List of Famous people born on August 17th

Thierry Solère is a French politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who has been serving as a member of the National Assembly since the 2012 elections, representing the department of Hauts-de-Seine.

Gustav Schwarzenegger was an Austrian police chief, postal inspector and a military police officer. He was the father of Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Sachin Pilgaonkar, often known mononymously by his screen name as Sachin, is an Indian Marathi-language and Hindi-language actor, director, producer, writer, and singer who has directed and acted in several Marathi films of the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Colonel General Ihor Petrovich Smeshko served as the head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) from 2003 to 2005, where he supported the opposition during the Orange Revolution. In 2010, he entered politics with the Strength and Honor party, which he formed with several former security and intelligence officials.

Denis Kudla is an American professional tennis player of Ukrainian descent.

Daniel Hope is an Irish-German classical violinist.

Lucas Joseph Reiner is an American painter, printmaker, photographer and filmmaker. He is most known for painting series that mix elements of representation, narrative and symbolism, and abstraction, and explore subjects such as the collision between organic growth and urban life, the atmospheric effects of fireworks and skies, and spiritual themes. His work belongs to the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Santa Barbara Museum of Art and Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, among others, and a monograph of his paintings, drawings and photographs, Los Angeles Trees (2008), was selected as one of the Los Angeles Times "Favorite Books of 2008." That paper's critic, David Pagel, wrote that his "paintings of trees trimmed to within inches of their lives have the pathos of circus freaks and the stubbornness of survivalists." Reiner has exhibited in the U.S., Germany, Italy and Mexico, at institutions including Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery and Museo de la Estampa. He is based in Los Angeles and Berlin, and married to Maud Winchester.

Virginia Maria Machado is a Colombian model and actress. She has acted in TV series and appeared in music videos.

Elba Ramalho is a Brazilian songwriter, performer, poet and actress. She is sometimes called "The Queen of Forró".

Yoo Seung-ho is a South Korean actor who rose to fame as a child actor in the film The Way Home (2002). Since then, he has starred in many television series and movie films as a child and teenager.