List of Famous people born on May 17th

Keri-Lynn Wilson is a Canadian conductor of operatic and symphonic repertoire.

Andrea Jane Corr MBE is an Irish singer, songwriter, musician, author and actress. Corr debuted in 1990 as the lead singer of the Celtic folk rock and pop rock group The Corrs along with her three elder siblings Caroline, Sharon and Jim. Aside from singing lead vocals, Corr plays the tin whistle, the ukulele and the piano.

Hessy Levinsons Taft, a German Jew, was featured as an infant in Nazi propaganda after her photo won a contest to find "the most beautiful Aryan baby" in 1935. Taft's image was subsequently distributed widely by the Nazi party in a variety of materials, such as magazines and postcards, to promote Aryanism.

Nikolas Löbel is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Baden-Württemberg from 2017 to 2021. He resigned in March 2021.

Yōko Shimada is a Japanese actress. She is best known to Western audiences for her portrayal of Mariko in the 1980 miniseries Shōgun.

Gina Marie Raimondo is an American politician and venture capitalist who has been the 75th governor of Rhode Island since 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the first woman to serve as Governor of Rhode Island. Before her election, she served as general treasurer of Rhode Island from 2011 to 2015 and was the second woman to hold that office. She was selected as the Democratic candidate for Rhode Island's governorship in the 2014 election. Raimondo won the election on November 4, 2014, with 41% of the vote, in a three-way race, against the mayor of Cranston, Republican Allan Fung, and businessman Robert Healey. She won re-election on November 6, 2018 with a majority of the vote and the largest margin of victory for a Rhode Island gubernatorial race in decades.

Guido Pella is an Argentine professional tennis player. In August 2019, Pella reached his career best world rank No. 20 in singles. In July 2019, he peaked at world rank No. 55 in doubles.

Youcef Atal is an Algerian professional footballer who plays for Ligue 1 club OGC Nice and the Algeria national team. He mainly plays as a right-back, but can also play as a left winger.

Mark Bezos is an American businessman, investor, and commercial astronaut. He is the younger brother of Jeff Bezos, the founder and executive chairman of Amazon.

Terrance Eugene Ferguson Jr. is an American professional basketball player for the Philadelphia 76ers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He completed high school at Advanced Preparatory International in Dallas, Texas, where he was a top-20 player in the Class of 2016. Ferguson made separate commitments to both Alabama and Arizona before deciding to skip college and play overseas in 2016–17. He is a three-time gold medalist with Team USA, and in 2016, he participated in the McDonald's All-American Game and the Nike Hoop Summit, winning the MVP award at the latter.