List of Famous people born on June 17th

Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Winston was an American pioneer, planter and American Revolutionary War hero from Surry County, North Carolina, and the first cousin of statesman and Virginia governor Patrick Henry. He also served in the United States House of Representatives and North Carolina Senate. In 1766, Winston moved to the northern part of Rowan County, North Carolina, the area which subsequently became the current Stokes County, North Carolina.

Jeremiah McLain Rusk was a U.S. Representative, the 15th Governor of the U.S. state of Wisconsin from 1882 to 1889 and the second United States Secretary of Agriculture from 1889 to 1893. He also served as Union Army officer during the American Civil War.

André Joseph Lefèvre was a French politician who was Minister of War in 1920.

Bonaventura Cerretti was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura from 1931 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1925.

Constantine Bohachevsky, born in Manajiv, Ukraine, was an Archbishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Church. He was the first Ukrainian Catholic Metropolitan in the United States.