September 17 is the birthday of 58 notable people we've found so far, including authors, creators, historical figures and actors, and 2 of them are billionaires.
Günther Klaus Fielmann was a German billionaire businessman, the founder, majority owner and the chief executive officer of Fielmann, a German optics company focusing on retail eyewear. At the time of his death, his net worth was estimated at US$4.6 billion.
Entrepreneur · Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires
1946 · Argentina
$1.6Bolder estimate, as of September 2024 · Forbes
Eduardo Francisco Costantini is an Argentine real estate developer and businessman and the founder and chairman of the Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires (MALBA). As of September 2024, Forbes estimated his net worth at US$1.6 billion.
Share of the 58 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors33% (19 people)
Creators24% (14 people)
Actors19% (11 people)
Politicians19% (11 people)
Athletes17% (10 people)
Entrepreneurs17% (10 people)
Scientists16% (9 people)
Countries
28 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States17 (17 people)
United Kingdom5 (5 people)
France3 (3 people)
India3 (3 people)
Brazil2 (2 people)
Italy2 (2 people)
Slovakia2 (2 people)
Life timeline
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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.
Ordered by sourced wealth, then documented achievement and coverage.
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Narendra Modi
Top tier
Politician
1950
Narendra Damodardas Modi is an Indian politician who has served as the prime minister of India since 26 May 2014. Modi was the chief minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Varanasi.
Ella Summer Reed Purnell is a British actress. She began her career as a child actress in West End theatre and films, including Never Let Me Go (2010), Intruders (2011) and Maleficent (2014).
Anne Bancroft was an American actress. Respected for her acting prowess and versatility, Bancroft received an Academy Award, three BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two Tony Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Cannes Film Festival Award.
NBC Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Kyle Martin Chandler is an American actor. He received critical acclaim for his performance as Eric Taylor in the NBC series Friday Night Lights (2006–2011), winning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 2011.
Christian Lous Lange was a Norwegian historian, teacher, and political scientist. He was one of the world's foremost exponents of the theory and practice of internationalism.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Hiram "Hank" Williams was an American singer, songwriter, and musician. An early pioneer of country music, he is regarded as one of the most significant and influential musicians of the 20th century.
Keith Charles Flint was an English dancer, and vocalist of the electronic dance act The Prodigy. Starting out as a dancer for the group, he became the vocalist and performed on the group's two UK number-one singles, "Firestarter" and "Breathe", both released in 1996.
Damon Graham Devereux Hill is a British former racing driver and broadcaster, who competed in Formula One from 1992 to 1999. Hill won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1996 with Williams, and won 22 Grands Prix across eight seasons.
Original: Martin Lee from London, UK / Derivative work: Danyele, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Emanuel James Rohn was an American entrepreneur, author, and motivational speaker. He wrote numerous books including How to obtain wealth and happiness.
Tajul Islam Apurbo, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
David Dunbar Buick was a Scottish-born American inventor, widely known for founding the Buick Motor Company. He headed this company and its predecessor from 1899–1906, thereby helping to create one of the most successful nameplates in United States motor vehicle history.
Unknown, possibly J. W. Hughes, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Arend Martijn "Arne" Slot is a Dutch professional football manager and former player who was most recently the head coach of Premier League club Liverpool.
Carlo Bruil Fotografie, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Philip Douglas Jackson is an American former professional basketball player, coach, and executive in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Jackson is a 13-time NBA champion, having won two as a player and eleven as a head coach.
Phil_Jackson_3.jpg: Keith Allison from Baltimore, USA derivative work: Chris! my talk, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Bryan Jay Singer is an American filmmaker. He is the founder of Bad Hat Harry Productions and has produced almost all of the films he has directed, as well as multiple television series.
Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude McDowall was a British-born American actor, whose career spanned over 270 screen and stage roles across more than 60 years.
Kingkongphoto & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Bazmark Anthony "Baz" Luhrmann is an Australian film director, producer, writer and actor whose various projects extend from film and television into theatre, music and the recording industries.
Anastacia Lyn Newkirk, known mononymously as Anastacia, is an American singer-songwriter who has released nine albums and sold over 50 million records worldwide, and collecting a total of 227 gold and platinum certifications.
Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Jimmie Kenneth Johnson is an American professional stock car racing driver and team owner. He competes part-time in the NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No. 84 Toyota Camry XSE for Legacy Motor Club, and part-time in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, driving the No.
File:Jimmie Johnson Carvana Chip Ganassi Racing Driver 2021.png: Jimmie Johnson Oval Test derivative work: F1fans, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Reinhold Andreas Messner is an Italian climber, explorer, and author from the German-speaking province of South Tyrol. He made the first solo ascent of Mount Everest and, along with Peter Habeler, the first ascent of Everest without supplementary oxygen.
Kenneth Elton Kesey was an American novelist, essayist, and countercultural figure. He considered himself a link between the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s.
Associated Students of the California Institute of Technology (ASCIT), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Rasheed Abdul Wallace is an American basketball coach and former professional player. He played college basketball for the North Carolina Tar Heels and played for six teams during his 16-year career in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Keith Allison from Baltimore, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Neill Blomkamp is a South African-born Canadian film director and screenwriter. He is best known as the co-writer and director of the science fiction action film District 9 (2009), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Natasha Baucas at https://www.flickr.com/photos/sdnatasha/, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Sanaya Irani is an Indian actress who primarily works in Hindi television. Irani is best known for her roles in Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon? and Miley Jab Hum Tum. She also participated in Nach Baliye 8 and Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 8.
Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
William Carlos Williams was an American poet and physician closely associated with modernism and imagism. His Spring and All (1923) was written in the wake of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land (1922).
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky was a Russian rocket scientist who pioneered astronautics. Along with Hermann Oberth and Robert H. Goddard, he is one of the pioneers of space flight and the founding father of modern rocketry and astronautics.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Thomas Patten Stafford was an American Air Force officer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut, and one of 24 Apollo astronauts who flew to the Moon. He also served as chief of the Astronaut Office from 1969 to 1971.
Maqbool Fida Husain was an Indian painter and film director who painted narrative paintings in a modified Cubist style. One of the founding members of Bombay Progressive Artists' Group, Husain is associated with Indian modernism in the 1940s.
António Agostinho Neto Kilamba was an Angolan communist revolutionary, politician and poet. He served as the first president of Angola from 1975 to 1979, after leading the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) during the war for independence.
Adriana Sklenaříková is a Slovak fashion model, television personality, and actress who lives and works in France. She is a former Guinness record holder for the longest legs among female models.
Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Tomáš Berdych is a Czech former professional tennis player. He was ranked world No. 4 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) in May 2015. Berdych won 13 ATP Tour singles titles, including a Masters event at the 2005 Paris Masters.
Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis of Condorcet, known as Nicolas de Condorcet, was a French philosopher, political economist, politician, and mathematician.
Unidentified painter / Formerly attributed to Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Simone Perrotta is a former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Born in England, he represented the Italy national team. Throughout his career, he stood out for his work rate, energy, and box-to-box play as a ball-winner in the midfield area.
Jean-Claude Carrière was a French novelist, screenwriter and actor. He received an Academy Award for best short film for co-writing Heureux Anniversaire (1963), and was later given an Honorary Oscar in 2014.
Sir Frederick William Mallandaine Ashton was a British ballet dancer and choreographer. He also worked as a director and choreographer in opera, film and revue.
This page lists 58 people born on September 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 September 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 September 17. Read the full methodology.
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