Awards & Winners

Award Winners

Birthday : January 17

Check all the award winners born on January 17.
BirthDate
Winner
17-January-1995

Ann Li (Taiwan)

Ann Li is a 2012 Shorty Awards nominee for the Shorty Award for Fashion.
17-January-1990

Tyler Zeller (United States of America)

Tyler Paul Zeller is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for the...
17-January-1990

Beau Henry (Australia)

Beau Henry is an Australian professional rugby league footballer for the Gold Coast Titans of...
17-January-1984

Kelvin Fletcher (United Kingdom)

Kelvin Warren Fletcher is an English actor and model who has played Andy Sugden in the...
17-January-1984

Calvin Harris (Scotland)

Calvin Harris is one of the most intense dj's in the world which is the master of the house...
17-January-1983

Nakuul Mehta (India)

Nakuul Mehta is an actor.
17-January-1983

Kevin Moss (United States of America)

Kevin Moss is a film cinematographer.
17-January-1982

Dwyane Wade (United States of America)

Dwyane Tyrone Wade, Jr. is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for...
17-January-1981

Scott Mechlowicz (United States of America)

Scott David Mechlowicz is an American actor. Mechlowicz began his professional career in 2003,...
17-January-1979

Micaela Ramazzotti (Italy)

Micaela Ramazzotti is an Italian actress. Her film credits include Non prendere impegni stasera,...
17-January-1978

Ricky Wilson (United Kingdom)

Charles Richard "Ricky" Wilson is the lead singer of English band Kaiser Chiefs, a five piece...
17-January-1976

Coco Lee (United States of America)

Coco Lee is a Hong Kong-born American singer-songwriter, record producer, dancer, and actress...
17-January-1976

Nikki Payne (Canada)

Nikki Payne, is a Canadian comedian and actress, from Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia, Canada. Born...
17-January-1975

Freddy Rodriguez (United States of America)

Freddy Rodriguez is an American actor known for playing the characters Hector Federico "Rico"...
17-January-1975

Rami Yacoub (Sweden, State of Palestine)

Rami Yacoub, known professionally as Rami, is a Swedish music producer and songwriter and former...
17-January-1975

Maxime Remillard (Canada)

Maxime Rémillard, born on January 17, 1975 in Greenfield Park, Quebec, is co-president and chief...
17-January-1973

Nitish Pandey (India)

Nitish Pandey is an actor.
17-January-1971

Lil Jon (United States of America)

Jonathan Smith, better known by his stage name Lil Jon, is an American rapper, record producer,...
17-January-1971

Kid Rock (United States of America)

Robert James Ritchie, known by his stage name Kid Rock, is an American multi-instrumentalist,...
17-January-1971

Leslie Benzies (United Kingdom)

Leslie Benzies is a Scottish video game producer and president of Rockstar North, a subsidiary...
17-January-1971

Sylvie Testud (France)

Sylvie Testud is a French actress, writer and director. Her film career began in 1991 and she...
17-January-1970

Genndy Tartakovsky (United States of America, Russia)

Genndy Borisovich Tartakovsky is a Russian-born animator, director and producer. Although his...
17-January-1969

Tiësto (Netherlands)

Tijs Michiel Verwest, known as Tiësto, is a Dutch musician, DJ and record producer of electronic...
17-January-1969

Naveen Andrews (United States of America, United Kingdom)

Naveen William Sidney Andrews is a British actor. He is best known for portraying Sayid Jarrah...
17-January-1969

Lukas Moodysson (Sweden)

Karl Frederik Lukas Moodysson is a Swedish novelist, short story writer and film director. First...
17-January-1969

Yun Yu-Seon (South Korea)

Yun Yu-Seon is an actress.
17-January-1967

M. G. Sasi (India)

M.G. Sasi is an actor.
17-January-1967

Song Kang-ho (South Korea)

Song Kang-ho is a leading South Korean actor.
17-January-1966

Shabba Ranks (Jamaica)

Shabba Ranks is a Jamaican dancehall musician. He was one of the most popular dancehall artists...
17-January-1965

Manolo (Spain)

Manuel Sánchez Delgado, nicknamed Manolo, is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a...
17-January-1964

Michelle Obama (United States of America)

Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama, an American lawyer and writer, is the wife of the 44th and...
17-January-1962

