List of Famous people born on March 17th

Hugo Alexander Speer is an English actor and director.

Rola El-Halabi is a professional German boxer of Lebanese origin and former quadruple world champion in the WIBF, UBF, WBF and WIBA.

Olivia Ciappa is a French photographer and film director. She is a director of short films, a director of musicals for the theater, illustrator of books for children, producer and director of documentaries, journalist of cinema, photographer also creator of stamps.

Raul José Trindade Meireles is a Portuguese former footballer who played as a midfielder.

Ferdinand von Sammern-Frankenegg was a German SS functionary during the Nazi era. He served in World War I and then after Germany had formally surrendered, in the Freikorps Oberland and the Steirischer Heimatschutz. He served as SS and Police Leader of the Warsaw area in German-occupied Poland from 1941 until 1943 during World War II.

Shōtarō Kasahara is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays pitcher for the Chunichi Dragons.

Felipe Augusto Santana is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a centre back for Chapecoense.

Lin Hsi-shan is a Taiwanese politician. He was the Secretary-General of Legislative Yuan from 1 March 1999 until 31 January 2016.

Luis Goytisolo Gay is a Spanish Catalan writer in the Spanish language. He is best known for his tetralogy Antagonía, which was published between 1973 and 1981. Goytisolo is a member of the Real Academia Española.

Zoya Feliksovna Svetova is a Russian journalist and human rights defender, producer, author of the documentary novel Innocent Found Guilty.