List of Famous people born on February 17th

Wander Luiz Queiroz Dias, or simply Wander Luiz is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Liga 1 club RANS Nusantara.

Andrei Girotto is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for FC Nantes.

Edin Višća is a Bosnian professional footballer who plays as a winger for Süper Lig club İstanbul Başakşehir and the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team.

Ante Tomić is a Croatian professional basketball player who plays for Joventut Badalona of the Spanish Liga ACB. He has also represented the senior Croatian national basketball team in international competitions. Standing at 7 ft 2 in (2.18 m), he plays the center position and is a three-time All-EuroLeague Team selection.

Ratu Tika Bravani or better known as Tika Bravani is an Indonesian model and actress of mixed Bantenese and Minangkabau descent.

Shun Sugata is a Japanese actor.

Kevin Scott Cron is an American professional baseball first baseman for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp of Nippon Professional Baseball. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Jean-Marie Laclavetine is a French editor, writer and translator of Italian literature into French.

Annika Zeyen is a former 1.5-point wheelchair basketball player, who has played for ASV Bonn, RSV Lahn-Dill and BG Baskets Hamburg in the German wheelchair basketball league, and for the University of Alabama in the United States. She has represented her country a total of 382 times in which she won six European titles, was the runner-up at 2010 and 2014 World Championships, won silver medals at the 2008 Summer Paralympic Games in Beijing and 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, and won a gold medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, for which President Joachim Gauck awarded the team Germany's highest sporting honour, the Silbernes Lorbeerblatt . Following the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games, Zeyen retired from wheelchair basketball to pursue alternative sporting challenges as an individual athlete.

Joan "Nani" Roma Cararach, is a rally racing driver from Folgueroles, Barcelona, Spain. He won the Dakar Rally riding a motorcycle in 2004. Since then he has entered in the car category, taking the win in the 2014 edition of the race.