List of Famous people born on August 17th

Ayasa Itō is a Japanese voice actress from Kyoto Prefecture. She is a member of the singing unit Milky Holmes Feathers, formed with fellow voice actress Aimi for the media franchise Tantei Opera Milky Holmes. She is affiliated with the talent agency Hibiki. She also stars as keyboardist Arisa Ichigaya in the band-based anime series BanG Dream! of which she also plays in the related Poppin'Party band.

Shinya Nakano is a Japanese footballer who plays as a left-back for Sagan Tosu.

David Balaguer Romeu is a Spanish handball player who plays for HBC Nantes and the Spanish team.

Carlos Daniel Serrano Zárate is a Paralympic swimmer from Colombia. He competed in the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. There he won a gold, a silver and a bronze medal. In 2018, he was nominated for the Americas Paralympic Committee Athlete of the Year prize.

José De Gregorio Rebeco is a Chilean economist, academic, researcher, consultant and politician. He has been the Governor of the Central Bank of Chile, Minister of the Economy, Mining and Energy during the administration of Ricardo Lagos and is currently the Dean of the School of Economics and Business of the Universidad de Chile. He is also a nonresident Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

Martin Sandberger was a German SS functionary during the Nazi era and a convicted Holocaust perpetrator. He commanded Sonderkommando 1a of Einsatzgruppe A, as well as the Sicherheitspolizei and SD in Estonia. Sandberger perpetrated mass murder of the Jews in the Baltic states. He was also responsible for the arrest of Jews in Italy, and their deportation to Auschwitz concentration camp. Sandberger was the second-highest official of the Einsatzgruppe A to be tried and convicted.

Sadatoshi Ozato was a Japanese politician.

Pierre Chaunu was a French historian. His specialty was Latin American history; he also studied French social and religious history of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. A leading figure in French quantitative history as the founder of "serial history", he was professor emeritus at Paris IV-Sorbonne, a member of the Institut de France, and a commander of the Légion d'Honneur. A convert to Protestantism from Roman Catholicism, he defended his Gaullist views most notably in a longtime column in Le Figaro and on Radio Courtoisie.

Christiane Mora was a French politician who served on the National Assembly for three terms, from 1981 to 1992 as a representative of Indre-et-Loire. Between 1989 and 1995, she was mayor of Loches.

Wu Tse-yuan was a Taiwanese politician, known for his involvement in black gold politics, and ties to gangs.