List of Famous people born on April 17th

George Seaton was an American screenwriter, playwright, film director and producer, and theatre director.

Hanna Helena Pakarinen is a Finnish pop and pop-rock singer who rose to fame as the winner of the first series of the Finnish singing competition Idols in 2004. Since then she has represented Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2007 on homeland, and has sold over 91,000 certified records in Finland, which places her among the top 50 best-selling female soloists in her home country.

Frederick William Robin Smith, 3rd Earl of Birkenhead was British writer, historian and hereditary peer. Smith, the grandson of a British Lord Chancellor, succeeded to the Earldom upon his father's death in 1975.

Helen Meier was a Swiss writer.

Marcin Święcicki is a Polish politician and economist. He is a former deputy minister of economy, former minister for foreign economic relations as well as a former mayor of Warsaw.

Johannes Hau was a Baltic-German landscape painter.

Dame Maggie Teyte, DBE was an English operatic soprano and interpreter of French art song.