Mayday (disambiguation)

Mayday or May Day may refer to:

Common uses

• May Day, a traditional spring festival held on or around May 1
• May Day or International Workers' Day, an international labor celebration held on May 1
• Mayday or m'aidez, a distress signal

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

• Sam Malone, nicknamed "Sam "Mayday" Malone, a character in the TV series Cheers
• Mayday Parker, the daughter of Spider-Man
• May Day, a bodyguard in the James Bond film A View to a Kill

Games

• Mayday (game), a 1978 board wargame
• Mayday! Deep Space, science fiction video game

Literature

• May Day (play), a comedy play written by George Chapman, first published in 1611
• "May Day" (short story), a 1920 short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• May Day, a 1936 novel by John Sommerfield
• Mayday (novel), a 1979 novel by Tom Block and Nelson DeMille
• "Mayday", a short story by William Faulkner renamed Soldiers' Pay, published in 1926.
• The Mediterranean Caper or Mayday!, a 1973 novel by Clive Cussler

Music

• Mayday (music festival), an electronic music festival

Groups and labels

• Mayday (American band), an American rock band
• Mayday (Taiwanese band), a Taiwanese rock band
• ¡Mayday!, an American hip hop group
• Mayday Parade, an American rock band

Albums

• May Day (Matt Pryor album), 2012
• May Day (Matthew Ryan album), 1997
• Mayday (Boys Noize album), 2016
• Mayday (Hugh Cornwell album), 1999
• Mayday (King Cobb Steelie album), 2000
• Mayday (Mark Seymour album), 2015
• Mayday (Troop album), 1998
• Mayday, by The Cells, 2006
• "Mayday" is the name of the 2nd single album of Victon(2020)

Songs

• "May Day", by Chumbawamba from Tubthumper
• "May Day", by Dispatch from Silent Steeples
• "May Day!", by Elvis Perkins from Ash Wednesday
• "Mayday" (April song), 2017
• "Mayday" (Bump of Chicken song), 2007
• "Mayday" (Cam song), 2016
• "Mayday" (Lecrae song), 2012
• "Mayday" (Coldrain song), 2019
• "Mayday", by Dannic & Lucky Date, featuring Harrison
• "Mayday", by The Go! Team from Semicircle
• "Mayday", by The Libertines from I Get Along EP
• "Mayday", by Tomahawk from Mit Gas
• "Mayday!!", by Flobots from Fight with Tools
• "Mayday" by Victon in 2020

Television and film

• Mayday (Canadian TV series), a 2003 Canadian documentary series about aviation disasters
• Mayday (UK TV series), a 2013 BBC television drama thriller
• Mayday (2005 film), a 2005 American television film
• Mayday (2019 film), starring Michael Paré

People

• Maiday, an English singer-songwriter
• Derrick May (musician), an American electronic musician who also goes by the moniker "Mayday"
• Elly Mayday (1988–2019), a Canadian model

Places

• May Day, Kansas, United States
• Mayday, Colorado, United States

Other uses

• Mayday feature, a prominent feature of Amazon's Kindle Fire HDX device
• Mayday PAC, a crowd-funded, political action committee (PAC) in the United States
• Mayday Hospital, Croydon, south London
• Prunus padus, or May Day tree
• The Prince's May Day Network, climate change body in the UK