Gwyn Cready (United States of America)

Gwyn Cready is an American author of romance novels.
17-January-1962

Jim Carrey (Canada, United States of America)

James Eugene "Jim" Carrey is a Canadian American actor, comedian, and producer. Carrey has...
17-January-1962

Luis Estrada (Mexico)

Luis Estrada Rodríguez is a Mexican film director, writer and producer. He won the 2011 Ariel...
17-January-1962

Sebastian Junger (United States of America)

Sebastian Junger is an American author, journalist and documentarian, most famous for the...
17-January-1961

Brian Helgeland (United States of America)

Brian Thomas Helgeland is an American screenwriter, film producer and director. He is most known...
17-January-1961

Linda Kash (Canada)

Linda Kash is a Canadian actress. An alumna of Second City, she played Trudy Weissman in the...
17-January-1961

Suzanne Berne (United States of America)

Suzanne Berne is an American novelist known for her foreboding character studies involving...
17-January-1960

Danny Blume (United States of America)

Danny Blume is an American music producer, musician, and composer. He is a Grammy Award winner,...
17-January-1959

Liz Balmaseda (Cuba)

Liz Balmaseda is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, who writes for The Palm Beach Post. She...
17-January-1959

Fabio Luisi (Italy)

Fabio Luisi is a Grammy Award-winning Italian conductor. He has served as Principal Conductor of...
17-January-1958

Ted Conover (United States of America)

Ted Conover is an American author and journalist. A graduate of Denver's Manual High School and...
17-January-1958

Tom Thibodeau (United States of America)

Tom Thibodeau is an American basketball coach who is currently the head coach of the Chicago...
17-January-1957

Hilda Koronel (Philippines)

Hilda Koronel, is a FAMAS, Luna and Urian award-winning Filipina actress. Born to a Filipina...
17-January-1957

Christopher Whitesell (United States of America)

Christopher Whitesell is an American television soap opera writer. He has served as either...
17-January-1957

Warren Leight (United States of America)

Warren Leight is an American playwright, screenwriter, film director and television producer. He...
17-January-1957

Steve Harvey (United States of America)

Broderick Steven "Steve" Harvey is an American actor, comedian, entertainer, television/radio...
17-January-1957

Nancy Argenta (Canada)

Nancy Maureen Argenta is a Canadian soprano singer, best known for performing music from the...
17-January-1956

Paul Young (England)

Paul Antony Young is an English musician. Formerly the frontman of the short-lived bands 'Kat...
17-January-1956

Chuck Goudie (United States of America)

Chuck Goudie is an American television journalist based in Chicago. He has been the chief...
17-January-1955

Zhang Guoli (China)

Zhang Guoli is an award-winning Chinese film actor and director. Zhang was a xiangsheng actor...
17-January-1955

Steve Earle (United States of America)

Stephen Fain "Steve" Earle is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, author and actor...
17-January-1954

Cheryl Bentyne (United States of America)

Cheryl Bentyne is a Grammy-winning singer best known as a member of the vocal quartet The...
17-January-1954

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (United States of America)

Robert Francis Kennedy, Jr., is an American radio host, activist, and attorney specializing in...
17-January-1953

Janet Stevens (United States of America)

Janet Stevens is a children's book author and illustrator.
17-January-1952

Ryuichi Sakamoto (Japan)

Ryuichi Sakamoto is a Japanese musician, activist, composer, record producer, writer, singer,...
17-January-1952

Larry T. Bell (United States of America)

Larry T. Bell is a 1981 Guggenheim Fellow in Creative Arts.
17-January-1950

Honey Irani (India)

Honey Irani is an Indian film actress and an award-winning screenwriter, who works in Hindi cinema.
17-January-1950

Philippe Rochat (United States of America)

Philippe Rochat is a 2006 Guggenheim Fellow in Social Sciences.
17-January-1950

Lee Young Ha (South Korea)

Lee Young-ha is a South Korean actor. He was a theater actor from 1969 until 1977, when he made...
17-January-1947

Peter Werner (United States of America)

Peter Werner is an American film and television director. In 1977, Werner won the Academy Award...
17-January-1947

Jane Elliot (United States of America)

Jane Elliot is an American actress, known for her role as Tracy Quartermaine, a role she has...
17-January-1947

