List of Famous people born on September 17th

Brigadier George Taylor, was a senior officer in the British Army.

Peter Bennett was a British stage and television actor. He had served on both the National Council for Drama Training and the British Actors' Equity Association.

Robert Cohen is a Canadian comedy writer and director.

Jan Kenneth Eliasson is a Swedish diplomat who was Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations from July 2012 to December 2016. A member of the Swedish Social Democratic Party, Eliasson served as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 24 April to 6 October 2006. Eliasson was appointed as Governing Board Chair of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute in April 2017 and assumed his role as of 1 June 2017.

Luís Filipe Marques Amado, GCC is a portuguese politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2006 to 2011 in Portugal's XIII Government led by the Socialist Party. Before replacing Diogo Freitas do Amaral as Minister of Foreign Affairs, on 30 June 2006, Amado had served as Minister of Defence. On 30 June 2007, he succeeded to the EU Council Presidency on behalf of Portugal.

Florentin Crihălmeanu was a Romanian Greek Catholic hierarch.

Feyhaman Duran was a Turkish artist.