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What follows are general characteristics for people born on a date in May for any birth year. These birthday profiles are based on Astrology, Numerology, and Cartomancy.
If You Were Born Today, May 1: You are an independent, determined, and faithful person who is at once stable and restless! While you have a calm manner that soothes others simply by your mere presence, and you value security, you have a rather restless spirit and need to create some challenges for yourself to feel vital. You remain youthful throughout life, with a mischievous quality that is unmistakable.
Famous people born today: Julie Benz, Tina Lifford, Jack Paar, Joseph Heller, D’Arcy Wretzky, Ray Parker Jr., Judy Collins, Tim McGraw, Rita Coolidge, Jamie Dornan, Sacha Dhawan, Wes Anderson, Lizzy Greene, Madeline Brewer, Kerry Bishe, Nicholas Ashe, Drew Sidora, James Badge Dale, Victoria Monet, Kizz Daniel.
If You Were Born Today, May 2: Down to earth, practical, and responsible, you are a hard worker (some might say a workaholic!) with a strong will. A calm and capable aura surrounds you. Security and stability are what you crave most, and while you are generally very practical, you set your sights high.
Famous people born today: Ellie Kemper, Bing Crosby, Christine Baranski, Gaius Charles, Catherine the Great, Benjamin Spock, David Beckham, Sarah Hughes, Lily Allen, Dwayne Johnson, Elizabeth Berridge, Kay Panabaker, Mae Martin, Bayo Gbadamosi, Claudia Doumit, Golda Rosheuvel, Kumail Nanjiani, Matt Berry.
If You Were Born Today, May 3: Thoughtful and involved, you express yourself well, possess quiet charm, and quickly endear yourself to others. You are magnetic and have an undeniable artistic bent, and your creative mind can help bring financial success. As multi-talented as you are, you could spread yourself over multiple career paths and hobbies. You expect a lot from yourself, sometimes too much, which can lead to indecisiveness.
Famous people born today: Sugar Ray Robinson, Dallas Goldtooth, James Brown, Harvey Guillén, Mary Astor, Christina Hendricks, Bobby Cannavale, Dule Hill, Christopher Cross, Pom Klementieff, Dule Hill, Rachel Zegler, Rebecca Hall, Amy Ryan, Meagan Tandy, Mozhan Marno Navabi, Danila Kozlovskiy, Danielle Deadwyler, Kristin Lehman, Rodolfo Salas, Jessica Sula, Highdee Kuan, Danila Kozlovsky, Ron Canada.
If You Were Born Today, May 4: You are hard-working and somewhat of a perfectionist. Stability and security are especially important to you, and many of the choices you make in life are driven by the desire to achieve these things. As a people person, you tend to feel that most things in life are much better when shared. You are excellent at promoting cooperation and creating harmony.
Famous people born today: Audrey Hepburn, Ruth Negga, Randy Travis, Lance Bass, Navia Robinson, Will Arnett, Kimora Lee Simmons, Alexander Gould, Oleta Adams, LaRoyce Hawkins, Gracie Gillam, Shameik Moore, Toby Schmitz, Richard Jenkins, Irene Ferreiro, Burcu Biricik, Jean Yoon, Abigail Hawk, Oscar Jaenada, Ana Gasteyer.
If You Were Born Today, May 5: Determined and often stubborn, you have ambition and can work hard for what you want. You are multi-talented and somewhat restless. While you value stability, you crave stimulation and create new challenges for yourself to reach, which keeps your life in a state of flux. You are a good conversationalist, quite amorous, and especially attractive and magnetic.
Famous people born today: Zach McGowan, Karl Marx, Vincent Kartheiser, Tammy Wynette, Darrin Henson, Kurt Sutter, Tyrone Power, Henry Cavill, James Beard, John Rhys-Davies, Lance Henriksen, Clark Duke, Lisa Eilbacher, Jim Kelly, Vanessa Bryant, Santiago Cabrera, Craig David.
