April 17 is the birthday of 37 notable people we've found so far, including actors, entrepreneurs, authors and creators, and 2 of them are billionaires.
$41.4Bolder estimate, as of December 2024 · Forbes
Gérard Paul Philippe Wertheimer is a French billionaire businessman based in New York City and Geneva, who owns Chanel in partnership with his brother, Alain.
Low Tuck Kwong is an Indonesian billionaire businessman who is the founder and president director of Bayan Resources, a coal mining company in Indonesia.
Share of the 37 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Actors27% (10 people)
Entrepreneurs27% (10 people)
Authors24% (9 people)
Creators22% (8 people)
Athletes14% (5 people)
Politicians14% (5 people)
Scientists14% (5 people)
Countries
19 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States12 (12 people)
France3 (3 people)
United Kingdom3 (3 people)
Germany2 (2 people)
Japan2 (2 people)
Austria1 (1 people)
Canada1 (1 people)
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Jennifer Anne Garner is an American actress. Born in Houston, Texas and raised in Charleston, West Virginia, Garner studied theater at Denison University and began acting as an understudy for the Roundabout Theatre Company in New York City.
Victoria Caroline, Lady Beckham, is an English fashion designer, singer, and television personality. She rose to prominence in the 1990s as a member of the pop group the Spice Girls, in which she was nicknamed Posh Spice.
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Sean Bean is an English actor. Recognised for his work in both film and television, he has received various accolades including three BAFTA TV Awards, a Critics' Choice Award, an Actor Award and an International Emmy Award.
Patricia Rooney Mara is an American actress. Her accolades include nominations for two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and a British Academy Film Award.
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John Pierpont Morgan Sr. was an American financier and investment banker who dominated corporate finance on Wall Street throughout the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.
Pach Brothers, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Georges Jean Franz Köhler(German pronunciation: [ˈʒɔʁʃ ˈkøːlɐ]; 17 April 1946 – 1 March 1995) was a German biologist and immunologist who shared the 1984 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with César Milstein and Niels Kaj Jerne "for theories concerning the specificity in…
1952–2000 · Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Željko Ražnatović, better known as Arkan, was a Serbian warlord, mobster and head of the Serb Volunteer Guard during the Yugoslav Wars, considered one of the most feared and effective paramilitary forces during the wars.
Petar Milošević, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Anders Börje Salming was a Swedish Sámi ice hockey player. He was a defenceman who played professionally for 23 seasons, for the clubs Brynäs IF, Toronto Maple Leafs, Detroit Red Wings, and AIK. He spent 16 seasons with the Maple Leafs, who retired his number 21 in 2016.
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Ferdinand Karl Piëch was an Austrian business magnate, engineer, and executive who held the positions of chairman of the executive board (Vorstandsvorsitzender) of the Volkswagen Group from 1993 to 2002, and chairman of the supervisory board (Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender) from 2002 to 2015.
Kiril Petkov Petkov is a Bulgarian politician, economist, and entrepreneur, who served as Prime Minister of Bulgaria from December 2021 to August 2022. He was the co-founder of We Continue the Change, a political party, alongside Assen Vassilev.
William Franklin Holden was an American actor. He was an Academy Award and Primetime Emmy Award winner, and one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1950s.
Olivia Hussey was a British actress. The daughter of Argentine singer Osvaldo Ribó and Englishwoman Alma Joy Hussey, Hussey was born in Buenos Aires and spent most of her early life in her mother's native England.
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Lance Taylor, known professionally as Afrika Bambaataa, was an American disc jockey, rapper and record producer. He was notable for releasing a series of genre-defining electro tracks in the 1980s that influenced the development of hip-hop culture.
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Francis Xavier, venerated as Saint Francis Xavier, was a Navarrese cleric and missionary. He co-founded the Society of Jesus and, as a representative of the Portuguese Empire, led the first Christian mission to Japan.
『中公バックス 日本の歴史 別巻2 図録 鎌倉から戦国』より。, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Juan Ponce de León was a Spanish explorer and conquistador known for leading the first European expeditions to Puerto Rico in 1508 and Florida in 1513. He was born in Santervás de Campos, Valladolid, Spain, in 1474.
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Sirima Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike, commonly known as Sirimavo Bandaranaike, was a Sri Lankan stateswoman who thrice served as the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka from 1960 to 1965, from 1970 to 1977, and from 1994 to 2000.
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Nicholas Peter John Hornby is an English writer. He is best known for his memoir Fever Pitch (1992) and novels High Fidelity (1995) and About a Boy (1998), all of which were adapted into feature films.
Thornton Niven Wilder was an American playwright and novelist. He won three Pulitzer Prizes, for the novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and for the plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth, and a U.S. National Book Award for the novel The Eighth Day.
Roger Sherman Studio, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga is a French former professional tennis player. He was ranked as high as world No. 5 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), which he achieved in February 2012.
Joseph Francis Alaskey III was an American actor and comedian. He was one of Mel Blanc's successors at the Warner Bros. Animation studio until his death.
Medhi Amine El Mouttaqi Benatia is a former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. He last served as the sporting director of Ligue 1 club Marseille.
María Isabel Anita Carmen de Jesús Vargas Lizano, known professionally as Chavela Vargas, was a Costa Rican and Mexican singer, songwriter and actress. She gained widespread recognition for her distinctive interpretations of Mexican rancheras.
Majid Majidi is an Iranian filmmaker and producer. His films often feature child or adolescent protagonists; explore themes such as childhood innocence, family bonds, poverty, social issues, and solidarity; and are characterized by a humanistic sensibility.
Benjamin Ricketson Tucker was an American individualist anarchist and self-identified socialist. Tucker was the editor and publisher of the American individualist anarchist periodical Liberty (1881–1908).
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Mariama Bâ was a Senegalese author and feminist. Her two French-language novels have been translated into more than a dozen languages each. Born in Dakar, Senegal, she was raised a Muslim.
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Didier Eric Burkhalter is a Swiss politician who served as a Member of the Swiss Federal Council from 2009 to 2017. A member of FDP.The Liberals, he was President of the Swiss Confederation in 2014.
This page lists 37 people born on April 17, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 2 of them carry a dated net-worth estimate citing Forbes or Bloomberg; combined wealth is the sum of the low end of those estimates, the newest as of December 2024. Rankings compare all 366 dates in the dataset built on 2026-09-28. Milestone ages come from dated Wikidata statements; a tilde marks year-only dates. Nothing on this page is a prediction about anyone born on April 17. Read the full methodology.
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