List of Famous people born on September 17th

Sir Brook William Bridges, 3rd Baronet was a British baronet and Whig politician.

Ernest Augustus, Duke of York and Albany, was the younger brother of George I of Great Britain. Ernest Augustus was a soldier and served with some distinction under Emperor Leopold I during the Nine Years' War and the War of the Spanish Succession. In 1715, he became Prince-Bishop of Osnabrück.

James Charles Herbert Welbore Ellis Agar, 3rd Earl of Normanton DL, styled Viscount Somerton until 1868, was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.

Konstantin Kosachev is a Russian politician and diplomat. He is senator at the Federation Council and chairs its Foreign Affairs Committee.

Sir Colville Adrian de Rune Barclay was a British diplomat who served as chargé d'affaires in Washington D.C., minister to Sweden and Hungary and ambassador to Portugal.

María Cristina Díaz Salazar is a Mexican lawyer and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). She is a former municipal president (mayor) of Guadalupe, Nuevo León. Today, she is senator for the state of Nuevo León.

William Henry Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford, KG, PC was a British courtier, diplomat and statesman of Anglo-Dutch descent. He occupied senior ambassadorial posts at Madrid and Paris, and served as Secretary of State in both the Northern and Southern Departments. He is credited with the earliest-known introduction of the Lombardy poplar to England in 1754.

Percy Brodrick Bernard was an Irish Conservative Party politician who sat briefly in the House of Commons in 1880.

Bernard Arthur William Patrick Hastings Forbes, 8th Earl of Granard,, styled Viscount Forbes from 1874 to 1889, was an Anglo-Irish soldier and Liberal politician.