List of Famous people born on November 17th

Istiqlal Ahmad, is a Bahraini actress and media personality of Iraqi origin. She was born and raised in Kuwait, but moved Bahrain after her marriage and stayed there since.

Herman Deru is an Indonesian politician who is the governor of South Sumatra and formerly regent of East Ogan Komering Ulu.

Thomas Allofs is a retired German footballer who played as a striker.

Lee Strasberg was a Polish-born American actor, director, and theatre practitioner. He co-founded, with directors Harold Clurman and Cheryl Crawford, the Group Theatre in 1931, which was hailed as "America's first true theatrical collective". In 1951 he became director of the nonprofit Actors Studio in New York City, considered "the nation's most prestigious acting school," and in 1966 he was involved in the creation of Actors Studio West in Los Angeles.

Vyacheslav Anatolyevich Voronin ; November 7, 1934, Zherdevsky District, Tambov Oblast, RSFSR, Soviet Union — October 7, 2016, Kiev, Ukraine) was a Soviet, Russian and Ukrainian actor; he was a Merited Artist of Ukraine (2003).

Robin Li Yanhong is a Chinese software engineer and billionaire internet entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of the search engine Baidu, and one of the richest people in China, with a net worth of US$6.0 billion as of May 2020. He also developed RankDex, the first web search engine with page-ranking and site-scoring algorithms.

Oleh Hornykiewicz was an Austrian biochemist.

Mohamed Hassad is a Moroccan engineer and politician, formerly serving as Minister of the Interior in the government of Abdelilah Benkirane. He later served as Minister of Education before being fired in 2017.

Eunice Barber is a Sierra Leonean athlete competing in heptathlon and long jump. Barber initially competed for Sierra Leone and then for France from 1999 onwards. She won the heptathlon at the World Athletics Championships in 1999, the long jump in 2003 and finished second in heptathlon in 2003 and 2005.

Jean-Michel Saive is a former professional table tennis player from Belgium. Saive competed at seven consecutive Olympics between 1988 and 2012, and he was also a winner in singles at European Championship 1994.