# Mayday (disambiguation)

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

### Paintings

* May Day (painting), an 1812 painting by the British artist William Collins
* Punch or May Day, an 1829 painting by the British artist Benjamin Robert Haydon

### Music

* Mayday (music festival), an electronic music festival

#### Groups

* Mayday (Nebraska 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" (Three Days Grace song), 2024
* "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