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Famous people born on March 17

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Well-known people born on March 17 include Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (1920), Nat King Cole (1919), Kurt Russell (1951) and Gottlieb Daimler (1834). Our list below has 92 people for this date, most widely covered first.

This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives March 17 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1622 (Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen) and the most recent is 2008 (Kaylee Hottle). The most common fields on this date: football, singer, actor.

Who was born on March 17?

  1. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman 1920 President of the Provisional Government of Bangladesh and the 2nd Prime Minister and…
  2. Nat King Cole 1919 American singer and jazz pianist
  3. Kurt Russell 1951 American actor
  4. Gottlieb Daimler 1834 German engineer and industrialist
  5. Rudolf Nureyev 1938 Soviet ballet dancer and choreographer
  6. Gary Sinise 1955 American actor
  7. Kalpana Chawla 1962 American astronaut
  8. Edin Džeko 1986 Bosnian association football player
  9. Shinji Kagawa 1989 Japanese association football player
  10. William Gibson 1948 American-Canadian speculative fiction writer
  11. Mia Hamm 1972 American soccer player
  12. Raul Meireles 1983 Portuguese association football player
  13. Manon Roland 1754 French revolutionary
  14. Walter Rudolf Hess 1881 Swiss physiologist
  15. Katie Ledecky 1997 American Olympic swimmer
  16. Giovanni Trapattoni 1939 Italian association football player and manager
  17. John Boyega 1992 English actor
  18. Rob Lowe 1964 American actor
  19. Saina Nehwal 1990 Indian badminton player
  20. Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen 1622 German writer
  21. Gabriel Narutowicz 1865 Polish politician
  22. Steven Pienaar 1982 South African footballer
  23. Álvaro Recoba 1976 Uruguayan footballer
  24. James Irwin 1930 American astronaut
  25. Marcel Sabitzer 1994 Austrian footballer
  26. Grimes 1988 Canadian musician, singer, record producer and music video director
  27. Hozier 1990 Irish musician and singer
  28. Federico Fazio 1987 Argentine association football player
  29. Frode Johnsen 1974 Norwegian association football player
  30. Takeo Miki 1907 Japanese politician
  31. Andrei Belousov 1959 Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation
  32. Dorin Recean 1974 Moldovan academic and politician
  33. Ken Mattingly 1936 American astronaut
  34. Fraser Forster 1988 English association football player
  35. Elis Regina 1945 Brazilian singer of popular and jazz music
  36. Kaʻahumanu 1768 Queen consort of Hawaii
  37. Ilie Bolojan 1969 Romanian politician (born in 1969)
  38. Peter L. Berger 1929 American sociologist
  39. Paul Kantner 1941 American singer and guitarist
  40. Bakili Muluzi 1943 Malawian politician
  41. Tako Gachechiladze 1983 Georgian singer
  42. Eugen Polanski 1986 Polish-German footballer
  43. Billy Corgan 1967 American musician
  44. Carsten Niebuhr 1733 German mathematician, botanist, cartographer and explorer in Danish service
  45. Karl Gutzkow 1811 German writer
  46. Stephen Gately 1976 Irish pop singer
  47. Sa'id of Egypt 1822 Wāli of Egypt
  48. Patrick Duffy 1949 American actor
  49. Yeltsin Tejeda 1992 Costa Rican footballer
  50. Silvio Gesell 1862 German-Argentine economist
  51. Samoa Joe 1979 American professional wrestler
  52. Jean-Marc Nattier 1685 French painter
  53. Juan Carlos Onganía 1914 President of Argentina from 1966 to 1970
  54. Rasmus Elm 1988 Swedish football player
  55. Nicky Jam 1981 American singer
  56. Olga Orozco 1920 Argentine writer
  57. Lesley-Anne Down 1954 British actress
  58. Penelope Lively 1933 British novelist
  59. Florin Răducioiu 1970 Romanian footballer
  60. Paik Seung-ho 1997 South Korean association football player
  61. Bobby Jones 1902 American amateur golfer and lawyer
  62. Cynthia McKinney 1955 American politician and activist
  63. Princess Patricia of Connaught 1886 British princess; younger daughter of Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, and Princess…
  64. Gabriele Ferzetti 1925 Italian actor
  65. Mark Boone Junior 1955 American actor
  66. Kyle Korver 1981 American basketball player
  67. Rob Kardashian 1987 American television personality and businessman
  68. Felipe Santana 1986 Brazilian footballer
  69. Lawrence Oates 1880 British explorer
  70. Roger B. Taney 1777 Chief justice of the United States from 1836 to 1864
  71. Eunice Gayson 1928 English actress
  72. Servet Çetin 1981 Turkish association football player
  73. Brittany Daniel 1976 American actress
  74. Kaylee Hottle 2008 American actress
  75. Horace Parnell Tuttle 1837 American astronomer
  76. Morfydd Clark 1989 British actress
  77. Kate Greenaway 1846 British artist
  78. Margaret Bondfield 1873 British feminist and trade unionist
  79. Pattie Boyd 1944 English model, photographer
  80. Tadj ol-Molouk of Iran 1896 Queen consort of Iran from 1925 to 1941
  81. Claressa Shields 1995 American boxer
  82. Keith O'Brien 1938 British catholic cardinal
  83. Lee Dixon 1964 English footballer
  84. Caroline Corr 1973 Irish singer and member of The Corrs
  85. Paul Ramadier 1888 Prime Minister of France
  86. Simon Sluga 1993 Croatian association football player
  87. Theo Jansen 1948 Dutch artist
  88. Jean-Baptiste Oudry 1686 French painter and printmaker
  89. Patrick Ebert 1987 German footballer
  90. Muhammad Husayn Tabatabaei 1904 Iranian Shia cleric, philosopher, jurist and mystic
  91. Pietro Pellegri 2001 Italian association football player
  92. Pat Rice 1949 Northern Irish footballer and manager

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

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