List of Famous people born on December 17th

Jagadish Shivappa Shettar is a Former Chief Minister of Karnataka belonging to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), who was the 21st Chief Minister of Karnataka from 2012 to 2013. He has subsequently served as Leader of the Opposition in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly. Earlier, he was the Speaker of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly during 2008-2009. Currently he represents Hubli-Dharwad Central Vidhan Sabha seat. On 20 August 2019 he was inducted as the Cabinet Minister for Large and medium scale industries excluding sugar and Public Enterprise department in the BJP Government led by B.S. Yediyurappa.

Fernando Silva is a Portuguese badminton player. He competed in two events at the 1992 Summer Olympics. He won 4 bronze medals at the BWF World Senior Championships.

Michael David Bordo is a Canadian and American economist, currently Board of Governors Professor of Economics and Distinguished Professor of Economics at Rutgers University. He is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research as well as a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He is the third most influential economic historian worldwide according to the RePEc/IDEAS rankings. He was a student of Milton Friedman and has co-authored numerous books and articles with Anna Schwartz.

Paweł Jan Tanajno is a Polish entrepreneur and politician.

Agnieszka Wagner is a Polish actress. She has appeared in more than fifty films since 1989.