List of Famous people born on April 17th

Sherrie Levine is an American photographer, painter, and conceptual artist. Some of her work consists of exact photographic reproductions of the work of other photographers such as Walker Evans, Eliot Porter and Edward Weston.

Marcel Boussac was a French entrepreneur best known for his ownership of the Maison Dior and one of the most successful thoroughbred race horse breeding farms in European history.

Robert Thomas Wagner is a German former professional cyclist, who competed professionally between 2006 and 2019 for the Team Milram, Team Wiesenhof-Felt, Skil–Shimano, RadioShack–Nissan, LottoNL–Jumbo and Arkéa–Samsic teams. He won the German National Road Race Championships in 2011, and was named in the start list for the 2016 Tour de France.

Maurice Rouvier was a French statesman of the "Opportunist" faction, who served as the Prime Minister of France. He is best known for his financial policies and his unpopular policies designed to avoid a rupture with Germany.

Hamid Farrokhnezhad is an Iranian actor, writer and director. He graduated from the Theatre Director program in Tehran University's Fine Arts Department. His practical thesis was based on the Bertolt Brecht play He Said Yes / He Said No and his theoretical thesis was titled Theater in the East

Kerry Wendell Thornley was an American author. He is known as the co-founder of Discordianism, in which context he is usually known as Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst or simply Lord Omar. He and Hill authored the religion's text Principia Discordia, Or, How I Found Goddess, And What I Did To Her When I Found Her. Thornley was also known for his 1962 manuscript, The Idle Warriors, which was based on the activities of his acquaintance, Lee Harvey Oswald, prior to the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy.

Gerald Michael Charlebois, better known as Michael Forest, is an American actor who provides the voices for many animated titles.