List of Famous people born on June 17th

Gibbs Crawfurd Antrobus was a British diplomat and politician.

Jacques Destoop was a French actor and painter.

Marcia Carolyn Kaptur is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Ohio's 9th congressional district. She is a member of the Democratic Party. The district stretches from Kaptur's hometown of Toledo to Cleveland. It includes all of Ottawa and Erie counties, and parts of Lucas, Lorain, and Cuyahoga counties.

Kingman Brewster Jr. was an American educator, president of Yale University, and diplomat.

Nelson Ismael Sánchez Jiménez is a Dominican cyclist riding for the Aero Cycling Team, National Road Race champion in 2007 and 2017 and three times winner of the Vuelta a la Independencia Nacional.

Akira Hasegawa is a theoretical physicist and engineer who has worked in the US and Japan. He is known for his work in the derivation of the Hasegawa–Mima equation, which describes fundamental plasma turbulence and the consequent generation of zonal flow that controls plasma diffusion. Hasegawa also made the discovery of optical solitons in glass fibers, a concept that is essential for high speed optical communications.

Leonid Aleksandrovich Golikov (Russian: Леонид Александрович Голиков; was a Soviet partisan during World War II who was posthumously recognized as a pioneer hero and received the Hero of the Soviet Union.