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Famous people born on September 17
Short answer
Well-known people born on September 17 include Narendra Modi (1950), Bernhard Riemann (1826), Anastacia (1968) and Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857). Our list below has 96 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives September 17 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1677 (Stephen Hales) and the most recent is 2002 (Zinaida Kupriyanovich). The most common fields on this date: football, actress, actor.
Who was born on September 17?
- Narendra Modi 1950 Prime Minister of India since 2014
- Bernhard Riemann 1826 German mathematician
- Anastacia 1968 American singer
- Konstantin Tsiolkovsky 1857 Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory
- Jimmie Johnson 1975 American racing driver
- Anne Bancroft 1931 American actress
- Almazbek Atambaev 1956 4th President of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan
- Hank Williams 1923 American singer-songwriter
- Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat de Condorcet 1743 French philosopher, mathematician, and political scientist
- Janez Janša 1958 Slovenian politician
- Ken Kesey 1935 American novelist
- William Carlos Williams 1883 American poet
- Reinhold Messner 1944 Italian mountaineer, adventurer and explorer
- Damon Hill 1960 British racing driver
- Tito Vilanova 1968 Spanish footballer and manager
- Chaim Herzog 1918 6th President of Israel – (born1918–1997)
- Christian Lous Lange 1869 Norwegian diplomat and Nobel Peace Prize recipient
- Edgar Mitchell 1930 American astronaut
- Bryan Singer 1965 American film director and producer
- Esteban Ocon 1996 French racing driver
- Stirling Moss 1929 British motor racing driver
- Vladimir Menshov 1939 Soviet and Russian film director and actor
- Tomáš Berdych 1985 Czech tennis player
- Simone Perrotta 1977 Italian association football player
- Alexander Ovechkin 1985 Russian ice hockey player
- Phil Jackson 1945 American basketball player, coach and executive
- Frederick Ashton 1904 British dancer and choreographer
- Arne Slot 1978 Dutch football manager
- Maria Luisa of Savoy 1688 Queen consort of Spain
- Thomas P. Stafford 1930 American astronaut
- Baz Luhrmann 1962 Australian writer, director, and producer
- Jean-Claude Carrière 1931 French screenwriter and actor
- M. F. Husain 1915 Indian artist
- Kyle Chandler 1965 American actor
- Ella Purnell 1996 British actress
- Adriana Sklenaříková 1971 Slovak actress, model and TV presenter
- Keith Flint 1969 British singer and musician
- Roddy McDowall 1928 British actor
- Michael Fitzgerald 1988 New Zealand association football player
- Neill Blomkamp 1979 South African film director, producer, screenwriter, and animator
- Chuck Grassley 1933 United States Senator from Iowa since 1981
- Duje Ćaleta-Car 1996 Croatian association football player
- Sanaya Irani 1983 Indian actress
- Rasheed Wallace 1974 American basketball player
- Émile Augier 1820 French writer
- Mena Massoud 1991 Egyptian-Canadian actor
- Jean-Marie Lustiger 1926 French Catholic cardinal
- Sofiane Boufal 1993 Moroccan and French footballer
- Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal 1916 Prime Minister and President of Mongolia
- Pamela Melroy 1961 American astronaut
- Zinaida Kupriyanovich 2002 Belarusian singer, actress and television presenter
- John Goodricke 1764 Dutch astronomer
- Junius Richard Jayewardene 1906 President of Sri Lanka from 1978 to 1989
- John Ritter 1948 American actor
- Patrick Mahomes 1995 American football player
- Bobby Lee 1971 American stand-up comedian
- Maureen Connolly 1934 American tennis player
- Sergej Barbarez 1971 Bosnian association football player and manager
- Sophie 1986 British singer, songwriter, record producer and DJ
- Ursula Karven 1964 German actress and author
- Stephen Hales 1677 British scientist
- Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani 1932 Former Emir of Qatar
- Virgilio Barco Vargas 1921 President of Colombia
- Charles Martinet 1955 American actor and voice actor
- Dolores Costello 1903 American actress
- Olivier Boumal 1989 Cameroonian association football player
- Angelo Comastri 1943 Catholic cardinal
- Paolo De Ceglie 1986 Italian footballer
- Danielle Brooks 1989 American actress
- David Souter 1939 American lawyer and jurist
- Leyla Mammadbeyova 1909 Azerbaijani and Soviet aviator
- Erode Venkatappa Ramasamy 1879 Indian social reformer
- Tomáš Hubočan 1985 Slovak footballer
- Jan Eliasson 1940 Swedish diplomat and politician
- Shabana Mahmood 1980 British politician
- John Rutledge 1739 Chief justice of the United States in 1795
- Lesley Roy 1986 Irish singer
- Jim Rohn 1930 American motivational speaker, businessman and bestseller author
- Kevin Clash 1960 American puppeteer
- Mirza Teletović 1985 Bosnian basketball player
- Warren E. Burger 1907 Chief justice of the United States from 1969 to 1986
- Hesham Qandil 1962 Prime Minister of Egypt from 2012 to 2013
- Ken Doherty 1969 Irish snooker player
- Bakari Koné 1981 Ivorian-French association football player
- Pavel Mamayev 1988 Russian footballer
- Toghrul Asgarov 1992 Azerbaijani wrestler
- Demis Nikolaidis 1973 Greek footballer
- Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben 1730 Prussian officer and US Continental army general
- Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece 1968 Wife of Pavlos, son of ex King of Greece
- Cassandra Peterson 1951 American actress
- Edward William Lane 1801 British orientalist, translator, lexicographer and peace maker
- Amr Warda 1993 Egyptian association football player
- Heinrich Kuhl 1797 German naturalist and zoologist
- Priya Anand 1986 Indian actress
- Yuji Naka 1965 Japanese video game designer and programmer
- Bruce Spence 1945 New Zealand actor
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on September 17 share the 17th of September as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.