List of Famous people born on October 17th

David Lee Hobson is an American politician who served as a Republican congressman from the seventh congressional district of Ohio.

Hartmut Weber is a retired German track and field athlete who competed in the 400 metres.

Björn Roger Bengtsson is a Swedish actor.

Jan Kavan is a former Czech politician and diplomat.

Glen Alan Chadwick is a cyclist with both New Zealand and Australian citizenship. Glen Chadwick began his career in 2001 at the Belgian cycling team Landbouwkrediet-Colnago. In his first year, he came second in the general classification of the Tour de Liège. After two years he moved to Taiwan to ride for the Giant Asia Racing Team. Here he would win in his first year the Tour of Korea and the Tour of Beijing. In 2005 he rode for the Australian UCI Continental team Cyclingnews.com. After two years at the American UCI Professional Continental team Navigators Insurance he moved to Team Type 1 in 2008. In 2009 he joined Rock Racing.

Yoshiki Tsukamoto is a Japanese male badminton player.

Simon Vestdijk was a Dutch writer.