List of Famous people born on January 17th

Camilo José Arcadio Cela Conde, 2nd Marquess of Iria Flavia, is a Spanish writer. He is the son of Nobel Prize winning writer Camilo José Cela and is currently a Professor of Philosophy of law, Morality and Politics at the University of the Balearic Islands.

Johannes Herber is a former German basketball player. In 2006, he completed a U.S. college career at West Virginia University. In America, he was generally known as Joe Herber.

Pierre Le Coq is a French competitive sailor.

Jean-Jacques Acquevillo is a French handball player, playing for USAM Nîmes Gard.

Teresa Huai-Ying Meng is a Taiwanese-American academician and entrepreneur. She is the Reid Weaver Dennis Professor of Electrical Engineering, Emerita, at Stanford University, and founder of Atheros Communications, a wireless semiconductor company acquired by Qualcomm, Inc.

Ezequiel Cerutti is an Argentine forward currently playing for Coritiba, on loan from San Lorenzo.

Luca Paolini is an Italian former road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2000 and 2015. He started his sports career in the early 2000s by joining Mapei–Quick-Step (2000–2002), UCI ProTeam directed by Patrick Lefevere. Within Mapei-Quick Step and then its successor team Quick-Step–Innergetic (2003–2005), Luca Paolini achieved several victories. Among them were first places at Gran Premio di Lugano, Giro del Piemonte and Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli. He has also won stages at Tour of Britain and Tour de Wallonie.

Keita Inoue is a Japanese professional shogi player, ranked 9-dan. He is currently serving as an executive director of the Japan Shogi Association.

Karim Aïnouz is a Brazilian film director and visual artist.

Nobuyuki Kojima is a former Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team.