If You Were Born Today, May 6: You have a strong business sense and are tuned to the value and worth of things. You’re likely good with money or your resources. Security and stability drive you and are behind many decisions you make in life. You are amorous, curious, attractive, intuitive, and possess a strong personal presence.
Famous people born today: George Clooney, Orson Welles, Sigmund Freud, Adrienne Warren, Willie Mays, Rudolph Valentino, Naomi Scott, Gabourey Sidibe, Tony Blair, Adrianne Palicki, Gabourey Sidibe, Emily Alyn Lind, Noah Galvin, Tyler Hynes, Sasheer Zamata, Lars Mikkelsen, Beatrice Grannò, Shamier Anderson, Ahn Eun-jin, Aryan Simhadri.
If You Were Born Today, May 7: You are an earthy yet artistic person with a strong appreciation of nature, music, and the arts. You are charming and personable in a quiet way and very loving, although you easily withhold your concern and care if you feel someone is not giving you the proper respect. Moodiness and indecisiveness are strong possibilities with this birthday, as are great talents and sensitivity.
Famous people born today: Maya Erskine, Robert Browning, Tchaikovsky, Johannes Brahms, Thelma Houston, Gary Cooper, Marina Mazepa, Alexander Ludwig, Aidy Bryant, Lela Loren, Carrie Henn, Melissa Tang, Dylan Gelula, Mhairi Calvey, Adain Bradley.
If You Were Born Today, May 8: You are a playful, witty person who is also success-oriented and determined. You can be changeable in your manner despite being solid and focused overall so that others are unsure who they will meet from one day to the next! Light-hearted and personable many days, you can also be serious and withdrawn at other times. You are mentally quick and have a unique perspective on life.
Famous people born today are Vicky McClure, Román Zaragoza, Melissa Gilbert, Don Rickles, Enrique Iglesias, Stephen Amell, Jodhi May, Matthew Davis, Martin Compston, David Attenborough, Nora Arnezeder, Raoul Max Trujillo, Aneurin Barnard, Kim Seon-Ho, Philip Bailey.
If You Were Born Today, May 9: You are romantic and soulful, and yet determined and stubborn. At times moody, you often long for something more from your life. Others find you very appealing and attractive. You frequently go it alone when you don’t need to. You have strong feelings and intuition, and you have a particular affinity for music.
Famous people born today: Rosario Dawson, Candice Bergen, Billy Joel, Sonja Sohn, John Corbett, Grace Gummer, Chris Zylka, Amy Hill, Noah Centineo, Chris Diamantopoulos, Mary Mouser, Cree Cicchino, Alley Mills, Lionel Boyce, Kevin Peter Hall, Glenda Jackson, Alex Roe, Vijay Deverakonda, Julia Chan.
If You Were Born Today, May 10: You are a giver yet a go-getter–ambitious but always considerate of others. You instinctively understand that change is necessary for growth, even though you do hold on to traditions, habits, and people. Romantic at heart, you love deeply and often permanently. You are strong at networking and promotion. Highly intelligent, you constantly feed your mind with new information.
Famous people born today include Fred Astaire, Bea Santos, Bono, John Wilkes Booth, Sid Vicious, Gina Philips, Assad Zaman, Halston Sage, Odette Annable, Kenan Thompson, Mouzam Makkar, Marion Ramsey, Meg Foster, Anna Maxwell Martin, Jake Zyrus, Andrea Anders, Nicky Whelan, Alex Jennings, Lindsey Shaw, Da’Vonne Rogers, Rebecca Root, Michael Gandolfini, Victoria Rowell, Lane Webber, and Lee Jae-wook.
If You Were Born Today, May 11: You are gifted, talented, and well-respected. You are not fond of others telling you what to do, so a position in which you lead others or you are your own boss suits you best. You are independent but also thrive in partnership. While you are reliable, hard-working, practical, and solid overall, your emotions can be quite contradictory. A perfectionist at heart, your calm exterior can sometimes hide a worrying nature.
