According to Gregory calendar, January 17 is the day number 17 in a given year. Find List of Famous People Born on January 17 in India and the World: Here you can find the names of famous people born on January 17 in India and the World along with their date of birth, their profession and the country they belong to, etc. From World history, you will know about famous people like emperor, king, pundit, historian, explorer etc. And famous people born in modern world history include actors, actresses, filmmakers, businessmen, cricketers as well as players from other sports. This chapter is important as questions related to the birth of famous people are often asked in competitive exams.
Famous People's Birthdays on January 17 😀
| Birth Year | Name/Category/Country/Lived |
|---|---|
| 1405 | Skanderbeg / Nobleman / Albania |
| 1429 | Antonio del Pollaiolo / Artist / Italy |
| 1449 | Osanna of Mantua / Anchoress / Italy |
| 1463 | Antoine Duprat / Cardinal / France |
| 1472 | Guidobaldo da Montefeltro / Anchoress / Italy |
| 1484 | George Spalatin / Priest / Germany |
| 1501 | Leonhart Fuchs / Physician / Germany |
| 1560 | Gaspard Bauhin / Physician / Switzerland |
| 1574 | Robert Fludd / Physician / United Kingdom |
| 1600 | Pedro Calderón de la Barca / Poet / Spain |
| 1612 | Thomas Fairfax / Politician / United Kingdom |
| 1640 | Jonathan Singletary Dunham / Settler / United States of America |
| 1659 | Antonio Veracini / Violinist / Italy |
| 1666 | Antonio Maria Valsalva / Physician / Italy |
| 1686 | Archibald Bower / Author / Scotland |
| 1706 | Benjamin Franklin / Publisher / United States of America |
| 1712 | John Stanley / Composer / United Kingdom |
| 1719 | William Vernon / Business Man / United States of America |
| 1728 | Johann Gottfried Müthel / Pianist / Germany |
| 1732 | Stanisław August Poniatowski / King / Poland |
| 1734 | François-Joseph Gossec / Composer / France |
| 1761 | Sir James Hall / Physicist / Scotland |
| 1789 | August Neander / Historian / Germany |
| 1793 | Antonio José Martínez / Politician / Spain |
| 1814 | Ellen Wood / Author / United Kingdom |
| 1820 | Anne Brontë / Poet / United Kingdom |
| 1828 | Lewis A. Grant / Lawyer / United States of America |
| 1828 | Ede Reményi / Violinist / Hungary |
| 1832 | Henry Martyn Baird / Academic / United States of America |
| 1834 | August Weismann / Biologist / Germany |
| 1850 | Joaquim Arcoverde de Albuquerque Cavalcanti / Cardinal / Brazil |
| 1850 | Alexander Taneyev / Composer / Russia |
| 1851 | A. B. Frost / Author / United States of America |
| 1853 | T. Alexander Harrison / Painter / United States of America |
| 1857 | Wilhelm Kienzl / Pianist / Austria |
| 1857 | Eugene Augustin Lauste / Engineer / United States of America |
| 1858 | Tomás Carrasquilla / Author / Colombia |
| 1860 | Douglas Hyde / Politician / Ireland |
| 1863 | David Lloyd George / Politician / United Kingdom |
| 1863 | Konstantin Stanislavski / Actor / Russia |
| 1865 | Sir Charles Fergusson / Politician / United Kingdom |
| 1867 | Carl Laemmle / Producer / United States of America |
| 1871 | Nicolae Iorga / Politician / Romania |
| 1875 | Florencio Sánchez / Journalist / Uruguay |
| 1876 | Frank Hague / Politician / United States of America |
| 1877 | May Gibbs / Author / United Kingdom |
| 1880 | Mack Sennett / Actor / United States of America |
| 1881 | Antoni Łomnicki / Academic / Poland |
| 1881 | Harry Price / Author / United Kingdom |
| 1882 | Noah Beery / Actor / United States of America |
| 1883 | Compton Mackenzie / Poet / United Kingdom |
| 1886 | Glenn L. Martin / Business Man / United States of America |
| 1887 | Ola Raknes / Psychoanalyst / Norway |
| 1888 | Babu Gulabrai / Author / India |
| 1897 | Marcel Petiot / Physician / France |
| 1899 | Al Capone / Criminal / United States of America |
| 1899 | Robert Maynard Hutchins / Philosopher / United States of America |
| 1899 | Nevil Shute / Author / United Kingdom |
| 1901 | Aron Gurwitsch / Author / United States of America |
| 1904 | Hem Vejakorn / Painter / Thailand |
| 1905 | D. R. Kaprekar / Scientist / India |
| 1905 | Ray Cunningham / Baseball Player / United States of America |
| 1905 | Peggy Gilbert / Saxophonist / United States of America |
| 1905 | Eduard Oja / Conductor / Estonia |
| 1905 | Guillermo Stábile / Footballer / Argentina |
| 1905 | Jan Zahradníček / Poet / Czech Republic |
| 1907 | Henk Badings / Composer / Netherlands |
