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Asian Americans.


Academia

*
Manjul Bhargava Manjul Bhargava (born 8 August 1974) is a Canadian-American mathematician. He is the Brandon Fradd, Class of 1983, Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University, the Stieltjes Professor of Number Theory at Leiden University, and also holds A ...
, mathematician * Raj Chetty, professor of economics * Leon O. Chua, computer scientist * S. I. Hayakawa, professor of English, president of San Francisco State University, and U.S. Senator * Sumiko Hennessy, professor of social work * Hao Huang, Frankel Chair of Music, ethnomusicologist, Scripps College *
Jaegwon Kim Jaegwon Kim (September 12, 1934 – November 27, 2019) was a Korean-American philosopher. At the time of his death, Kim was an emeritus professor of philosophy at Brown University. He also taught at several other leading American universities d ...
, professor of philosophy * Jagdish Natwarlal Bhagwati, professor of economics * Eswar Prasad, economist *
Raghuram Rajan Raghuram Govind Rajan (born 3 February 1963) is an Indian economist and the Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Quote: "I am an Indian citizen. I have always b ...
, economist and an international academician *
Amartya Sen Amartya Kumar Sen (; born 3 November 1933) is an Indian economist and philosopher, who since 1972 has taught and worked in the United Kingdom and the United States. Sen has made contributions to welfare economics, social choice theory, econom ...
, economist and philosopher *
Jim Toy James Willis Toy (April 29, 1930 – January 1, 2022) was a long-time American activist and a pioneer for LGBT rights in Michigan. Toy earned his B.A. at Denison University in 1951. He graduated with a master's degree in Clinical Social Work ...
, gay activist & educator * S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan,
NYU New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then-Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin. In 1832, the ...
mathematician *
Ocean Vuong Ocean Vuong (born , ; October 14, 1988) is a Vietnamese American poet, essayist, and novelist. Vuong is a recipient of the 2014 Ruth Lilly/Sargent Rosenberg fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, a 2016 Whiting Award, and the 2017 T.S. Eliot Pr ...
, writer, poet, professor * Thomas Zacharia, computational material sciences * Astrid S. Tuminez, Utah Valley University, President * Conrado Gempesaw, Former President, St. John's University


Science

* Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, 1983 Nobel laureate in Physics. *
Min Chueh Chang Min Chueh Chang (, October 10, 1908 – June 5, 1991), often credited as M.C. Chang, was a Chinese-American reproductive biologist. His specific area of study was the fertilisation process in mammalian reproduction. Though his career produced ...
, co-inventor of the
combined oral contraceptive pill The combined oral contraceptive pill (COCP), often referred to as the birth control pill or colloquially as "the pill", is a type of birth control that is designed to be taken orally by women. The pill contains two important hormones: proges ...
. *
Shiing-Shen Chern Shiing-Shen Chern (; , ; October 28, 1911 – December 3, 2004) was a Chinese-American mathematician and poet. He made fundamental contributions to differential geometry and topology. He has been called the "father of modern differential geome ...
, mathematician and winner of the 1983
Wolf Prize The Wolf Prize is an international award granted in Israel, that has been presented most years since 1978 to living scientists and artists for ''"achievements in the interest of mankind and friendly relations among people ... irrespective of nati ...
for his work in differential geometry. * Steven Chu, Nobel laureate in Physics in 1997 for research on cooling and trapping atoms using laser light and former
United States Secretary of Energy The United States secretary of energy is the head of the United States Department of Energy, a member of the Cabinet of the United States, and fifteenth in the presidential line of succession. The position was created on October 1, 1977, when Pr ...
. * David D. Ho, HIV/AIDS researcher * June Huh, mathematician, 2022 Fields Medal winner. *
Michio Kaku Michio Kaku (, ; born January 24, 1947) is an American theoretical physicist, futurist, and popularizer of science ( science communicator). He is a professor of theoretical physics in the City College of New York and CUNY Graduate Center. Kak ...
, theoretical physicist *
Har Gobind Khorana Har Gobind Khorana (9 January 1922 – 9 November 2011) was an Indian American biochemist. While on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, he shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Marshall W. Nirenberg and ...
, shared the Nobel laureate in "Physiology or Medicine" in 1968 for work in genetics and protein synthesis. *
Tsung-Dao Lee Tsung-Dao Lee (; born November 24, 1926) is a Chinese-American physicist, known for his work on parity violation, the Lee–Yang theorem, particle physics, relativistic heavy ion (RHIC) physics, nontopological solitons, and soliton star ...
, received the 1957 Nobel Laureate in Physics for work in
particle physics Particle physics or high energy physics is the study of fundamental particles and forces that constitute matter and radiation. The fundamental particles in the universe are classified in the Standard Model as fermions (matter particles) an ...
along with Chen Ning Yang. * Yuan T. Lee, 1986 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry * Syukuro Manabe, 2021 Nobel Laureate in Physics *
Shuji Nakamura is a Japanese-born American electronic engineer and inventor specializing in the field of semiconductor technology, professor at the Materials Department of the College of Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), and is rega ...
, 2014 Nobel Laureate in Physics *
Yoichiro Nambu was a Japanese-American physicist and professor at the University of Chicago. Known for his contributions to the field of theoretical physics, he was awarded half of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2008 for the discovery in 1960 of the mechanism ...
, 2008 Nobel laureate in Physics *
Santa J. Ono Santa Jeremy Ono ( ja, 小野 三太; born November 23, 1962) is a Canadian-American immunologist and academic administrator, currently serving as the 15th President of the University of Michigan, president of the University of Michigan since O ...
, former President University of Cincinnati, immunologist and vision scientist, current President
University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...
* Charles J. Pedersen, 1987 Nobel laureate in Chemistry. *
Ching W. Tang Ching Wan Tang (; born July 23, 1947) is a Hong Kong Americans, Hong Kong–American Physical chemistry, physical chemist. He was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2018 for inventing OLED (together with Steven Van Slyke), and ...
, inventor of the
organic light-emitting diode An organic light-emitting diode (OLED or organic LED), also known as organic electroluminescent (organic EL) diode, is a light-emitting diode (LED) in which the emissive electroluminescent layer is a film of organic compound that emits light i ...
and the hetero-junction organic photovoltaic cell. Winner of the 2011
Wolf Prize in Chemistry The Wolf Prize in Chemistry is awarded annually by the Wolf Foundation in Israel. It is one of the six Wolf Prizes established by the Foundation and awarded since 1978; the others are in Agriculture, Mathematics, Medicine, Physics and Arts ...
. * Terence Tao, mathematician, 2006 Fields Medal winner. * Samuel C.C. Ting, 1976 Nobel laureate in physics for discovering the existence of a new particle called j/psi. * Roger Y. Tsien, 2008 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, for the discovery of the green fluorescent protein. *
Daniel Tsui Daniel Chee Tsui (, born February 28, 1939) is a Chinese-born American physicist, Nobel laureate, and the Arthur Legrand Doty Professor of Electrical Engineering, Emeritus, at Princeton University. Tsui's areas of research include electrical prop ...
, 1998 Nobel laureate in Physics for contributions to the discovery of the
fractional Quantum Hall effect The fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) is a physical phenomenon in which the Hall conductance of 2-dimensional (2D) electrons shows precisely quantized plateaus at fractional values of e^2/h. It is a property of a collective state in which elec ...
. * Chien-Shiung Wu, winner of the 1978
Wolf Prize in Physics The Wolf Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Wolf Foundation in Israel. It is one of the six Wolf Prizes established by the Foundation and awarded since 1978; the others are in Agriculture, Chemistry, Mathematics, Medicine and Arts. ...
. First woman to be elected president of American Physical Society. * Chen Ning Yang, received the 1957 Nobel Laureate in Physics for work in
particle physics Particle physics or high energy physics is the study of fundamental particles and forces that constitute matter and radiation. The fundamental particles in the universe are classified in the Standard Model as fermions (matter particles) an ...
along with Tsung-Dao Lee. *
Shing-Tung Yau Shing-Tung Yau (; ; born April 4, 1949) is a Chinese-American mathematician and the William Caspar Graustein Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University. In April 2022, Yau announced retirement from Harvard to become Chair Professor of mathem ...
, mathematician, 1982 Fields Medal winner.


Arts/architecture/design

*
Fazlur Rahman Khan Fazlur Rahman Khan ( bn, ফজলুর রহমান খান, ''Fozlur Rôhman Khan''; 3 April 1929 – 27 March 1982) was a Bangladeshi-American structural engineer and architect, who initiated important structural systems for skyscrape ...
, a
Bangladeshi-American Bangladeshi Americans ( bn, বাংলাদেশী মার্কিনী, Bangladeshī Markinī) are Americans of Bangladeshi descent. The majority of Bangladeshi Americans are Bengalis and form the largest group of Bengali Americans. Ba ...
structural engineer and architect, who was considered the "Einstein of structural engeering", he was the designer of the
Willis Tower The Willis Tower (originally the Sears Tower) is a 108- story, skyscraper in the Loop community area of Chicago in Illinois, United States. Designed by architect Bruce Graham and engineer Fazlur Rahman Khan of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM ...
and
John Hancock Center The John Hancock Center is a 100- story, 1,128-foot supertall skyscraper located in Chicago, Illinois. Located in the Magnificent Mile district, the building was officially renamed 875 North Michigan Avenue in 2018. The skyscraper was designed ...
* Salma Arastu, artist *
Rina Banerjee Rina Banerjee (born 1963) is an Indian Americans, Indian-American artist and sculptor."Bio"
Rinabanerjee.com, Retrieved onl ...
, artist *
David Choe David Choe (born April 21, 1976) is an American artist, musician, and former journalist and podcast host from Los Angeles. Choe's work appears in a wide variety of urban culture and entertainment contexts. He has illustrated and written for mag ...
, artist * Dhairya Dand, inventor and artist *
George Fan George Fan (born 1978) is an American video game designer who currently works as the creative director of All Yes Good. He is known for designing ''Plants vs. Zombies'' (2009) whilst working at PopCap Games, in addition to developing '' Insan ...
, video game designer, ''
Plants vs. Zombies ''Plants vs. Zombies'' is a video game franchise developed by PopCap Games, a subsidiary of Electronic Arts (EA). The series follows the affiliates of David "Crazy Dave" Blazing as they use his plants to defend against a zombie invasion, led ...
'' *
Maya Lin Maya Ying Lin (born October 5, 1959) is an American designer and sculptor. In 1981, while an undergraduate at Yale University, she achieved national recognition when she won a national design competition for the planned Vietnam Veterans Memoria ...
, architect, designed the
Vietnam Veterans Memorial The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is a U.S. national memorial in Washington, D.C., honoring service members of the U.S. armed forces who served in the Vietnam War. The site is dominated by two black granite walls engraved with the names of those ...
* Seong Moy, artist and printmaker * Jane Ng, 3D environmental artist * Yatin Patel, photographer and artist *
Gyo Obata Gyo Obata (小圃 暁, February 28, 1923 – March 8, 2022) was an American architect, the son of painter Chiura Obata and his wife, Haruko Obata, a floral designer. In 1955, he co-founded the global architectural firm HOK (formerly Hellmuth, O ...
, architect, designed the National Air and Space Museum * IM Pei, renowned architect, designed the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the
Louvre Pyramid The Louvre Pyramid (Pyramide du Louvre) is a large glass and metal structure designed by the Chinese-American architect I. M. Pei. The pyramid is in the main courtyard ( Cour Napoléon) of the Louvre Palace in Paris, surrounded by three small ...
* Mimi So, jewelry designer *
Manick Sorcar Manick Sorcar (formal name Prafulla Chandra "P.C." Sorcar) is an Indian American artist, animator, engineer, and laserist. Sorcar is an artist
, animator, artist *
Minoru Yamasaki was an American architect, best known for designing the original World Trade Center in New York City and several other large-scale projects. Yamasaki was one of the most prominent architects of the 20th century. He and fellow architect Edward ...
, architect, designed the
World Trade Center World Trade Centers are sites recognized by the World Trade Centers Association. World Trade Center may refer to: Buildings * List of World Trade Centers * World Trade Center (2001–present), a building complex that includes five skyscrapers, a ...
*
Vern Yip Vern Yip (born June 27, 1968, in Hong Kong) is an American interior designer based in Atlanta, Georgia. He periodically appeared on TLC's ''Trading Spaces'' through its fourth season, and was known for frequently including silk, candles and flo ...
, interior designer, appeared on TLC's
Trading Spaces ''Trading Spaces'' is an hour-long American television reality program that originally aired from 2000 to 2008 on the cable channels TLC and Discovery Home. The format of the show was based on the BBC TV series ''Changing Rooms''. The first ...
and HGTV's Deserving Design and
Design Star ''HGTV Star'', named ''HGTV Design Star'' for the first seven seasons, is an American reality competition show that premiered on July 23, 2006, on the cable television network HGTV. Clive Pearse served as host for Seasons 1-4, then judge Vern Yi ...
* Chanel Miller, artist * Yu-kai Chou, gamification designer and pioneer


