List of Famous people born on October 17th

Alfred Louis Olivier Legrand Des Cloizeaux was a French mineralogist.

Agus Wirahadikusumah, was a high-ranking Indonesian military officer and commander of Kostrad, the Indonesian Army Strategic Reserves Command.

Bronwen Hughes is a Canadian film director. She was born in Toronto. A graduate of the Department of Film, York University she has directed commercials and feature films. Since 2006 most of her work has been in television directing.

Bryan Michael Bertino is an American film director, producer and screenwriter best known as the writer/director of The Strangers (2008), as well as writing its sequel, The Strangers: Prey at Night (2018), with Ben Ketai.

Simone Prutsch is an Austrian badminton player. She competed for Austria at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Akram Hussein Chehayeb is a Lebanese Druze politician who is a member of the Progressive Socialist Party headed by Walid Jumblatt. Cheheyab is a long-term member of the parliament and has also served in different cabinet and parliamentary posts.