List of Famous people born on August 17th

Oksana Alexandrovna Domnina is a Russian former competitive ice dancer. She and partner Maxim Shabalin are the 2010 Olympic bronze medalists, the 2009 World Champions, the 2008 & 2010 European Champions, the 2007 Grand Prix Final champions, and three-time Russian national champions.

Stephan Eicher is a Swiss singer. He sings in a variety of languages, including French, German, English, Italian, Swiss German, and Romanche, sometimes using different languages in the same song.

Ederson Santana de Moraes, widely known as simply Ederson, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Premier League club Manchester City and the Brazil national team. He is considered the world's most expensive goalkeeper from a transfer value perspective by the CIES. Ederson has been praised extensively by the media for his composure on the ball in high risk situations and remarkable ability to pick out accurate long balls to play through teammates. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest goalkeepers in world football.

Shankar Shanmugam ,is credited as S. Shankar or his mononym Shankar, is an Indian filmmaker who predominantly works in Tamil cinema. He made his debut as a director in the film Gentleman (1993), for which he won the Filmfare Best Director Award and the Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Director. He is one of the highest paid film directors of India, particularly known for extensive use of visual effects, prosthetic makeup and state-of-art technology in songs.

Mae West was an American actress, singer, playwright, screenwriter, comedian, and sex symbol whose entertainment career spanned seven decades. She was known for her lighthearted, bawdy double entendres and breezy sexual independence, and often used a husky contralto voice. She was active in vaudeville and on stage in New York City before moving to Los Angeles to pursue a career in the film industry.

Lawrence Joseph Ellison is an American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist who is a co-founder, the executive chairman and chief technology officer (CTO) of Oracle Corporation. As of October 2019, he was listed by Forbes magazine as the fourth-wealthiest person in the United States and as the sixth-wealthiest in the world, with a fortune of $69.1 billion, increased from $54.5 billion in 2018. He is also the owner of the 41st largest island in the United States, Lanai in the Hawaiian Islands with a population of just over 3000.

Samantha De Martin, better known by her ring name Indi Hartwell, is an Australian professional wrestler, currently signed to WWE, performing on the NXT brand, and is a member of The Way. She is a former NXT Women's Tag Team Champion, as well as the current WSW Women's Champion and a former RCW Women's Champion.

Ralf Richter is a German actor. He debuted as the crude sailor "Frenssen" in the Academy Award-nominated 1981 film Das Boot and frequently appeared in German TV series. He played main roles in German films such as Bang Boom Bang (1999), Fußball ist unser Leben (1999) or If It Don't Fit, Use a Bigger Hammer (2002).

John Thomas "Sib" Hashian was an Armenian-American musician, best known as a drummer for the rock band Boston.

Margaret Heafield Hamilton is an American computer scientist, systems engineer, and business owner. She was director of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, which developed on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo program. She later founded two software companies—Higher Order Software in 1976 and Hamilton Technologies in 1986, both in Cambridge, Massachusetts.