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 TV series Cheers
- Mayday Parker, the daughter of Spider-Man
- May Day (James Bond), a character in the film A View to a Kill
- Mayday, a clone trooper in the TV series “Star Wars: The Bad Batch”
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
- The Mediterranean Caper or Mayday!, a 1973 novel by Clive Cussler
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 (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
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