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Famous people born on April 17

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Well-known people born on April 17 include Victoria Beckham (1974), Karen Blixen (1885), Sirimavo Bandaranaike (1916) and Jennifer Garner (1972). Our list below has 91 people for this date, most widely covered first.

This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives April 17 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1598 (Giovanni Battista Riccioli) and the most recent is 2005 (Antonio Nusa). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, singer.

Who was born on April 17?

  1. Victoria Beckham 1974 English businesswoman, fashion designer and singer
  2. Karen Blixen 1885 Danish writer
  3. Sirimavo Bandaranaike 1916 Prime Minister of Ceylon (later Sri Lanka) from 1960–65, 1970–77, 1994–2000
  4. Jennifer Garner 1972 American actress
  5. J. P. Morgan 1837 American financier, banker, and art collector
  6. William Holden 1918 American actor
  7. Sean Bean 1959 British actor
  8. Thornton Wilder 1897 American playwright and novelist
  9. Shkodran Mustafi 1992 German association football player and manager
  10. Rooney Mara 1985 American actress
  11. Joe Alaskey 1952 American actor
  12. Olivia Hussey 1951 British actress
  13. Medhi Benatia 1987 Moroccan footballer
  14. Chandra Shekhar 1927 Prime Minister of India
  15. Romain Grosjean 1986 French and Swiss racing driver
  16. Georges J. F. Köhler 1946 German immunologist
  17. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 1985 French tennis player
  18. Takuya Honda 1985 Japanese association football player
  19. Steven Pruitt 1984 American Wikipedia editor with most edits
  20. Alain Poher 1909 French politician
  21. Satoshi Yamaguchi 1978 Japanese association football player and manager
  22. Nick Hornby 1957 English novelist, screenwriter, essayist, and film producer
  23. Didier Burkhalter 1960 Member of the Swiss Federal Council from 2009 to 2017
  24. Taksin 1734 King of Siam
  25. Adam McKay 1968 American filmmaker
  26. Chavela Vargas 1919 Mexican singer
  27. Kiril Petkov 1980 Bulgarian politician, economist and entrepreneur
  28. Majid Majidi 1959 Iranian film director, film producer, film actor and screenwriter
  29. Mariama Bâ 1929 Senegalese writer
  30. Giovanni Battista Riccioli 1598 16th century Italian theologian and astronomer
  31. Afrika Bambaataa 1957 American DJ, record producer, and rapper
  32. Benjamin Tucker 1854 American journalist and anarchist
  33. Cyle Larin 1995 Canadian association football player
  34. Osvaldo Dorticós 1919 President of Cuba
  35. Horst Hrubesch 1951 German association football player and manager
  36. Lindsay Anderson 1923 British feature-film, theatre and documentary director and film critic
  37. Charles Aránguiz 1989 Chilean association football player
  38. Maynard James Keenan 1964 American singer
  39. Samira Efendi 1991 Azerbaijani singer
  40. James Last 1929 German musician
  41. Gianluca Mancini 1996 Italian association football player
  42. Hervé Bazin 1911 French writer
  43. Riccardo Patrese 1954 Italian racecar driver
  44. Yoko Takahagi 1969 Japanese association football player
  45. Antonio Nusa 2005 Norwegian footballer
  46. Lee Joon-gi 1982 South Korean actor and singer
  47. Roddy Piper 1954 Canadian professional wrestler
  48. Maïwenn 1976 French actress and filmmaker
  49. Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius 1794 German botanist
  50. William Mapother 1965 American actor
  51. Leonard Woolley 1880 British archaeologist
  52. John N. Gray 1948 British political philosopher
  53. Mohammed Salisu 1999 Ghanaian association football player
  54. Yūichi Nishimura 1972 Japanese football referee
  55. Kristoffer Ajer 1998 Norwegian association football player
  56. Anne Shirley 1918 American actress
  57. Artur Schnabel 1882 Austrian pianist
  58. Phoebe Dynevor 1995 English actress
  59. Margot Honecker 1927 East German politician
  60. Martti Miettunen 1907 Finnish politician
  61. August Grisebach 1814 German botanist and phytogeographer
  62. Stefano Fiore 1975 Italian association football player
  63. Luke Mitchell 1985 Australian actor
  64. Josif Pančić 1814 Botanist
  65. David Bradley 1942 British actor
  66. Jan Hammer 1948 Czech-born American musician, composer and record producer
  67. Aleksander Klumberg 1899 Estonian athletics competitor, coach and sportsperson
  68. Rosanna Davison 1984 Irish model, activist, and Miss World 2003
  69. Nicholas D'Agosto 1980 American actor
  70. Ferdinand Piëch 1937 Austrian manager
  71. Hanna Pakarinen 1981 Finnish pop and rock singer
  72. Raffaele Palladino 1984 Italian footballer
  73. Peter Doig 1959 Scottish painter (b. 1959)
  74. Muttiah Muralitharan 1972 Sri Lankan cricketer
  75. Edmonde Charles-Roux 1920 French writer
  76. Nisargadatta Maharaj 1897 Indian guru
  77. Börje Salming 1951 Swedish ice hockey player
  78. Marta Eggerth 1912 American actress, singer
  79. George Seaton 1911 American screenwriter, playwright, film director and producer, and theater director
  80. Tando Velaphi 1987 Australian association football player
  81. Ahn Hyo-seop 1995 Canadian-Korean actor and singer
  82. Marguerite Broquedis 1893 French tennis player
  83. Anna Odine Strøm 1998 Norwegian ski jumper
  84. Jorge Meré 1997 Spanish footballer
  85. Vladimir Samsonov 1976 Belarusian table tennis player
  86. Jasper Stuyven 1992 Belgian cyclist
  87. Eliza Acton 1799 British food writer and poet
  88. Michael Mifsud 1981 Maltese footballer
  89. René Moawad 1925 Politician
  90. Mikael Åkerfeldt 1974 Swedish musician
  91. Gregor Piatigorsky 1903 Ukraine-born American cellist

Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on April 17 share the 17th of April as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.

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