List of Famous people born on November 17th
Marco Dawson
Marco Dawson is an American professional golfer who now plays on the PGA Tour Champions, having previously played on the PGA Tour.
Anthony King
Anthony Stephen King was a Canadian-British professor of government, psephologist and commentator. He taught at the Department of Government at the University of Essex for many years.
Roseann Quinn
Roseann Quinn was an American schoolteacher in New York City who was stabbed to death in 1973 by a man she met at a bar. Her murder inspired Judith Rossner's best-selling 1975 novel Looking for Mr. Goodbar, which was adapted as a 1977 film directed by Richard Brooks and starring Diane Keaton, and its follow-up fact-based semi-sequel for TV, Trackdown: Finding the Goodbar Killer, released six years later in 1983. Quinn's murder also inspired the 1977 account Closing Time: The True Story of the "Goodbar" Murder by New York Times journalist Lacey Fosburgh. The case was the subject of a Season 3 episode of Investigation Discovery's series A Crime to Remember in 2015.
Carlos Ulberg
Carlos Sao Murry Ulberg is a New Zealand mixed martial artist who competes in the Light heavyweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
Ratnakar Matkari
Ratnakar Ramkrushna Matkari was a Marathi writer, a movie and play producer/director, and a self-taught artist from Maharashtra, India.
Evelyne Brochu
Evelyne Brochu is a Canadian actress. In 2013, she became well known for her English-speaking role as Delphine Cormier, a French scientist on the hit Canadian science fiction thriller TV series Orphan Black.
Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings
Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings is a Ghanaian politician who was the First Lady of Ghana from 4 June 1979 to 24 September 1979 and 31 December 1981 to 7 January 2001, both times under President Jerry John Rawlings. In 2016 she became the first woman to run for President of Ghana.
Ofelia Guilmáin
Ofelia Guilmáin was an actress of telenovelas, stage and the cinema of Mexico.
J. C. Jackson
Jerald Christopher "J. C." Jackson is an American football cornerback for the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Maryland Terrapins. Following the 2017 NCAA football season, Jackson declared for the 2018 NFL Draft and participated in the 2018 NFL Scouting Combine.
Shobhna Samarth
Shobhana Samarth was an Indian film actress, director and producer who began her career in the early days of talkie movies in the Hindi film industry, and continued in lead roles into the 1950s. She started in Marathi cinema. Her first Hindi film Nigahen Nafrat, was released in 1935. She is best remembered for her portrayal of Sita in Ram Rajya (1943). In 1997, she was honoured with the Filmfare Special Award for her contribution to arts.