List of Famous people born on November 17th

Marie Marguerite Bihéron was a French anatomist, known for her medical illustrations and wax figure models.

Maria Luiza Reis Galli is a Brazilian actress.

Traude Dierdorf was an Austrian politician.

Jerónimo Julio Arango Arias was a Mexican billionaire businessman, co-founder of the Aurrerá supermarket chain, with his younger brothers, Manuel and Plácido, known for a long time as three of Mexico's wealthiest men. His net worth was estimated at US$4.6 billion in 2006 by Forbes.

Olena Kostiantynivna Kondratiuk is a Ukrainian politician and public relations specialist. She was elected to the Verkhovna Rada in the 2007 Ukrainian parliamentary elections.

Roland Joffé is a British director and producer of film and television, known for the Academy Award-winning films The Killing Fields and The Mission. He began his career in television, his early credits including episodes of Coronation Street and an adaptation of The Stars Look Down for Granada. He gained a reputation for hard-hitting political stories with the series Bill Brand and factual dramas for Play for Today.

Yasuhide Kurihara was an Imperial Japanese Army officer who was a conspirator in the February 26 Incident in 1936. He graduated in the 41st class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1929. He was one of the “young officers”.

Giannis Bourousis is a Greek professional basketball player for Peristeri of the Greek Basket League and the Basketball Champions League. He is a 7 ft ​³⁄₄ in 270 lb (122 kg) tall center. A two-time All-EuroLeague First Team selection, Bourousis has been compared to FIBA Hall of Fame center Vlade Divac by San Antonio Spurs' head coach Gregg Popovich.

Juan Pablo Llano, is a Colombian actor and model.

Zhu Zhiyu, courtesy name Luyu (魯璵), and commonly known as Zhu Shunshui in Japan, was one of the greatest scholars of Confucianism in the Ming dynasty and Edo Japan. Zhu remains the best remembered of the Ming political refugees in Tokugawa Japan and the one who contributed most to Japanese education and intellectual history.