Famous people born today include Salvador Dali, Danielle Pinnock, Frances Fisher, Martha Quinn, Blac China, Phil Silvers, Cory Monteith, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Kathleen York, Benoît Magimel, Natasha Richardson, Shira Haas, Harriet Quimby, Jeffrey Donovan, JP Karliak, Rakie Ayola, Lana Condor, David Alvarez, Nilüfer Yanya, and Richard Gadd.
If You Were Born Today, May 12: Personable, friendly, caring, and charming, you are a thoughtful person and can put yourself into almost anyone’s shoes. Funny and witty, you have a true way with words and can be excellent at writing, promoting, advertising, and the like. You are also good at managing money and coming up with money-making ideas. You are versatile yet stable and secure.
Famous people born today: Florence Nightingale, Ving Rhames, Nathan Fielder, Katharine Hepburn, Rami Malek, Vanessa Williams, Tom Snyder, Yogi Berra, Tony Hawk, Mary Kay Ash, Emilio Estevez, Domhnall Gleeson, Emily VanCamp, Aaron Yoo, George Carlin, Rhea Seehorn, Kim Fields, Malin Akerman, Tristen J. Winger, Odeya Rush, Catherine Tate, Karen Pittman, Varada Sethu, Malcolm David Kelley, Jason Biggs, Aaron Yoo, Suzanne Clément, Deborah Kara Unger, Hiroto Kanai.
If You Were Born Today, May 13: Born on May 13th, you are a steady, reliable, and responsible person. You are not always patient with slackers, but patient overall. While you instinctively know that good things come to those who wait, you also know how to make things happen with determined effort. Very security-minded, you are also witty, no-nonsense, respectable, and solid.
Famous people born today include Stevie Wonder, Daphne Du Maurier, Joe Louis, Beatrice Arthur, Mika Abdalla, Iwan Rheon, Robert Pattinson, Hunter Parrish, Darius Rucker, Debby Ryan, Stephen Colbert, Zoe Wanamaker, Lena Dunham, Brian Geraghty, Samantha Morton, Laura Izibor, Mido Hamada, Harvey Keitel, and Hannah New.
If You Were Born Today, May 14: Intensely creative, you are also highly intelligent and possess strong business savvy. Many of your ideas are very marketable, and your talents are many and varied. Somewhat unconventional in thought, you quickly become bored with routine thinking. However, that is on a mental level. You can have a few stubborn habits yourself, and when your mind is made up, it can be difficult to steer you off course.
Famous people born today include George Lucas, Jahking Guillory, Shanice, Nava Mau, David Byrne, Lina Esco, Dante, Cate Blanchett, Kelly Gale, Miranda Cosgrove, Sofia Coppola, Gabriel Mann, Carla Jimenez, Jessica Raine, Amber Tamblyn, McKaley Miller, Bleona, Rosanny Zayas, Siân Phillips, Ada Nicodemou, Manushi Chhillar, Raphael Saadiq, and Bobby Darin.
If You Were Born Today, May 15: You are a hard worker with solid values. Motivated by a great need for security, you are organized and cautious for the most, although sometimes restless. You are forthright, saying it as it is, dependable, and trustworthy. You also possess excellent business sense and manage money quite well.
Famous people born today include Brian Eno, Inanna Sarkis, David Cronenberg, Richard Avedon, Caroline Dhavernas, Alexandra Breckenridge, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Russell Hornsby, Nicola Walker, Sophie Cookson, Cleavant Derricks, Sommore, David Krumholtz, Jack Mulhern, and Lainie Kazan.
If You Were Born Today, May 16: Exceptionally talented in the creative arts, including music, you are very able to focus your energies enough to make a success out of yourself in the arts. Your personality is colorful yet somewhat reserved and very poised. You can sometimes be so one-track-minded that you can get into a rut. Charming and romantic by nature, you are likable and personable.