Business and industry

* Revathi Advaithi, CEO of
Flex (company) Flex Ltd. (previously known as Flextronics International Ltd. or Flextronics) is an American Singaporean-domiciled multinational diversified manufacturing company. It is the third largest global electronics manufacturing services (EMS), origi ...
* Parag Agrawal, CEO of
Twitter Twitter is an online social media and social networking service owned and operated by American company Twitter, Inc., on which users post and interact with 280-character-long messages known as "tweets". Registered users can post, like, and ...
*
Hiroaki Aoki Hiroaki is a masculine Japanese given name. It can be written in many ways. In the following lists, the kanji in parentheses are the individual's way of writing the name Hiroaki. Possible writings *(written: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ...
, founder of Benihana *
Nikesh Arora Nikesh Arora (born February 9, 1968) is an Indian-American business executive. Arora was formerly a senior executive at Google. He served as the president of SoftBank Group from October 2014 to June 2016. On June 1, 2018, Arora took on the role ...
, CEO of
Palo Alto Networks Palo Alto Networks, Inc. is an American multinational cybersecurity company with headquarters in Santa Clara, California. The core products is a platform that includes advanced firewalls and cloud-based offerings that extend those firewalls to ...
* Ramani Ayer, chairman and CEO of The Hartford Financial Services Group *Nandita Bakhshi, CEO of Bank of the West *
Somen Banerjee Somen "Steve" Banerjee ( bn, সোমেন বন্দোপাধ্যায়; October 8, 1946 – October 23, 1994) was an Indian entrepreneur, and the founder of Chippendales. Biography Somen Banerjee was born in Bombay (now Mumbai), I ...
, founder of
Chippendales Chippendales is a touring dance troupe best known for its male striptease performances and for its dancers' distinctive upper body costume of a bow tie, collar, and shirt cuffs worn on an otherwise bare torso. Established in 1979, Chippenda ...
*
Ajay Banga Ajaypal Singh Banga (born November 10, 1959) is an Indian-American business executive. He is currently Vice Chairman at General Atlantic. He was executive chairman of Mastercard, after having previously served as president and chief executive off ...
, president and CEO of MasterCard *
Manoj Bhargava Manoj Bhargava (born 1953) is an Indian American billionaire businessman and philanthropist. He is the founder and CEO of Innovations Ventures LLC ( dba Living Essentials LLC), the company known for producing the 5-hour Energy drink. By 2012 ...
, billionaire founder and CEO of 5-hour Energy * Sabeer Bhatia, co-founder of
Hotmail Outlook.com is a webmail service that is part of the Microsoft 365 product family. It offers mail, Calendaring software, calendaring, Address book, contacts, and Task management, tasks services. Founded in 1996 by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smit ...
*
Baiju Bhatt Baiju Prafulkumar Bhatt (born 1984/1985) is an American entrepreneur of Indian descent. He is the chief creative officer and co-founder, along with Vladimir Tenev, of Robinhood, a US-based financial services company. Early life Baiju Prafulkuma ...
, co-founder of Robinhood * Aneel Bhusri, CEO of Workday *Aman Bhutani, CEO of
GoDaddy GoDaddy Inc. is an American publicly traded Internet domain registrar and web hosting company headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, and incorporated in Delaware. , GoDaddy has more than 21 million customers and over 6,600 employees worldwide. The ...
* Sanjit Biswas, co-founder of
Cisco Meraki Cisco Meraki is a cloud-managed IT company headquartered in San Francisco, California. Their products include wireless, switching, security, enterprise mobility management (EMM) and security cameras, all centrally managed from the web. Meraki wa ...
*
Amar Bose Amar Gopal Bose (November 2, 1929 – July 12, 2013) was an American entrepreneur and academic. An electrical engineer and sound engineer, he was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for over 45 years. He was also the found ...
, billionaire chairman and founder of
Bose Corporation Bose Corporation () is an American manufacturing company that predominantly sells audio equipment. The company was established by Amar Bose in 1964 and is based in Framingham, Massachusetts. It is best known for its home audio systems and spea ...
*
Do Won Chang Do Won Chang (Hangul: 장도원; born March 20, 1954) is a Korean-American, Korean-born American businessman. He founded the clothing store chain Forever 21 with his wife Jin Sook Chang. Early life Chang grew up in South Korea and moved to Cal ...
, billionaire co-founder of Forever 21 * Fred Chang, Taiwanese American billionaire founder and CEO of Newegg * Roger H. Chen, founder of
99 Ranch Market 99 Ranch Market () is an American supermarket chain owned by Tawa Supermarket Inc., which is based in Buena Park, California. 99 Ranch has 54 stores (as of June 2021), primarily in California, with other stores in Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Ne ...
* Sam Chang, founder and CEO of McSam Hotel Group, one of largest hotel developers in New York City *
Albert Chao Westlake Corporation is an international manufacturer and supplier of petrochemicals, polymers and fabricated building products, which are fundamental to various consumer and industrial markets. The company was founded by Ting Tsung Chao in 1986. ...
, billionaire co-founder and CEO of
Westlake Chemical Westlake Corporation is an international manufacturer and supplier of petrochemicals, polymers and fabricated building products, which are fundamental to various consumer and industrial markets. The company was founded by Ting Tsung Chao in 1986. ...
, largest producer LDPE plastic in the US *
Allen Chao Allen Y. Chao is a Taiwanese-American businessman who founded Watson Pharmaceuticals and served as chief executive officer from 1984 to 2008 and chairman. Born in Shanghai, he spent his childhood in Taiwan. Chao went to Taipei Medical College, w ...
, founder of Watson Pharmaceuticals * Jay Chaudhry, CEO and founder of
Zscaler Zscaler () is a cloud security company, with headquarters in San Jose, California. The company offers cloud migration services. History Zscaler was founded in 2007 by Jay Chaudhry and K. Kailash. In August 2012, Zscaler secured $38 million in f ...
* Christine Chen, founder and CEO of Chen Communications *
John S. Chen John S. Chen (; born July 1, 1955) is a Hong Kong-American businessman serving as executive chairman and chief executive officer of BlackBerry Ltd. Previously, he served as the chief executive officer and president of Sybase, a software vendor s ...
, executive chairman and CEO of
BlackBerry Limited BlackBerry Limited is a Canadian software company specializing in cybersecurity. Founded in 1984, it was originally known as Research In Motion (RIM). As RIM, it developed the BlackBerry brand of interactive pagers, smartphones, and tablets ...
, former CEO of Sybase *
Eva Chen Eva Yi-Hwa Chen is a Taiwanese businessperson and the co-founder and CEO of Trend Micro, one of the world's largest software security firms. In 2010, '' CRN Magazine'' named her as one of the "Top 100 Most Influential Executives in the Industry ...
, co-founder and CEO of
Trend Micro is an American-Japanese multinational cyber security software company with global headquarters in Tokyo, Japan and Irving, Texas, United State.Other regional headquarters and R&D centers are located around East Asia, Southeast Asia, Europe, and ...
*
Perry Chen Perry Chen is an American artist and entrepreneur known for being the creator and principal founder of Kickstarter, PBC, the online funding platform for creative projects. He came up with the idea for Kickstarter in 2001 and launched it in 2009 a ...
, founder and CEO of Kickstarter * Steve Chen, co-founder of
YouTube YouTube is a global online video sharing and social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is owned by Google, and is the second mo ...
* Tim Chen, co-founder and CEO of
NerdWallet NerdWallet is an American personal finance company, founded in 2009 by Tim Chen and Jacob Gibson. It has a website and app that earns money by promoting financial products to its users. History NerdWallet was founded in August 2009 by Tim Chen ...
* Chen Wen-ch'i, billionaire president and CEO of
VIA Technologies VIA Technologies Inc. (), is a Taiwanese manufacturer of integrated circuits, mainly motherboard chipsets, CPUs, and memory. It was the world's largest independent manufacturer of motherboard chipsets. As a fabless semiconductor company, VIA ...
, husband of Cher Wang, co-founder of
HTC HTC Corporation ( zh, t=宏達國際電子股份有限公司, s=宏达国际电子股份有限公司, p=Hóngdá Guójì Diànzǐ Gǔfèn Yǒuxiàn Gōngsī, first=t) or High Tech Computer Corporation, (literally ''Hongda International Electron ...
*
Andrew Cherng Andrew Cherng (; pronounced ''Chur-ng''; born April 1948) is a Chinese-born American billionaire restaurateur. He is the founder and chairman of Panda Restaurant Group, based in Rosemead, California. He is the co-founder and chief executive offi ...
, billionaire co-founder of
Panda Express Panda Express is an American fast food restaurant chain that serves American Chinese cuisine. With over 2,200 locations, it is the largest Asian-segment restaurant chain in the United States, where it was founded, and is mainly located in North ...
*
Peggy Cherng Peggy Tsiang Cherng (pronounced ''Chur-ng'', born 1947/1948) is an American billionaire businesswoman. Cherng co-founded Panda Express in 1983 and serves as the co-chief executive officer of Panda Restaurant Group. She was born in Burma (now My ...
, billionaire co-founder of
Panda Express Panda Express is an American fast food restaurant chain that serves American Chinese cuisine. With over 2,200 locations, it is the largest Asian-segment restaurant chain in the United States, where it was founded, and is mainly located in North ...
* David Chu, co-founder of
Nautica Nautica is an American apparel brand of Authentic Brands Group featuring primarily men's, women's, children's apparel and accessories, as well as home, watches, and fragrance. Nautica was founded in 1983 by clothing designer David Chu and a par ...
* James Chu, founder of ViewSonic *
Alfred Chuang Alfred S. Chuang () is an American business technology executive and venture capitalist. He is the former CEO of BEA Systems. In 2020, he founded Race Capital, a venture fund. Early life and education A native of Hong Kong, Chuang graduated fr ...
, founder and CEO of
BEA Systems BEA Systems, Inc. was a company that specialized in enterprise infrastructure software products which was wholly acquired by Oracle Corporation on April 29, 2008. History BEA began as a software company, founded in 1995 and headquartered in ...
*
Francisco D'Souza Francisco D'Souza (born 23 August 1968) is an Indian-American entrepreneur and businessman, who is the former CEO and Vice Chairman of Cognizant — a Fortune 200 global professional services company – co-founded the NASDAQ-100 company in 1994. ...
, former CEO of
Cognizant Cognizant is an American multinational information technology services and consulting company. It is headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey, United States. Cognizant is part of the NASDAQ-100 and trades under CTSH. It was founded as an in-hous ...
*
Weili Dai Weili Dai () is a Chinese-born American businesswoman. She is the co-founder, former director, and former president of Marvell Technology Group. Dai is a successful female entrepreneur, and is the only female co-founder of a major semiconductor ...
, billionaire and co-founder *
Bharat Desai Bharat Desai (born November 1952) is an American billionaire businessman, and the co-founder and chairman of Syntel. Early life Bharat Desai was born in November 1952, in Kenya. He is of Gujarati Indian origin. In his childhood, he lived in ...
, billionaire co-founder of Syntel *
Shar Dubey Sharmistha Dubey is an Indian American business executive. She was the chief executive officer (CEO) of Match Group from March 2020 to May 2022. Dubey joined Match Group in 2006. Dubey also serves on the Board of Directors of Match Group and For ...
, CEO of
Match Group Match Group, Inc. is an American internet and technology company headquartered in Dallas, Texas. It owns and operates the largest global portfolio of popular online dating services including Tinder, Match.com, Meetic, OkCupid, Hinge, PlentyO ...
*
Tan Hock Eng Tan Hock Eng (; born in Penang) is a Malaysian Chinese business executive and philanthropist. He is the CEO of Broadcom Inc. He was the highest earning CEO in the US in 2017, earning US$103.2 million that year. Early life Tan was born in Pena ...
, CEO of
Broadcom Broadcom Inc. is an American designer, developer, manufacturer and global supplier of a wide range of semiconductor and infrastructure software products. Broadcom's product offerings serve the data center, networking, software, broadband, wirel ...
, and highest earning CEO in the US in 2017 *
Amrapali Gan Amrapali Gan is an Indian-American businesswoman. In December 2021, she was appointed as CEO of OnlyFans, which she joined in September 2020 as chief marketing and communications officer. She succeeded founding CEO Tim Stokely. She has previ ...
, CEO of
OnlyFans OnlyFans is an internet content subscription service based in London, United Kingdom. The service is used primarily by sex workers who produce pornography, but it also hosts the work of other content creators, such as physical fitness exper ...
*Sunil Garg, CEO of Citibank * Vishal Garg (businessman), CEO of Better.com *
Rajat Gupta Rajat Kumar Gupta (; born ) is an Indian-American businessman and convicted felon who, as CEO, was the first foreign-born managing director of management consultancy firm McKinsey & Company from 1994 to 2003. In 2012, he was convicted for insider ...
, former Worldwide Managing Director (chief executive) of McKinsey & Company *
Daniel Ha Daniel Ha is the co-founder and CEO of blog comment platform Disqus. Ha started Disqus with co-founder Jason Yan, a typical nobody and a classmate he had known since the 7th grade, in 2007 while attending University of California, Davis to study ...
, co-founder of Disqus * David T. Hon, founder of
Dahon Dahon is the world's largest manufacturer of folding bicycles with a two-thirds marketshare in 2006. The company was founded in 1982 by David T. Hon, a former laser physicist, and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, with assembly facto ...
*
Ming Hsieh Ming Hsieh (; born 1956) is a billionaire Chinese-born American entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is the founder of Cogent Systems in 1990. In 2011, he founded a genetic testing technology company. According to ''Forbes'' magazine, his esti ...
, billionaire and philanthropist founder of
Cogent Systems Cogent Systems, Inc. is a manufacturer of automated fingerprint identification systems (AFIS). On January 20, 2006, the City of Pasadena (CA) announces Cogent Systems' impending relocation from South Pasadena to Pasadena. On August 30, 2010 3M ...
acquired by 3M *
Tony Hsieh Anthony Hsieh ( ; December 12, 1973November 27, 2020) was an American internet entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He retired as the CEO of the online shoe and clothing company Zappos in August 2020 after 21 years. Prior to joining Zappos, ...
, CEO of
Zappos Zappos.com is an American online shoe and clothing retailer based in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. The company was founded in 1999 by Nick Swinmurn and launched under the domain name Shoesite.com. In July 2009, Amazon acquired Zappos in an ...
, internet entrepreneur and venture capitalist *
Jen-Hsun Huang Jen-Hsun "Jensen" Huang (; born February 17, 1963) is a Taiwanese American billionaire business magnate, electrical engineer, and the co-founder, current president and CEO of Nvidia Corporation. Early years and education Huang was born in Ta ...
, billionaire co-founder and CEO of
NVIDIA Nvidia CorporationOfficially written as NVIDIA and stylized in its logo as VIDIA with the lowercase "n" the same height as the uppercase "VIDIA"; formerly stylized as VIDIA with a large italicized lowercase "n" on products from the mid 1990s to ...
* Robert T. Huang, founder of
Synnex Synnex was an American multinational corporation that provides information technology (IT) services to businesses. It merged with competitor Tech Data to form TD Synnex. It was founded in 1980 by Robert T. Huang and based in Fremont, Cali ...
* Shelly Hwang, co-founder of Pinkberry *
Kai Huang RedOctane, Inc. was an American electronic entertainment company best known for producing the ''Guitar Hero'' series, beginning in November 2005. RedOctane became a wholly owned subsidiary of Activision in 2006. In February 2010, Activision clos ...
, co-founder and CEO of
Guitar Hero ''Guitar Hero'' is a series of music rhythm game video games first released in November 2005, in which players use a guitar-shaped game controller to simulate playing primarily lead, bass guitar, and rhythm guitar across numerous songs ...
and
RedOctane RedOctane, Inc. was an American electronic entertainment company best known for producing the ''Guitar Hero'' series, beginning in November 2005. RedOctane became a wholly owned subsidiary of Activision in 2006. In February 2010, Activision clos ...
* Subrah Iyar, co-founder of
