May 2 is the birthday of 42 notable people we've found so far, including entrepreneurs, athletes, actors and musicians, and 4 of them are billionaires.
$15.1Breported estimate as of September 2026 · Forbes
Sir James Dyson is an English inventor, industrial designer, farmer, and business magnate who founded the company Dyson. He is best known as the inventor of the bagless vacuum cleaner, which works on the principle of cyclonic separation.
$9.1Breported estimate as of January 2026 · Forbes
María Asunción Aramburuzabala Larregui is a Mexican billionaire businesswoman. She is the chairperson of Tresalia Capital, a venture capital firm. As of January 2026, her net worth is estimated at US$9.1 billion.
Industries of the companies the 4 wealthy people born on May 2 founded or led.
food and beverage50% (1 people)
manufacturing50% (1 people)
Who shares May 2
What kind of people are born on May 2?
Share of the 42 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Entrepreneurs36% (15 people)
Athletes29% (12 people)
Actors24% (10 people)
Authors24% (10 people)
Musicians24% (10 people)
Politicians21% (9 people)
Creators17% (7 people)
Countries
23 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States10 (10 people)
United Kingdom5 (5 people)
Germany3 (3 people)
Brazil2 (2 people)
Italy2 (2 people)
Japan2 (2 people)
Canada1 (1 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on May 2 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.
By 25
~24Alessandro ScarlattiBecame chapelmaster (1684)
~23Paul GeorgeReceived the NBA Most Improved Player Award (2013)
Dwayne Douglas Johnson, also known by his ring name "the Rock", is an American actor and professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he performs on a part-time basis.
Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Lily Rose Beatrice Allen is an English singer-songwriter and actress. Her accolades include a Brit Award as well as nominations for a Grammy Award and a Laurence Olivier Award.
Justin Higuchi from Los Angeles, CA, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Catherine II, commonly known as Catherine the Great, was the Empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796. She came to power after a coup d'état against her husband, Peter III. Her long reign helped Russia thrive under a golden age during the Enlightenment.
After Alexander Roslin, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr. was an American singer and actor. One of the first multimedia stars, he was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century worldwide.
AnonymousUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Christine Jane Baranski is an American actress. She received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her role as Maryann Thorpe in the sitcom Cybill (1995–1998).
Satyajit Ray was an Indian film director, screenwriter, author, lyricist, magazine editor, illustrator, calligrapher, and composer. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest and most influential film directors in the history of cinema.
Dinu Alam Newyork, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Huang Zitao, also known by his stage name Tao (Korean: 타오), is a Chinese rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer and actor. He is a former member of the South Korean-Chinese boy band Exo and its Chinese sub-unit, Exo-M.
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Jon Oringer is an American programmer, photographer, and billionaire businessman, best known as the founder and CEO of Shutterstock, a stock media company headquartered in New York City.
Julia de Boer / The Next Web, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Dmytro Vasylovych Firtash is a Ukrainian businessman who heads the board of directors of Group DF. He was highly influential during the Yushchenko administration and the Yanukovych administration.
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Arnold George Dorsey, known professionally as Engelbert Humperdinck, is a British singer. He achieved international success in 1967 with his recording of "Release Me".
Charles Aznavour was a French and Armenian singer-songwriter, actor, and diplomat. Aznavour was known for his distinctive vibrato tenor voice: clear and ringing in its upper reaches, with gravelly and profound low notes.
Julian Brandt is a German professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or winger for Eredivisie club Ajax and the Germany national team.
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Elda Furry, known professionally as Hedda Hopper, was an American gossip columnist and actress. At the height of her influence in the 1940s, more than 35 million people read her columns.
Photoplay magazine, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg, better known by his pen name Novalis, was a German aristocrat and polymath, who was a poet, novelist, philosopher and mystic. He is regarded as an influential figure in Jena Romanticism.
Franz Gareis, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
James Francis Byrnes was an American judge and politician from South Carolina. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the U.S. Congress and on the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as in the executive branch, most prominently as the 49th U.S.
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Maynor Alexis Figueroa Róchez is a Honduran former professional footballer who played as a left-back or centre-back. He is best known for his time at Wigan Athletic, where he made 179 Premier League appearances and won the 2013 FA Cup.
Pietro Alessandro Gaspare Scarlatti was an Italian Baroque composer, known especially for his operas and chamber cantatas. He is considered the most important representative of the Neapolitan School of opera.
Unidentified painter, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Gottfried Benn was a German poet, essayist, and physician. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times. He was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize in 1951.
Luis Suárez Miramontes was a Spanish professional footballer and manager. He played as a midfielder for Deportivo de La Coruña, España Industrial, Barcelona, Inter Milan, Sampdoria; he also represented the Spain national team between 1957 and 1972.
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Robert Williams Wood was an American physicist and inventor who made pivotal contributions to the field of optics. He pioneered infrared and ultraviolet photography.
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Martin Naughton was an Irish billionaire businessman, engineer and philanthropist. He was the founder of GlenDimplex, a company specialising in electrical appliances.
Raul Aguila Daza is a Filipino lawyer, certified public accountant, and politician, who served in the House of Representatives of the Philippines for 20 years as Representative of the 1st District of Northern Samar.
House of Representatives of the Philippines, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 42 people born on May 2, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 4 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 September 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 2. Read the full methodology.
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