List of Famous people who died in 2017

Austin Deasy was an Irish Fine Gael politician who served as Minister for Agriculture from 1982 to 1987. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Waterford constituency from 1977 to 2002. He was a Senator from 1973 to 1977, after being nominated by the Taoiseach.

Giovanni Battista Franzoni was an Italian Christian communist and dissident Catholic theologian. A Benedictine, he was Abbot of St. Paul's Outside the Walls from 1964 to 1973. Having become involved in activism and politics, he was laicized by Pope Paul VI in 1976.

Steve Sandor was an actor who made his first television appearance on Star Trek, playing Lars in the second season episode "The Gamesters of Triskelion".

John Jeremiah McRaith was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Owensboro from 1982 to 2009.

Ku Fu-sheng (1935-2017) was a Shanghai-born Taiwanese-American painter. The son of General Ku Chu-tung, he fled with his family to 1948. Graduating from National Taiwan Normal University in 1958, he became associated with the Fifth Moon group. In his later career he studied in Paris and New York and lived in various cities of the United States. His work is best known for his queer-themed oil paintings, which in 2017 were included in a retrospective of LGBT art at the Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei. In 2021, a solo retrospective was mounted at Eslite Gallery. He was Sanmao's painting teacher and a close friend of the author Pai Hsien-yung.

Christian Vicente Fernandez Noel was a Filipino Roman Catholic prelate.