Psephology is the statistical study of elections and voting trends. Demography is the study of populations. Graphology is the study of handwriting. Criminology is the study of crime.

Kazuo Ishiguro, born in Japan and raised in Britain, received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017.

Nawaz Sharif popularized the slogan 'Vote Ko Izzat Do' (Give respect to the vote) after his disqualification in 2017.

Prof. Shahida Hasnain (شاہدہ حسنین) won the UNESCO Carlos J. Finlay Prize for Microbiology in 2017 for her research in environmental and medical microbiology.

George Saunders won the 2017 Booker Prize for 'Lincoln in the Bardo'. The novel is set in the graveyard where Lincoln's young son, Willie, has just been interred.

Colson Whitehead won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2017 for 'The Underground Railroad' and again in 2020 for 'The Nickel Boys', making him one of the few authors to win the award twice.

The Louvre Abu Dhabi is an art museum located on Saadiyat Island.

The Pakistan Air Force Academy is located in Risalpur and was named the Asghar Khan Academy in 2017 in honor of Air Marshal Asghar Khan, the first native Air Chief.

Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish, and Kip S. Thorne were awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves.

António Guterres, a former Prime Minister of Portugal, has served as the UN Secretary-General since January 1, 2017.