Famous people born today include Liberace, Megan Fox, Danny Trejo, Melanie Lynskey, Pierce Brosnan, Debra Winger, Tori Spelling, Janet Jackson, Lynn Collins, David Boreanaz, Henry Fonda, Jermaine Fowler, Joseph Morgan, Jing Lusi, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Tiya Sircar, Khary Payton, Yannick Bisson, Ralph Tresvant, Samuel Labarthe, Deniz Akdeniz, and Jayden Revri.
If You Were Born Today, May 17: You are inspiring, excellent at promotion and sales, and strong-minded. Music may be a talent or extremely important in your life. When confident, you are radiant, helpful, and a joy to be around. When insecure, however, you might have a tendency to bring others down with you! Stubborn yet attuned to progress, there is a well-defined spiritual bent to your personality. It may be too easy to fall into ruts, but your innate intuition and ambition will allow you to rise above these periods of inertia.
Famous people born today include Lena Waithe, Erik Satie, Karrueche Tran, Dennis Hopper, Sugar Ray Leonard, Trent Reznor, Enya, Nikki Reed, Bill Paxton, Tahj Mowry, Sendhil Ramamurthy, Kandi Burruss, Bob Saget, Ross Butler, Hisham Tawfiq, Rochelle Aytes, Paige Turco, Sasha Alexander, Nushrratt Bharuccha, Lyne Renée, and Hill Harper.
If You Were Born Today, May 18: While friendly and confident, you have a spiritual side and a strong need for privacy. You are creative, unusual, passionate, and a tad mysterious, but ultimately very reliable and trustworthy. You possess tremendous business sense coupled with the determination to go after what you want. As imaginative as you are, you also know how to use your imagination in the practical world.
Famous people born today include Tina Fey, Reggie Jackson, Perry Como, Frank Capra, Yun-Fat Chow, Violett Beane, Luke Kleintank, Allen Leech, Felicia Pearson, Adwoa Aboah, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Alexa Mansour, Matt Long, Miriam Margolyes, Spencer Breslin, Holly Aird, Kyle Harvey, Josefine Frida Pettersen, and Patrick St. Esprit.
If You Were Born Today, May 19: You possess a regal manner, an exceptionally sharp intellect, and great independence. Others frequently turn to you for advice, and you make a gentle and effective leader. You follow your own belief system and are passionate about what and who you believe in. Your intuition is top-notch.
Famous people born today include Grace Jones, Pete Townshend, Nora Ephron, Andre the Giant, Moses Sumney, Polly Walker, Sam Smith, Eleanor Tomlinson, Berenice Marlohe, Nancy Kwan, Danielle Macdonald, Joel Fry, JoJo Siwa, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Michael Che, Thomas Vinterberg, Kelly Rizzo, and Georges St-Pierre.
If You Were Born Today, May 20: You possess tremendous strength of character, warmth, sensuality, and intuition. While grounded and steady overall, you have a flair for the dramatic. Extremely perceptive, you can usually size up a person or situation quickly. You are exceptionally self-aware and spend your life learning, largely through intuition and observation. You are loving and kind but seldom forget a slight.
Famous people born today include Yon Gonzalez, Naturi Naughton, Timothy Olyphant, Honore de Balzac, Cher, James Stewart, Dolly Madison, Matt Czuchry, Mindy Cohn, Tony Goldwyn, Gina Ravera, Fra Fee, Michaela McManus, Bronson Pinchot, Tahmoh Penikett, Josh O’Connor, Kim Shaw, Daya Vaidya, and Alex Hogh Andersen.
If You Were Born Today, May 21: You are exceptionally witty and playful, and you possess a youthful quality to your personality your entire life. You are highly creative on a mental level, have an excellent memory, and love a good debate. Sometimes short on patience, you might feel that others don’t move as quickly in thought as you do. However, you are also a people person. Your ideas on love and relationships are unique.
