Famous birthdays
Famous people born on June 17
Short answer
Well-known people born on June 17 include Venus Williams (1980), M. C. Escher (1898), Mohamed ElBaradei (1942) and Charles Gounod (1818). Our list below has 95 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives June 17 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1603 (Joseph of Cupertino) and the most recent is 2003 (Chadi Riad). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, writer.
Who was born on June 17?
- Venus Williams 1980 American tennis player
- M. C. Escher 1898 Dutch graphic artist
- Mohamed ElBaradei 1942 Egyptian law scholar and diplomat, 4th Director General of the International Atomic…
- Charles Gounod 1818 French composer
- Jordan Henderson 1990 English association football player
- Tigran Petrosian 1929 Soviet Armenian Grandmaster and World Chess Champion
- Heinz Guderian 1888 German general
- Thomas Haden Church 1960 American actor
- Eddy Merckx 1945 Belgian cyclist
- William Crookes 1832 British chemist and physicist
- François Jacob 1920 French biologist and geneticist, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1965
- Alan Dzagoev 1990 Russian association football player
- Newt Gingrich 1943 American politician and former speaker of the United States House of Representatives
- George Akerlof 1940 American economist and Koshland Professor of Economics
- Ken Loach 1936 English film director and screenwriter
- Elena Rybakina 1999 Kazakhstani tennis player
- Shoji Jo 1975 Japanese association football player
- Zinho 1967 Brazilian association football player
- Greg Kinnear 1963 American actor
- Clément Lenglet 1995 French footballer
- William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse 1800 Anglo-Irish astronomer
- Alex Rodrigo Dias da Costa 1982 Brazilian footballer
- Scott Adkins 1976 English actor and martial artist
- Ken Livingstone 1945 English politician; Mayor of London from 2000 until 2008
- Leander Paes 1973 Indian tennis player
- Paulina Rubio 1971 Mexican singer
- Carl Van Vechten 1880 American writer and photographer
- Jurriën Timber 2001 Dutch association football player
- Évariste Ndayishimiye 1968 President of Burundi
- Henrik Wergeland 1808 Norwegian writer
- Setsuko Hara 1920 Japanese actress
- Marcos Baghdatis 1985 Cypriot tennis player
- Barry Manilow 1943 American singer
- Jello Biafra 1958 American singer and activist
- Stephanie Rice 1988 Australian swimmer
- Peter Svidler 1976 Russian chess player
- Krzysztof Zanussi 1939 Polish producer and film director
- Juan Carlos Valerón 1975 Spanish footballer
- Juan María Bordaberry 1928 Uruguayan politician and rancher
- Chantal Mouffe 1943 Belgian post-marxist political theorist
- Sophie of Württemberg 1818 Queen Consort of the Netherlands
- Ralph Bellamy 1904 American actor
- Monica Barbaro 1990 American actress
- Marie Avgeropoulos 1986 Canadian actress
- Néstor Pitana 1975 Former actor and football referee
- Giovanni Paolo Panini 1691 Italian painter and architect
- Joel Robles 1990 Spanish association football player
- Kamel Daoud 1970 Algerian writer
- Noa Lang 1999 Dutch footballer
- Quinten Timber 2001 Dutch footballer
- Ádám Nagy 1995 Hungarian association football player
- Ferdinand Freiligrath 1810 German poet
- Lucio Fulci 1927 Italian filmmaker
- Hiroyuki Shirai 1974 Japanese association football player
- Chadi Riad 2003 Moroccan association football player
- Will Forte 1970 American actor, comedian, writer
- Ted Nelson 1937 American information technologist, philosopher, and sociologist
- John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen 1604 Dutch soldier and administrator
- Louis Leterrier 1973 French film director
- Hermann Goldschmidt 1802 German-French astronomer and painter
- Joseph of Cupertino 1603 Italian conventual franciscan friar
- KJ Apa 1997 New Zealand actor
- Arthur Darvill 1982 Actor from England
- Latife Uşşakî 1898 Wife of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and First Lady of Turkey
- Jason Patric 1966 American actor
- John Hersey 1914 American journalist, novelist, professor
- Hansle Parchment 1990 Jamaican track and field athlete
- Jón Sigurðsson 1811 Leader of the 19th-century Icelandic independence movement
- Jon Gries 1957 American actor, writer, director
- Lee Ryan 1983 British singer
- Lisa Haydon 1986 Indian model and film actress
- Joaquín Almunia 1948 Spanish politician
- Mujinga Kambundji 1992 Swiss athletics competitor
- Alexander Shulgin 1925 American medicinal chemist, biochemist, pharmacologist, psychopharmacologist, and author
- Masai Russell 2000 American sprinter and hurdler
- Clodovil Hernandes 1937 Brazilian stylist, TV host and politician
- Lee Baxter 1976 Swedish association football player
- Prince Wilhelm, Duke of Södermanland 1884 Swedish prince
- Şükrü Saracoğlu 1887 5th Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey
- Nujood Ali 1998 Advocate of opposition to forced marriages
- James Shigeta 1929 American actor
- Rafael Sóbis 1985 Brazilian footballer
- Grethe Ingmann 1938 Danish singer
- Paul Tergat 1969 Kenyan long-distance runner
- Ali Saibou 1940 President of Niger
- Viktor Nekrasov 1911 Russian Soviet writer, dissident and emigrant
- Adrián Campos 1960 Spanish racing driver
- Michael Gross 1964 West German swimmer, Olympic gold medallist, world champion, former world record-holder
- Odessa A'zion 2000 American actress and voice actress
- Simone Battle 1989 American singer and dancer
- Nick Rimando 1979 American soccer player
- Eduardo Camaño 1946 Argentine politician
- Henry Lawson 1867 Australian writer and poet
- Sergio Marchionne 1952 Italian businessman
- Temir Sariyev 1963 Kyrgyzstani politician
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on June 17 share the 17th of June as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.