Awards & Winners

Award Winners

Birthday : February 17

Check all the award winners born on February 17.
BirthDate
Winner
17-February-1997

Josef Craig (United Kingdom)

Josef Isaac Craig, MBE is a British Paralympic swimmer. Craig competes in S7 events and...
17-February-1996

Sasha Pieterse (South Africa, United States of America)

Sasha Embeth Pieterse is an American actress and singer. She is known for her role as Alison...
17-February-1993

Marc Márquez (Spain)

Marc Márquez i Alentà is a Spanish Grand Prix motorcycle road racer and current MotoGP world...
17-February-1991

Ed Sheeran (England)

إيد شيران هو مغني وشاعر غنائي إنجليزي
17-February-1989

Rebecca Adlington (United Kingdom)

Rebecca "Becky" Adlington, OBE is a retired English freestyle swimmer. She won two gold medals...
17-February-1989

Chord Overstreet (United States of America)

Chord Paul Overstreet is an American actor, singer and musician, known for his role as Sam Evans...
17-February-1987

Alex Frost (United States of America)

Alexander Richard "Alex" Frost is an American actor. He had a starring role in Gus Van Sant's...
17-February-1987

Raffi Ahmad (Indonesia)

Raffi Faridz Ahmad is an Indonesian TV presenter, actor and singer. Raffi has been cast in a...
17-February-1986

Grigori Dobrygin (Russia)

Grigoriy Eduardovich Dobrygin is a Russian actor best known in the West for starring in the film...
17-February-1984

Sadha (India)

Sadha is an actress.
17-February-1984

Annu Raj Singh (India)

Annu Raj Singh is an Indian shooter. She along with Heena Sidhu won the gold medal in women's...
17-February-1983

Shaya (Denmark, Greece)

Marianna Hansen, known professionally as Shaya, is a Danish–Greek singer. Shaya was a member of...
17-February-1982

Jomon T. John (India)

Jomon T. John is an award winning Indian cinematographer.
17-February-1982

Lauren Grant (Canada)

Lauren Grant is a film and television producer.
17-February-1981

Paris Hilton (United States of America)

Paris Whitney Hilton is an American socialite, actress and entertainer. She is the...
17-February-1981

Joseph Gordon-Levitt (United States of America)

Joseph Leonard Gordon-Levitt is an American actor, director, screenwriter, producer, and editor...
17-February-1980

Hanna Lejonqvist (Sweden)

Hanna Lejonqvist is a film editor.
17-February-1979

Bear McCreary (United States of America)

'Bear' McCreary is an American composer and musician living in Los Angeles, California. He is...
17-February-1975

Raymond S. Persi (United States of America)

Raymond S. Persi is a director for episodes of The Simpsons. His directing credits include...
17-February-1974

Bryan White (United States of America)

Bryan White is an American country music artist. Signed to Asylum Records in 1994 at age 20,...
17-February-1974

Edvin Marton (Hungary)

Edvin Marton is a Ukrainian composer and violinist of Hungarian ethnicity. He became known as...
17-February-1972

Billie Joe Armstrong (United States of America)

Billie Joe Armstrong is an American musician, multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter and...
17-February-1972

Allison Silverman (United States of America)

Allison Silverman is an American comedy writer from Gainesville, Florida. She was the head...
17-February-1971

Shin Dong-yup (South Korea)

Shin Dong-yup is a South Korean comedian and television comedy show host. He graduated from the...
17-February-1971

Denise Richards (United States of America)

Denise Lee Richards is an American actress and former fashion model. She has appeared in films,...
17-February-1970

Bret Culp (Canada)

Bret Culp is a visual effects producer.
17-February-1970

Dominic Purcell (Australia, Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom)

Dominic Haakon Myrtvedt Purcell is an English-born Australian actor of Norwegian and Irish...
17-February-1969

Željko Mavrović (Croatia)

Željko Mavrović is a Croatian former boxer turned entrepreneur.
17-February-1969

Stephen Mirrione (United States of America)

Stephen Mirrione is an American film editor. He won an Academy Award for his editing of the film...
17-February-1969

Jon Randall (United States of America)

Jon Randall Stewart is an American country music singer, songwriter and musician. Signed to RCA...
17-February-1967

Steve Price (United Kingdom)

17-February-1967

Chanté Moore (United States of America)

Chanté Torrane Moore is an American R&B and jazz singer. Chante is known for her songs "Love's...
17-February-1965

