List of Famous people born on January 17th

Nisith Pramanik is an Indian politician and a Union Minister of State, Ministry of Home Affairs from West Bengal. He was elected to the Lok Sabha, lower house of the Parliament of India from Cooch Behar, West Bengal in the 2019 Indian general election as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He was also a member of All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) before joining the BJP in March 2019.

Juan Fernando Velasco is an Ecuadorian musician.

Borja Iglesias Quintas is a Spanish footballer who plays for Real Betis as a striker.

Ryō (りょう) is a Japanese model, actress, voice actress and former singer whose birth name is Yumiko Miyada .

Albert Ramos Viñolas is a Spanish professional tennis player who is currently ranked world No. 42 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of World No. 17, which he achieved after reaching the final of the 2017 Monte Carlo Masters, his best performance at a Masters 1000 event.

Danilo Xavier Carrera Huerta, known as Danilo Carrera, is an Ecuadorian actor, presenter and model.

Enzo Jeremías Fernández is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Defensa y Justicia, on loan from River Plate.

Emanuel Navarrete Martinez is a Mexican professional boxer. He is a two-weight world champion, having held the WBO featherweight title since October 2020 and the WBO junior featherweight title from 2018 to July 2020. As of October 2020, he is ranked as the world's second best active featherweight by BoxRec and the third best active junior featherweight by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board.

Allonzo Brian Trier is an American professional basketball player for the Iowa Wolves of NBA G League. He played college basketball for the Arizona Wildcats. As a sophomore in 2016–17, he earned second-team all-conference honors in the Pac-12 and was named the most outstanding player in the Pac-12 Tournament.

Thierry Ascione is a retired professional tour male tennis player from France. He turned pro in 2000 and retired in September 2010, reaching a career-high singles ranking of World No. 81 in February 2004.