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List Of Taiwanese Americans
This is a list of notable Taiwanese Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants. To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Taiwanese American or must have references showing they are Taiwanese American and are notable. List Art and design * Malan Breton, fashion designer * Wenlan Chia, fashion designer * Doug Chiang, movie designer and artist * Han Hsiang-ning, artist * James Jean, artist * Jen Kao, fashion designer * Yu Tsai, photographer and ''America's Next Top Model'' creative consultant * Alexander Wang, fashion designer * Jason Wu, fashion designer * Luly Yang, fashion designer Business * Fred Chang, founder of Newegg * Morris Chang, founder of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company * Sam Chang, New York hotel developer * Wayne Chang, founder of Crashlytics, entrepreneur, angel investor, film producer, and philanthropist * Albert Chao, CEO an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taiwanese American
Taiwanese Americans () are Americans who carry full or partial ancestry from Taiwan. This includes American-born citizens who descend from migrants from Taiwan. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, 49% of Taiwanese Americans lived in the state of California. New York and Texas have the second and third largest Taiwanese American populations, respectively. Notable Taiwanese Americans include Joy Burke, Elaine Chao, Steve Chen, Michael Chang, Yuan Chang, Jensen Huang, Justin Lin, Jeremy Lin, Lisa Su, Katherine Tai, Constance Wu, Michelle Wu, Andrew Yang, and Jerry Yang. Immigration history Taiwanese immigration to the United States was limited in the years before World War II, due to Japanese rule as well as the Immigration Act of 1924, which completely barred immigration from Asia. Prior to the 1950s, emigration from Taiwan (ROC) (then called Formosa), was negligible, but a small number of students came to the United States until 1965. After the passage of the Immigration and Nati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wayne Chang
Wayne Chang (born August 3, 1983) is an American entrepreneur, angel investor, film producer, and philanthropist. He is best known for founding Crashlytics, a startup acquired by Twitter in 2013, creating a filesharing network called i2hub, making various seed investments, and his lawsuit against the Winklevoss brothers. Early life Chang was born in Taipei, Taiwan, and grew up extremely poor on a farm in rural Taiwan. At age 6, he immigrated to the United States. However, in the states, things weren't that much better. He didn't have his own bed until he was 16. Despite that, Chang displayed a natural talent for technology. He wrote his first software program on the Apple IIe at age 7. He was involved with the original Napster, the first peer-to-peer filesharing platform, while he attended high school in Haverhill, Massachusetts. In 2005, Newsweek profiled Chang for his abilities in technology. Education Chang enrolled as an undergraduate degree student at University of Mass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chen Wen-Chi
Chen Wen-ch'i (, born ) is a Taiwanese-American entrepreneur who has been President and CEO of VIA Technologies, Inc. since 1992. Prior to VIA, Chen co-founded and was President and CEO of Symphony Laboratories. He also held positions of Sales & Marketing VP at high tech start-up ULSI and senior architect at Intel. Chen holds a master's degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University and a masters in computer science from the California Institute of Technology. In June 2008, The Forbes ranked him with his wife Cher Wang, the chairperson of High Tech Computer Corporation, HTC, as the fifth richest of Taiwan. ''Forbes'' estimated his net worth to be around in May 2016. References External linksVIA Technologies Inc. Executives Living people Businesspeople from Taipei California Institute of Technology alumni National Taiwan University alumni Taiwanese Christians Former billionaires Year of birth missing (living people) {{Taiwan-business-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