Cisco Webex Webex by Cisco is an American company that develops and sells web conferencing, videoconferencing and contact center as a service applications. It was founded as WebEx in 1995 and taken over by Cisco Systems in 2007. Its headquarters are in San ...
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David Ji David Longfen Ji is an American businessman who co-founded Apex Digital, an electronics manufacturer. In 2004, he was arrested in China following a dispute with Sichuan Changhong Electric, a supplier owned by the city of Mianyang and the provin ...
, co-founder of
Apex Digital Apex Digital, Inc. is an American electronics manufacturer based in Walnut, California founded in 1997. It manufactures and distributes high definition and LCD panel televisions, DVD recorders and players, and other digital items including photo ...
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Andrea Jung Andrea Jung (鍾彬嫻, pinyin: Zhōng Bīnxián, jyutping: zung1 ban1 haa4) (born 1958) is a Canadian-American executive, non-profit leader, and prominent women's-issues supporter based in New York City. In April 2014, she became president and ...
, retired chairman and CEO of Avon Products * Johnny Kan, founder of Kan's Restaurant *
Justin Kan Justin Kan (born July 16, 1983) is an American internet entrepreneur and investor. He is the co-founder of live video platforms Justin.tv and Twitch, as well as the mobile social video application Socialcam. He is also the cofounder and former ...
, cofounder of
Twitch Twitch may refer to: Biology * Muscle contraction ** Convulsion, rapid and repeated muscle contraction and relaxation ** Fasciculation, a small, local, involuntary muscle contraction ** Myoclonic twitch, a jerk usually caused by sudden muscle co ...
* Min Kao, billionaire co-founder of
Garmin Garmin Ltd. (shortened to Garmin, stylized as GARMIN, and formerly known as ProNav) is an American, Swiss-domiciled multinational technology company founded in 1989 by Gary Burrell and Min Kao in Lenexa, Kansas, United States, with headquarte ...
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John Kapoor John Nath Kapoor (born 1942/1943) is an American felon, multi-millionaire, pharmaceutical entrepreneur, former CEO of Insys Therapeutics, and majority shareholder in the generic drug manufacturing company Akorn. In the fall of 2017, Kapoor was ...
, billionaire founder of
Insys INSYS was a leading British defence contractor, located in Ampthill, Bedfordshire, supplying integrated system solutions to the UK and allied armed forces directly or through global prime contractors. It was formed in October 2001 by a manage ...
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Jawed Karim Jawed Karim (বাংলাঃ জাওয়াদ করিম) (born October 28, 1979) is an American software engineer and Internet entrepreneur of Bangladeshi and German descent. He is a co-founder of YouTube and the first person to up ...
, co-founder of YouTube *
Farooq Kathwari Farooq Kathwari (born 1944) is an Indian-American businessman who is currently the CEO of Ethan Allen. Life Kathwari moved to the United States from Kashmir, India in 1965. He is the Chairman, President and Chief Executive officer of Ethan Al ...
, CEO of Ethan Allen (company) * Shahid Khan, billionaire president of Flex-N-Gate Corp., owner of the
Jacksonville Jaguars The Jacksonville Jaguars are a professional American football team based in Jacksonville, Florida. The Jaguars compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the American Football Conference (AFC) South division. The team pla ...
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Tony Khan Antony Rafiq Khan (born October 10, 1982) is an American businessman, promoter, and sports executive. He is known for his involvement in American football, professional wrestling and soccer. He is best known as the founder and co-owner of All E ...
, CEO and co-founder of
All Elite Wrestling All Elite Wrestling (AEW) is an American professional wrestling promotion based in Jacksonville, Florida. It is considered the second largest wrestling promotion in the United States behind WWE. AEW is owned by Shahid Khan and his son Tony, ...
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Vinod Khosla Vinod Khosla (born 28 January 1955) is an Indian-American businessman and venture capitalist. He is a co-founder of Sun Microsystems and the founder of Khosla Ventures. Khosla made his wealth from early venture capital investments in areas suc ...
, billionaire co-founding CEO of Sun Microsystems and general partner of venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers * Hoang Kieu, billionaire Vietnamese-American owner of Shanghai RAAS Blood Products * Jeong H. Kim, co-founder and CEO, Yurie Systems (sold to
Lucent Lucent Technologies, Inc. was an American multinational telecommunications equipment company headquartered in Murray Hill, New Jersey. It was established on September 30, 1996, through the divestiture of the former AT&T Technologies business u ...
for $1.1 billion) *
James Kim James Kim (August 9, 1971December 4, 2006) was an American television personality and technology analyst for the former TechTV international cable television network, reviewing products for shows including ''The Screen Savers'', ''Call for Help' ...
, billionaire founder and executive chairman of
Amkor Technology Amkor Technology, Inc. is a semiconductor product packaging and test services provider. The company has been headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, since 2005, when it was moved from West Chester, Pennsylvania. The company was founded in 1968 and, , ha ...
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George Kurian George Kurian is an Indian-American business executive. He is the current chief executive officer and a member of the board of NetApp. Prior to this, he was the Executive Vice President of Product Operations at NetApp. Early life and education ...
, CEO of
NetApp NetApp, Inc. is an American hybrid cloud data services and data management company headquartered in San Jose, California. It has ranked in the Fortune 500 from 2012–2021. Founded in 1992 with an IPO in 1995, NetApp offers cloud data service ...
* Arvind Krishna, CEO of IBM *
David Lam David See-chai Lam, (; July 25, 1923November 22, 2010) was a Hong Kong-born Canadian banker, businessman, investor, philanthropist, and politician. From 1988 to 1995, Lam was the 25th Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia, and he was the first ...
, founder of
Lam Research Lam Research Corporation is an American supplier of wafer fabrication equipment and related services to the semiconductor industry. Its products are used primarily in front-end wafer processing, which involves the steps that create the active c ...
* Brian Lee, co-founder of
LegalZoom LegalZoom.com, Inc. is an American online legal technology company that helps its customers create legal documents without necessarily having to hire a lawyer. Available documents include wills and living trusts, business formation documents, co ...
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The Honest Company The Honest Company, Inc. is an American digital-first consumer goods company, founded by actress Jessica Alba. The company had $319 million in 2021 sales, and was valued at roughly $550 million as of February 2022. The Honest Company has raised m ...
and
ShoeDazzle ShoeDazzle is an American online fashion subscription service based in El Segundo, California. Each month the company debuts a selection of shoes, handbags and jewelry, and provides its members with a showroom curated to their indicated fashion p ...
* David Lee, founder of Jamison Services, largest real estate private office landlord in the country *
Kai-Fu Lee Kai-Fu Lee (; born December 3, 1961) is a Taiwanese computer scientist, businessman, and writer. He is currently based in Beijing, China. Lee developed a speaker-independent, continuous speech recognition system as his Ph.D. thesis at Carnegie ...
, founding president of
Google China Google China is a subsidiary of Google. A popular search engine, most services offered by Google China were blocked by the Great Firewall in the People's Republic of China. In 2010, searching via all Google search sites, including Google Mobil ...
* Noel Lee, founder of
Monster Cable Monster Inc. is an American company that manufactures and markets about 6,000 products, but is best known for audio and video cables. It also produces speakers, headphones, power strips, mobile accessories and audio devices for automobiles. The c ...
* Thai Lee, billionaire Thai-born Korean American co-founder and CEO of SHI International Corp , largest woman-owned business in the US *
Christine Liang Christine Liang is a Taiwanese-American businesswoman. She is the President and Founder of ASI Corp., a Fremont, California-based wholesale distributor of computer software, hardware, and accessories. Biography Born Christine Chu, she attended D ...
, president and founder of ASI Corp. * Kenneth Lin, co-founder of
Credit Karma Credit Karma is an American multinational personal finance company founded in 2007, which has been a brand of Intuit since December 2020. It is best known as a free credit and financial management platform, but its features also include monitor ...
* Eric Ly, co-founder of
LinkedIn LinkedIn () is an American business and employment-oriented online service that operates via websites and mobile apps. Launched on May 5, 2003, the platform is primarily used for professional networking and career development, and allows job se ...
, founder of Presdo Match *
Kumar Malavalli Kumar Malavalli is an Indian American technology entrepreneur and philanthropist. In 1995, he founded Brocade Communications Systems with Paul Bonderson Jr. He currently serves as chairman of C3DNA Inc. and as a partner at VKRM Services, a boutique ...
, co-founder of
Brocade Communications Systems Brocade is an American technology company specializing in storage networking products, now a subsidiary of Broadcom Inc. The company is known for its Fibre Channel storage networking products and technology. Prior to the acquisition, the compan ...
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Sandeep Mathrani Sandeep Mathrani (born 1962) is an Indian-American real estate executive and the chief executive of WeWork, following the departure of its former CEO, Adam Neumann. Prior to WeWork, he was the CEO of GGP Inc and the retail group of its parent com ...
, CEO of
WeWork WeWork Inc. is a provider of coworking spaces, including physical and virtual shared spaces, headquartered in New York City. As of December 31, 2021, the company operated of space, including in the United States and Canada, in 756 locatio ...
*Milind Mehere, CEO and co-founder of Yieldstreet *
Sanjay Mehrotra Sanjay Mehrotra is an Indian-American business executive and the CEO of Micron Technology. He was a co-founder of SanDisk, where he served as president and CEO until its acquisition by Western Digital in 2016. Early life and education Mehrot ...
, co-founder of
SanDisk SanDisk is a brand for flash memory products, including memory cards and readers, USB flash drives, solid-state drives, and digital audio players, manufactured and marketed by Western Digital. The original company, SanDisk Corporation was acquir ...
, president and CEO of Micron Technology * Apoorva Mehta, co-founder of
Instacart Instacart is an American company that operates a grocery delivery and pick-up service in the United States and Canada. The company offers its services via a website and mobile app. The service allows customers to order groceries from participatin ...
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Ivan Menezes Sir Ivan Manuel Menezes (born July 1959) is an Indian-born American/British business executive. He has been the chief executive officer (CEO) of Diageo, a FTSE 100 The Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 Index, also called the FTSE 100 Index, ...
, CEO of Diageo * Teresa H. Meng, founder of
Atheros Communications Qualcomm Atheros is a developer of semiconductor Integrated circuit, chips for Computer network, network communications, particularly wireless chipsets. Founded under the name T-Span Systems in 1998 by experts in signal processing and VLSI desig ...
acquired by Qualcomm and formed
Qualcomm Atheros Qualcomm Atheros is a developer of semiconductor chips for network communications, particularly wireless chipsets. Founded under the name T-Span Systems in 1998 by experts in signal processing and VLSI design from Stanford University, the Un ...
* Neal Mohan, CEO of
YouTube YouTube is a global online video sharing and social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is owned by Google, and is the second mo ...
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Moon Kook-jin Moon Kook-jin (born July 17, 1970), also known as Justin Moon, is a Korean American businessman. He is the son of Sun Myung Moon, the founder of the Unification Church. He is the founder and owner of Kahr Arms, an American small arms manufacture ...
, founder of Kahr Arms, manufacturer of the
Desert Eagle The Desert Eagle is a gas-operated, semi-automatic pistol known for chambering the .50 Action Express, the largest centerfire cartridge of any magazine-fed, self-loading pistol. Magnum Research Inc. (MRI) designed and developed the Desert Eagle ...
* Bobby Murphy, billionaire co-founder of Snapchat * Satya Nadella, CEO of
Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology corporation producing computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services headquartered at the Microsoft Redmond campus located in Redmond, Washin ...
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Laxman Narasimhan Laxman Narasimhan (born 15 April 1967) is an Indian-American business executive who was chief commercial officer (CCO) of PepsiCo, and chief executive officer (CEO) of Reckitt. He joined Starbucks under the title "interim CEO" in October 2022, and ...
, Designated CEO of Starbucks *Shantanu Narayen, CEO of Adobe Systems *Indra Nooyi, chairman and CEO of PepsiCo *Dinesh Paliwal, CEO of Harman International *Milind Pant, CEO of Amway *Ellen Pao, former CEO of Reddit *James Park (entrepreneur), James Park, co-founder and CEO of Fitbit *Vikram Pandit, president and CEO of Citigroup *Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google *Christine Poon, former vice chairman of Johnson & Johnson and worldwide chairman of J&J's Pharmaceuticals Group *Raghu Raghuram, CEO of VMware *Ritu Raj, founder of Wag Hotels *Raj Rajaratnam, billionaire founder of Galleon Group *Vivek Ranadivé, founder of TIBCO Software and owner of Sacramento Kings *Punit Renjen, CEO of Deloitte *Steve Sanghi, founder, chairman and CEO of Microchip Technology *Vivek Sankaran, CEO of Albertsons *Rohan Seth, co-founder of Clubhouse (app) *Niraj Shah, billionaire co-founder and CEO of Wayfair *Ram Shriram, billionaire co-founder of Junglee.com and early investor in Google *John J. Sie, founder of Starz Inc. *Ben Silbermann, billionaire co-founder and CEO of Pinterest *Pradeep Sindhu, founder of Juniper Networks *Sumit Singh, CEO of Chewy (company) *Patrick Soon-Shiong, billionaire surgeon and founder of Abraxis BioScience and owner of the Los Angeles Times *K. R. Sridhar, founder and CEO of Bloom Energy *Lisa Su, president and CEO of Advanced Micro Devices *Raj Subramaniam, president and CEO of FedEx *Anjali Sud, CEO of Vimeo *David Sun (businessman), David Sun, billionaire Taiwanese American co-founder of Kingston Technology *Rajeev Suri, CEO of Nokia *Sehat Sutardja, CEO of Marvell Technology Group *Sonia Syngal, CEO of Gap Inc. *Lip-Bu Tan, president and CEO of Cadence Design Systems *Wayne Ting, CEO of Lime (transportation company), Lime *Janie Tsao, co-founder of Linksys *Victor Tsao, co-founder of Linksys *Greg Tseng, co-founder of Tagged (website), Tagged *Kevin Tsujihara, chairman and CEO of Warner Bros. *John Tu, billionaire Taiwanese American co-founder of Kingston Technologies *Jayshree Ullal, CEO of Arista Networks *Romesh T. Wadhwani, billionaire founder of Symphony Technology Group *An Wang, founder of Wang Laboratories *Charles B. Wang, co-founder and former CEO of Computer Associates International, Inc. *Niniane Wang, technology executive *Roger Wang, billionaire founder chairman of Golden Eagle International Group *William Wang, billionaire Taiwanese American co-founder and CEO of Vizio *Padmasree Warrior, CEO of Fable and former CTO of Cisco and Motorola *Andrea Wong, president and CEO of Lifetime Networks *Yishan Wong, former CEO of Reddit *Sheryl WuDunn, won Pulitzer Prize at The New York Times in 1990; currently, an investment banker *Jeff Yang, co-founded A Magazine in 1989 and is a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. *Jerry Yang (entrepreneur), Jerry Yang, Taiwanese American billionaire and co-founder and former CEO of Yahoo! *Bing Yeh, co-founder of Silicon Storage Technology, acquired by Microchip Technology and Greenliant Systems *Gideon Yu, co-owner of San Francisco 49ers and former CFO of Facebook and YouTube *Eric S. Yuan, billionaire founder and CEO of Zoom Video Communications, founding engineer at Webex, Ranked No. 1 of Top CEOs in 2018 of a large company on Glassdoor *Min Zhu (entrepreneur), Min Zhu, co-founder and former president and chief technical officer of WebEx. *Sheila Lirio Marcelo, founder and former CEO and chairwoman of Care.com.


