List of Famous people born on March 17th
Masataka Gōda
Masataka Gōda is a Japanese professional shogi player, ranked 9-dan. He is a former major title holder, having won the Ōi, Kisei, Kiō and Ōshō titles throughout his career.
Shohei Tateyama
Shohei Tateyama is a former Japanese professional baseball pitcher and currently pitting coach for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles of the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He played for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows of the NPB.
Frederick Fung
Frederick Fung Kin-kee, SBS, JP is a former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong from 1991 to 1997 and from 2000 to 2016 and the former chairman of the pro-democracy Hong Kong Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood (ADPL) from 1989 to 2007.
Wolfgang Doeblin
Wolfgang Doeblin, known in France as Vincent Doblin, was a French-German mathematician.
Edgar Grospiron
Edgar Grospiron is a French freestyle skier and Olympic champion. He won a gold medal at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville. He received a bronze medal at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. At the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics he was Chef de mission for the French Team. He was in charge of the Annecy bid for the 2018 Winter Olympics, which did not win.
Kensuke Uchimura
Kensuke Uchimura is a Japanese baseball infielder. He previously played for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars in Japan's Pacific League.
Aaron Baddeley
Aaron John Baddeley is an Australian professional golfer. He was born in Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA and now plays on the U.S.-based PGA Tour, he has joint U.S. and Australian citizenship and was raised in Australia from the age of two. He represents Australia in international golf.
Joel Sousa
Carlos Joel Castro de Sousa is a Portuguese footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for ARC Oleiros on loan from Tondela.
Simon Sluga
Simon Sluga is a Croatian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Championship club Luton Town.
Urassaya Sperbund
Urassaya Sperbund, more commonly known as Yaya, is a Thai actress and model of Norwegian descent, known for her roles in Duang Jai Akkanee (2010), Game Rai Game Rak (2011), Torranee Ni Nee Krai Krong (2012), Kleun Cheewit (2017) and The Crown Princess (2018).