Leonardo Pieraccioni (Italy)

Leonardo Pieraccioni is an Italian film director, actor, and screenwriter. Born in Florence, he...
17-February-1965

Volker Engel (Germany)

Volker Engel is a film and television producer.
17-February-1965

Michael Bay (United States of America)

Michael Benjamin Bay is an American film director and producer. He is known for directing...
17-February-1964

Adeeb Khalid (Pakistan)

Adeeb Khalid is a 2005 Guggenheim Fellow in Humanities.
17-February-1964

Angelica Page (United States of America)

Angelica Page is an American actress, director, producer and screenwriter and the only daughter...
17-February-1963

Larry the Cable Guy (United States of America)

Daniel Lawrence "Larry" Whitney best known by his stage name and character Larry the Cable Guy,...
17-February-1963

Michael Jordan (United States of America)

Michael Jeffrey Jordan, also known by his initials, MJ, is an American former professional...
17-February-1963

Jordan Lage (United States of America)

Jordan Lage is an actor.
17-February-1962

Lou Diamond Phillips (United States of America, Philippines)

Lou Diamond Phillips is an American actor and director. His breakthrough came when he starred in...
17-February-1959

Lawrence Vale (United States of America)

Lawrence Vale is a 1995 Guggenheim Fellow in Humanities.
17-February-1957

Douglas Urbanski (United States of America)

Douglas Urbanski is an American film producer, theater impresario, raconteur, and occasional...
17-February-1957

Michael Gorra (United States of America)

Michael Gorra is an author and professor.
17-February-1956

Richard Karn (United States of America)

Richard Karn is an American actor and game show host. He is most well known for his co-starring...
17-February-1956

Noga Alon (Israel)

Noga Alon is an Israeli mathematician noted for his contributions to combinatorics and...
17-February-1955

Jim Rygiel (United States of America)

Jim Rygiel is a visual effects supervisor. He has worked on major feature films since 1984,...
17-February-1955

Mo Yan (China)

Guan Moye, better known by the pen name Mo Yan, is a Chinese novelist and short story writer. He...
17-February-1954

Rene Russo (United States of America)

Rene Marie Russo is an American actress and former model. She is known for starring in a series...
17-February-1954

Don Coscarelli (United States of America, Libya)

Don Coscarelli, Jr. is an American film director, producer and screenwriter best known for...
17-February-1953

Alar Kivilo (Canada)

Alar Kivilo is a cinematographer.
17-February-1953

Nicholas Howe (United States of America)

Nicholas Howe was an American scholar of Old English literature and culture, whose Migration and...
17-February-1952

Gary Chalk (United States of America, Canada, United Kingdom)

Garry Chalk is an English-born Canadian actor and voice actor, tri-national US-Canadian-UK...
17-February-1951

Don Woods (United States of America)

Donald Ray Woods is a retired National Football League American football running back who played...
17-February-1951

Alessio Gelsini Torresi (Italy)

Alessio Gelsini Torresi is an Italian cinematographer, sometimes credited as Alessio...
17-February-1951

Baldwin S. Lee (United States of America)

Baldwin S. Lee is a 1984 Guggenheim Fellow in Creative Arts.
17-February-1951

Song Chunli (China)

Song Chunli is a Chinese film and television actress. She won two Golden Rooster Award for Best...
17-February-1951

Meena Alexander (India)

Meena Alexander is an internationally acclaimed poet, scholar, and writer. Born in Allahabad,...
17-February-1950

Rod Smallwood (United Kingdom)

Roderick Charles "Rod" Smallwood is an English music manager, best known as the co-manager of...
17-February-1950

Juan Travnik (Argentina)

Juan Travnik is a 2006 Guggenheim Fellow in Creative Arts.
17-February-1950

Mariya Kuznetsova (Russia, Soviet Union)

Mariya Kuznetsova is a film actress.
17-February-1949

Jeffrey Simpson (Canada)

Jeffrey Carl Simpson, OC, is a Canadian journalist. He has been The Globe and Mail's national...
17-February-1948

José José (Mexico)

José Rómulo Sosa Ortiz, known by his stage name José José, is a Mexican singer, musician and...
17-February-1948

Don Scardino (United States of America)

Don Scardino is an American television director and producer and a former actor.
17-February-1947

Abelardo Sánchez-León (Peru)

Abelardo Sánchez-León is a 1980 Guggenheim Fellow in Creative Arts.
17-February-1947