Entertainment

*Ruben A. Aquino, animation director, supervising animator for Walt Disney Animation Studios *Chang and Eng Bunker, (the source for the term "Siamese Twins") *Ping Chong, theater director, choreographer, video and installation artist *Shin Lim, close-up magician *Alain Nu, mentalist, magician


Actors and filmmakers

*Keiko Agena, actress, ''Gilmore Girls'' *Philip Ahn, actor often considered the first Korean Americans, Korean American in Hollywood *Aubrey Anderson-Emmons, actress, Modern Family *Aziz Ansari, actor and comedian, ''Human Giant'' and ''Parks and Recreation'': Television series ''Funny People'' and ''I Love You, Man'': Films *Lulu Antariksa, actress *Devon Aoki, actress and model *Tsuru Aoki (1892–1961), actress *Gregg Araki, filmmaker, ''Mysterious Skin'', ''The Doom Generation'' *Geoffrey Arend, actor, ''Body of Proof'' *Ashley Argota, actress, ''True Jackson, VP'' *Reiko Aylesworth, actress, ''24 (TV series), 24'' *Chloe Bennet (née Wang), actress, ''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'' singer *Kayla Blake, actress *Moon Bloodgood, actress *Johnny Yong Bosch, actor *Dante Basco, actor, poet, dancer, ''Hook (film), Hook'', ''The Debut (2001 film), The Debut'', ''Biker Boyz'' and ''Take the Lead'' *Dion Basco, actor, ''The Debut (2001 film), The Debut'', ''Biker Boyz'' and ''City Guys'' *Ross Butler (actor), Ross Butler, actor *Eric Byler, filmmaker *Steve Byrne, comedian and actor *Dean Cain, actor *David Callaham, screenwriter, producer *Tia Carrere, actress and singer, ''Relic Hunter'', ''Wayne's World (film), Wayne's World'' and ''Wayne's World 2'' *Christina Chang, actress *Katie Chang, actress, ''The Bling Ring'' *Wah Chang, prop designer, famous for designing the original ''Star Trek'' Communicator (Star Trek), communicator and phasers *Rosalind Chao, actress *François Chau, actor *Joan Chen, actress, director *Lynn Chen, actress *Tina Chen, actress *Karin Anna Cheung, actress *Richard Chew, Academy Award-winning film editor *Ronny Chieng, comedian and actor, ''The Daily Show'' *Arden Cho, actress (''Teen Wolf (2011 TV series), Teen Wolf''), YouTuber, model, singer *Henry Cho, comedian *John Cho, actor, ''FlashForward'', ''Selfie (TV series), Selfie'', ''Better Luck Tomorrow'', ''Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle'', ''Star Trek (film), Star Trek'' *Margaret Cho, actress and comedian *Kenneth Choi, actor *Justin Chon, actor *Kelsey Chow, actress *Jamie Chung, actress *Peter Chung, animator, ''Æon Flux, Aeon Flux'' *Michael Copon, actor *Eugene Cordero, actor *Billy Crawford, actor, host television *Destin Daniel Cretton, film director, screenwriter, producer, editor (''Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings'') *Darren Criss, actor and singer *Tom Cross (film editor), Tom Cross, Academy Award-winning film editor (for ''Whiplash (2014 film), Whiplash'') *Jake Cuenca, actor, model *Mark Dacascos, actor, of the Crying Freeman and the "Chairman" from Iron Chef America *Noureen DeWulf, actress, Starred in an Academy Award-winning short film *Ivan Dorschner, actor, model *James Duval, actor *Dayyan Eng, director, writer, producer (''Bus 44'', ''Waiting Alone'', ''Inseparable (film), Inseparable'') *Yvonne Elliman, singer *Roger Fan, actor *Nargis Fakhri, actress and model *Raja Fenske, actor *Janina Gavankar, actress *Kimiko Glenn, actress *Griffin Gluck, actor *Mark-Paul Gosselaar, actor, ''Saved by the Bell'' and ''NYPD Blue'' *Cynthia Gouw, actress, ''Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Star Trek V-The Final Frontier'' *Rene Gube, writer and actor *Todd Haberkorn, voice actor *Kayo Hatta (1958–2005), filmmaker *Sessue Hayakawa (1889–1973), Academy Award-nominated actor *Daniel Henney, actor in South Korea, ''X-Men Origins: Wolverine'' *Ryan Higa, YouTube personality *Steven Ho (martial artist), Steven Ho, stuntman, stunt coordinator, fight choreographer *James Hong, actor *James Wong Howe (1899–1976), two-time-Academy Award-winning cinematographer *Tiffany Ann Hsu, actress *Kelly Hu, actress *Tina Huang, stage and television actress *Vanessa Anne Hudgens, actress and singer *David Henry Hwang, Tony Award, Tony-winning playwright *Robert Ito, classic movie actor *Ken Jeong, comedian, actor, physician, ''The Hangover (film), The Hangover'' and ''Community (TV series), Community'' *Malese Jow, actress and singer *Rodney Kageyama, actor *Mindy Kaling, actress, writer, producer, ''The Office (U.S. TV series), The Office'' *Michael Kang (director), Michael Kang, filmmaker *Sung Kang, actor, ''Better Luck Tomorrow'' and ''Fast & Furious'' *Tim Kang, actor, ''The Mentalist'' *Ravi Kapoor, actor, ''Crossing Jordan'' *Archie Kao, actor, ''Power Rangers Lost Galaxy'' and ''CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI'' *Janice Kawaye, voice actress *Dai Sil Kim-Gibson, documentary filmmaker *Daniel Dae Kim, actor, ''Lost (TV series), Lost'' and ''Hawaii Five-0 (2010 TV series), Hawaii Five-0'' *Randall Duk Kim, actor *Matthew Yang King, actor and voice actor *Zach King, internet personality *Hayley Kiyoko, actress *Alex Ko, actor and filmmaker, ''Billy Elliot the Musical '' and ''The Yellow Dress'' *Jo Koy, comedian *Shin Koyamada, actor, ''The Last Samurai'' and ''Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior'' *Lance Krall, actor and comedian *Michelle Krusiec, actress *Nancy Kwan, actress *Jennie Kwan, actress, ''California Dreams'' *Liza Lapira, actress *Cung Le, kickboxer, martial artist, and actor *Sharon Leal, actress, ''Guiding Light'' and ''Boston Public'' *Ang Lee, filmmaker and director, ''Brokeback Mountain'', ''Hulk (film), Hulk'', ''Eat Drink Man Woman'', ''Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon'' *Bobby Lee, comedian and actor, ''MADtv'' and ''Reservation Dogs'' and ''Tiger Belly Podcast'' and ''Bad Friends Podcast'' *Brandon Lee (1965–1993), actor, son of Bruce Lee *Bruce Lee (1940–1973), martial arts superstar *Chris Chan Lee, filmmaker *C. S. Lee, actor, ''Dexter (TV series), Dexter'' *James Kyson Lee, actor, ''Heroes (U.S. TV series), Heroes'' *Jason Scott Lee, actor *Ki Hong Lee, actor, ''The Maze Runner (film), The Maze Runner'', ''Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt'', ''Everything Before Us'' *Shannon Lee, actress, daughter of Bruce Lee *Lee Tung Foo, Vaudeville performer and actor *Will Yun Lee, actor, ''Witchblade (U.S. TV series), Witchblade'' and ''Bionic Woman (2007 TV series), Bionic Woman'' *Ken Leung, actor, ''Lost (TV series), Lost'', ''Shanghai Kiss'' and ''Star Wars: The Force Awakens'' *Matthew Libatique, Academy Award, Oscar-nominated cinematographer *Tiffany Limos, actress *Justin Lin, filmmaker, ''The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift'', ''Fast & Furious'', ''Fast Five'', ''Fast & Furious 6'' *Tao Lin, novelist and poet *Bai Ling, actress *Julia Ling, actress, ''Chuck (TV series), Chuck'' *Lucy Liu, Chinese/American actress *Mako (actor), Mako (1933–2006) Academy Award- and Tony Award-nominated actor, founder of East West Players *Aasif Mandvi, actor and comedian, ''The Daily Show'' *Dhar Mann, entrepreneur and YouTube personality *Marie Matiko, actress *Nobu McCarthy (1934–2002), actress *Mei Melancon, actress, writer and producer *Charles Melton (actor), Charles Melton, actor *Sam Milby, actor singer *Hasan Minhaj, actor, comedian, TV host *Vanessa Minnillo *Shay Mitchell, actress *Matthew Moy, comedian, actor, artist *Robert A. Nakamura, pioneering filmmaker, teacher, co-founder of Visual Communications (VC) *Aparna Nancherla, actress *Kumail Nanjiani, comedian and actor, ''Franklin & Bash'' *Minae Noji, actress, ''General Hospital'' *Paolo Montalban, actor of Filipino descent *Pat Morita (1932–2005), comedian and Academy Award-nominated actor best known for work on ''Happy Days'' and ''The Karate Kid (1984 film), The Karate Kid'' *Olivia Munn, actress, model and television personality *Haing Ngor, Dr. Haing S. Ngor (1940–1996) won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1985. *Dustin Nguyen, actor, ''21 Jump Street'' and ''V.I.P. (American TV series), V.I.P.'' *Qui Nguyen, playwright, television writer, and screenwriter *Steve Nguyen, film producer *Julia Nickson-Soul, Julia Nickson, actress *Eva Noblezada, actress, singer *Rahsaan Noor, actor and filmmaker, ''Bengali Beauty'' *Sandra Oh, actress, ''Grey's Anatomy'' *Masi Oka, actor *Yuji Okumoto, actor, ''The Karate Kid Part II'' and ''Johnny Tsunami'', writer and producer *Lisa Onodera, film producer *Maulik Pancholy, actor, ''Weeds (TV series), Weeds'' and ''30 Rock'' *Grace Park (actress), Grace Park, actress, ''Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series), Battlestar Galactica'', ''Edgemont (TV series), Edgemont'', and ''Hawaii Five-0 (2010 TV series), Hawaii Five-0'' *Linda Park, actress, ''Star Trek: Enterprise'' *Randall Park, actor, comedian and writer, ''Fresh Off the Boat'', ''The Interview'' and ''Everything Before Us'' *Steve Park (comedian), Steve Park, actor and comedian *Janel Parrish, actress and singer *Kal Penn, actor, ''Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle'' *Dat Phan, comedian, winner of the first season of Last Comic Standing *Ryan Potter, actor *Danny Pudi, actor, ''Community (TV series), Community'' *Lou Diamond Phillips, actor *Lindsay Price, actress *Maggie Q, actress *Ke Huy Quan, actor *Sendhil Ramamurthy, actor, ''Heroes (U.S. TV series), Heroes'' *Navi Rawat, actress, ''Numbers (TV series), Numbers'' and ''The O.C.'' *Keanu Reeves, actor and philanthropist *Ernie Reyes Jr., actor and martial arts expert *Rob Schneider, actor and comedian *Parry Shen, actor *Sheetal Sheth, actress *James Shigeta, actor *Sab Shimono, actor *Zenobia Shroff, actress and comedienne *Harry Shum Jr., actor *Shannyn Sossamon, actress *Brenda Song, actress *Sonja Sohn, actress, ''The Wire'' *Jack Soo, actor *Booboo Stewart, actor *Jiaoying Summers, comedian and actress *Pat Suzuki, actress and singer *Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, actor *Faran Tahir, actor *George Takei, actor of ''Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek'' fame, LGBT activist *Chris Tashima, actor, Academy Award-winning filmmaker *Brian Tee, actor, '' Chicago Med'' *Jennifer Tilly, actress (born in California) *Meg Tilly, actress *Chuti Tiu, actress, ''Desire (TV series), Desire'', ''24 (TV series), 24'', ''Dragnet (franchise), Dragnet'', ''Beautiful (2000 film), Beautiful'', ''The Specials'', former America's Junior Miss (first non-White winner) *Tamlyn Tomita, actress *Lauren Tom, voice actress *Kelly Marie Tran, Star Wars actress *Thalia Tran, actress *Thuy Trang, actress, ''Mighty Morphin Power Rangers'' (1973–2001) *Daisuke Tsuji, actor *Miyoshi Umeki, Oscar-winning actress and singer *Jenna Ushkowitz, actress *Dilshad Vadsaria, actress, ''Greek (TV series), Greek'' *Daya Vaidya, actress *Bee Vang, actor *Lalaine, Lalaine Vergara-Paras, actress and singer, ''Lizzie McGuire'' *Garrett Wang (王以瞻), actor on ''Star Trek: Voyager'' *Lulu Wang (filmmaker), Lulu Wang, filmmaker *Wayne Wang, film director, ''The Joy Luck Club (film), The Joy Luck Club'' *Belle Knox, Miriam Weeks, pornographic actress *Ming-Na Wen, actress ''ER (TV series), ER'', ''Stargate Universe'' and ''As the World Turns'' *Anna May Wong (1905–1961), actress *BD Wong, Tony Award-winning actor, ''Oz (TV series), Oz'' and ''Law and Order: Special Victims Unit'' *Freddie Wong, filmmaker, musician, VFX artist, podcaster, and competitive gamer *Jimmy Wong, actor and musician *Russell Wong (王盛德), actor *Victor Wong (actor born 1927), Victor Wong (黃自強), Hollywood actor *Alice Wu, filmmaker *Constance Wu, Taiwanese American actress, ''Fresh Off the Boat'' and ''Crazy Rich Asians (franchise), Crazy Rich Asians'' *Daniel Wu, actor, director and producer, ''Into the Badlands (TV series), Into the Badlands'' and ''Europa Report'' *KevJumba, Kevin Wu, YouTube personality *Leonard Wu, actor *Steven Yeun, actor, ''The Walking Dead (TV series), The Walking Dead'' *Aaron Yoo, actor, ''21 (2008 film), 21'' and ''Everything Before Us'' *Keone Young, actor and voice actor *Jessica Yu, Oscar-winning film director *Kelvin Yu, actor and writer *Ron Yuan, actor and voice actor *Rick Yune, actor *Asa Akira, pornographic actress


