Lista de Personas Famosas nacidas el 17 de octubre

Patrick Ness es un escritor, periodista y conferenciante estadounidense que se trasladó a Londres a los 28 años y cuenta con la doble nacionalidad británica y estadounidense. Se le conoce por sus libros para jóvenes, en especial por su trilogía Chaos Walkin y su novela Un monstruo viene a verme.

Barney Kessel fue un guitarrista de jazz estadounidense nacido en Muskogee (Oklahoma), Estados Unidos. Fue miembro de muchos grupos importantes de jazz así como una "primera opción" en sesiones de estudios de grabación, películas y grabaciones para la televisión. Kessel fue miembro del grupo de músicos de sesión conocido como The Wrecking Crew.

Pierre Juneau,, was a Canadian film and broadcast executive, a one-time member of the Canadian Cabinet, the first chairman of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) and subsequently president of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. He is credited with the creation, promotion, and championing of Canadian content requirements for radio and television. Juneau is the namesake of the Juno Awards, which were named for him.

Richard Vincent "Rick" Mercer is a Canadian comedian, television personality, political satirist and author. He is best known for his work on the CBC Television comedy shows This Hour Has 22 Minutes and Rick Mercer Report. He is the author of four books, based on content from the television shows. Mercer has received more than 25 Gemini Awards for his work on television.

Martin Roos is a Romanian cleric, bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Timișoara. Born into a Banat Swabian family in Satchinez (Knees), Timiș County, he attended the cantors' school in Alba Iulia from 1957 to 1961. He began studying theology at the Roman Catholic Theological Institute of Alba Iulia in 1961, continuing from 1962 to 1969 at Königstein im Taunus in West Germany. In 1971, Carl Joseph Leiprecht ordained him a priest of the Rottenburg Diocese. From that year until 1973, he was assistant priest in Stuttgart. From 1973 to 1974 he was parish administrator in Stimpfach, becoming parish priest in 1974. Following the Romanian Revolution of 1989, his bishop, Walter Kasper, allowed him to return to his native country. In 1990, Timișoara Bishop Sebastian Kräuter named him director of the diocesan chancery. He became a Monsignor in 1991 and in 1999, following Kräuter's retirement, he was named bishop by Pope John Paul II.In May 2018, Pope Francis accepted his resignation, and appointed József-Csaba Pál as his successor.

Angel Raymond Wagenstein es un guionista de cine y escritor búlgaro