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Famous people born on August 17
Short answer
Well-known people born on August 17 include Robert De Niro (1943), Herta Müller (1953), Pierre de Fermat (1601) and Mae West (1893). Our list below has 98 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives August 17 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1586 (Johannes Valentinus Andreae) and the most recent is 2003 (Rayan Cherki). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, singer.
Who was born on August 17?
- Robert De Niro 1943 American actor
- Herta Müller 1953 German-Romanian novelist, poet and essayist
- Pierre de Fermat 1601 French mathematician and lawyer
- Mae West 1893 American actress, singer, screenwriter, and writer
- V. S. Naipaul 1932 Trinidadian-British writer
- Thierry Henry 1977 French association football player and manager
- Sean Penn 1960 American actor
- Jiang Zemin 1926 Former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party
- John III Sobieski 1629 King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania
- Larry Ellison 1944 American internet entrepreneur and businessman
- Charles I of Austria 1887 Last monarch of Austria-Hungary (r. 1916–1918)
- Marcus Garvey 1887 Jamaica-born British political activist, Pan-Africanist, orator, and entrepreneur
- Nelson Piquet 1952 Brazilian racing driver
- Maureen O'Hara 1920 Irish–American actress and singer
- Tarja Turunen 1977 Finnish singer
- William Gallas 1977 French footballer
- Jorginho 1964 Brazilian association football player and manager
- Ted Hughes 1930 English poet and children's writer
- Austin Butler 1991 American actor
- Menilek II 1844 Emperor of Ethiopia and King of Shewa
- Phil Jagielka 1982 English association football player
- Davy Crockett 1786 American frontiersman and politician
- Ederson 1993 Brazilian goalkeeper
- Samuel Goldwyn 1882 Polish-American film producer
- Jim Courier 1970 American tennis player
- Helen McCrory 1968 British actress
- Rayan Cherki 2003 French footballer
- Jelena Karleuša 1978 Serbian singer
- Daniel González Güiza 1980 Spanish association football player
- Muslim Magomayev 1942 Soviet-Azerbaijani singer
- Jonathan Franzen 1959 American writer
- Guillermo Vilas 1952 Argentine tennis player
- Marcus Berg 1986 Swedish association football player
- Rexhep Meidani 1944 Albanian politician
- Lil Pump 2000 American rapper
- Belinda Carlisle 1958 American singer
- Mitsunori Fujiguchi 1949 Japanese association football player
- Fredrika Bremer 1801 Swedish writer and feminist
- Marcelo Caetano 1906 Portuguese politician
- Taissa Farmiga 1994 American actress
- William Carey 1761 English Baptist missionary and Particular Baptist minister
- Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld 1786 German princess
- Sarah Sjöström 1993 Swedish swimmer
- Ibrahim Babangida 1941 Head of State of Nigeria
- Steven Zuber 1991 Swiss association football player
- Francis Gary Powers 1929 American pilot shot down flying a U-2 spy plane over the Soviet Union
- Tiemoué Bakayoko 1994 French footballer
- Phoebe Bridgers 1994 American musician
- Ingrid Daubechies 1954 Belgian physicist and mathematician
- Josef Dobrovský 1753 Czech historian, lexicographer, linguist, literature historian, religion writer,…
- Philippe Aghion 1956 French economist
- Leslie Groves 1896 United States Army Corps of Engineers officer
- Donnie Wahlberg 1969 American musician, singer, producer and actor
- Brady Corbet 1988 American film director and actor
- Tyrell Malacia 1999 Dutch association football player
- Andrés Pastrana Arango 1954 President of Colombia from 1998 to 2002
- Paige 1992 British professional wrestler and actress
- Yu Aoi 1985 Japanese actress and businessperson
- Charles Cooley 1864 American sociologist
- Jan Kromkamp 1980 Dutch association football player
- Nora Gjakova 1992 Kosovo judoka
- Oleg Tabakov 1935 Soviet and Russian actor and theatre director
- Mark Salling 1982 American actor and musician
- Nicola Porpora 1686 Italian composer
- Anton Delvig 1798 Russian journalist and poet
- Eric Johnson 1954 American guitarist and recording artist
- Harry Hopkins 1890 American politician, 8th United States Secretary of Commerce, assistant to President…
- Louis Desaix 1768 French general
- Alex Honnold 1985 American professional mountaineer and extreme climber
- Dragutin Dimitrijević 1876 Serbian military commander
- Matvei Zakharov 1898 Soviet military commander
- Rudy Gay 1986 American basketball player
- Julian Fellowes 1949 English actor, dramatist, director, novelist, producer and screenwriter
- Nidhhi Agerwal 1993 Indian model and actress
- Mohamed Abdelaziz 1947 Sahrawi politician
- Lennart Torstensson 1603 Swedish Field Marshal, Privy Councillour and Governor-General
- Robin Cousins 1957 British former competitive figure skater
- Julien Escudé 1979 French footballer
- Lene Marlin 1980 Norwegian musician
- Ismail Jakobs 1999 Senegalese-German association football player
- Christian Laettner 1969 American basketball player
- Rodrigo Caio 1993 Brazilian footballer
- Jan Heintze 1963 Danish footballer
- Roger Peyrefitte 1907 French diplomat and writer
- Hamish Kerr 1996 New Zealand athletics competitor
- Rodney Mullen 1966 American professional skateboarder
- Charles Rogier 1800 Belgian journalist, statesman
- Thomas Hodgkin 1798 British pathologist and social reformer
- Robert Thirsk 1953 Canadian astronaut
- Johannes Geis 1993 German footballer
- Lothar Bisky 1941 German politician
- Gene Kranz 1933 NASA Flight Director and manager
- Ilinca 1998 Romanian singer
- Johanna Larsson 1988 Swedish tennis player
- Latisha Chan 1989 Taiwanese tennis player
- Monty Woolley 1888 American actor
- Johannes Valentinus Andreae 1586 German writer, mathematician and theologian
- Bronisława Wajs 1908 Polish-Romani classical poet and singer
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on August 17 share the 17th of August as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.