Famous People Born on May 25

• Carver, Raymond (1938)

  American short-story writer

• Dihigo, Martín (1906)

  The Cuban baseball star known as "The Immortal"

• Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803)

  A founder of Transcendentalism

• Heche, Anne (1969)

  The one-time partner of Ellen DeGeneres who starred in Six Days Seven Nights

• Hill, Lauryn (1979)

  The singer from the Fugees

• McKellen, Ian (1939)

  Gandalf in the film Lord of the Rings

• Murphy, Cillian (1976)

  Chief gangster Tommy Murphy on the BBC series Peaky Blinders

• Myers, Mike (1963)

  Star of the Austin Powers movies

• Oz, Frank (1944)

  The voice of Yoda and Miss Piggy

• Roethke, Theodore (1908)

  The Michigan poet who wrote "Elegy for Jane"

• Simms, Molly (1973)

  Delinda Deline on NBC's Las Vegas

• Spencer, Octavia (1970)

  Minny Jackson in the movie The Help

• Weaver, Jacki (1947)

  The sociopathic gangster-mother in the film Animal Kingdom

• Wilkinson, Jonny (1979)

  Star fly-half for England Rugby Union

See also: Died on May 25