List of Famous people who died in 2017

Elmer Fung or Fung Hu-hsiang is a Taiwanese retired politician. A member of the New Party, he represented Taipei City in the Legislative Yuan from 1999 to 2002. In 2000, he and Li Ao formed the New Party presidential ticket, which finished fifth.

On 22 March 2017, a terrorist attack took place outside the Palace of Westminster in London, seat of the British Parliament. The attacker, 52-year-old Briton Khalid Masood, drove a car into pedestrians on the pavement along the south side of Westminster Bridge and Bridge Street, injuring more than 50 people, four of them fatally. He then crashed the car into the perimeter fence of the palace grounds and ran into New Palace Yard, where he fatally stabbed an unarmed police officer. He was then shot by an armed police officer, and died at the scene.

Gustavo Rojo Pinto was a Uruguayan film actor and producer. He appeared in more than 160 films and television shows between 1938 and 2016. He is the father of Ana Patricia Rojo.

Hans-Michael Rehberg was a German actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films since 1945.

Antonio Rosato was an Italian-Canadian actor and comedian, who appeared in television and films. He was best known as a cast member on both SCTV and Saturday Night Live, and for voicing Luigi in The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 and Super Mario World.

Eraclio Catalin Rodríguez Cereijo, better known as Horacio Guarany, was one of the main Argentine folklore singers, and a writer. Guarany died on January 13, 2017, at the age of 91.

Ignacio Echeverría Miralles de Imperial was a Spanish lawyer and banker. He fought off one of the terrorists in the 2017 London Bridge attack, before being killed by other terrorists.

Kanwar Pal Singh Gill was an Indian Police Service (IPS) officer. He served twice as Director General of Police (DGP) for the state of Punjab, India, where he is credited with having brought the Punjab insurgency under control. While many see him as a hero, there are accusations that he and the forces under his command were responsible for human rights violations "in the name of stamping out terrorism." Gill retired from the IPS in 1995.

Joe "Sdumo" Mafela was a South African actor, writer, producer, director, singer, and businessman.

Anand Pal Singh was an Indian gangster mainly active in the cities of Rajasthan. He was a most-wanted gangster with a reward of ₹10 lakh on his head. He was accused of multiple murders as well as extortion.