List of Famous people born on July 17th

Thérèse Rein is an Australian entrepreneur who is the founder of Ingeus, an international employment and business psychology services company.

Joseph Michael Straczynski is an American television and film screenwriter, producer and director, and comic book writer. He is the founder of Synthetic Worlds Ltd. and Studio JMS and is best known as the creator of the science fiction television series Babylon 5 (1993–1998) and its spinoff Crusade (1999), as well as the series Jeremiah (2002–2004) and Sense8 (2015–2018). He is also the executor of the estate of Harlan Ellison.

Cory Efram Doctorow is a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who served as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing. He is an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons organization, using some of their licences for his books. Some common themes of his work include digital rights management, file sharing, and post-scarcity economics.

Brendan Coogan is a British television and radio presenter, from Middleton, Greater Manchester. In January 1999, Coogan briefly presented the motoring programme on the BBC, Top Gear, following the departure of former host Jeremy Clarkson, but left after a few months, following a drink driving conviction. Between 1999 and 2001, he was a presenter on Radio 5 Live.