Bruce Gillespie (Australia)

Bruce Gillespie is a prominent Australian science fiction fan best known for his long-running sf...
17-February-1946

André Dussollier (France)

André Dussollier is a French actor.
17-February-1945

Peter J. Katzenstein (United States of America)

Peter Joachim Katzenstein is the Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of International Studies at...
17-February-1945

Richard Shweder (United States of America)

Richard Allan Shweder is an American cultural anthropologist and a figure in cultural...
17-February-1945

Brenda Fricker (Republic of Ireland)

Brenda Fricker is an Irish actress of theatre, film and television. She has appeared in more...
17-February-1943

Raisa Nedashkovskaya (Ukraine)

Raisa Nedashkovskaya is a Ukrainian and Soviet-era theater and cinema actress. In 1993 she was...
17-February-1943

Imre Benkö (Hungary)

Imre Benkö is a 1977 and 1981 World Press Photo Award for Arts and Entertainment winner.
17-February-1943

Millard Alexander (United States of America)

Millard Alexander is a 1997 Guggenheim Fellow in Natural Sciences.
17-February-1942

David Collier (United States of America)

David Collier is Chancellor’s Professor of Political Science at the University of California,...
17-February-1942

Dieter Laser (Germany)

Dieter Laser is a German actor. Laser was born in Kiel, Germany. He is known to English speaking...
17-February-1942

Paul Watson (United Kingdom)

Paul Watson is an English documentary filmmaker. He started off as a painter and artist, before...
17-February-1942

Stephen P. Hubbell (United States of America)

Stephen P. Hubbell is an American ecologist on the faculty of the University of California, Los...
17-February-1941

Julia McKenzie (United Kingdom)

Julia McKenzie is an English actress, singer and theatre director. She is best known for her...
17-February-1940

James Laurenson (New Zealand)

James Laurenson is a New Zealand born stage and screen actor. Laurenson was born in Marton,...
17-February-1940

Chris Newman (United States of America)

Chris Newman is a sound mixer and director. His film credits include The Godfather, Amadeus, The...
17-February-1940

Vicente Fernández (Mexico)

Vicente "Chente" Fernández Gómez is a Mexican singer, actor, and film producer. Nicknamed as "El...
17-February-1939

Mary Ann Mobley (United States of America)

Mary Ann Mobley is a former Miss America, actress, and television personality.
17-February-1938

Martha Henry (Canada, United States of America)

Martha Henry, CC is a Canadian stage, film, and television actress, who is best known for her...
17-February-1937

Shunya Itō (Japan)

Shunya Itō is a Japanese film director famed for starting the Sasori series of 1970s...
17-February-1936

Jim Brown (United States of America)

James Nathaniel "Jim" Brown is an American former professional football player and actor. He is...
17-February-1934

Barry Humphries (Australia)

Barry Humphries was the nominee from 1981 British Academy Television Award for Best Light...
17-February-1933

Masakazu Konishi (Japan, United States of America)

Masakazu "Mark" Konishi is a Japanese neurobiologist, known for his research on prey capture...
17-February-1933

Karl Guthke (United States of America, Germany)

Karl Guthke is a 1964 Guggenheim Fellow in Humanities.
17-February-1932

Walt Mulconery (United States of America)

Walt Mulconery was a film editor.
17-February-1931

Gene Cantamessa (United States of America)

Gene Cantamessa was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound for his...
17-February-1930

Ruth Rendell (United Kingdom)

Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, CBE, is an English author of thrillers and...
17-February-1929

Patricia Routledge (England)

Katherine Patricia Routledge, CBE, is an English actress and singer. She is best known for her...
17-February-1929

Chaim Potok (United States of America)

Chaim Potok was an American Jewish author and rabbi. Potok is most famous for his first book The...
17-February-1928

Wolfhart Zimmermann

Wolfhart Zimmermann is a German theoretical physicist. Zimmermann attained a doctorate in 1950...
17-February-1928

Tom Jones (United States of America)

Tom Jones, is an American lyricist of musical theatre. His best-known work is The Fantasticks,...
17-February-1927

Richard Crocker (United States of America)

Richard Crocker is a 1969 Guggenheim Fellow in Humanities.
17-February-1926

Louis M. Kohlmeier (United States of America)

Louis M. Kohlmeier is a Pulitzer-prize winning writer and journalist.
17-February-1926

Albert Brenner (United States of America)

Albert Brenner is an American production designer and art director. He has been nominated for...
17-February-1926

