March 17 is the birthday of 53 notable people we've found so far, including entrepreneurs, athletes, actors and musicians, and 2 of them are billionaires.
Roustam Tariko is the founder of Russian Standard Vodka. He also founded Russian Standard Bank, a credit card operation and a term life insurer in Russia. In 2009, Tariko's net worth was estimated at $1.1 billion.
Share of the 53 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Entrepreneurs25% (13 people)
Actors23% (12 people)
Athletes23% (12 people)
Creators19% (10 people)
Musicians19% (10 people)
Politicians15% (8 people)
Artists11% (6 people)
Countries
29 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States17 (17 people)
Canada3 (3 people)
Austria2 (2 people)
Nigeria2 (2 people)
Russia2 (2 people)
Russian Empire2 (2 people)
Switzerland2 (2 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on March 17 doing at your age?
Dated milestones from Wikidata (company foundings, awards, top jobs, notable works), placed at the age each person reached them. Add your birth year above to see the ones you have passed.
By 25
~15Mia HammJoined United States women's national soccer team (1987)
~19Shinji KagawaJoined Japan men's national football team (2008)
18Marcel SabitzerJoined Austria men's national football team (2012)
61Andrei BelousovBecame Prime Minister of Russia (2020)
The standouts
The most successful people born on March 17
Ordered by sourced wealth, then documented achievement and coverage.
artist
John Wayne Gacy
Top tier
Artist
1942–1994 · United States
John Wayne Gacy was an American serial killer and sex offender who raped, tortured and murdered at least thirty-three young men and boys between 1972 and 1978 in Norwood Park Township, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois.
Des Plaines Police Department, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Kurt Vogel Russell is an American actor. He began his career as a child actor before transitioning to leading roles as an adult in various genres such as action adventures, science-fiction, westerns, romance films, comedic films, and family dramas.
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Edin Džeko is a Bosnian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Bundesliga club Schalke 04 and captains the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team.
Gary Alan Sinise is an American actor, director, musician, and activist. He has won a Tony Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and three Actor Awards, and has been nominated for an Academy Award. He has received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Walter Rudolf Hess was a Swiss physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1949 for mapping the areas of the brain involved in the control of internal organs. He shared the prize with Egas Moniz.
Nobel Foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Daniel Ray Ainge is an American former professional basketball player, coach, and professional baseball player who serves as the chief executive officer for the Utah Jazz of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler was a German engineer, industrial designer and industrialist. He was a pioneer of internal-combustion engines and automobile development. He invented the high-speed liquid petroleum-fueled engine.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Meir Amit was an Israeli politician and cabinet minister. He served as the Chief Director and the head of global operations for Mossad from 1963 to 1968, before entering into politics and holding two ministerial positions.
Knesset photographer, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Elson Bakili Muluzi is a Malawian politician who was President of Malawi from 1994 to 2004. He was also chairman of the United Democratic Front (UDF) until 2009. He succeeded Hastings Kamuzu Banda as Malawi's president.
L. Masina for VOA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Walter Quintin Gresham was an American attorney, jurist, statesman, and politician who served in the cabinets of presidents Chester A. Arthur and Grover Cleveland.
Mathew Benjamin Brady, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Claire Elise Boucher, known professionally as Grimes, is a Canadian musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. Her work often invokes themes of science fiction, feminism, and fantasy. She has released five studio albums.
Kalpana Chawla was an American astronaut, aerospace engineer, and pilot. Indian by heritage, she was the first such woman to fly to space. Chawla participated in two spaceflights, STS-87 and STS-107, in 1997 and 2003, respectively.
Andrew John Hozier-Byrne, known mononymously as Hozier, is an Irish singer and musician. His music primarily draws from folk, soul and blues, often using religious and literary themes and taking political or social justice stances.
Neon Tommy/Katie Buenneke, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Robert Arthur Kardashian is an American television personality. He is known for appearing on Keeping Up with the Kardashians, a reality television series that centers on his family, as well as its spin-offs.
William Ford Gibson is an American and Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk, a category from which he has repeatedly distanced himself.
Mariel Margaret "Mia" Hamm is an American former professional soccer player who played as a forward and midfielder for the United States national team from 1987 to 2004. She competed in four editions of the FIFA Women's World Cup, winning in 1991 and 1999.
Rob Poetsch on Flickr; cropped by Blackcat, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Rudolf Khametovich Nureyev was a Soviet-born ballet dancer and choreographer. Nureyev is widely regarded as the preeminent male ballet dancer of the 20th century, as well as one of the greatest ballet dancers of all time.
Puneeth Rajkumar, affectionately known as Appu, was an Indian actor, playback singer, film producer, television presenter and philanthropist who worked in Kannada cinema. He was the youngest son of legendary actor and matinee idol Dr. Rajkumar.
Jerry "Woody" from Edmonton, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Cao Cao, courtesy name Mengde, was a Chinese statesman, warlord, and poet who rose to power during the end of the Han dynasty, ultimately taking effective control of the Han central government.
Shinji Kagawa is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for J1 League club Cerezo Osaka. He is widely regarded as one of the best Japanese players of all time.
Кагава Синдзи, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Thomas Kenneth Mattingly II was an American aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, rear admiral in the United States Navy, and astronaut who orbited the Moon on Apollo 16 and flew on the STS-4 and STS-51-C missions.
Giovanni Trapattoni, popularly nicknamed "Trap", is an Italian former football manager and player, considered the most successful club coach in Italian football.
Álvaro Alexánder Recoba Rivero is a Uruguayan professional football coach and former player, who played as a forward or midfielder. He is the current manager of Deportivo Táchira in Venezuela.
Alfred Newman was an American composer, arranger, and conductor of film music. From his start as a music prodigy, he came to be regarded as a respected figure in the history of film music.
Wim van Rossem for Anefo, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
James Benson Irwin was an American astronaut, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and a United States Air Force pilot. He served as Lunar Module pilot for Apollo 15, the fourth human lunar landing. He was the 8th person to walk on the Moon.
NASA David Scott, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Elis Regina Carvalho Costa, known professionally as Elis Regina, was a Brazilian singer of bossa nova, MPB and jazz music. She is also the mother of the singers Maria Rita and Pedro Mariano.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Gabriel Józef Narutowicz was a Polish engineer and politician who served as the first president of Poland from 11 December 1922 until his assassination five days after assuming office.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Johann Silvio Gesell was a German-Argentine economist, entrepreneur, and social reformer. He was the founder of Freiwirtschaft, an economic model for market socialism. In 1900, he founded the magazine Money and Land Reform, but it soon closed for financial reasons.
User Ixitixel on de.wikipedia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
1787–1833 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Edmund Kean was a British Shakespearean actor, who performed, among other places, in London, Belfast, New York, Quebec, and Paris. He was known for his short stature, tumultuous personal life, and controversial divorce.
Samuel Cousins, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 53 people born on March 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 March 2018. 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 March 17. Read the full methodology.
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