List of Famous people born on November 17th

Vítor Manuel Oliveira was a Portuguese football midfielder and manager.

Vsevolod Vladimirovich Ovchinnikov is a Soviet and Russian journalist and writer-publicist, one of the leading Soviet postwar international journalists; orientalist and expert on Japan and China.

Frank Fay was an American vaudeville comedian and film and stage actor. For a time he was a well known and influential star, but he later fell into obscurity, in part because of his abrasive personality and fascist political views. He is considered an important pioneer in stand-up comedy. He played the role of "Elwood P. Dowd" in the Broadway play Harvey by the American playwright Mary Coyle Chase. He is best known as actress Barbara Stanwyck's first husband. Their troubled marriage is thought by some to be the basis of the 1937 film A Star Is Born, in which the previously unknown wife shoots to stardom while her husband's career goes into sharp decline. Fay was notorious for his bigotry and alcoholism, and according to the American Vaudeville Museum, "even when sober, he was dismissive and unpleasant, and he was disliked by most of his contemporaries".

Raquel Castro is an American actress, singer, and songwriter. She is known for starring in the 2004 film Jersey Girl as Gertie Trinké, the daughter of Ollie Trinké and Gertrude Steiney, for which Castro won the Young Artist Award for the Best Performance in a Feature Film - Young Actress Age Ten or Younger. She was a contestant in the American version of The Voice.

George Frederick Gyles was a Canadian sailor who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics.

Daniel Yuste Escolar was a Spanish cyclist. He competed in the individual pursuit at the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Alan Curtis was an American harpsichordist, musicologist, and conductor of baroque opera.

Walter Hallstein was a German academic, diplomat and statesman who was the first President of the Commission of the European Economic Community and one of the founding fathers of the European Union.

Yūichirō Itō is a Japanese politician and former governor of Kagoshima Prefecture in Japan. A native of Izumi, Kagoshima and graduate of the University of Tokyo with the Bachelor of Laws in June 1971, he had worked at the Ministry of Home Affairs since 1972 before elected governor.

Irene Mihalic is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens from Gelsenkirchen. A police officer, Mihailic has been a member of the Bundestag since 2013 and domestic policy spokeswoman for the Alliance 90/The Greens parliamentary group since 2016.