John Meyendorff (United States of America)

The Very Rev. John Meyendorff was a leading theologian of the Eastern Orthodox Church as well as...
17-February-1925

Hal Holbrook (United States of America)

Harold Rowe "Hal" Holbrook, Jr. is an American actor. His television roles include Abraham...
17-February-1925

Donald G. Walker (United States of America)

Donald G. Walker is a 1977 Guggenheim Fellow in Natural Sciences.
17-February-1925

Shoichiro Toyoda (Japan)

Shoichiro Toyoda AC, KBE, GCM is a Japanese business leader, serving as chairman of Toyota Motor...
17-February-1924

Kihachi Okamoto (Japan)

Kihachi Okamoto was a Japanese film director who worked in several different genres.
17-February-1924

Shirley Robin Letwin (United States of America)

Shirley Robin Letwin was an American academic who lived in London.
17-February-1920

Elleston Trevor (United Kingdom)

Elleston Trevor was a British novelist and playwright who wrote under several pseudonyms. Born...
17-February-1920

Haridas Bhattacharya (Myanmar)

Haridas Bhattacharya was a screenwriter and film director. He was the husband of Kanan Devi.
17-February-1920

Curt Swan (United States of America)

Douglas Curtis "Curt" Swan was an American comic book artist. The artist most associated with...
17-February-1919

James Maurice Stockford Careless (Canada)

James Maurice Stockford Careless, OC OOnt FRSC was a Canadian historian.
17-February-1918

Elmer L. Becker (United States of America)

Elmer L. Becker is a 1969 Guggenheim Fellow in Natural Sciences.
17-February-1918

William Bronk (United States of America)

William Bronk was an American poet. For the 1981 collection Life Supports he won the National...
17-February-1916

Raf Vallone (Italy, Kingdom of Italy)

Raffaele "Raf" Vallone was an Italian footballer, actor and an international film star. Born in...
17-February-1916

Graeme Muir (England)

Greame Muir was a film producer, director and actor.
17-February-1913

Russel Nye (United States of America)

Russel Blaine Nye was an American professor of English who pioneered in popular culture studies...
17-February-1912

Andre Norton (United States of America)

Andre Alice Norton was an American writer of science fiction and fantasy under the pen names...
17-February-1912

Virginia Sorenson (United States of America)

Virginia Sorensen, née Eggertsen, also credited as Virginia Sorenson, was the author of the 1957...
17-February-1911

Oskar Seidlin (Germany, United States of America)

Oskar Seidlin; German-born American literary scholar, poet, and writer of children’s stories. He...
17-February-1908

Red Barber (United States of America)

Walter Lanier "Red" Barber was an American sports commentator. Barber, nicknamed "The Ol'...
17-February-1904

Luis A. Ferré

Luis Alberto Ferré Aguayo was a Puerto Rican engineer, industrialist, politician,...
17-February-1904

Milton R. Krasner (United States of America)

Milton R. Krasner, A.S.C. was a cinematographer who won an Academy Award for Three Coins in the...
17-February-1901

F.W. Dustmann (Germany)

F.W. Dustmann is a sound editor
17-February-1900

Lawrence Blochman (United States of America)

Lawrence Goldtree Blochman was an American detective story writer and translator. Lawrence...
17-February-1898

Frances A. Genter

Frances A. Genter was a major figure in American Thoroughbred horse racing. She is best known as...
17-February-1898

Gregor Wentzel (Germany)

Gregor Wentzel was a German physicist known for development of quantum mechanics. Wentzel,...
17-February-1896

Cecil John Kinross (Canada, United Kingdom)

Cecil John Kinross VC was a Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most...
17-February-1888

Otto Stern (Germany, United States of America)

Otto Stern was a German physicist and Nobel laureate in physics.
17-February-1880

Guy Wylly (United Kingdom, Australia)

Guy George Egerton Wylly VC, CB, DSO was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the...
17-February-1872

William Duane (United States of America)

William Duane was an American physicist. A coworker of Marie Curie, he developed a method for...
17-February-1856

Frederic Eugene Ives (United States of America)

Frederic Eugene Ives was a U.S. inventor, born at Litchfield, Connecticut. In 1874–78 he had...
17-February-1792

Karl Ernst von Baer (Germany, Russian Empire)

Karl Ernst Ritter von Baer, Edler von Huthorn, 28 February [O.S. 17 February] 1792 – 28 November...