Nirupama Mankad (Pakistan)

Nirupama Mankad nee Vasant is a former Indian tennis player. Nirupama Mankad is the daughter of...
17-January-1947

Helaine Head (United States of America)

Helaine Head is a film, television and theatre director.
17-January-1947

Ulysses Dove (United States of America)

Ulysses Dove was one of the most innovative contemporary choreographers of the past...
17-January-1946

Domenic Troiano (Canada)

Domenic Michele Antonio Troiano was a Canadian rock guitarist, most notable for his...
17-January-1946

Harold Lee Tichenor (Canada)

Harold Tichenor is a Canadian multi-award winning film producer and writer and an adherent of...
17-January-1945

Javed Akhtar (India)

Javed Akhtar is a poet, lyricist and scriptwriter from India. Akhtar is a mainstream writer and...
17-January-1945

Lenny Baker (United States of America)

Leonard Joel “Lenny” Baker was an American actor of stage and film and screen best known for his...
17-January-1942

Muhammad Ali (United States of America)

Muhammad Ali is an American former professional boxer, generally considered among the greatest...
17-January-1941

John Luther Schofill, Jr. (United States of America)

John Luther Schofill, Jr. is a 1974 Guggenheim Fellow in Creative Arts.
17-January-1941

Jorge Mautner (Brazil)

Jorge Mautner is a Brazilian writer and singer. He is the creator of the Moviment of Kaos.
17-January-1940

Kipchoge Keino (Kenya)

Kipchoge Keino, chairman of the Kenyan Olympic Committee, is a retired Kenyan track and field...
17-January-1939

Zohar Manna (Israel, United States of America)

Zohar Manna is a professor of computer science at Stanford University. He is the author of The...
17-January-1938

Zhu Xijuan (China)

Zhu Xijuan is a mainland Chinese film actress. In 1960, Zhang graduated from Shanghai Drama...
17-January-1938

Donald Kaplan (United States of America)

Donald Kaplan was a 1987 Guggenheim Fellow in Natural Sciences.
17-January-1937

Robert F. Shugrue (United States of America)

Robert F. Shugrue was a TV and film editor.
17-January-1937

Buzz Feitshans (United States of America)

Buzz Feitshans is a film producer and cinematographer.
17-January-1936

Allen I. Selverston

Allen I. Selverston is a 1975 Guggenheim Fellow in Natural Sciences.
17-January-1936

Gonzalo Gonzalo (Spain)

Gonzalo Gonzalo is an actor, production designer,film art director, set decorator and costume...
17-January-1935

Leo Lemay (United States of America)

J.A. Leo Lemay was du Pont Winterthur Professor of English at the University of Delaware...
17-January-1935

Demetrio Bilbatua (Spain)

Demetrio Bilbatua is a cinematographer, film director, film producer, and a screenwriter.
17-January-1934

Sydney Schanberg (United States of America)

Sydney Hillel Schanberg is an American journalist who is best known for his coverage of the war...
17-January-1933

Shari Lewis (United States of America)

Shari Lewis was an American ventriloquist, puppeteer, and children's television show host, most...
17-January-1931

James Earl Jones (United States of America)

James Earl Jones is an American actor who in a career of more than 50 years has become known as...
17-January-1931

Jonathan Goodman (United Kingdom)

Jonathan Goodman is an award-winning author.
17-January-1927

Nicholas A. Kefalides

Nicholas A. Kefalides is a 1977 Guggenheim Fellow in Natural Sciences.
17-January-1927

Donald Erb (United States of America)

Donald Erb was an American composer best known for large orchestral works such as Concerto for...
17-January-1927

Eartha Kitt (United States of America)

Eartha Mae Kitt was an American singer, actress, dancer and cabaret star. She was perhaps best...
17-January-1927

Michael Wooller (United Kingdom)

Michael Wooller was a television producer and a television director.
17-January-1927

Norman Kaye (Australia)

Norman James Kaye was an Australian actor and musician. He was best known for his roles in the...
17-January-1926

Herz Frank (Latvia)

Herz Frank is a film director, screenwriter, film producer and cinematographer.
17-January-1926

Newton N. Minow (United States of America, Singapore)

Newton Norman Minow is an American attorney and former Chairman of the Federal Communications...
17-January-1925

