List of Famous people born on January 17th

George Morikawa is a Japanese manga author known for the long-running series Hajime no Ippo. Born in Tokyo, Morikawa was inspired to become a manga artist upon reading Tetsuya Chiba's Harris no Kaze in elementary school.

Kei Hosoya is a Japanese former professional baseball infielder who is currently a coach for the Toyama GRN Thunderbirds of Baseball Challenge League. He has played in his entire career with the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Chiba Lotte Marines.

Jürgen Schmidhuber is a computer scientist most noted for his work in the field of artificial intelligence, deep learning and artificial neural networks. He is a co-director of the Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research in Lugano, in Ticino in southern Switzerland. Following Google Scholar, from 2016 to 2021 he has received more than 100,000 scientific citations. He has been referred to as "father of modern AI," "father of AI," "dad of mature AI," "Papa" of famous AI products, "Godfather," and "father of deep learning."

Mitchel L Vogel is an American former child actor, musician and director.

Jang Shin-young is a South Korean actress. She made her entertainment debut through a local beauty contest in 2001, and is best known for her portrayal of the femme fatale lead in the E Channel drama The Empress (2011). She was cast in the leading role in Flower of Revenge (2013), the first daily drama by cable station jTBC.

Gonzalo Damián Godoy Silva, known as Gonzalo Godoy, is a Uruguayan footballer who plays as a centre back or full-back for The Strongest.

Ney Sant'Anna Pereira dos Santos is a Brazilian film and television actor. He was born in São Paulo and is the son of Nelson Pereira dos Santos.

Michèle Deslauriers is a Canadian actress. She is the wife of actor Sébastien Dhavernas and the mother of actress Caroline Dhavernas and voice actress Gabrielle Dhavernas. She provides the voice announcing stops, service interruptions, and special messages for the Montreal Metro.

Juan Antonio Gossaín Abdallah is a Colombian radio national news director, chief editor, and journalist, as well as a novelist. He wrote the novel "The Ballad of María Abdala." He is well known for directing the RCN Radio Network from around 1984 to 2010 and during that time had his own radio program that was regularly broadcast in Colombia. Gossaín was a two-time winner in the radio journalism category of the Premio Nacional de Periodismo Simón Bolívar, a national award for Colombian journalism.

Ivan Karnilin (Russian: Иван Николаевич Карнилин, born 17 January 1957) is a Russia politician. He serves as head of Nizhny Novgorod.