List of Famous people born on April 17th

Miguel de Miguel, is a Spanish actor.

Patrick Beckert is a German Olympic speed skater.

Leslie Rae Bega is an American theater, film and television actress.

Nicholas D'Agosto is an American actor. He is known for being the lead of Final Destination 5 and his recurring roles in Heroes and The Office. He starred in the Showtime series Masters of Sex and the Fox series Gotham, where he plays Harvey Dent. D'Agosto also starred in the series Trial & Error, which finished airing its second season in October 2018.

Naoki Kusunose is a former Japanese football player and manager. Currently, he is head coach of Japan women's national under-17 football team.

William Reibert Mapother Jr. is an American actor, known for his role as Ethan Rom on the television series Lost and starring in the film In the Bedroom. He is also known for the film Another Earth.

Alaina Kalanj is a Canadian film and television actress. She is also known professionally as Alaina Huffman best known for the Canadian television series Painkiller Jane, where she played the character Maureen Bowers. She also played Dinah Lance/Black Canary on the American television series Smallville, as well as 1st Lt. Tamara Johansen in Stargate Universe, where she was a regular cast member. She also played the demon Abaddon in the American dark fantasy television series Supernatural.

Akio Fukuda is a Japanese politician of the Constitutional Democratic Party and a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet. A native of Imaichi, Tochigi and graduate of Tohoku University, he joined the city government of Imaichi in 1971 and became the mayor of the city in 1991, serving for three terms. He was elected to be the governor of Tochigi Prefecture in 2000 but lost his re-election in 2004. In 2005, he was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time.

Kristine Sutherland is an American actress best known for her starring role as Buffy Summers' mother Joyce Summers on the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, where she appeared in every season, and her role as Mae Thompson in Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989).

Mary Lorillard Barbey was a prominent American member of New York Society during the Gilded Age. She was a daughter of Pierre Lorillard III of the Lorillard Tobacco Company.