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Mayday, or m'aidez, is an international distress signal.

Mayday, or May Day may also 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

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

• Sam Malone, nicknamed "Mayday", the main character of the television series Cheers
• Mayday Parker, the daughter of Spider-Man in MC2 (Marvel Comics 2)
• May Day (James Bond), a character in the film A View to a Kill, played by Grace Jones
• Mayday, a clone trooper in the animated series Star Wars: The Bad Batch, voiced by Dee Bradley Baker
• Verosika Mayday, a demon in the animated series Helluva Boss, voiced by Cristina Vee

Film and television

• Mayday (2005 film), an American television film
• Mayday (2021 film), an American film
• Mayday (Canadian TV series), a 2003 documentary series about aviation disasters
• Mayday (British TV series), a 2013 BBC television drama thriller

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

Music

• Mayday (music festival), an electronic music festival

Groups

• Mayday (American band), an American rock band
• Mayday (Taiwanese band), a Taiwanese rock band
• ¡Mayday!, an American hip hop group
• Derrick May (musician) (born 1963), American electronic musician also known as "Mayday"

Albums

• May Day (Matt Pryor album), 2012
• May Day (Matthew Ryan album), 1997
• Mayday (Boys Noize album), 2016
• Mayday (Hugh Cornwell album), 1999
• Mayday (Myriam Gendron album), 2024
• Mayday (King Cobb Steelie album), 2000
• Mayday (Mark Seymour album), 2015
• Mayday (Troop album), 1998
• Mayday, by The Cells, 2006
• Mayday (single album), by Victon, 2020, or its title track

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 TheFatRat, 2018
• "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 The Player Piano from Satellite
• "Mayday", by Tomahawk from Mit Gas
• "Mayday!!", by Flobots from Fight with Tools

Places

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

Other uses

• May Day (Washington College), a tradition at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland
• Elly Mayday (1988–2019), stage name of Canadian model Ashley Shandrel Luther
• 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 Rescue Foundation whose chief activity was running the White Helmets organization
• Mayday Hospital, former name of Croydon University Hospital, south London
• Prunus padus, or May Day tree

See also

• The Prince's May Day Network, climate change body in the UK
• Maiday, an English singer-songwriter
• May Days, a period of violence in Barcelona, Spain during the Spanish Civil War

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