"Mayday" (short story), a short story by William Faulkner

"May Day" (short story), a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald

May Day, a holiday on or around May 1

Mayday (Taiwanese band) (五月天 Wǔyuè Tiān)

Mayday (distress signal)

Mayday (TV series) (or Air Crash Investigation for outside Canada), a Canadian documentary show which dramatizes and discusses well-known airplane disasters

Sam "Mayday" Malone, character on the American television show Cheers

Derrick May (musician), American artist also known as Mayday

Mayday (music), an electronic music festival

Mayday (American band)

Bird Cherry, May Day tree, Prunus padus

Mayday, an album by Chicago pop-punk band, The Cells

Mayday (album), a record by Hugh Cornwell

"May Day!", a song by Elvis Perkins from his debut album Ash Wednesday

¡Mayday!, a hip hop group

Mayday (Awkward Thought album), an album by New York hardcore band, Awkward Thought

Mayday University Hospital, a hospital in Croydon

Mayday is a song by The Libertines which appears on the I Get Along EP as well as their greatest hits album.

Mayday (film), a 2005 film starring Aidan Quinn

Mayday (novel), a novel written by Nelson DeMille