List of Famous people born on August 17th

Jacques Mehler was a cognitive psychologist specializing in language acquisition.

Hans Heinz Zerlett was a German screenwriter and film director.

Walter Noddack was a German chemist. He, Ida Tacke, and Otto Berg reported the discovery of element 43 and element 75 in 1925.

Ricardo Ferraço is a Brazilian politician and businessman. He has represented the state of Espírito Santo in the Federal Senate since 2011. Previously, he was a Deputy for Espírito Santo from 1999 to 2003. He is a member of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party.

Cleve Barry Moler is an American mathematician and computer programmer specializing in numerical analysis. In the mid to late 1970s, he was one of the authors of LINPACK and EISPACK, Fortran libraries for numerical computing. He invented MATLAB, a numerical computing package, to give his students at the University of New Mexico easy access to these libraries without writing Fortran. In 1984, he co-founded MathWorks with Jack Little to commercialize this program.