Famous birthdays
Famous people born on February 17
Short answer
Well-known people born on February 17 include Michael Jordan (1963), Paris Hilton (1981), Mo Yan (1955) and Ed Sheeran (1991). Our list below has 99 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives February 17 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1653 (Arcangelo Corelli) and the most recent is 2002 (Kelly Sildaru). The most common fields on this date: actor, football, writer.
Who was born on February 17?
- Michael Jordan 1963 American basketball player and businessman
- Paris Hilton 1981 American media personality
- Mo Yan 1955 Chinese novelist and screenwriter
- Ed Sheeran 1991 English singer-songwriter
- Hal Holbrook 1925 American actor
- Otto Stern 1888 German-American physicist
- Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer 1836 Spanish poet
- Billie Joe Armstrong 1972 American rock musician
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt 1981 American actor and filmmaker
- Arcangelo Corelli 1653 Italian violinist and composer
- Ronald Fisher 1890 British statistician, evolutionary biologist and geneticist
- Michael Bay 1965 American film director and producer
- Bonnie Wright 1991 British actress and filmmaker
- Denise Richards 1971 American actress
- Larry the Cable Guy 1963 American stand-up comedian
- Adriano 1982 Brazilian footballer
- Hans Morgenthau 1904 American political scientist
- Rene Russo 1954 American actress and model
- René Laennec 1781 French physician, inventor of stethoscope
- Jensen Huang 1963 American entrepreneur and businessman; co-founder and CEO of Nvidia
- Sadegh Hedayat 1903 Iranian writer
- Dominic Purcell 1970 Actor
- Ralphie May 1972 American stand-up comedian
- Andrey Korotayev 1961 Russian anthropologist, economic historian, comparative political scientist, and…
- Marc Márquez 1993 Spanish motorcycle racer
- Ruth Rendell 1930 British writer
- Loreena McKennitt 1957 Canadian musician and composer
- Brenda Fricker 1945 Irish actress
- Madison Keys 1995 US American tennis player
- Taylor Hawkins 1972 American drummer
- Jim Brown 1936 American football player and actor
- Natascha Kampusch 1988 Austrian woman held captive for eight years
- Mori Ōgai 1862 Japanese novelist and army physician
- Dositej Obradović 1742 Serbian writer
- Thomas John Watson, Sr. 1874 USA IBM executive and art collector
- Henny Meijer 1962 Dutch association football player
- Horace Bénédict de Saussure 1740 Genevan scientist
- Arthur Kennedy 1914 American actor
- Friedrich Maximilian Klinger 1752 German dramatist and novelist
- Iolu Abil 1942 7th president of Vanuatu
- Jerry O'Connell 1974 American actor
- Alan Bates 1934 English actor
- Carlos Gamarra 1971 Paraguayan footballer
- Zeki Çelik 1997 Turkish association football player
- Cara Black 1979 Zimbabwean tennis player
- Romano Guardini 1885 German Catholic philosopher
- Meaghan Jette Martin 1992 American musician and actor
- Vasyl Lomachenko 1988 Ukrainian boxer
- Henri Vieuxtemps 1820 Belgian violinist and composer
- Al-Muhtadee Billah, Crown Prince of Brunei 1974 Bruneian Royal
- Giuseppe Signori 1968 Italian footballer
- Lou Diamond Phillips 1962 American actor
- Huey P. Newton 1942 Co-founder of the Black Panther Party
- Marcin Gortat 1984 Polish basketball player
- Volodymyr Scherbytsky 1918 Soviet politician
- Elhaida Dani 1993 Albanian singer
- Mario Bolatti 1985 Argentine footballer
- Jovan Dučić 1871 Bosnian Serb writer and diplomat
- André Maginot 1877 French minister of war (1922 - '24; 1929 - '32)
- Edgar Quinet 1803 French writer
- Philipp Franz von Siebold 1796 German biologist and traveller
- Otto Liman von Sanders 1855 German general
- Raf Vallone 1916 Italian actor
- Isabelle Eberhardt 1877 Swiss explorer and author
- Chord Overstreet 1989 American actor, singer and musician
- Alex de Minaur 1999 Australian tennis player
- Ernst Troeltsch 1865 German philosopher and theologian
- Attila Fiola 1990 Hungarian association football player
- Linor Abargil 1980 Israeli beauty queen, Miss World 1998
- Vicente Fernández 1940 Mexican actor and ranchera singer
- Juan Almeida Bosque 1927 Cuban politician and one of the original commanders of the Cuban Revolution
- Kelly Sildaru 2002 Estonian freestyle skier
- Karl Jenkins 1944 Welsh musician and composer (b. 1944)
- Andre Norton 1912 American writer of science fiction and fantasy
- Barry Humphries 1934 Australian comedian and actor
- Patricia Routledge 1929 British actress
- Rory Kinnear 1978 English actor
- Gaetano Castrovilli 1997 Italian association football player
- Jason Ritter 1980 American actor
- Rebecca Adlington 1989 British swimmer, Olympic gold medallist
- André Dussollier 1946 French actor
- Tobias Mayer 1723 German astronomer
- Bear McCreary 1979 American composer
- Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff 1699 German artist
- Princess Helena, Duchess of Albany 1861 German princess
- Joseph Bech 1887 Prime Minister of Luxembourg
- Andrew Barton Paterson 1864 Australian journalist, author and poet
- Edin Višća 1990 Bosnian association football player
- Ronald Knox 1888 English priest and theologian
- Nicolas Baudin 1754 French explorer
- David Douillet 1969 French judoka and politician
- Rita Süssmuth 1937 German politician
- Joey O'Brien 1986 Irish footballer and manager
- David Goggins 1975 American ultramarathon runner and writer
- Pertti Karppinen 1953 Finnish rower
- Pierre Auguste Cot 1837 French painter
- Almira Skripchenko 1976 Moldovan-French chess player
- Morgenshtern 1998 Russian-born Israeli rapper, singer-songwriter and record producer
- AB de Villiers 1984 South African cricketer
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on February 17 share the 17th of February as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.