List of Famous people born on August 17th

Murtaja Baseer was a Bangladeshi painter and artist known for his abstract realism themed works. He was also a poet, author, researcher, numismatist, and filmmaker. He was awarded the Ekushey Padak, Bangladesh's second highest civilian honor, in 1980, and the Swadhinata Padak, or Independence Day Award, Bangladesh's highest state award, in 2019.

Kurt Hessenberg was a German composer and professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt.

John Kipling was the only son of British author Rudyard Kipling. In the First World War his father used his influence to get him an army commission, despite his having been decisively rejected for poor eyesight. His death at the Battle of Loos caused his family immense grief, and placed a great strain on the marriage as Kipling's wife had strongly opposed his enlisting.

James Stephan Rossant was an American architect, artist, and professor of architecture.

Jehane Noureldin Ragai is an Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at the American University in Cairo (AUC). She is the author of the non-fiction book The Scientist and the Forger, published in 2015 by Imperial College Press.

Alexandr Vondra is a Czech politician and diplomat who served as Minister of Defence of the Czech Republic from 2010 to 2012 under Prime Minister Petr Nečas and has been Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2019.