| 1908 | Cus D'Amato / Boxer / United States of America |
| 1910 | Prem Mathur / Pilot / India |
| 1911 | Busher Jackson / Ice Hockey Player / Canada |
| 1911 | John S. McCain Jr. / Army Officer / United States of America |
| 1911 | George Stigler / Academic / United States of America |
| 1914 | Anacleto Angelini / Business Man / Italy |
| 1914 | Irving Brecher / Producer / United States of America |
| 1914 | Paul Royle / Pilot / Australia |
| 1914 | William Stafford / Poet / United States of America |
| 1916 | Peter Frelinghuysen / Politician / United States of America |
| 1917 | Marudur Gopalan Ramachandran / Politician / Sri Lanka |
| 1917 | M. G. Ramachandran / Actor / India |
| 1918 | Keith Joseph / Politician / United Kingdom |
| 1918 | George M. Leader / Politician / United States of America |
| 1919 | Desmond T. Doss / Army Officer / United States of America |
| 1920 | Georges Pichard / Author / France |
| 1921 | Lorna Cooke deVaron / Educator / United States of America |
| 1921 | Herbert Ellis / Actor / United States of America |
| 1921 | Asghar Khan / Politician / Pakistan |
| 1921 | Antonio Prohías / Cartoonist / Cuba |
| 1922 | Luis Echeverría / Politician / Mexico |
| 1922 | Nicholas Katzenbach / Lawyer / United States of America |
| 1922 | Betty White / Actress / United States of America |
| 1922 | Tonse Ananth Pai / Economist / India |
| 1923 | Rangeya Raghav / Author / India |
| 1924 | Rik De Saedeleer / Footballer / Belgium |
| 1924 | Jewel Plummer Cobb / Biologist / United States of America |
| 1925 | Robert Cormier / Author / United States of America |
| 1925 | Abdul Hafeez Kardar / Cricketer / Pakistan |
| 1925 | Edgar Ray Killen / Criminal / United States of America |
| 1926 | Newton N. Minow / Politician / United States of America |
| 1926 | Moira Shearer / Actress / United Kingdom |
| 1926 | Clyde Walcott / Cricketer / Barbados |
| 1927 | Thomas Anthony Dooley III / Physician / United States of America |
| 1927 | Eartha Kitt / Actress / United States of America |
| 1927 | Harlan Mathews / Politician / United States of America |
| 1927 | E. W. Swackhamer / Producer / United States of America |
| 1928 | Jean Barraqué / Composer / France |
| 1928 | Vidal Sassoon / Business Man / United Kingdom |
| 1929 | Jacques Plante / Ice Hockey Player / Canada |
| 1929 | Tan Boon Teik / Politician / Malaysia |
| 1931 | James Earl Jones / Actor / United States of America |
| 1931 | Douglas Wilder / Politician / United States of America |
| 1931 | Don Zimmer / Baseball Player / United States of America |
| 1932 | Sheree North / Actress / United States of America |
| 1933 | Dalida / Singer / Egypt |
| 1933 | Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan / Diplomat / France |
| 1933 | Shari Lewis / Actress / United States of America |
| 1934 | Donald Cammell / Writer / United States of America |
| 1935 | Ruth Ann Minner / Politician / United States of America |
| 1936 | John Boyd / Academic / United Kingdom |
| 1936 | A. Thangathurai / Politician / Sri Lanka |
| 1937 | Alain Badiou / Philosopher / France |
| 1938 | John Bellairs / Author / United States of America |
| 1938 | Toini Gustafsson / Skier / Sweden |
| 1939 | Christodoulos of Athens / Bishop / Greece |
| 1939 | Maury Povich / Producer / United States of America |
| 1940 | Nerses Bedros XIX Tarmouni / Patriarch / Egypt |
| 1940 | Tabaré Vázquez / Politician / Uruguay |
| 1941 | István Horthy / Physicist / Hungary |
| 1941 | Gillian Weir / Educator / United Kingdom |
| 1942 | Muhammad Ali / Player / United States of America |
| 1942 | Muhammad Ali / Boxer / United States of America |
| 1942 | Ita Buttrose / Author / Australia |
| 1942 | Ulf Hoelscher / Educator / Germany |
| 1942 | Nigel McCulloch / Bishop / United Kingdom |
| 1942 | Mohammed Ali / Politician / India |
| 1943 | Chris Montez / Writer / United States of America |
| 1943 | René Préval / Politician / Haiti |
| 1944 | Ann Oakley / Author / United Kingdom |
| 1945 | Javed Akhtar / Poet / India |
| 1945 | Anne Cutler / Academic / Australia |
| 1948 | Davíð Oddsson / Politician / Iceland |
| 1949 | Anita Borg / Scientist / United States of America |
| 1949 | Gyude Bryant / Politician / Liberia |
| 1949 | Augustin Dumay / Violinist / France |
| 1949 | Andy Kaufman / Actor / United States of America |
| 1949 | Dick Nanninga / Footballer / Netherlands |
| 1949 | Mick Taylor / Writer / United Kingdom |
