May 2: Empress Catherine II & Dwayne Johnson

[Jim Eshelman]

Catherine II, Empress. May 2, 1729, 2:30 AM LAT, Stettin, Poland (AA).
Johnson, Dwayne. May 2, 1972, 6:02 PM PDT, San Leandro, CA (AA).

[Danica]

There's Catherine the Great as candidate for the female example

2 May, 1729, at 02:30 AM, LMT, Stettin, Germany (AA)

[Jim Eshelman]

There's Catherine the Great as candidate for the female example

2 May, 1729, at 02:30 AM, LMT, Stettin, Germany (AA)

I did end up going with her. May 2 is a day with somewhat more abundant female names and the closest runner up is Donatella Versache for current cultural relevance. (One of my principles is to bias it toward youngest-possible to more likely fall into the awareness of people much younger than me, although a singular giant from centuries back can easily outweigh this.)

And I paired her with The Rock . (Catherine was always exceptionally fond of a good "rock.")