List of Famous people born on May 17th

Sendhil Amithab Ramamurthy is an American actor. A native of San Antonio, Texas, Ramamurthy is best known for his roles as geneticist Mohinder Suresh in the NBC sci-fi drama Heroes, Gabriel "Gabe" Lowan in Beauty and the Beast, and Jai Wilcox in Covert Affairs.

Nobuhiro Matsuda is a Japanese professional baseball player for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks of the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).

John Michael Arthur is a South African Australian cricket coach and former cricketer, who played in South African domestic cricket from 1986 to 2001. He was also the coach of the Pakistan Cricket Team from 2016 to 2019. He is the current head coach of the Sri Lanka national cricket team as of December 2020.

Kathleen Krüger is a German former footballer who played as a midfielder for Bayern Munich. She has worked for the men's professional team of Bayern Munich off the field since 2009, and currently she is team manager of Bayern Munich. She is the only female team manager in the Bundesliga and has been described as "the league's most powerful woman".

Norval Turner is an American football coach in the National Football League (NFL). An offensive assistant for the majority of his assistant coaching career, he came to prominence as the Dallas Cowboys' offensive coordinator during their consecutive Super Bowls victories in Super Bowl XXVII and Super Bowl XXVIII. In addition to his assistant coaching, Turner served as the head coach of the Washington Redskins for seven seasons, the San Diego Chargers for six seasons, and the Oakland Raiders for two seasons. Turner compiled 118 wins during his head coaching tenure, which are the most of an NFL head coach with a losing record. He is also the only NFL head coach with 100 wins to have a losing record.

Emmanuel "Manu" Kouadio Koné is a French professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Bundesliga club Borussia Mönchengladbach.

Gonzalo Fernando Blumel Mac-Iver is a Chilean politician, civil environmental engineer and economist who served as Minister of the Interior and Public Security of Chile during Sebastián Piñera second government (2018–2022).

Taj Mahal is an American blues musician, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and film composer. He plays the guitar, piano, banjo, harmonica, and many other instruments, often incorporating elements of world music into his work. Mahal has done much to reshape the definition and scope of blues music over the course of his more than 50-year career by fusing it with nontraditional forms, including sounds from the Caribbean, Africa, India, Hawaii, and the South Pacific.

Tommy Paul is an American professional tennis player. Paul won the 2015 French Open boys' singles title by defeating fellow American Taylor Fritz in the final in three sets. He also reached the boys' singles final at the 2015 US Open, this time losing to Fritz in three sets. Paul was a quarterfinalist at the 2017 Citi Open, an ATP 500 tournament, before losing to Kei Nishikori.

Josep-Lluís Carod-Rovira is a Spanish politician. He was the Vice-president of the Catalan Government from 2006 to 2010. From 1996 to 2008 he was the leader of the Republican Left of Catalonia . ERC campaigns for Catalonia's independence from Spain and, secondarily, extend it to other Catalan Countries, the whole Catalan linguistic domain.