| 1950 | Luis López Nieves / Author / United States of America |
| 1952 | Darrell Porter / Baseball Player / United States of America |
| 1952 | Ryuichi Sakamoto / Pianist / Japan |
| 1953 | Jeff Berlin / Educator / United States of America |
| 1953 | Carlos Johnson / Singer / United States of America |
| 1954 | Robert F. Kennedy / Lawyer / United States of America |
| 1955 | Steve Earle / Actor / United States of America |
| 1955 | Pietro Parolin / Cardinal / Italy |
| 1955 | Steve Javie / Basketball Player / United States of America |
| 1956 | Damian Green / Politician / United Kingdom |
| 1956 | Paul Young / Writer / United Kingdom |
| 1957 | Steve Harvey / Actor / United States of America |
| 1957 | Ann Nocenti / Author / United States of America |
| 1957 | Michel Vaarten / Cyclist / Belgium |
| 1958 | Tony Kouzarides / Researcher / United Kingdom |
| 1959 | Susanna Hoffs / Writer / United States of America |
| 1960 | John Crawford / Writer / United States of America |
| 1960 | Chili Davis / Baseball Player / United States of America |
| 1961 | Brian Helgeland / Producer / United States of America |
| 1962 | Jun Azumi / Politician / Japan |
| 1962 | Jim Carrey / Actor / United States of America |
| 1962 | Sebastian Junger / Author / United States of America |
| 1963 | Kai Hansen / Singer / Germany |
| 1964 | Michelle Fairley / Actress / Ireland |
| 1964 | Michelle Obama / Lawyer / United States of America |
| 1964 | John Schuster / Rugby Player / New Zealand |
| 1965 | Sylvain Turgeon / Ice Hockey Player / Canada |
| 1966 | Trish Johnson / Golfer / United Kingdom |
| 1966 | Joshua Malina / Actor / United States of America |
| 1967 | Richard Hawley / Writer / United Kingdom |
| 1968 | Rowan Pelling / Author / United Kingdom |
| 1968 | Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer / Poet / Netherlands |
| 1969 | Naveen Andrews / Actor / United Kingdom |
| 1969 | Lukas Moodysson / Writer / Sweden |
| 1970 | Cássio Alves de Barros / Footballer / Brazil |
| 1970 | Jeremy Roenick / Actor / United States of America |
| 1970 | Genndy Tartakovsky / Director / United States of America |
| 1971 | Giorgos Balogiannis / Basketball Player / Greece |
| 1971 | Richard Burns / Racing Car Driver / United Kingdom |
| 1971 | Lil Jon / Producer / United States of America |
| 1971 | Kid Rock / Writer / United States of America |
| 1971 | Sylvie Testud / Actress / France |
| 1973 | Cuauhtémoc Blanco / Footballer / Mexico |
| 1973 | Chris Bowen / Politician / Australia |
| 1973 | Liz Ellis / Netball Player / Australia |
| 1973 | Aaron Ward / Ice Hockey Player / Canada |
| 1974 | Yang Chen / Footballer / China |
| 1974 | Vesko Kountchev / Viola Player / Bulgaria |
| 1974 | Derrick Mason / Footballer / United States of America |
| 1975 | Freddy Rodriguez / Actor / United States of America |
| 1978 | Ricky Wilson / Writer / United Kingdom |
| 1980 | Maksim Chmerkovskiy / Dancer / United States of America |
| 1980 | Zooey Deschanel / Actress / United States of America |
| 1980 | Modestas Stonys / Footballer / Lithuania |
| 1981 | Warren Feeney / Footballer / Ireland |
| 1982 | Amanda Wilkinson / Singer / Canada |
| 1982 | Dwyane Wade / Basketball Player / United States of America |
| 1983 | Álvaro Arbeloa / Footballer / Spain |
| 1983 | Johannes Herber / Basketball Player / Germany |
| 1983 | Rick Kelly / Racing Car Driver / Australia |
| 1983 | Marcelo Garcia / Artist / Brazil |
| 1984 | Calvin Harris / Singer / Scotland |
| 1984 | Karan Trivedi / Actor / India |
| 1985 | Pablo Barrientos / Footballer / Argentina |
| 1985 | Betsy Ruth / Wrestler / United States of America |
| 1985 | Simone Simons / Singer / Netherlands |
| 1987 | Cody Decker / Baseball Player / United States of America |
| 1988 | Andrea Antonelli / Motorcycle Racer / Italy |
| 1988 | Will Genia / Rugby Player / Australia |
| 1988 | Héctor Moreno / Footballer / Mexico |
| 1989 | Taylor Jordan / Baseball Player / United States of America |
| 1990 | Santiago Tréllez / Footballer / Colombia |
| 1991 | Trevor Bauer / Baseball Player / United States of America |
| 1991 | Slade Griffin / Rugby Player / Australia |
| 1991 | Alise Post / Bicycler / United States of America |
| 1994 | Mark Steketee / Cricketer / Australia |
| 1995 | Ann Li / Photographer / Philippines |
| 1998 | Jeff Reine-Adelaide / Footballer / France |
| 1998 | Sophie Molineux / Cricketer / Australia |
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