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Famous people born on November 17

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Well-known people born on November 17 include Martin Scorsese (1942), Cyril Ramaphosa (1952), Eugene Paul Wigner (1902) and Rachel McAdams (1978). Our list below has 86 people for this date, most widely covered first.

This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives November 17 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1587 (Joost van den Vondel) and the most recent is 2004 (Linda Nosková). The most common fields on this date: actor, football, writer.

Who was born on November 17?

  1. Martin Scorsese 1942 American filmmaker
  2. Cyril Ramaphosa 1952 President of South Africa since 2018
  3. Eugene Paul Wigner 1902 Hungarian-American physicist and mathematician
  4. Rachel McAdams 1978 Canadian actress
  5. Louis XVIII of France 1755 King of France and Navarre from 1814 to 1815 and from 1815 to 1824
  6. Danny DeVito 1944 American actor, comedian, director and producer
  7. Nicolas Appert 1749 French inventor of airtight food preservation
  8. Bernard Montgomery 1887 British Army officer
  9. Lev Vygotsky 1896 Soviet psychologist
  10. Abdelmadjid Tebboune 1945 President of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria since 2019
  11. Sophie Marceau 1966 French actress
  12. Nani 1986 Portuguese association football player
  13. Rock Hudson 1925 American actor
  14. August Ferdinand Möbius 1790 German mathematician and astronomer
  15. Stanley Cohen 1922 American biochemist
  16. Christopher Paolini 1983 Author, novelist
  17. Rem Koolhaas 1944 Dutch architect
  18. Sōichirō Honda 1906 Japanese engineer and industrialist
  19. Astrid of Sweden 1905 Queen consort of the Belgians
  20. RuPaul 1960 American drag performer, actor, and musician
  21. Jeff Buckley 1966 American musician
  22. Nguyễn Tấn Dũng 1949 Prime Minister of Vietnam
  23. John Boehner 1949 53rd Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 2011 to 2015
  24. Lee Strasberg 1901 American theatre director, actor and acting teacher
  25. Isao Iwabuchi 1933 Japanese association football player
  26. Joost van den Vondel 1587 Dutch poet and writer
  27. Susan Rice 1964 American diplomat and policy advisor
  28. Kim Sung-gan 1912 Japanese and South Korean association football player
  29. Edivaldo Hermoza 1985 Bolivian association football player
  30. Michael Adams 1971 British chess grandmaster
  31. Gordon Lightfoot 1938 Canadian singer-songwriter
  32. Aristides Pereira 1923 Cape Verdean politician, and first president of Cape Verde
  33. Julian Ryerson 1997 Norwegian footballer
  34. Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio 1958 American actress
  35. Voltairine de Cleyre 1866 American anarchist writer and feminist
  36. Étienne Jacques Joseph Alexandre Macdonald 1765 Marshal of France
  37. Sofia Andrukhovych 1982 Ukrainian writer/translator
  38. Rance Howard 1928 American actor
  39. Pierre Nora 1931 French historian and publisher
  40. Tom Ellis 1978 Welsh actor
  41. Stephen Root 1951 American actor
  42. Pam Bondi 1965 American attorney and politician
  43. Bernd Schneider 1973 German association football player
  44. Walter Hallstein 1901 German diplomat and statesman
  45. Linda Nosková 2004 Czech tennis player
  46. Joseph Babinski 1857 French neurologist
  47. Pierre Mignard I 1612 French painter
  48. Wu Yi 1938 Vice Premier of China
  49. Dylan Walsh 1963 American actor
  50. Lauren Hutton 1943 American model, actress, and entrepreneur
  51. Rebecca Walker 1969 American writer
  52. Germaine Dulac 1882 French film director
  53. Mario Soldati 1906 Italian film director and writer
  54. Jim Inhofe 1934 United States Senator from Oklahoma
  55. Toni Sailer 1935 Austrian alpine skier and actor
  56. Robin Li 1968 Billionaire businessman and entrepreneur
  57. Harry Lloyd 1983 British actor
  58. Roland Joffé 1945 English and French film/television director and producer
  59. Amata Kabua 1928 Former President of the Marshall Islands
  60. David Ramsey 1971 American actor
  61. Pat Toomey 1961 American businessman and politician
  62. Greg Rutherford 1986 British long jumper
  63. Dorgon 1612 Prince Rui of the First Rank and regent of the Qing Dynasty
  64. Terry Branstad 1946 American politician
  65. Howard Dean 1948 American politician
  66. Elise Mertens 1995 Belgian tennis player
  67. Rachel de Queiroz 1910 Brazilian writer and journalist
  68. Alexis Vastine 1986 French boxer
  69. Roland Matthes 1950 German swimmer
  70. Ernst August, Duke of Brunswick 1887 Hanoverian Royal
  71. Isamu Noguchi 1904 Japanese-American artist and landscape architect
  72. Roman Zozulya 1989 Ukrainian footballer
  73. Ruth Jebet 1996 Bahraini steeplechase and long-distance runner of Kenyan descent
  74. Petko Slaveykov 1827 Bulgarian journalist
  75. Florian Klein 1986 Former Austrian association football player
  76. María Antonia of Spain 1729 Spanish infanta
  77. Kyle Naughton 1988 English association football player
  78. Nuno Nabiam 1966 Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau
  79. Jorge Wagner 1978 Brazilian association football player
  80. Arman 1928 French-born American artist
  81. Peter Cook 1937 British actor, satirist, writer and comedian
  82. Lorne Michaels 1944 Canadian and American television producer, writer, and actor
  83. Louis-Hubert Lyautey 1854 General and colonial administrator from France
  84. Subkhiddin Mohd Salleh 1966 Malaysian football referee
  85. Zoë Bell 1978 New Zealand actress
  86. Patrick Achi 1955 Prime Minister of Ivory Coast

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

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