List of Famous people born on September 17th

Samuel Thornton Durrance (Ph.D.) is an American scientist who flew aboard two NASA Space Shuttle missions as a payload specialist.

Amanda Spratt is an Australian road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam Team BikeExchange.

Keith Cooke Hirabayashi is an American martial artist, actor and an occasional stuntman. He is best known as portraying Reptile from Mortal Kombat (1995) and Sub-Zero from the sequel, Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997).

Frank O'Connor was an Irish writer of over 150 works, best known for his short stories and memoirs. The Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award is named in his honour.

Pia Zimmermann is a German politician. Born in Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, she represents The Left. Pia Zimmermann has served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Lower Saxony since 2013.

Minna Kaisa Aaltonen is a Finnish actress. She played Marianne in London's Burning, Ingrid Coates in Dream Team, and appeared in Kotikatu, The Bill, Dalziel and Pascoe, and Lexx. She also appeared in beer ads in Ireland and in a small part as a newsreader in the James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies. In 1994 she was a host of Gladiaattorit.

Marthinus Wessel Pretorius was the first president of the South African Republic, and also compiled the constitution of the Republic.