Choreographers and dancers

*Stella Abrera, ballerina *Dana Tai Soon Burgess, cultural figure, choreographer, performance artist *Carrie Ann Inaba, dancer, choreographer *Michio Itō, choreographer *Sono Osato (1919–2018), ballerina


Music

* Keshi (singer), Keshi, lofi, hiphop, R&B, alternative, singer/songwriter/producer/instrumentalist *Jhené Aiko, singer-songwriter *Toshiko Akiyoshi, jazz pianist, composer/arranger, and bandleader *Nadia Ali (singer), Nadia Ali, member of music group iiO (dance group), iiO *Tatyana Ali, Indo-Trinidadian singer and actress *Paul Anka, singer-songwriter *Steve Aoki electro house, musician, record producer and the founder of Dim Mak Records *Sameer Bhattacharya, guitarist in the Texas alternative rock band Flyleaf (band), Flyleaf *Michelle Branch, singer-songwriter *Southstar, Robert Campman, hip hop artist *Angelin Chang, Grammy Award-winning pianist and renown music professor *Jeff Chang (journalist), Jeff Chang, music critic and historian of hip-hop culture *Traphik, Tim Chantarangsu, rapper, comedian, and videographer *China Mac, rapper and activist *Cool Calm Pete, Peter Chung, rapper and producer *Jocelyn Enriquez *Dia Frampton, former Meg & Dia singer *Ming Freeman, keyboardist/pianist *Lisa Furukawa, Japanese-American folk singer, songwriter, and pianist *Midori Gotō, classical violinist and recipient of the Avery Fisher Prize *Sameer Gadhia, lead singer of Young the Giant *Joseph Hahn, DJ in Linkin Park *Kirk Hammett, lead guitarist of Metallica *Matt Heafy, guitarist and vocal of band Trivium (band), Trivium *Nichkhun Horvejkul, member of South Korean boy group 2PM *Magdalen Hsu-Li, out bisexual Chinese American singer-songwriter recording artist, poet and artist. *Chad Hugo, musician and producer, member of The Neptunes and N.E.R.D. *Hao Huang (pianist), pianist and professor at Scripps College *William Hung, contestant from American Idol *Tiffany Hwang, Korean American member of girl group Girls' Generation, SNSD. *Illmind, Ramon Ibanga, Jr., hip hop producer *Enrique Iglesias, mother, Isabel Preysler, is Filipino *James Iha, formerly the guitarist of The Smashing Pumpkins *Vijay Iyer, pianist *Jon Jang, jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader *Clarence Jey, Grammy, Billboard credited songwriter, record producer *MC Jin, pioneer in the Asian-American hip-hop scene *Norah Jones, musician, Grammy Award winner, daughter of Ravi Shankar. *Jessica Jung, Korean American member of girl group Girls' Generation, SNSD. *Krystal Jung, member of South Korean girl group f(x) (band), f(x) *Nicole Jung, member of South Korean girl group Kara (South Korean band), KARA *CHOPS, Scott Jung, (Also known as The Magnificent Butcher) hip hop producer, rapper *Tony Kanal, Two-time Grammy Award winner, bass player for No Doubt. *Michael Kang (musician), mandolin player, violinist, and vocalist for String Cheese Incident, is South Korean. *Jeff Kashiwa, smooth jazz saxophonist *Natalise, Natalise Kalea, Burmese-Chinese singer *Denizen Kane, Dennis Kim, underground rapper and spoken word artist *Eli Kim, member of South Korean boy group U-KISS *Siddhartha Khosla, lead singer of Goldspot *Raja Kumari, singer, rapper and songwriter *Sunny (singer), Sunny Lee, Korean Americans, Korean American member of girl group Girls' Generation, SNSD *Amber Liu (singer), Amber Josephine Liu, member of South Korean girl group f(x) (band), f(x) *Awkwafina, Nora Lum, rapper known as Awkwafina *Yo-Yo Ma, renowned cellist *Baiyu (singer), Baiyu, singer-songwriter *Bruno Mars, singer-songwriter music producer *Nancy (singer), Nancy McDonie, member of girl group Momoland *Zubin Mehta, conductor, New York Philharmonic Orchestra *Nicki Minaj, Indo-Trinidadian rap artist *Charles Mingus, jazz double bassist, composer, band leader *Dan the Automator, Daniel Nakamura, hip hop producer and founder of 75 Ark *Eric Nam, Korean-American singer, active in South Korea under B2M Entertainment. *Martin Nievera, singer-songwriter and TV host *Justin Nozuka, singer-songwriter *Karen O, singer of Yeah Yeah Yeahs *Kero One, hip hop MC and producer *Seiji Ozawa, Boston Symphony Conductor *Will Pan, singer-songwriter *Jay Park, Korean-American singer, rapper, bboy & actor. Also famous in South Korea as the former leader of South Korean boyband 2 pm. *Dumbfoundead, Jonathan Park, rapper and actor *Lena Park, composer, singer-songwriter *Mike Park, was the singer of Skankin Pickle and currently runs Asian Man Records *apl.de.ap, Allan Pineda (Lindo) of The Black Eyed Peas *DJ Qbert, Richard Quitevis, turntablist and composer *A. R. Rahman, Grammy Award-winning composer/arranger, songwriter, and music producer *Larry Ramos, guitarist, banjo player, and vocalist with the 1960s American pop band the Association. *Mike Relm, scratch video DJ who has toured with the Blue Man Group *Olivia Rodrigo, singer-songwriter and actress *Amerie, Amerie Mi Marie Rogers, R&B/pop singer *Kelis, Kelis Rogers, R&B singer *Nicole Scherzinger, singer and former member of The Pussycat Dolls. *Laura Shigihara, singer, songwriter, and programmer *Shing02, recording artist known as Shingo Annen *Mike Shinoda co-founder of Linkin Park *Ne-Yo, Shaffer Chimere Smith, R&B singer-songwriter, and actor *Rajé Shwari, singer *Tyga, Michael Stevenson, rapper *Vienna Teng, folk and pop singer-songwriter *Kim Thayil, guitarist for Grammy Award-winning rock group Soundgarden *Mark Tuan, member of South Korean boyband Got7 *Hikaru Utada, Japanese-American singer-songwriter active in both Japan and United States; her single Devil Inside (Hikaru Utada song), Devil Inside topped the U.S. Billboard Dance Chart. *Alex Van Halen, Alex and Eddie Van Halen, members of rock band Van Halen, whose mother was of Indonesian ancestry *Cassie (singer), Casandra Ventura, R&B singer *Only Won, rapper, beatboxer, actor, filmmaker (first bilingual Chinese American rapper) *Kevin Woo, member of South Korean boy group U-KISS *Vanness Wu, singer-songwriter & rapper *Catalina Yue, Chinese-Japanese-American pop singer-songwriter *Ex-plicit linez, Brandon Jermaine Yun, rapper and former radio personality *Joanna Wang, singer-songwriter *Leehom Wang, Taiwanese American singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor *H.E.R., Gabriella Sarmiento Wilson, singer-songwriter *Shawn Wasabi, producer and electronic instrument designer


Groups/bands

*Aziatix, R&B, pop, soul, hip hop group *Blue Scholars *Far East Movement, first Asian-American group to be in the Top 10 in Mainstream Pop charts *Fort Minor *IAMMEDIC *KeyKool & DJ Rhettmatic, pioneer Asian American hip hop group *Mountain Brothers, hip hop group *Paperdoll (band), Paperdoll, indie band from NYC fronted by Asian American Teresa Lee *Royal Pirates, Korean-American rock band *The Slants, first all Asian American dance rock band/victors in a major U.S. Supreme Court case


