List of Famous people born on July 17th

Antonieta de Barros was a Brazilian journalist and politician.

Alexander Mark Heming Gilkes is a British businessman. He is the co-founder of Squared Circles, launched in 2020, and was the co-founder and president of Paddle8 from 2011 to 2018, until stepping down when it was sold to The Native. Paddle8 is an online auction house for art and collectibles, described by FT as "reimagined art collecting for the digital age."

Alexander Nevsky is a Russian bodybuilder, actor, writer, and producer. He is known for playing the role of Vlad Stepanov in Moscow Heat. At the age of 25 he changed his surname from Kuritsyn to Nevsky.

Vanessa Low is a German-born Australian Paralympic athlete competing in T42 sprint and long jump events. Born in Germany, she gained Australian nationality in June 2017.

Lisandro Monteiro Furt, better known by his stage name Lisandro Cuxi, born 17 July 1999 in Torres Vedras, is an Portuguese–Cape-Verdean singer-songwriter and dancer. In 2017, Lisandro Cuxi won the sixth season of The Voice: la plus belle voix as part of Team M. Pokora. He released his debut album named Ma bonne étoile in September 2017.

Mark Burnett is a British television producer who is the current Chairman of MGM Worldwide Television Group. He is best known for creating and producing the reality show The Apprentice and producing Survivor.

Pamela Jayne Soles is a German-born American actress. She made her film debut in 1976 as Norma Watson in Brian De Palma's Carrie (1976) before portraying Lynda van der Klok in John Carpenter's Halloween (1978) and Riff Randell in Allan Arkush's Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979).

Heinz Winkler is an Italian-German three-Michelin star chef.

Frank Rudolph Emmanuel Olson was an American bacteriologist, biological warfare scientist, and an employee of the United States Army Biological Warfare Laboratories (USBWL) who worked at Camp Detrick in Maryland. At a meeting in rural Maryland, he was covertly dosed with LSD by his colleague Sidney Gottlieb and, nine days later, plunged to his death from the window of the Hotel Statler. The U.S. government first described his death as a suicide, and then as misadventure, while others allege murder. The Rockefeller Commission report on the CIA in 1975 acknowledged their having conducted drug studies.

Ryan Dean Miller is an American professional ice hockey goaltender for the Anaheim Ducks of the National Hockey League (NHL). Miller was drafted 138th overall by the Buffalo Sabres in the 1999 NHL Entry Draft. In 2010, he won the Vezina Trophy as the league's best goaltender. On February 17, 2019, Miller became the winningest American-born goalie in NHL history.