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Famous people born on October 17
Short answer
Well-known people born on October 17 include Eminem (1972), John Paul I (1912), Arthur Miller (1915) and Rita Hayworth (1918). Our list below has 100 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives October 17 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1629 (Balthasar Charles) and the most recent is 2002 (Guéla Doué). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, actress.
Who was born on October 17?
- Eminem 1972 American rapper, record producer and actor
- John Paul I 1912 Pope of the Catholic Church in 1978
- Arthur Miller 1915 American playwright and essayist
- Rita Hayworth 1918 American actress
- Kimi Räikkönen 1979 Finnish racing driver
- Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon 1760 French early socialist theorist
- Prabowo Subianto 1951 President of the Republic of Indonesia
- Montgomery Clift 1920 American actor
- Mae Jemison 1956 American doctor and NASA astronaut
- Felicity Jones 1983 British actress
- Tarkan 1972 Turkish singer
- Zhao Ziyang 1919 Former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
- Marsha Hunt 1917 American actress
- Ameenah Gurib-Fakim 1959 Scientist and president of Mauritius
- George Wendt 1948 American actor
- Syed Ahmed Khan 1817 Indian Muslim reformer and social activist
- Margot Kidder 1948 Canadian and American actress and activist
- Bill Anders 1933 American astronaut and lunar explorer
- Augustus III of Poland 1696 King of Poland, Elector of Saxony
- Richard Mentor Johnson 1780 Vice president of the United States from 1837 to 1841
- Dmitry Peskov 1967 Russian politician and diplomat
- Jean Arthur 1900 American actress
- Hideto Takahashi 1987 Japanese association football player
- André Villas-Boas 1977 Portuguese association football manager
- Manu Trigueros 1991 Spanish footballer
- Norm Macdonald 1959 Canadian comedian
- Saki Kumagai 1990 Japanese association football player
- Graça Machel 1945 Mozambican humanitarian activist and politician
- Simon Harris 1986 Tánaiste (Deputy Prime Minister) of Ireland
- Sebastián Abreu 1976 Uruguayan footballer and manager
- Julie Adams 1926 American actress
- Aleksei Miranchuk 1995 Russian footballer
- Robert Jordan 1948 American fantasy writer
- A. S. Neill 1883 Scottish educator and theorist
- Anton Miranchuk 1995 Russian association football player
- Pablo Iglesias Turrión 1978 Spanish politician
- Miguel Delibes 1920 Spanish writer
- Andy Whitfield 1971 Welsh actor
- Sergio Goycochea 1963 Argentine footballer
- Dami Im 1988 Australian singer
- Matthew Macfadyen 1974 English actor
- Theodor Eicke 1892 German SS general, commander of concentration camp Dachau and inspector of the…
- Rob Marshall 1960 American filmmaker and choreographer
- Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia 1853 Duchess consort of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha; sixth child and second daughter of Alexander…
- Emanuel Geibel 1815 German poet and playwright
- Mike Judge 1962 American animator
- Mark Gatiss 1966 British actor, screenwriter and novelist
- Maximilian Beier 2002 German footballer
- John Bowring 1792 4th Governor of Hong Kong; hymnwriter; translator
- Jerry Siegel 1914 American co-creator of Superman
- Robert Lansing 1864 American politician
- Nathanael West 1903 American writer and screenwriter
- Ferenc Deák 1803 Hungarian politician
- Adam Michnik 1946 Polish essayist and publicist
- Balthasar Charles 1629 Prince of Asturias
- Johnny Haynes 1934 English footballer
- Owen Arthur 1949 Barbadian politician
- Fructuoso Rivera 1784 President of Uruguay
- Smita Patil 1955 Indian actress
- Kenneth Omeruo 1993 Nigerian association football player
- Michael McKean 1947 American actor and comedian
- Evel Knievel 1938 American stunt performer and artist
- Mīkhāʼīl Nuʻaymah 1889 Author, poet, novelist, critic, biographer
- Alan Jackson 1958 American country singer and songwriter
- Martin Heinrich 1971 American politician and businessman
- Raúl de Tomás 1994 Catalán footballer
- Simon Vestdijk 1898 Dutch author
- Ziggy Marley 1968 Jamaican reggae musician
- Yekaterina Gamova 1980 Russian Olympic volleyball player
- Randall Munroe 1984 American cartoonist, author and engineer
- Charles Oliveira Da Silva 1989 Brazilian martial artist
- Josep Puig i Cadafalch 1867 Catalan architect
- Alexine Tinne 1835 Dutch explorer in Africa and photographer
- Hazem Al Beblawi 1936 Former Egyptian Prime minister
- Philippe Barbarin 1950 French catholic cardinal
- Nathalie Tauziat 1967 French tennis player
- Simi Garewal 1947 Indian actress
- Chris Lowell 1984 American actor
- Max Irons 1985 British actor
- Elinor Glyn 1864 British novelist and scriptwriter
- Despina Olympiou 1975 Cypriot singer
- Václav Černý 1997 Czech association football player
- Dwight Gayle 1989 English association football player
- Graeme Le Saux 1968 English footballer
- Guéla Doué 2002 French-Ivorian footballer
- Friedrich Hirzebruch 1927 German mathematician
- Dudu Aouate 1977 Israeli footballer
- Isabel Díaz Ayuso 1978 Spanish politician
- José Alencar 1931 Vice president of Brazil from 2003 to 2010
- Wood Harris 1969 American actor
- Childe Hassam 1859 American painter
- Jared Tallent 1984 Australian race walker
- Sarah Bouhaddi 1986 French footballer
- François-Édouard Picot 1786 French painter
- Keerthy Suresh 1992 Indian actress
- Tomokazu Nagira 1985 Japanese association football player
- Toshihiro Matsushita 1983 Japanese association football player
- Alejandra Valencia 1994 Mexican archer
- Lucjan Żeligowski 1865 Polish officer
- Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy 1974 Ukrainian film director
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on October 17 share the 17th of October as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.