Reality TV participants

* Natalie and Nadiya Anderson, Natalie Anderson – ''The Amazing Race (American TV series), The Amazing Race'' contestant and ''Survivor: San Juan del Sur'' winner * Natalie and Nadiya Anderson, Nadiya Anderson – ''The Amazing Race (American TV series), The Amazing Race'' and ''Survivor: San Juan del Sur'' contestant * Raj Bhakta – ''The Apprentice (U.S. Season 2), The Apprentice 2'' contestant * Yau-Man Chan – ''Survivor: Fiji'' contestant * Jamie Chung – house mate on MTV's ''The Real World: San Diego''. * Catherine Lowe, Catherine Giudici – The Bachelor (season 17), ''The Bachelor'' (season 17) winner * Christine Ha – ''MasterChef (U.S. TV series), MasterChef'' MasterChef (U.S. season 3), season 3 winner * Angelica Hale – America's Got Talent (season 12), ''America's Got Talent'' (season 12) runner-up * Maria Ho – ''The Amazing Race 15'' contestant * Ken Hoang – ''Survivor: Gabon'' contestant. * James Holzhauer – ''Jeopardy!'' champion. Holzhauer's grandmother was Japanese. * Hung Huynh – Top Chef (season 3), ''Top Chef'' (season 3) winner * Jabbawockeez – Winners of America's Best Dance Crew (season 1), ''America's Best Dance Crew'' (season 1) * Tammy Jih, Tammy and Victor Jih – winners of ''The Amazing Race 14'' * Zach King – ''The Amazing Race 28'' * Kristen Kish – Top Chef (season 11), ''Top Chef'' (season 11) winner * Yul Kwon – ''Survivor: Cook Islands'' winner * Kodi Lee – ''America's Got Talent'' (season 14) winner * Sanjaya Malakar – American Idol (season 6), ''American Idol'' (season 6) finalist * Poreotics – Winners of America's Best Dance Crew (season 5), ''America's Best Dance Crew'' (season 5) * Quest Crew – Winners of America's Best Dance Crew (Season 3), ''America's Best Dance Crew'' (season 3) * Jessica Sanchez – American Idol (season 11), ''American Idol'' (season 11) runner up * James Sun – ''The Apprentice (U.S. season 6), The Apprentice 6'' runner-up * Tila Tequila – ''A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila'' star * Jasmine Trias – American Idol (season 3), ''American Idol'' (season 3) finalist * Elyse Umemoto – ''Survivor: South Pacific'' contestant * KevJumba, Kevin Wu – ''The Amazing Race 17'' contestant *Albert Tsai, American actor *Ian Chen (actor), Ian Chen,American actor


Fashion

*Tyson Beckford, model and actor *Malan Breton, fashion designer *Richard Chai, fashion designer *Angel Chang, fashion designer *Wenlan Chia, fashion designer *Doug Chiang, movie design and fashion designer *Monika Chiang, fashion designer *Jimmy Choo, fashion designer and founder of Jimmy Choo Ltd *Doo-Ri Chung, fashion designer *Chloe Dao, fashion designer and winner of Project Runway (season 2) *Diana Eng, fashion designer and contestant on Project Runway (season 2) *Kerenina Sunny Halim, Karenina Sunny Halim, model *Joe Allen Hong, fashion designer for Neiman Marcus *Chanel Iman, supermodel with Korean and African American descent *Jen Kao, fashion designer *Naeem Khan, fashion designer *Derek Lam, fashion designer *Humberto Leon and Carol Lim, fashion designers and retailers *Phillip Lim, fashion designer *Monique Lhuillier, fashion designer *Jay Manuel, creative director and make-up artist *Kelsey Merritt, fashion model *Josie Natori, fashion designer *Staple Design, Jeff Ng, fashion designer and creator of Staple Design *Mary Ping, fashion designer *Cynthia Sakai, fashion designer *Kimora Lee Simmons, supermodel with Japanese and African American descent *Peter Som, fashion designer *Anna Sui, fashion designer *Vivienne Tam, fashion designer *Chrissy Teigen, model, TV host *Alexander Wang (designer), Alexander Wang, fashion designer *Vera Wang, fashion designer *Jason Wu, fashion designer *Luly Yang, fashion designer *Prabal Gurung, fashion designer


Culinary

* David Chang, founder of the Momofuku restaurant group and in multiple television shows * Joyce Chen (chef), Joyce Chen, popularized northern-style Chinese cuisine in the United States * Cecilia Chiang (江孫芸), founder of the Mandarin Restaurant. Chiang's son, Philip Chiang, is the co-founder of restaurant chain P. F. Chang's China Bistro * Roy Choi, creator of the gourmet Korean taco truck, Kogi *Cristeta Comerford, White House Executive Chef, won with Bobby Flay in an Iron Chef America challenge * Soleil Ho, chef, food writer, host of podcast "The Racist Sandwich", and restaurant critic * Eddie Huang, chef and author of Fresh Off the Boat * Madhur Jaffrey, James Beard award-winning food and travel writer, and television personality * Padma Lakshmi, cookbook author and host of Top Chef and Host of "Taste the Nation with Padma Lakshmi" * Francis Lam, host of The Splendid Table and food journalist * Emily Kim, creator and host of popular YouTube channel Maangchi, teaching Korean cooking * Niki Nakayama, chef and owner of Michelin-starred n/naka restaurant * Jet Tila, celebrity chef and restaurateur and guest on “Cutthroat Kitchen” * Ming Asai (蔡明), chef and restaurateur (Blue Ginger); host of Emmy Award-winning television show ''East Meets West'' * Roy Yamaguchi, owner of Roy's Restaurants * Martin Yan, chef and food writer, hosted his award-winning PBS-TV cooking show Yan Can Cook since 1982 * Jennifer Yee, award-winning, James Beard, nominated pastry chef * Molly Yeh, cookbook author and blogger


Law

*Preeta D. Bansal, Solicitor General for the State of New York (1999–2002). *Norman Bay, United States Attorney, U.S. Attorney for the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico, District of New Mexico (2000–2002), and the first Chinese-American to hold such a U.S. Attorney position. *Morgan Chu, prominent litigator and former Managing Partner of Irell & Manella. *Viet D. Dinh, United States Assistant Attorney General and a key drafter of what became the USA PATRIOT Act. *Heather Fong, chief of police of San Francisco Police Department, and the first Asian American woman to head a major metropolitan police department. *Noel Francisco, 47th Solicitor General of the United States *Judge.James C. Ho, lawyer, Juris Doctor of Texas general judge on Texas appeal & for Texas judge weddings permition *Robert K. Hur, current U.S. Attorney for the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, District of Maryland. *Todd Kim, first Solicitor General for the District of Columbia. *Harold Hongju Koh, dean of Yale Law School (July 1, 2004 – March 23, 2009). *Arsalan Iftikhar, international human rights lawyer, founder o
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*Lance Ito, judge in the OJ Simpson trial. *Yuri Kochiyama, civil rights activist. *Fred Korematsu, prominent resister of Japanese American internment. *Carol Lam, U.S. Attorney for the United States District Court for the Southern District of California, Southern District of California (2002–2007) *David Lat, attorney and blogger for the sites "Underneath Their Robes" and "Above the Law." *William F. Lee, co-managing partner of the international law firm of WilmerHale. *Jessie K. Liu, current U.S. Attorney for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, District of Columbia *Dale Minami, attorney who helped reverse Fred Korematsu's criminal conviction. *Paul Tanaka, former mayor of Gardena, California and undersheriff of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. *Rachel Paulose, U.S. Attorney for the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota, District of Minnesota. She is the first Indian American woman, the youngest attorney, and the first woman in Minnesota to hold this post. *Simon Tam (musician), Simon Tam, author, activist, and founder of The Slants; litigant in Matal v. Tam. *Mary Tape, desegregation activist who fought for Chinese-Americans' access to education, notably in the case Tape v. Hurley in 1885. *Frank H. Wu, distinguished professor and chancellor & dean of University of California, Hastings College of the Law, UC Hastings; dean of Wayne State University Law School. *Bruce Yamashita, attorney and U.S. Marine Corps officer who worked to expose racial discrimination within the Corps. *Debra Wong Yang, U.S. Attorney for the United States District Court for the Central District of California, Central District of California, and the first Asian American female to serve as a U.S. Attorney. *Minoru Yasui, World War II-era lawyer who fought the legality of the incarceration of Japanese Americans during the war. Posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015.


Literature

* Alfredo Alcala – Filipino comic book artist. * Peter Bacho – author of the American Book Award-winning novel Cebu (novel), Cebu * Lynda Barry – cartoonist of partial Filipino descent, most known for ''Ernie Pook's Comeek'' and ''Marlys'', published in Salon.com and other independent papers. * Carlos Bulosan – author, "America Is In the Heart." * Regie Cabico – notable slam poet and performer * Jorge Cham – author of PhD Comics * Ernie Chan – comic book artist/inker for Marvel Comics and DC Comics. * Eileen Chang – writer * Lan Samantha Chang – writer; director of the Iowa Writer's Workshop * Cherry Chevapravatdumrong – writer, ''Family Guy'' * Frank Chin (趙健秀) – novelist, playwright, and essayist * Kah Kyung Cho – philosopher at SUNY University * Amy Chua – writer and Harvard professor * Melissa de la Cruz – author of teen lit series Au Pairs (series), Au Pairs, The Ashleys and Blue Bloods (series), Blue Bloods * Tony DeZuniga – co-creator of Jonah Hex * Ben Fee – writer and labor organizer * Don Figueroa – comic book artist for IDW Publishing and Dreamwave Entertainment, working on various ''List of Transformers comic books#Dreamwave Productions, Transformers'' titles. * Larry Hama – comic book writer for Marvel Comics, Marvel, DC Comics, DC, IDW Publishing, creator of G.I. Joe filecards. * Tanuja Desai Hidier – author of Born Confused * David Henry Hwang (黃哲倫) – playwright * Lawson Fusao Inada - poet, winner of the American Book Award and former poet laureate of Oregon * Gish Jen – writer, novelist * Ha Jin – novelist, winner of the National Book Award for "Waiting" * Cynthia Kadohata - author of children's books, recipient of the Newbery Medal (2005) and National Book Award for Young People's Literature (2013) * Rafael Kayanan – Comics artist, TV writer and master level instructor in Sayoc Kali. *
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– philosopher at Brown University * Maxine Hong Kingston – writer, novelist, recipient of the 2008 National Book Foundation's National Book Award#Medal for Distinguished Contribution (lifetime), Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters * Jean Kwok – writer, novelist * Jhumpa Lahiri – Pulitzer Prize-winning author * Gus Lee (李健孫) – writer * Jim Lee – DC Comics writer, artist, editor and publisher * Huping Ling – history professor, award-winning author, Executive Editor for the Journal of Asian American Studies * Bette Bao Lord (包柏漪) – writer, novelist * David Wong Louie – writer * Adeline Yen Mah (馬嚴君玲) – author and physician * Nick Manabat – creator of Cybernary, comic book artist for Wildstorm Productions * Gary R. Mar – philosopher at Stony Brook University * William Marr (馬為義, 非馬) – engineer, poet, translator, and artist * Janice Mirikitani - former poet laureate for San Francisco * Kenn Navarro – animator of cartoon ''Happy Tree Friends'' * Aimee Nezhukumatathil – award-winning poet and professor * Han Ong – playwright and author; recipient of MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant. * Pai Hsien-yung – Chinese Muslim writer * Linda Sue Park – American-born author; winner of the 2002 Newbery Medal for ''A Single Shard'' * Whilce Portacio – created Bishop (comics), Bishop of the X-Men, co-founder of Image Comics. * Randy Romero – writer * Albert Saijo – poet * Saumitra Saxena – award-winning poet in the modern Indian history. Graduated from Indian Institute of Technology and received his PhD from the University of Illinois at Chicago. * Lisa See – writer * T. K. Seung – philosopher and literary critic at University of Texas, Austin * Kamila Shamsie – award-winning novelist of books such as Salt and Saffron and Broken Verses. * Eileen Tabios – poet. * Ronald Takaki – was an academic, historian, ethnographer and author and recipient of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in 1994 * Amy Tan – best-selling author of ''The Joy Luck Club (novel), The Joy Luck Club'', ''The Bonesetter's Daughter'', ''The Kitchen God's Wife'', etc. * Romeo Tanghal – comic book artist. * Bryan Thao Worra – award-winning Lao American writer, 1st Lao American NEA Fellow in Literature. * Alex Tizon – Pulitzer Prize winner. * Dr. Abraham Verghese – noted Doctor and Author; ''In My Own Country'' and ''My Tennis Partner'' * Jose Garcia Villa – poet, writer, generationalist; pre-Beat Generation influence. * Raees Warsi – notable poet, author and TV anchor * Michi Weglyn - author and recipient of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in 1977 * Jade Snow Wong – writer * Shawn Wong – novelist, "Americanese" and "Homebase" * Timothy C. Wong (黃宗泰) – sinologist, translator, and literary theorist * Hisaye Yamamoto - short story writer, recipient of the American Book Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1986 * Karen Tei Yamashita - author and playwright, recipient of the 2021 National Book Foundation's National Book Award#Medal for Distinguished Contribution (lifetime), Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters * Gene Luen Yang – graphic novelist * Taro Yashima - author of children's books, recipient of the 1955 Josette Frank Award, Children's Book Award * Laurence Yep (叶祥添) – author of children's books * Charles Yu - novelist and winner of the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction#2020 to 2029, National Book Award for Fiction * Connie Young Yu – writer and historian * Judy Yung – writer


