Celebrities born on May 17

Jean-Louis Richard (17 May 1927 – 3 June 2012) was a French actor, film director and scriptwriter. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean-Louis Richard, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Professional heavyweight mixed martial artist and kickboxer, currently competing in the heavyweight division of kickboxing promotion Glory. He is a former Strikeforce Heavyweight Champion, DREAM Heavyweight Champion, K-1 World Grand Prix Champion, and was the first fighter to hold world titles in MMA and K-1 kickboxing at the same time.

Renate Krössner or Renate Krößner (born 17 May 1945 in Osterode am Harz, Lower Saxony) is a German actress. She has appeared in such films as Nordkurve, Solo Sunny and Alles auf Zucker!. In television she has appeared on Tatort, Bruder Esel, Stubbe - Von Fall zu Fall and Einmal Bulle, immer Bulle. For her role in Solo Sunny, she won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the 30th Berlin International Film Festival. In 1991, she was a member of the jury at the 41st Berlin International Film Festival. In 1993, Krößner won a Deutscher Filmpreis Best Actress award for her work in Nordkurve. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Dafni Lambrogianni (Athens, May 17, 1967) is a Greek actress and singer. She was born in Athens and comes from Lemnos and the Peloponnese. She studied Graphic Arts but then took up acting. She graduated in 1991 from the Veaki Drama School. Her maiden appearance at the Ancient Theater of Epidaurus was in 2007 with Lysistrata.

R. N. R. Manohar was a Tamil film actor and director. He directed films like Maasilamani (2009) and Vellore Maavattam (2011).

May Simón Lifschitz is a transgendered Danish-Argentine model and actor.

Francis Kuntz, also known under the pseudonym "Kafka", is a French comedian, actor, comic strip artist and drummer. He is best known for his interpretation of journalist Francis Kuntz, in the Groland programs broadcast on the Canal+ channel.

Michael Trent Reznor (born May 17, 1965) is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, actor, leader of industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, and member of How to Destroy Angels alongside his wife, Mariqueen Maandig, and Atticus Ross. He was previously associated with bands Option 30, Exotic Birds, and Tapeworm, among others. Reznor left Interscope Records in 2007, and is now an independent musician. Reznor began creating music early in his life, and cites his Western Pennsylvania childhood as an early influence. After being involved with a number of synthesizer-based bands in the mid-80s, Reznor gained employment at Right Track Studios and began creating his own music during the studio's closing hours under the moniker Nine Inch Nails. Reznor's first release as Nine Inch Nails, Pretty Hate Machine (1989), was a commercial and critical success, and he has since released seven major studio releases. Outside of Reznor's chief project Nine Inch Nails, he has contributed to many other artists' albums, including Marilyn Manson and Saul Williams. In 1997, Reznor appeared in Time magazine's list of the year's most influential people, and Spin magazine described him as "the most vital artist in music." Reznor, in collaboration with Atticus Ross, composed the score for The Social Network, a 2010 theatrical film about the founding of Facebook. The duo won the 2010 Golden Globe for Best Original Score and the Academy Award for Best Original Score for their collaboration. The soundtrack album was released by The Null Corporation, Reznor's own independent record label. Earlier this year, Reznor announced that the pair would once again be collaborating with David Fincher by composing the score to the US film adaptation of the novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, set for release in late 2011. Description above from the Wikipedia article Trent Reznor, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.