Famous people born today include Plato, Henri Rousseau, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Mr. T, Raymond Burr, Fairuza Balk, Lisa Edelstein, Judge Reinhold, Hannah Einbinder, Kano, Chase Sui Wonders, Nick Cassavetes, Adriana Ozores, Kevin Quinn, Sarah Ramos, Kate Phillips, Noel Fielding, Belinda Bromilow, Kyle Red Silverstein, David Ajala, Cristina Rodlo, Kevin Quinn, Noel Fielding, and Olivia Olson.
If You Were Born Today, May 22: You are a person with integrity, who is forthright and intelligent. You can be somewhat of a perfectionist, and you are often hard on yourself and, sometimes, others as a result. A highly independent thinker, your ideas and opinions are strikingly unique and unusual. You are forever learning and sharing what you’ve learned. Partners tend to be strong-willed.
Famous people born today include Ann Cusack, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Naomi Campbell, Richard Wagner, Laurence Olivier, Paul Winfield, Maggie Q, Ginnifer Goodwin, Molly Ephraim, Erica Peeples, Nazanin Boniadi, Sean Gunn, Brooke Smith, Michael Constantine, Tao Okamoto, Yadira Guevara-Prip, Camren Bicondova, Hideaki Anno, and Peyton Elizabeth Lee.
If You Were Born Today, May 23: You are versatile, witty, creative, and full of pluck. You have a lot to teach, but you most enjoy sharing your knowledge and ideas with others. People love your sense of humor and playfulness. You can sometimes be unreliable simply because you have more ideas than you can put into action. Starting a new project is your forte.
Famous people born today include Joan Collins, LaMonica Garrett, Jewel, Drew Carey, Margaret Fuller, Scatman Crothers, Artie Shaw, Richard Ayoade, H. Jon Benjamin, Melissa McBride, John Ortiz, Linden Ashby, Lea DeLaria, Laurel Holloman, Ryan Coogler, Jesse James Keitel, Patricia Barnstable, D.J. Cotrona, Ramona Young, Chris Gethard, Barbara Barrie, David Harris, Betty Garrett, and Matt Lintz.
If You Were Born Today, May 24: Once you find your calling, you are capable of practically anything you set your mind to. You have a commanding manner, and you set clear boundaries. You have strong opinions and love exchanging ideas with others. When your heart is won, you are loving, considerate, and involved. You also have a good head for business.
Famous people born today include Queen Victoria, Patti Labelle, Priscilla Presley, Bob Dylan, Kristin Scott Thomas, Doug Jones, Mia Isaac, Alfred Molina, Brianne Howie, Zhangke Jia, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Carl Anthony Payne II, Kim Yoon-hye, Charlie Plummer, Nell Campbell, Callie Hernandez, Will Sasso, Parker Sawyers, and Synnøve Macody Lund.
If You Were Born Today, May 25: You are a witty, humorous, talkative person. Under the chatty or sociable surface, you are a lot more serious than you appear. In fact, you never take anything at face value. You consider yourself unusual, and most people agree! You are highly imaginative with fantastical dreams and ideas. It’s not always easy for others to understand you! However, you do understand others instinctively.
Famous people born today include Leslie Uggams, Robert Ludlum, Karen Valentine, Mike Myers, Anne Heche, Cillian Murphy, Zazie Beetz, Octavia Spencer, Esmé Bianco, Connie Sellecca, Brandon Perea, Elle Graham, Steven Krueger, Brec Bassinger, Kunal Kemmu, and Lisseth Chavez.
If You Were Born Today, May 26: You are highly insightful and often help others better understand themselves. Artistically gifted, you have a natural creative bent in addition to general “smarts.” You are exceptionally hard-working and quite ambitious—a combination that virtually guarantees success. Your determination is at your core, even though you can sometimes appear scattered.
Famous people born today include Helena Bonham Carter, John Wayne, Peter Cushing, Peggy Lee, Miles Davis, Lauryn Hill, Stevie Nicks, Alex Garland, Richa Moorjani, Pam Grier, Chris Jay, Musetta Vander, Astrid Bergès-Frisbey, and Lenny Kravitz.
