List of Famous people born on October 17th

Christopher Lowell is an American television and film actor. He played the roles of Stosh "Piz" Piznarski in the CW noir drama Veronica Mars, William "Dell" Parker in the ABC Grey's Anatomy spin-off Private Practice, Jeremy Graves on the Epix series Graves, and Bash on the Netflix series GLOW.

Jacob Artist is an American actor, singer, and dancer. He is best known for his roles as Jake Puckerman on the Fox musical comedy-drama series Glee and as Brandon Fletcher on the ABC drama-thriller series Quantico.

Roy Kilner was an English professional cricketer who played nine Test matches for England between 1924 and 1926. An all-rounder, he played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club between 1911 and 1927. In all first-class matches, he scored 14,707 runs at an average of 30.01 and took 1,003 wickets at an average of 18.45. Kilner scored 1,000 runs in a season ten times and took 100 wickets in a season five times. On four occasions, he completed the double: scoring 1,000 runs and taking 100 wickets in the same season, recognised as a sign of a quality all-rounder.

Francisca Edwiges Neves Gonzaga, better known as Chiquinha Gonzaga was a Brazilian composer, pianist and the first woman conductor in Brazil.

Ha-seong Kim is a South Korean professional baseball shortstop for the San Diego Padres of Major League Baseball (MLB). Kim was drafted 29th overall by the Nexen Heroes in the 2014 Korea Baseball Organization Draft. He made his KBO debut with the Heroes in May 2014 and won the Golden Glove Award in 2018 and 2019. In December 2020, Kim signed with the San Diego Padres.

José Carlos Montoyo Díaz, is a Puerto Rican former professional baseball second baseman, who currently serves as the manager of the Toronto Blue Jays of Major League Baseball (MLB).

Vitaliy Vernydub is a professional Ukrainian football defender.

António Calvário da Paz is a Portuguese singer and artist from the late 1950s and 1960s. He represented Portugal in the 1964 Eurovision Song Contest, in Denmark, with the song "Oração".

Manish Narwal is an Indian Para Pistol Shooter. He ranks fourth in the world in Men's 10m Air Pistol SH1 according to the World Shooting Para Sport Rankings. Manish is also supported by GoSports Foundation through the Para Champions Programme.[]

Benoît Cosnefroy is a French cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam AG2R Citroën Team. In July 2019, he was named in the startlist for the 2019 Tour de France. In the 2020 Tour de France, he led the mountains classification and wore the polka dot jersey for 15 consecutive stages; he ultimately finished sixth in the final classification standings.