Taha Mikati is a Lebanese billionaire businessman, the brother of fellow billionaire and former prime minister of Lebanon Najib Mikati. He is the co-founder of Investcom, the M1 Group, and the Mikati Foundation.
Mohammed "Mo" Gulamabbas Dewji is a Tanzanian billionaire businessman and former politician. He is the owner of MeTL Group, a Tanzanian conglomerate founded by his grandmother, developed by his father in the 1970s.
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Share of the 39 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Actors26% (10 people)
Authors23% (9 people)
Musicians23% (9 people)
Athletes18% (7 people)
Creators18% (7 people)
Entrepreneurs18% (7 people)
Politicians13% (5 people)
Countries
16 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States14 (14 people)
France4 (4 people)
Italy3 (3 people)
Spain3 (3 people)
Brazil2 (2 people)
Japan2 (2 people)
United Kingdom2 (2 people)
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Harry S. Truman was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953. As the 34th vice president in 1945, he assumed the presidency upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt in April.
National Archives and Records Administration. Office of Presidential Libraries. Harry S. Truman Library., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. is an American novelist. He is known for his dense, complex works of postmodern fiction, which are distinguished by their paranoid tone, absurd humor, and references to history, art, science, and popular culture.
Photo presumably taken by "Mr. DiLillo", who was identified as staff photographer of The Oysterette (Mead 1989, p. 170)., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Donald Jay Rickles was an American stand-up comedian and actor, known primarily for his insult comedy. His film roles include Run Silent, Run Deep (1958), Enter Laughing (1967), Kelly's Heroes (1970), and Casino (1995).
John Mathew Smith & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
John Clifton "Jack" Bogle was an American investor, business magnate and philanthropist who was the founder of The Vanguard Group and is credited with popularizing the index fund.
Henry Dunant, also known as Henri Dunant, was a Swiss humanitarian, businessman, social activist, and co-founder of the Red Cross. His humanitarian efforts won him the first Nobel Peace Prize in 1901.
Frédéric Boissonnas, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Juan Antonio Pérez Simón is a Spanish businessman and art collector, resident in Mexico, who became rich in the telecommunications business. Pérez Simón has assembled a collection of over 3000 paintings, including works by Dalí, Goya, El Greco, Rubens, Van Gogh and Monet.
Franco Baresi was an Italian football player and manager. He mainly played as a central defender, and spent his entire 20-year career with Serie A club AC Milan, captaining the club for 15 seasons.
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Eric Hilliard "Ricky" or "Rick" Nelson was an American musician and actor. From age eight, he starred alongside his family in the radio and television series The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. In 1957, he began a long and successful career as a popular recording artist.
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Robert Leroy Johnson was an American blues musician and songwriter. His singing, guitar playing and songwriting on his landmark 1936 and 1937 recordings have influenced later generations of musicians.
Robert Johnson (self-portrait), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Bill de Blasio is an American former politician who served as the 110th mayor of New York City from 2014 to 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, he held the office of New York City Public Advocate from 2010 to 2013.
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Stephen Adam Amell is a Canadian-American actor. He came to prominence for playing the lead role of Oliver Queen on the CW superhero series Arrow (2012–2020), based on DC Comics.
Super Festivals from Ft. Lauderdale, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Friedrich August von Hayek was an Austrian economist and philosopher. He is known for his contributions to political economy, political philosophy and intellectual history.
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Keith Jarrett is an American pianist and composer. Jarrett started his career with Art Blakey and later moved on to play with Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis. Since the early 1970s, he has also been a group leader and solo performer in jazz, jazz fusion, and classical music.
Published by ABC/Impulse! Records. Photographer uncredited and unknown., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Edward Gibbon was a British essayist, historian and politician. His most important and influential work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, was published in six volumes between 1776 and 1789, to critical and commercial success.
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Lucimar Ferreira da Silva, commonly known as Lúcio, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. A tall and physically strong defender who excelled in the air, he is regarded as one of the best defenders of his generation.
Palácio do Planalto from Brasilia, Brasil, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Michel Gondry is a French filmmaker and producer. He is known for directing the 2004 film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, which he co-wrote with Charlie Kaufman, winning an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Saul Bass was an American graphic designer and filmmaker, best known for his design of motion-picture title sequences, film posters, and corporate logos.
Rochester Institute of Technology, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Gary Sherman Snyder is an American poet, essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist. His early poetry has been associated with the Beat Generation and the San Francisco Renaissance and he has been described as the "poet laureate of Deep Ecology".
Miyoshi Umeki was a Japanese and American singer and actress. She was the first East Asia-born woman to win an Academy Award for acting, winning Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Sayonara (1957).
Warner Bros. Pictures, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
John Michael Talbot is an American Catholic musician, author, television presenter and founder of a monastic community known as the Brothers and Sisters of Charity.
Michael Zabrocki, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Howard Robert Horvitz ForMemRS is an American biologist whose research on the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans was awarded the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, together with Sydney Brenner and John E.
Alfred Lerner was an American businessman. He was best known as the chair of the board of credit card giant MBNA and the owner of the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League (NFL) from 1998-2002.
Hisashi Kurosaki is a Japanese former football player and manager who is currently the head coach of the Myanmar U23 national team. He played for Japan national team. His first name was written "比差支" from 1992 to 1999.
This page lists 39 people born on May 8, 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 October 2024. 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 8. Read the full methodology.
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