List of Famous people born on September 17th

Pope Paul V, born Camillo Borghese, was bishop of Rome from 16 May 1605 to his death. In 1611, he honored Galileo Galilei as a member of the Papal Accademia dei Lincei and supported his discoveries. In 1616, Pope Paul V instructed Cardinal Bellarmine to inform Galileo that the Copernican theory could not be taught as fact, but Bellarmine's certificate allowed Galileo to continue his studies in search for evidence and use the geocentric model as a theoretical device. That same year Paul V assured Galileo that he was safe from persecution so long as he, the Pope, should live. Bellarmine's certificate was used by Galileo for his defense at the trial of 1633.

Mark Randolph Osborne is an American film director, writer, producer and animator.

Jeffrey Matthew Settle is an American actor. He is known for playing Captain Ronald Speirs on the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers and Rufus Humphrey on the CW teen drama series Gossip Girl.

General William Schaw Cathcart, 1st Earl Cathcart was a Scottish soldier and diplomatist.

Kevin Sheppard is a United States Virgin Islands basketball player and former football striker. He became the subject of the documentary The Iran Job which covers his 2008-2009 season with the A.S. Shiraz team in Iran. He is the joint top scorer for his footballing national team

Antonio-Mirko Čolak is a Croatian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Greek club PAOK, and the Croatia national football team.

Sultan Magomedbegovich Aliev is a retired Russian mixed martial artist and active sambist of Avar descent. A professional from 2011 until 2019, he competed for the UFC and Bellator.

Augusto César Lima Brito is a Brazilian professional basketball player for UCAM Murcia of the Liga ACB. He is 6'10" (2.08m) tall and he can play as either a power forward or a center. He is left handed, but at the age of ten, his parents forced him to learn to write and shoot with the right. He was born in Rio de Janeiro.