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Famous people born on July 17
Short answer
Well-known people born on July 17 include Angela Merkel (1954), Donald Sutherland (1935), James Cagney (1899) and Queen Camilla (1947). Our list below has 86 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives July 17 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1674 (Isaac Watts) and the most recent is 2001 (Kishane Thompson). The most common fields on this date: football, actress, actor.
Who was born on July 17?
- Angela Merkel 1954 Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021
- Donald Sutherland 1935 Canadian actor
- James Cagney 1899 American actor and dancer
- Queen Camilla 1947 Queen consort of the United Kingdom since 2022
- Georges Lemaître 1894 Belgian astrophysicist and Catholic priest
- Kenan Evren 1917 President of Turkey
- Letsie III of Lesotho 1963 King of Lesotho since 1996
- Phyllis Diller 1917 American stand-up comedian, actress, author, musician, and visual artist
- David Hasselhoff 1952 American actor, singer, producer, and businessman
- Elbridge Gerry 1744 Vice president of the United States from 1813 to 1814
- Roger Garaudy 1913 French philosopher, politician and Holocaust denier
- Wong Kar-wai 1958 Chinese-born Hong Kong filmmaker
- Terence Tao 1975 Australian-American mathematician
- Carlos Alberto Torres 1944 Brazilian association football player and manager
- Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten 1714 German philosopher (b. 1714)
- Matti Nykänen 1963 Finnish ski jumper
- Cory Doctorow 1971 Canadian-British-American blogger, journalist, and science fiction author
- Gavin McInnes 1970 Canadian far-right commentator
- Ivan Strinić 1987 Croatian association football player
- Victor Lindelöf 1994 Swedish association football player
- Benjamin Mendy 1994 French footballer
- Maxim Litvinov 1876 Soviet diplomat and foreign minister
- Xianfeng Emperor 1831 The ninth emperor (and the seventh after defeating Ming) of the Qing Dynasty
- Jaap Stam 1972 Dutch association football player and manager
- John Jacob Astor I 1763 German-American businessman
- Baltazar 1959 Brazilian association football player
- Marcos Senna 1976 Brazilian association football player
- Geezer Butler 1949 English bassist
- Konstantinos Tasoulas 1959 Greek politician, President of Greece since 2025
- Diahann Carroll 1935 American actress, singer, model and activist
- Erle Stanley Gardner 1889 American writer and lawyer
- Darude 1975 Finnish DJ, music producer and composer
- Julio Argentino Roca 1843 Argentine politician and general, former president of Argentina
- Paul Delaroche 1797 French painter
- Berenice Abbott 1898 American photographer
- Claudio López 1974 Argentine association football player
- Jason Clarke 1969 Australian actor
- Cécile de France 1975 Belgian actress
- Anders Svensson 1976 Swedish footballer
- Mike Vogel 1979 American actor and fashion model
- Eunice Newton Foote 1819 American scientist, inventor and women's rights activist
- Wojciech Kilar 1932 Polish composer and pianist
- Billie Lourd 1992 American actress
- Quino 1932 Argentine cartoonist
- Alexander, Crown Prince of Serbia 1945 Head of the House of Karađorđević
- Robin Koch 1996 German association football player
- Elena Anaya 1975 Spanish actress
- F. Gary Gray 1969 American film director
- J. Michael Straczynski 1954 American writer and filmmaker
- Justine Triet 1978 French film director and screenwriter
- Johnny Briceño 1960 Prime Minister of Belize since 2020
- Heather Langenkamp 1964 American actress
- Kali Uchis 1994 American singer-songwriter
- Heinz Lindner 1990 Austrian association football player
- Frederick Abel 1827 British chemist 1827-1902
- Jan Wouters 1960 Dutch footballer
- Tokugawa Iemochi 1846 Japanese shogun
- Hakan Fidan 1968 Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey
- Julie Bishop 1956 Australian politician
- Robin Shou 1960 Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist and stuntman
- Milva 1939 Italian singer and actress
- Mélanie Thierry 1981 French actress and model
- Barbara O'Neil 1910 Actress
- Janet L. Kavandi 1959 American astronaut
- Georg Ritter von Schönerer 1842 Austrian politician
- Santiago Segura 1965 Spanish film actor, screenwriter, producer and director
- Mauritz Stiller 1883 Swedish film director
- Suha Arafat 1963 Widow of Yasser Arafat
- Gordon Gould 1920 American physicist and inventor
- Timothy Pickering 1745 American statesman
- Arlene Foster 1970 British politician
- Isaac Watts 1674 English hymnwriter, theologian and logician
- Amadou Diawara 1997 Guinean association football player
- Rashid Ramzi 1980 Moroccan-born middle distance runner for Bahrain
- Jacinto Quincoces 1905 Spanish footballer
- Eric Winter 1976 American actor
- Guru 1961 American rapper
- Alexius Meinong 1853 Austrian philosopher
- Zarina Wahab 1959 Indian actress
- Kishane Thompson 2001 Jamaican athlete
- Edward Natapei 1954 Prime Minister of Vanuatu
- Valery Voronin 1939 Soviet and Russian footballer
- Jack Conway 1887 American film director and actor
- Rudi Skácel 1979 Czech footballer
- Pál Kovács 1912 Hungarian fencer
- Miguel Britos 1985 Uruguayan association football player
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on July 17 share the 17th of July as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.