List of Famous people born on April 17th

Irenaios Skopelitis was the 140th patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem from 2000 to 2005, though the dismissal was disputed.

John Blair Jr. was an American politician, Founding Father and jurist.

Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.

Augustus Edward Hough Love FRS, often known as A. E. H. Love, was a mathematician famous for his work on the mathematical theory of elasticity. He also worked on wave propagation and his work on the structure of the Earth in Some Problems of Geodynamics won for him the Adams prize in 1911 when he developed a mathematical model of surface waves known as Love waves. Love also contributed to the theory of tidal locking and introduced the parameters known as Love numbers, which are widely used today. These numbers are also used in problems related to the tidal deformation of the Earth due to the gravitational attraction of the Moon and Sun.

Mahlon Dickerson was a Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, the 7th Governor of New Jersey, United States Senator from New Jersey, the 10th United States Secretary of the Navy and a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.

Kenas Aroi was a Nauruan political figure. He was President of the Republic of Nauru from 17 August to 12 December 1989.

Pekka Antero Vasala is a retired Finnish middle-distance athlete who won an Olympic gold medal in the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.