Military


Individuals

* Leandro Aragoncillo – gunnery sergeant, U.S. Marine Corps. Convicted of spying against the United States Government * Raquel C. Bono – rear admiral (lower half), U.S. Navy. Command Surgeon, United States Pacific Command * Jose Calugas – Captain (U.S. Army)#U.S. Army, captain, U.S. Army. Medal of Honor recipient, World War II * Joseph Caravalho – Brigadier General (United States), brigadier general, U.S. Army. Commanding General, Brooke Army Medical Center * Ming Chang – Rear admiral (United States), rear admiral (upper half), United States Navy, U.S. Navy, retired. United States Department of the Navy, Department of Navy Inspector General#U.S. Military, Inspector General, 1987–1990 * Dan Choi – First Lieutenant#United States, first lieutenant, U.S. Army. LGBT rights in the United States, Gay rights advocate. * David S. C. Chu – captain, U.S. Army. Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness (2001–2008), President/CEO of the Institute for Defense Analyses * John M. Cho – brigadier general, U.S. Army. First Korean American general officer; former commander, Western Regional Medical Command * Gordon Pai'ea Chung-Hoon – rear admiral (upper half), U.S. Navy. First Asian American citizen graduate from United States Naval Academy; first Asian American flag officer * Anatolio B. Cruz – rear admiral (lower half), U.S. Navy. Deputy Commander, United States Fourth Fleet * Susan Ahn Cuddy – Lieutenant#Naval rank, lieutenant, U.S. Navy. First female Gunnery Officer in the navy * John R. D'Araujo Jr. – Major general (United States), major general, U.S. Army. First Filipino American to be promoted to a General Officer#All general officer ranks, general officer rank. Former Director of the Army National Guard Bureau. Former Director of the Recovery Division for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). * Rudolph Davila – first lieutenant, U.S. Army. Medal of Honor Recipient, World War II * John Fugh, John Liu Fugh – major general, U.S. Army, retired. First Chinese American officer to be promoted to a general officer rank in the United States Army; first Chinese American to serve as Judge Advocate General's Corps, United States Army#Judge Advocates General of the Army, Judge Advocate General of the Army * Barney F. Hajiro – Private 2, private, U.S. Army. Medal of Honor recipient in World War II * Harry B. Harris Jr. – Admiral (United States), admiral, U.S. Navy. First Asian American to achieve the rank of a four-star admiral. * Mikio Hasemoto – private, U.S. Army. Posthumous Medal of Honor recipient in World War II * Joe Hayashi – private, U.S. Army. Posthumous Medal of Honor recipient in World War II * Shizuya Hayashi – private, U.S. Army. Medal of Honor recipient in World War II * Oscar Hilman – brigadier general, U.S. Army, retired. * Daniel Inouye – captain, U.S. Army. United States Senate, Senator from Hawaii, Medal of Honor recipient World War II * Theodore Kanamine – United States Army brigadier general * Terry Teruo Kawamura – sergeant first class, U.S. Army. Posthumous Medal of Honor recipient in Vietnam War * Andrew Kim, former head of CIA's Korea Mission Center *Young-Oak Kim – Colonel (United States), colonel, U.S. Army. First ethnic minority to lead a U.S. Army Battalion * Yeiki Kobashigawa – Second Lieutenant#United States, second lieutenant, U.S. Army. Medal of Honor recipient in World War II * Wah Kau Kong – second lieutenant, United States Army Air Corps, U.S. Army Air Corps. First Chinese American fighter pilot * Alice K. Kurashige – captain, U.S. Marine Corps. First Japanese American woman to be commissioned in the United States Marine Corps * Robert T. Kuroda – Staff Sergeant#United States, staff sergeant, U.S. Army. Posthumous Medal of Honor recipient in World War II * Ben Kuroki – Technical Sergeant#United States Army, technical sergeant, U.S. Army Air Corps. Only Japanese American Army Air Force pilot to fly combat missions in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater, Pacific theater in World War II * Hazel Ying Lee (李月英) – civilian, Women Airforce Service Pilots, Women Airforce Service Pilot (WASP). First Chinese American woman to earn a pilot's license; flew for the United States Army Air Forces during World War II * Kurt Lee – major, US Marine Corps. First Asian American marine corps officer, Navy Cross recipient * Brian L. Losey – rear admiral (lower half), U.S. Navy. United States Navy SEALs, Navy SEAL, and Commander of SOCAFRICA, U.S. Special Operations Command, Africa (SOCAFRICA); Japanese American and first Asian American SEAL flag officer * Viet Luong – major general, U.S. Army. First Vietnam-born general officer. * Ron J. Maclaren – rear admiral (lower half), U.S. Navy. Director, Joint Contingency Acquisition Support Office; Filipino American * Eleanor Mariano – rear admiral (lower half), U.S. Navy, retired. First Filipino American to be promoted to a flag officer rank. Former White House Medical Unit, White House physician * Susan K. Mashiko – major general, U.S. Air Force * Roy Matsumoto – master sergeant, U.S. Army. Member of Merrill's Marauders, and an inductee of the U.S. Army Rangers Hall Of Fame and the Military Intelligence Corps Hall of Fame * Spark Matsunaga – captain, U.S. Army. Senator from Hawaii, 1977–1990 * Hiroshi Miyamura – staff sergeant, U.S. Army. Medal of Honor recipient in Korean War * Kenneth P. Moritsugu – rear admiral (upper half), Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, U.S. Public Health Service. Former acting Surgeon General of the United States * Kaoru Moto – Private First Class#United States, private first class, U.S. Army. Medal of Honor recipient in World War II * Sadao Munemori – private first class, U.S. Army. Posthumous Medal of Honor recipient in World War II * Kiyoshi K. Muranaga – private first class, U.S. Army. Posthumous Medal of Honor recipient in World War II * Michael K. Nagata – lieutenant general, U.S. Army * Masato Nakae – private first class, U.S. Army. Medal of Honor recipient in World War II * Shinyei Nakamine – private, U.S. Army. Posthumous Medal of Honor recipient in World War II * William K. Nakamura – private first class, U.S. Army. Posthumous Medal of Honor recipient in World War II * Paul M. Nakasone – U.S. Army four-star general, 3rd commander of the United States Cyber Command and 18th director of the National Security Agency * Joe M. Nishimoto – private first class, U.S. Army. Posthumous Medal of Honor recipient in World War II * José B. Nísperos – private, U.S. Army. First Asian American Medal of Honor recipient * Allan M. Ohata – captain, U.S. Army. Medal of Honor recipient in World War II * Fred Ohr – captain, U.S. Army Air Corps. To date, only Korean American fighter ace * James K. Okubo – technician fifth grade, U.S. Army. Posthumous Medal of Honor recipient in World War II * Yukio Okutsu – technical sergeant, U.S. Army. Medal of Honor recipient in World War II * Allen K. Ono – Lieutenant General (United States), lieutenant general, U.S. Army, retired. First Japanese American lieutenant general; first Asian American lieutenant general * Frank H. Ono – private first class, U.S. Army. Posthumous Medal of Honor recipient in World War II * Kazuo Otani – staff sergeant, U.S. Army. Posthumous Medal of Honor recipient in World War II * Quang X. Pham – major, U.S. Marine Corps. First Vietnamese American naval aviator. * Coral Wong Pietsch – brigadier general, United States Army Reserve, U.S. Army Reserve, retired. First female Asian American general officer in the US Army. * Eldon Regua – major general, U.S. Army Reserve. Commanding General, 75th Division (United States), 75th Division (BCTD). Only Filipino American general officer. * George T. Sakato – private, U.S. Army. Medal of Honor recipient in World War II * Eric Shinseki – General (United States), general, U.S. Army, retired. Chief of Staff of the United States Army, 1999–2003; Secretary of Veterans Affairs, 2009–present (). Highest-ranked Asian American, , to have served in the United States military * Elmelindo Rodrigues Smith – sergeant first class, U.S. Army. Posthumous Medal of Honor recipient in Vietnam War * Edward Soriano – lieutenant general, U.S. Army, retired. Former Commanding General of I Corps (United States), I Corps. Highest ranked Filipino American, , to have served in the United States military * Ramon S. Subejano – private first class, U.S. Army. Silver Star recipient in World War II * Benigno G. Tabora – Command Sergeant Major, sergeant major, U.S. Army. Purple Heart recipient, World War II * Antonio Taguba – major general, U.S. Army, retired. Author of the Taguba Report * Ted T. Tanouye – technical sergeant, U.S. Army. Posthumous Medal of Honor recipient in World War II * Sue Mi Terry, CIA intelligence analyst specializing in East Asia * Bhagat Singh Thind – private, U.S. Army. Enlisted in Army during World War I, was an acting Sergeant during training, honorably discharged at the end of the war. * Telesforo Trinidad – fireman Petty Officer Second Class, second class, U.S. Navy. Only Asian American naval recipient of the Medal of Honor * Eleanor Valentin – rear admiral (lower half), Medical Corps (United States Navy), Medical Corps, U.S. Navy. Commander, Naval Medical Support Command * Francis B. Wai – captain, U.S. Army. Only Chinese American to have been awarded the Medal of Honor * Ehren Watada – first lieutenant, U.S. Army. First officer Operation Iraqi Freedom Objector#Iraq War resisters, objector * Mun Charn Wong – Lieutenant colonel (United States), lieutenant colonel, United States Air Force, U.S. Air Force. Pilot, World War II * Ted Wong (general), Ted Wong – major general, U.S. Army. 26th chief of the U.S. Army Dental Corps * Bruce Yamashita – captain, United States Marine Corps Reserve, U.S. Marine Corps Reserves, retired. Worked to expose racial discrimination * Xiong Yan (dissident), Xiong Yan – captain, U.S. Army. Chaplain, former Chinese dissident * Rodney James Takashi Yano – sergeant first class, U.S. Army. Posthumous Medal of Honor recipient in Vietnam War * James Yee – captain, U.S. Army. Chaplain Corps (United States Army), Muslim Chaplain previously charged with Sedition * John C. Young – colonel, U.S. Army, combat liaison officer, China Burma India Theater, CBI, WWII


Foreign military service

* Arthur Chin (陳瑞鈿) – major, National Revolutionary Army. World War II pilot and Flying ace, fighter ace with Canton Provincial Air Force * Ma Dunjing (1910–2003), Ma Dunjing – major general, National Revolutionary Army. Hui people, Chinese Muslim immigrated to Los Angeles in the United States after retirement in 1950 * Ma Hongkui – lieutenant general, National Revolutionary Army. Chinese Muslim immigrated to Los Angeles in the United States after retirement in 1950 * Nobuaki Iwatake – conscript, Imperial Japanese Army. * Nguyễn Ngọc Loan – brigadier general, Army of the Republic of Vietnam. Subject of Eddie Adams (photographer)#Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph, Eddie Adam's photograph * Vang Pao, – major general, Royal Lao Army. Hmong Leader, commander of Central Intelligence Agency, CIA-supported Hmong forces during the Laotian Civil War * Ngo Quang Truong – lieutenant general, Army of the Republic of Vietnam. Author * Usman Zach Khattak – Private first class, is a Pakistani American serving in US military 539th transportation divisio


Units

* 1st Filipino Infantry Regiment (United States), 1st & 2nd Filipino Infantry Regiment (United States), 2nd Filipino Infantry Regiments – segregated units predominately Filipino American units of World War II ** 5217th Reconnaissance Battalion (United States), 5217th Reconnaissance Battalion – unit which drew soldiers from the 1st and 2nd Filipino Infantry Regiments for armed reconnaissance in the Philippines, and assisted Japanese occupation of the Philippines#Resistance, resistance efforts * 442nd Infantry Regiment (United States), 442nd Regimental Combat Team – highly decorated Asian American unit of World War II * Military Intelligence Service (United States), Military Intelligence Service – Unit primarily composed of Japanese-American linguists during World War II * Philippine Scouts – segregated Filipino American Army units from 1901 to 1946 ** Philippine Division (United States), 12th Infantry Division – division composed of Regular Army and Philippine Scouts soldiers from 1921 to 1947 ** 26th Cavalry Regiment (United States), 26th Cavalry Regiment – last U.S. cavalry regiment to engage in horse-mounted warfare * – Interwar period destroyer with a primarily Filipino American crew