Alfred Fabian Young (United States of America)

Alfred Fabian Young is a 1969 Guggenheim Fellow in Humanities.
17-January-1925

Robert Cormier (United States of America)

Robert Edmund Cormier was an American author, columnist and reporter, known for his deeply...
17-January-1923

Carol Raye (Australia)

Carol Raye; 17 January 1923, London, England) was born in England in 1923 as Kathleen Mary...
17-January-1923

David Shepherd Nivison (United States of America)

David Shepherd Nivison is an American sinologist who served as a professor of Chinese at...
17-January-1922

Betty White (United States of America)

Betty Marion White is an American actress, comedian, presenter, singer, author, and television...
17-January-1920

Ernest M. Gifford (United States of America)

Ernest M. Gifford is a 1966 Guggenheim Fellow in Natural Sciences.
17-January-1918

Elsa Grave (Sweden)

Elsa Grave was an author.
17-January-1918

Kamal Amrohi (India)

Syed Amir Haider Kamal Naqvi popularly known as Kamal Amrohi was an Indian film director,...
17-January-1917

Frank P. Bibas (United States of America)

Frank P. Bibas is an film producer.
17-January-1917

Oskar Morawetz (Canada)

Oskar Morawetz, CM OOnt was a Canadian composer. Morawetz was born in Světlá nad Sázavou,...
17-January-1917

M. G. Ramachandran (India)

Marudhur Gopalan Ramachandran, popularly known by his initials MGR, was an Indian film actor,...
17-January-1916

Edmund Morgan (United States of America)

Edmund Sears Morgan, an eminent authority on early American history, was Sterling Professor of...
17-January-1916

Frederick G. Bordwell (United States of America)

Frederick G. Bordwell was a 1980 Guggenheim Fellow in Natural Sciences.
17-January-1914

William Stafford (United States of America)

William Edgar Stafford was an American poet and pacifist, and the father of poet and essayist...
17-January-1913

Orlando Lagos (Chile)

Luis Orlando Lagos Vásquez, also known as "Chico Lagos", was a Chilean photographer best known...
17-January-1913

Noel Taylor (United States of America)

Noel Taylor was an American costume designer of the stage, television, and film. A four-time...
17-January-1911

George Stigler (United States of America)

George Joseph Stigler was a U.S. economist. He won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences...
17-January-1908

L. V. Prasad (India)

Akkineni Lakshmi Vara Prasada Rao, known popularly as L. V. Prasad was an Indian film producer,...
17-January-1902

Leonid Trauberg (Ukraine, Soviet Union)

Leonid Zakharovich Trauberg (Russian: Леонид Захарович Трауберг, 17 January 1902 – 14 November...
17-January-1901

William A. Mueller (United States of America)

William A. Mueller was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in...
17-January-1900

Victor Buller Turner (United Kingdom)

Lieutenant-Colonel Victor Buller Turner VC CVO was an English recipient during the Second World...
17-January-1892

Thomas Mottershead (United Kingdom)

Thomas Mottershead VC, DCM was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most...
17-January-1892

Harry Christian (United Kingdom)

Harry Christian VC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most...
17-January-1891

Leonard D. White (United States of America)

Leonard Dupee White was an American historian who specialized in public administration in the...
17-January-1891

Frederick Barter (United Kingdom)

Frederick Barter VC MC was a Welsh recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most...
17-January-1890

J. Warren Madden

J. Warren Madden, born Joseph Warren Madden, was an American lawyer, judge, civil servant, and...
17-January-1890

Carey Orr (United States of America)

Carey Orr was a Pulitzer-prize winning cartoonist.
17-January-1886

Thomas Pryce (Wales)

Thomas Tannatt Pryce VC MC & Bar was a Welsh recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and...
17-January-1880

Mack Sennett (Canada, United States of America)

Mack Sennett was a Canadian-born American director and actor and was known as the innovator of...
17-January-1878

John Manners Smith (United Kingdom)

Lieutenant Colonel John Manners Smith VC CIE CVO was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the...
17-January-1878

Clement Leslie Smith (United Kingdom)

Brigadier General Clement Leslie Smith VC MC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the...
17-January-1837

Edward St John Daniel (England)

Edward St. John Daniel VC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for...