Famous People Born on January 17

♑ Capricorn

• Eduard Oja (1905) — Estonian composer and conductor
• Susanna Hoffs (1959) — American musician (born 1959)
• Denis O'Hare (1962) — American actor (born 1962)
• Nicolae Iorga (1871) — Romanian politician (1871–1940)
• Sebastian Junger (1962) — American author, journalist and filmmaker (born 1962)
• Alain Badiou (1937) — French philosopher (born 1937)
• Marcel Petiot (1897) — French serial killer (1897-1946)
• Gyude Bryant (1949) — Head of state of Liberia from 2003 to 2006
• Marie Zdeňka Baborová-Čiháková (1877) — Czech botanist and zoologist (1877-1937)
• Zooey Deschanel (1980) — American actress and singer (born 1980)
• Jeremy Roenick (1970) — American ice hockey player (born 1970)
• Frank Hague (1876) — Mayor of Jersey City from 1917 to 1947
• Clyde Walcott (1926) — West Indian Test cricketer
• Tomás Carrasquilla (1858) — Colombian writer (1858–1940)
• Dwyane Wade (1982) — American basketball player (born 1982)
• Sylvain Turgeon (1965) — Canadian ice hockey player (born 1965)
• Antonio Maria Valsalva (1666) — Italian anatomist
• Shabba Ranks (1966) — Jamaican dancehall musician
• Maksim Chmerkovskiy (1980) — Ukrainian-American dancer (born 1980)
• Davíð Oddsson (1948) — Icelandic politician (1948–2026)
• Steve Javie (1955) — American basketball referee (born 1955)
• Busher Jackson (1911) — Canadian ice hockey player (1911–1966)
• Thomas Fairfax (1612) — English army officer and politician (1612–1671)
• Leonhart Fuchs (1501) — German physician and botanist (1501–1566)
• Rick Kelly (1983) — Australian racing driver
• Kai Hansen (1963) — German guitarist and singer
• Chili Davis (1960) — Jamaican-American baseball player (born 1960)
• Calvin Harris (1984) — Scottish DJ (born 1984)
• Ola Raknes (1887) — Norwegian psychologist
• M. G. Ramachandran (1917) — Indian actor and former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (1917–1987)