Birthday wishes go out to Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, Ellie Kemper and all the other celebrities with birthdays today. Check out our slideshow below to see photos of famous people turning a year older on May 2nd and learn an interesting fact about each of them.
Top celebrity birthdays on May 2, 2022
Actress Christine Baranski turns 70
Fun fact: Played the stepmother in the film version of ‘Into the Woods’
Actor and pro wrestler Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson turns 50
Fun fact: His first pro wrestling match was against the Brooklyn Brawler
Check out more fun facts about Dwayne Johnson
Soccer star David Beckham turns 47
Fun fact: He and his wife Victoria have four children
Actress Ellie Kemper turns 42
Fun fact: Of the actors on ‘The Office’ who were not part of the original cast, only Ed Helms appeared in more episodes than Kemper
More celebrities with birthdays today
Singer Englebert Humperdinck is 86. Country singer R.C. Bannon is 77. Actor David Suchet (TV’s “Poirot”) is 76. Country singer Larry Gatlin is 74. Singer Lou Gramm of Foreigner is 72. Singer Angela Bofill is 68. Actor Brian Tochi (“Revenge of the Nerds,” ″Police Academy”) is 63. Actor Elizabeth Berridge (“The John Larroquette Show”) is 60. Country singer Ty Herndon is 60. Actor Mitzi Kapture (“The Young and the Restless,” “Baywatch”) is 60. TV commentator Mika Brzezinski is 55. Singer Jeff Gutt of Stone Temple Pilots is 46. Actor Jenna Von Oy (“Blossom”) is 45. Actor Kumail Nanjiani (TV’s “Silicon Valley,” film’s “The Big Sick”) is 44. Actor Robert Buckley (“One Tree Hill”) is 41. Actor Gaius Charles (“Grey’s Anatomy”) is 39. Singer Lily Allen is 37. Guitarist Jim Almgren of Carolina Liar is 36. Actor Kay Panabaker (“No Ordinary Family,” ″Summerland”) is 32.
Other popular or historical birthdays on May 2nd
Catherine the Great, Russian empress
Abraham Gesner, invented kerosene
Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen, WW1 flying ace (The Red Baron)
Benjamin Spock, pediatrician
Paul George, NBA All-Star (32)
Princess Charlotte of Cambridge (7)
with The Associated Press
Celebrity fun facts
Reese Witherspoon | Gal Gadot | Emilia Clarke | Sophie Turner
Robert Downey Jr. | Chris Hemsworth | Seth MacFarlane
Jason Momoa | Amanda Seyfried | Kat Dennings
Jenna Fischer | Miley Cyrus | Emma Stone | Mark Hamill
Emma Watson | Sarah Michelle Gellar | Tiffani Amber Thiessen
Scarlett Johansson | Kate Mara | Jennifer Aniston | Alan Alda
Jennifer Lawrence & Mila Kunis | David Hasselhoff
Lindsay Lohan | Natalie Portman | George Clooney
Betty White | Dave Matthews | Danica McKellar | Taylor Swift
Britney Spears | Bill Nye | Alyson Hannigan | Alec Baldwin
Rachel McAdams | Demi Moore | Julia Roberts
Danielle Fishel and the ‘Boy Meets World’ cast
Movie and TV fun facts & more
In memoriam: Celebrities who died in 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018
The Royal Family: Who is next in line for the British Throne?
88 celebrities who were born in Canada
15 celebrities who appeared on ‘Saved By the Bell’
‘The Office’ fun facts | 30 guest stars on ‘The Office’
10 famous directors who shot episodes of ‘The Office’
25 fun facts about ‘Friends’ | 25 celebs who appeared on ‘Friends’
25 actors you didn’t know were on ‘Game of Thrones’
25 actors you didn’t know appeared in ‘Boy Meets World’
More movie fun facts: ‘Love Actually’ | ‘Napoleon Dynamite’ | ‘Dirty Dancing’ | ‘Scream’ | ‘Romeo + Juliet’ | ‘The Big Lebowski’ | ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ | ‘The Phantom Menace’
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