List of Famous people born on April 17th

Roberto de Oliveira Campos was a Brazilian economist, writer, diplomat, politician and member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters. He served in a number of capacities, including Brazilian ambassador to the United States and to the United Kingdom, minister of planning for the government of Castelo Branco, during the Brazilian military dictatorship, and congressman.

Shinnosuke Shigenobu is a Japanese professional baseball outfielder for the Yomiuri Giants in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.

Evgeny Vyacheslavovich Dod is a Russian manager and economist. He is CEO of JSC RusHydro.

Marina Hegering is a German footballer. She currently plays as a defender for Bayern Munich and the German national team.

Fabián Andrés Vargas Rivera is a Colombian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He spent most of his professional career playing for América de Cali and Boca Juniors, making more than 100 appearances for both clubs. He also played for Internacional, Almería, AEK Athens, Independiente, Barcelona SC, Millonarios, and La Equidad. At international level, he represented the Colombia national team 41 times and also captained the side.

Carol Rama was an Italian self-taught artist whose unconventional painting encompassed an erotic, and often sexually aggressive universe populated by characters who present themes of sexual identity with specific references to female sensuality. She began to paint around the mid-thirties and exhibiting her work ten years later. Her work was relatively little known until curator Lea Vergine included several pieces in a 1980 exhibition, prompting Rama to revisit her earlier watercolour style.

Peter Doig is a Scottish painter. One of the most renowned living figurative painters, he has settled in Trinidad since 2002. In 2007, his painting White Canoe sold at Sotheby's for $11.3 million, then an auction record for a living European artist. In February 2013, his painting, The Architect's Home in the Ravine, sold for $12 million at a London auction. Art critic Jonathan Jones said about him: "Amid all the nonsense, impostors, rhetorical bullshit and sheer trash that pass for art in the 21st century, Doig is a jewel of genuine imagination, sincere work and humble creativity."

Joseph-Georges-Gilles-Claude Lamontagne was a Canadian politician and the 24th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec.

Fatma Pesend Hanım was the twelfth wife of Sultan Abdul Hamid II of the Ottoman Empire.

Michal Plocek was a Czech rower.