Merlene Ottey

Merlene Joyce Ottey is a Jamaican-Slovenian former track and field sprinter. She began her career representing Jamaica in 1978, and continued to do so for 24 years, before representing Slovenia from 2002 to 2012. She is ranked fourth on the all-time list over 60 metres (indoor), eighth on the all-time list over 100 metres and sixth on the all-time list over 200 metres. She is the current world indoor record holder for 200 metres with 21.87 seconds, set in 1993. She was named Jamaican Sportswoman of the Year 13 times between 1979 and 1995.

10 May 1960

Born on the same birth date (10 May 1960): Bono • Dean Heller

Born on the same birth day (10 May): Al-Aziz Billah • Alfred Jodl • Anne Robert Jacques Turgot • Bert Weedon • Bono • Brittany Broski • Dennis Bergkamp • Ivana Španović • John Wilkes Booth • Kateřina Siniaková • Missy Franklin • Nancy Walker • William Henry Barlow

Born in the same month (May 1960): Almudena Grandes • Anne Clark (poet) • Brent Ashton • Dean Lukin • Franco Baresi • Gaston Therrien • Jeffrey Dahmer • Keith Dowding • Kristin Scott Thomas • Landon Deireragea • Masahiro Matsunaga • Mike Freer • Rimas Kurtinaitis • Tony Gwynn • Werner Faymann