfielder, Bergkamp was moved to main striker while still a teenager and then played as a deeper lying forward for the remainder of his career.
Linda Evangelista is a Canadian fashion model. She is regarded as one of the most accomplished and influential models of all time, and has been featured on over 700 magazine covers.
jusez from Hong Kong, China, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Aya Coco Danioko, known professionally as Aya Nakamura, is a French and Malian singer-songwriter. She began publishing her music online in 2014, gaining a following with the songs "Karma" and "J'ai mal". Dembo Camara, a longtime friend, became her producer and manager.
Adam David Lallana is an English professional football coach and former player who played as an attacking midfielder. He is currently manager of Southampton Under-21s.
PANNATHORN SUKMANONT, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Hidemasa Morita is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Premier League club Hull City and the Japan national team.
Sylvain Claude Wiltord is a French former professional footballer. Mainly a right winger, he also played as a centre-forward, second striker and on the left wing.
Birutė Marija Filomena Galdikas or Biruté Mary Galdikas was a Canadian anthropologist, primatologist, conservationist, ethologist and author. She was a professor at Simon Fraser University. In the field of primatology, Galdikas was recognized as a leading authority on orangutans.
Simon Fraser University - University Communications, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Richard George Adams was an English novelist. He is best known for his debut novel Watership Down which achieved international acclaim. His other works included Maia, Shardik and The Plague Dogs.
Rüştü Reçber is a Turkish former professional footballer and a current sports executive. During his professional career, he played as a goalkeeper for Antalyaspor, Fenerbahçe, Barcelona and Beşiktaş.
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was a British-born American astronomer and astrophysicist. Her work on the cosmic makeup of the universe and the nature of variable stars was foundational to modern astrophysics.
Smithsonian Institution/Science Service, restored by Adam Cuerden, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
William Olaf Stapledon was an English philosopher and author of science fiction. In 2014, he was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.
Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de l'Aulne, commonly known as Turgot, was a French economist and statesman. Sometimes considered a physiocrat, he is today best remembered as an early advocate for economic liberalism.
Attributed to Antoine Graincourt, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Augustin-Jean Fresnel was a French civil engineer and physicist whose research in optics led to the almost unanimous acceptance of the wave theory of light, fully supplanting Newton's corpuscular theory, from the late 1830s until the end of the 19th century.
Augustin-Jean Fresnel, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Marina Vlady is a French actress. Her film credits include The Conjugal Bed (1963), Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967), The Flavor of Corn (1986) and Orson Welles' Chimes at Midnight (1966).
Studio Harcourt, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Benito María de los Dolores Pérez Galdós was a Spanish realist novelist and politician. He was a leading literary figure in 19th-century Spain, and some scholars consider him second only to Miguel de Cervantes in stature as a Spanish novelist.
Marcel Israël Mauss was a French sociologist and anthropologist known as the "father of French ethnology". The nephew of Émile Durkheim, Mauss, in his academic work, crossed the boundaries between sociology and anthropology.
Société des Amis du Centre d'Études Sociologiques (SACES), CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle was a French army officer of the French Revolutionary Wars. Lisle is known for writing La Marseillaise and it became the French national anthem.
Léon (Lev) Samoylovich Bakst, born Leyb-Khaim Izrailevich Rosenberg, was a Russian painter and scene and costume designer of Jewish origin. He was a member of the Sergei Diaghilev circle and the Ballets Russes, for which he designed exotic, richly coloured sets and costumes.
Daniel Bell was an American sociologist, writer, editor, and professor at Harvard University, best known for his contributions to the study of post-industrialism. He has been described as "one of the leading American intellectuals of the postwar era".
Ettore Scola was an Italian screenwriter and film director. He received a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film in 1978 for his film A Special Day and over the course of his film career was nominated for five Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film.
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John Desmond Bernal was an Irish scientist who pioneered the use of X-ray crystallography in molecular biology. He published extensively on the history of science. In addition, Bernal wrote popular books on science and society.
Ivan Cankar was a Slovene writer, playwright, essayist, poet, and political activist. Together with Oton Župančič, Dragotin Kette, and Josip Murn, he is considered as the beginner of modernism in Slovene literature.
Avgust Berthold, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
George Elwood Smith was an American applied physicist and a co-inventor of the charge-coupled device (CCD). Smith shared one half of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics with Willard Boyle "for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit - the CCD sensor."
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David Joshua Azrieli was an Israeli-Canadian tycoon, real estate developer, architect, and philanthropist. He was a “devoted zionist”, serving as the National President of the Canadian Zionist Federation in the 1980s.
Moshe Shai (Israel), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 55 people born on May 10, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 3 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 2026. 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 10. Read the full methodology.
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