List of Famous people who died in 2017

Lady Mary Christina Holborow, DCVO was a British magistrate who was Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall. She was a daughter of the 8th Earl of Courtown.

Barbra Karine "Bab" Christensen was a Norwegian actress.

Zhao Liping was a Chinese police chief and politician who spent most of his career in Inner Mongolia. He served successively as the head of the region's Public Security Department, Vice-Chairman of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, and Vice-Chairman of the regional political advisory body. Zhao was also a writer. He was arrested by police in the eastern Inner Mongolian city of Chifeng in March 2015 on charges of intentional homicide. He was the first known provincial-level official to be convicted of murder in the history of the People's Republic of China. He was executed in 2017.

Guy Bernardin was a French sailor born in 1945 in Saint-Briac-sur-Mer, Ille-et-Vilaine, and disappeared at sea in August 2017, is a French skipper. He has participated in several offshore races, including two BOC Challenges, the 1989–1990 Vendée Globe and the 1990 Route du Rhum. On October 2, 2017, his 15-metre sailboat Crazy Horse, which he had just acquired, was found empty off Cape Codin the United States. He had left Southporton the East Coast of the United States on 9 August for La Turballe and had not given any sign of life since 15 August.

Rich Buckler was an American comics artist and penciller, best known for his work on Marvel Comics' Fantastic Four in the mid-1970s and for creating the character Deathlok in Astonishing Tales #25. Buckler drew virtually every major character at Marvel and DC, often as a cover artist.

William Amherst Vanderbilt Cecil was the operator of the Biltmore Estate through his company, The Biltmore Company.

Jean-Marie Berthier was a French poet. He taught literature in Africa, Asia and South America, and was the author of over 20 poetry collections.

Colette Guillaumin, was a sociologist at the French National Centre for Scientific Research and a French feminist.