If You Were Born Today, May 27: Life is always an adventure for you because you are extremely curious, inquisitive, and always open to learning from your experiences. You are very friendly, giving, and naturally charming. You instinctively know that change is a natural part of life and learning, and you try to keep positive. To remain interested in projects and work, you need a lot of mental stimulation. You are exceptionally versatile and flexible, making it sometimes challenging to focus.
Famous people born today include Henry Kissinger, Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Chelsea Field, Louis Gossett, Jr., Bruce Cockburn, Paul Bettany, Ben Feldman, Joseph Fiennes, Lily-Rose Depp, André 3000, Peri Gilpin, Jack McBrayer, Todd Bridges, Richard Schiff, Bella Heathcote, Izabela Vidovic, Shiloh Jolie-Pitt , Kam Fong, Kenny Ridwan, and Shanola Hampton.
If You Were Born Today, May 28: You are a determined, independent, and possibly quite stubborn person. You possess common sense and great wit, and you come across straightforwardly. You think big but are good with the details as well. As practical and logical as you can be, you are also very intuitive and attuned to the world of beauty and creativity. A strong desire to achieve security drives you.
Famous people born today include Carroll Baker, Ian Fleming, Kylie Minogue, Gladys Knight, Jake Johnson, Svenja Jung, Megalyn Echikunwoke, Carey Mulligan, Cameron Boyce, Nonso Anozie, Emily O’Brien, Alexa Davalos, Lukas Gage, Christa Miller, and Jessica Rothe.
If You Were Born Today, May 29: You are an “idea person” with a sharp mind and a gift for gab. You are exceptionally passionate and quite idealistic about love, which can lead to ups and downs in your love life. You exude strength of character, although sometimes your harder outer “shell” can hide a person with many soft corners inside. You don’t like to let things become too routine or dull.
Famous people born today include Laverne Cox, La Toya Jackson, Melissa Etheridge, Annette Bening, Earthquake, John F. Kennedy, Bob Hope, Riley Keough, Maika Monroe, Ted Levine, Mel B, Alessandra Torresani, Anders Holm, Justin Chon, Aura Garrido, Noah Reid, Crystal Balint, Anders Holm, Paloma Kwiatkowski, Justin Chon, Karen Maruyama, Elyas M’Barek, Diana Lee Inosanto, and Pearl Mackie.
If You Were Born Today, May 30: You are a people person, always curious about others, and very friendly and enthusiastic. As sociable as you can be, however, you are also very partnership-oriented, and you come alive in one-to-one settings. While you don’t always follow others’ advice, you do love to ask, if only to stimulate conversation and set your own thinking processes into motion. Cheerfulness and a unique sense of humor are your trademarks.
Famous people born today: Wynonna Judd, DeWanda Wise, Mel Blanc, Manny Ramirez, Idina Menzel, Ralph Carter, Colm Meaney, Ruta Lee, Nick Creegan, Stephen Tobolowsky, Antoine Fuqua, Tonya Pinkins, Minae Noji, Jonah Hauer-King, Sean Giambrone, Javicia Leslie, Rachael Stirling, Tadhg Murphy, Im Yoon-ah, Jake Short, Fahim Fazli, and Martina Cariddi.
If You Were Born Today, May 31: Your clever mind and strength of character are traits that others tend to notice first, and they earn you respect. You are an engaging conversationalist, offering a unique perspective on whatever topic is on the table. You are very capable and determined, and you have a distinct traditional side to your personality.
Famous people born today include Brooke Shields, Azealia Banks, Colin Farrell, Archie Panjabi, Yael Grobglas, Sobhita Dhulipala, Walt Whitman, Clint Eastwood, Joe Namath, Lea Thompson, Chris Elliott, Don Ameche, Ellen Wong, Sarah Goldberg, Normani, Justine Lupe, Meredith Hagner, Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, Phillipa Soo, and Merle Dandridge.
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