List of Famous people born on March 17th

Philippe Schnyder is a Swiss former professional cyclist.

Terence James O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of Gatley is a British economist best known for coining BRICs, the acronym that stands for Brazil, Russia, India, and China—the four rapidly developing countries that have come to symbolise the shift in global economic power away from the developed G7 economies. He is also a former chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management and former Conservative government minister. As of January 2014, he is an Honorary Professor of Economics at the University of Manchester. He was appointed Commercial Secretary to the Treasury in the Second Cameron Ministry, a position he held until his resignation on 23 September 2016. Since 2008, he has written monthly columns for international media organization Project Syndicate. He is the current chairman of the Council of Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs.

Anthony Walter Patrick Hamilton was an English playwright and novelist. He was well regarded by Graham Greene and J. B. Priestley, and study of his novels has been revived because of their distinctive style, deploying a Dickensian narrative voice to convey aspects of inter-war London street culture. They display a strong sympathy for the poor, as well as an acerbic black humour. Doris Lessing wrote in The Times in 1968: "Hamilton was a marvellous novelist who's grossly neglected".

Kasper Ødum is a male badminton player from Denmark.

Valter Bonča is a former Slovenian racing cyclist. He competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics, representing Yugoslavia, and at the 1992 Summer Olympics, representing Slovenia.

Tiê Gasparinetti Biral, simply known as Tiê, is a Brazilian singer-songwriter.

Kazuaki Yoshinaga is a Japanese coach. He is the current head coach at Albirex Niigata.