News/media/journalism

* Guy Aoki – founder of Media Action Network for Asian Americans * Ben Calhoun – radio journalist at This American Life * Cher Calvin News Anchor * Jeff Chang (journalist), Jeff Chang – journalist, hip-hop historian * Laura Chang – science editor, ''The New York Times'' * Christine Chen – Emmy Award-winning journalist and news anchor * Julie Chen Moonves – newsreader on ''The Early Show'' and host of ''Big Brother (franchise), Big Brother'' * Lanhee Chen – American policy expert, academic and CNN political commentator * Anna Chen Chennault (陳香梅) – journalist, notable in American public life; also, wife of Claire Chennault – of the Flying Tigers * Kiran Chetry – television news anchor * Connie Chung – anchor and journalist, 2 Emmy Awards for Best Interviewer * Ann Curry – anchor and correspondent for NBC News and Today (NBC program), The Today Show * Veronica De La Cruz – CNN News anchor *Cynthia Gouw – award-winning television and radio reporter/anchor * Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Sanjay Gupta – CNN senior medical correspondent * Joseph Heco (1837–1897) – fisherman, writer, first to publish a Japanese language newspaper * Ching He Huang – cooking show host * Philip Jaisohn – journalist, activist, the first Korean to become a naturalized citizen of the United States * Pedram Javaheri – meteorologist for CNN International & HLN (TV channel), HLN * JT Tran – featured Advice column, dating advice columnist for LA Weekly and Baller Magazine * Michiko Kakutani – Pulitzer Prize winning ''New York Times'' literary critic and author *K. Connie Kang – first female Korean American journalist, wrote for ''Los Angeles Times'' * Ken Kashiwahara – first Asian American network news anchor, Emmy-winning television journalist * Guy Kawasaki – author, Apple Computer, Apple Apple evangelist, evangelist * Mina Kimes – journalist, ESPN commentator * Gobind Behari Lal – science journalist and the first Asian American Pulitzer prize winner * Euna Lee – journalist * Jennifer 8. Lee – journalist, ''The New York Times'' * K. W. Lee – journalist, founder of the Korean American Journalists Association * Young Jean Lee – playwright, director, and filmmaker * Carol Lin – news anchor * Sam Chu Lin – journalist, one of the first Asian Americans on network TV news * Lisa Ling (凌志慧) – journalist, known for her role as a co-host of ABC's ''The View'' and host of ''National Geographic Ultimate Explorer'' documentarian for CNN * Richard Lui – news anchor of MSNBC * Michelle Malkin – Fox News reporter and author * Vinita Nair – current anchor of World News Now and America This Morning on American Broadcasting Company, ABC. * Kent Ninomiya – anchor, reporter, news executive * Uma Pemmaraju – Fox News Channel senior news anchor * Dith Pran – photojournalist. The Killing Fields (film), The Killing Fields was based on his life. * Aneesh Raman – CNN Middle East correspondent * Scott Sassa – former President of NBC West Coast * Sharon Tay – journalist * Iva Toguri D'Aquino, Iva Toguri (1916–2006) – radio broadcaster who has been nicknamed "Tokyo Rose" * Kaity Tong – television news anchor, WPIX-TV * Lin Sue Cooney – news anchor 12 News * Ben Fong-Torres (方振豪) – journalist, Rolling Stone * Stephanie Trong – journalist, former Executive Editor, Jane Magazine; current Executive Editor Nylon Magazine * Ali Velshi – CNN business anchor * Zain Verjee – CNN anchor * Michael Yamashita – president/CEO and publisher of ''Bay Area Reporter'' * John Yang (journalist) – Peabody Award-winning news correspondent and commentator for NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, Today (NBC program) and MSNBC * Jeff Yang – writer, media/business consultant, Asian American culture columnist for the ''San Francisco Chronicle'' * Al Young - journalist; first Asian American sportswriter in U.S. Mainland at metro daily newspaper with Bridgeport (CT) Post-Telegram in 1970. * Anthony Yuen – journalist * Fareed Zakaria – editor of ''Newsweek'', host of Fareed Zakaria GPS on CNN


Politics

*Daniel Akaka, elected to the United States Senate, U.S. Senate from Hawaii in 1990. *George Ariyoshi, became the first Asian American governor in the United States when he was elected Governor of Hawaii in 1974. *Larry Asera, first Filipino American elected in the continental United States *Kumar Barve, became the first Indian-American in U.S. history elected to a state legislative body in 1990 and currently serves as the Majority Leader of the Maryland House of Delegates. *Rob Bonta, California Attorney General *Thelma Buchholdt, became the first Filipina American legislator and the first Filipino American legislator elected to office outside of Hawaii in 1974. She was elected by a constituency which was less than 1% Asian American, and served four terms in the Alaska state legislature. *Anh "Joseph" Cao, became the first Vietnamese American Congressman as a Representative for Louisiana in 2008. *Ben Cayetano, elected Governor of Hawaii in 1994. *Elaine Chao, became the first Asian American woman and the first Chinese American in the United States Cabinet, U.S. Cabinet when George W. Bush, appointed her United States Secretary of Labor, Secretary of Labor in 2001. *David S. Chang, first Korean-American to chair a major state political party *Stephanie Chang, first Asian American woman to serve in the Michigan Legislature; current State senator representing Michigan's 1st District. * David L. Chew, appointed the White House Staff Secretary by President Ronald Reagan in 1985. It is the highest position in the Executive Office of the President held by an Asian American. *John Chiang (California politician), John Chiang, 33rd California State Treasurer, 31st California State Controller and former California Board of Equalization *Upendra J. Chivukula, became the first Asian American elected to the New Jersey General Assembly in 2002. *Judy Chu, first Chinese American woman elected to the U.S. Congress. U.S. House of Representatives from California's 27th district * Steven Chu, 12th
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from 2009 to 2013 *Sada Cumber, first United States Ambassador to the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, OIC *Charles Djou, Major (United States), major, U.S. Army. Former Congressman from Hawaii. * Tammy Duckworth, major, U.S. Army. Former Assistant Secretary of Public and Intergovernmental Affairs for the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. First Asian American woman elected to Congress in Illinois. *Mervyn Dymally, representative from California *Hiram Fong became the first Asian American elected to the United States Senate, U.S. Senate in 1959. *Allan Fung, of Chinese descent, First Asian-American elected as Mayor in Rhode Island, prominent lawyer. *Dr. Josh Green (politician), Josh Green, Lt. Governor politician of Hawaii and Hawaii doctor *Nikki Haley, of Indian descent, was the governor of South Carolina and first Asian American woman governor. *Colleen Hanabusa, Congresswoman from Hawaii *Bruce Harrell, Mayor of Seattle *Harry B. Harris Jr, ambassador and diplomat *Kamala Harris, 49th Vice President of the United States and the first Asian/female/African American Vice President and Attorney General of California *Foung Hawj, pioneer Hmong broadcaster, was elected to Minnesota State Senate in 2012 with support from the Sierra Club and a broad multicultural network. *Mazie Hirono, former lieutenant governor of State of Hawaii, currently junior United States senator from Hawaii *Mike Honda, United States House of Representatives, U.S. Congressman from California's 15th congressional district, became the highest-ranking Asian American member of the Democratic National Committee, as the party's vice-chair in 2005. *David Ige, governor of Hawaii from 2014 to 2022 *Daniel Inouye, became the first Japanese American elected to the United States House of Representatives, U.S. House of Representatives in 1959. In 1962, he became the first Japanese American elected to the United States Senate, U.S. Senate. From 2010 until his death in 2012, he was the President pro tempore of the United States Senate and third in the United States presidential line of succession. *Bobby Jindal, Indian American, former governor of Louisiana. *Scott Kawasaki, Alaska State Senator *Jane Kim, Korean American politician and first Korean American elected official in San Francisco *Sung Kim, ambassador & diplomat *Young Kim, member of the United States House of Representatives (R-CA) *Padma Kuppa, first Indian immigrant and Hindus, Hindu in the Michigan Legislature; current member of Michigan's House of Representatives, representing Michigan's 41st district. *Tony Lam, became the first Vietnamese American elected to office when he was elected to the Westminster, California city council in 1992. *Susan C. Lee, first Asian American elected to Maryland State Senate. *Ted Lieu, member of the United States House of Representatives (D-CA) *Gary Locke (politician), Gary Locke, elected the first Asian American governor in the Continental United States, mainland United States in November 1996 and became Governor of Washington in January 1997. *John Liu, became the first Asian American elected to the New York City Council (representing Flushing, Queens) in 2001. *Kinjiro Matsudaira, mayor of Edmonston, Maryland in 1927 and 1943 *Bob Matsui, Representative from California *Doris Matsui, Congresswoman from California *Jimmy Meng, became the first Asian American elected to the New York State Legislature in 2004. *Aruna Miller, first Indian American woman elected to the Maryland House of Delegates in 2010. *Norman Mineta, became the first Asian American in the United States Cabinet, U.S. Cabinet when Bill Clinton appointed him United States Secretary of Commerce, Secretary of Commerce in 2000, serving in that post until 2001, when George W. Bush appointed him United States Secretary of Transportation, Secretary of Transportation, serving until 2006. Also mayor of San Jose, California from 1971 to 1975. *Patsy Takemoto Mink became the first Asian American woman to serve in Congress, as a representative of Hawaii in 1964; she ended up serving 12 terms. *Mee Moua, became the first Hmong American elected to any state legislature. A Democrat representing St. Paul's East Side, she is the highest ranking Hmong American elected official in the United States in 2002. *Aftab Pureval, Mayor of Cincinnati *Sean Reyes, current U.S. attorney general of Utah *Eunice Sato, became the first Asian-American female mayor of a major American city (Long Beach, California) in 1980 *Dalip Singh Saund, became the first Asian immigrant elected to the United States Congress, U.S. Congress upon his election to the House of Representatives in 1956. *Kim Singh, former Chair of Asia Pacific Caucus of CDP. California Democratic Party. Vice President. Stonewall Democratic Club Los Angeles. Executive Director. AAPPI. Asian American Public Policy Institute. *Sichan Siv, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Economic and Social Council and the author of ''Golden Bones''. *Michelle Steel, member of the United States House of Representatives (R-CA) *Marilyn Strickland, member of the United States House of Representatives (D-WA) *Saghir Tahir, served as a New Hampshire State Representative. Only elected Muslim in the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party. *Mark Takano, U.S. congressman. *Sheng Thao, mayor of Oakland, California, first Hmong-American mayor of a major U.S. city *Jill Tokuda, U.S. Representative from Hawaii *William Tong, Connecticut Attorney General. *Van Tran, elected a Republican member of the California State Assembly and is the first Vietnamese American to serve in any state legislature in 2004. *Hubert Vo, Vietnamese immigrant, became the first Vietnamese American elected to the Texas Legislature in 2004. *Shien Biau Woo became the first Asian American statewide officer in the Northeast, when he was elected Lieutenant Governor of Delaware in 1984. *Leana Wen, prominent Asian American and public health leader, currently Commissioner of Health in Baltimore. *David Wu, first Taiwanese American U.S. Representative (D-OR) *Michelle Wu first female Asian American Boston City Councilor, first Boston City Councilor of Chinese descent, and first Asian American to be Mayor of Boston. *Andrew Yang (entrepreneur), Andrew Yang first Asian-American man to run for President of the United States as a Democrat for (2020 United States presidential election) *Kimberly Yee, became Arizona's first Asian American woman to serve as a member of the Arizona State Legislature.


Religion

* Angela Warnick Buchdahl (born 1972), rabbi * Randolph Roque Calvo, 7th Roman Catholic Diocese of Reno, Bishop of Reno, mixed Chamorro, Filipino, and Spanish. * Francis Chan, American preacher. He is the former teaching pastor of Cornerstone Community Church in Simi Valley, California, a Christian church he and his wife started in 1994. * Bruce Reyes-Chow, first American-born Asian American to be elected moderator of the 2.2-million-member Presbyterian Church (USA) in 2008. * Bhante Dharmawara, Buddhist monk and teacher who helped resettle thousands of Cambodian refugees in the US and founded the first Cambodian Buddhist temple in USA. * Gerrit W. Gong, Apostle, Quorum of the 12 Apostles, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. * Ruben Habito, Filipino Zen Master of the Sanbō Kyōdan lineage and founder of Maria Kannon Zen Center in Dallas, Texas. * Jian Tan, Buddhist monk and current abbot of the Chung Tai Zen Center of Houston. * Hae Jong Kim, elected Bishop of United Methodist Church in 1992. * Seyoon Kim, biblical scholar at Fuller Theological Seminary. * Jakusho Kwong, American Chinese Zen Master of Shunryu Suzuki lineage, founder and head abbot of Sonoma Mountain Zen Center. * Sang Hyun Lee, theologian at Princeton Theological Seminary. * Dominic Mai Thanh Lương, auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange. * Chieko Okazaki, Relief Society General Presidency, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. First person of color to serve on general boards of the church. Served on the Young Women, Primary, and Relief Society General Boards in Salt Lake City, Utah. (From Hawaiʻi). * Andrew S. Park, teaches at United Theological Seminary in Trotwood, Ohio. * Peter C. Phan, American Catholic theologian who is a native of Vietnam. * Shi Yan Ming, 34th generation Shaolin monk and founder of the USA Shaolin Temple. * Oscar A. Solis, first Filipino American Roman Catholic bishop in the United States. * C. S. Song, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Theology and Asian Cultures at the Pacific School of Religion and acting minister at the Formosan United Methodist Church in San Leandro, California. * Su Bong, Korean American Zen Master from Kwan Um School of Zen and the designated heir of Seung Sahn's lineage. * Kenneth K. Tanaka, scholar, author, translator and ordained Jōdo Shinshū priest. * Thích Thiên-Ân, Buddhist monk, meditation teacher and founder of International Buddhist Meditation Center in Los Angeles, California. * Ignatius C. Wang, first Chinese American to become a bishop in the Catholic Church. * Amos Yong, professor of systematic theology at Regent University. * Jimmy Yu (Guo Gu or 果谷), Chan teacher of Sheng Yen lineage, Associate Professor of Religion at Florida State University and founder of Tallahassee Chan Center in Tallahassee, Florida.


Space

This section is a list of ''astronauts of Asian ancestry'' who are, by birth or naturalization, American citizens.


Sports

*Benny Agbayani – former outfielder for New York Mets, Colorado Rockies, Kansas City Royals, and Chiba Lotte Marines *Nathan Adrian – swimmer, multiple Olympic medalist *Bobby Balcena – first Asian American player in MLB *David Bautista – WWE performer going by the name "Batista" *Mohini Bhardwaj – American gymnast and 2004 Olympic silver medalist in the gymnastics team competition *Raj Bhavsar – 2008 Olympic bronze medalist in the gymnastics team competition *Tedy Bruschi – American football linebacker for the New England Patriots *Johnny Chan (poker player), Johnny Chan – professional poker player *Michael Chang – won tennis' French Open in 1989 *Nathan Chen – American figure skater and Olympic gold medalist *Brandon Chillar – American football linebacker for the Green Bay Packers *Tiffany Chin – won the US Figure Skating Championship in 1985 *Simon Cho – short track speed skater, Olympic medalist *Amy Chow – won gold and silver medals in gymnastics during the 1996 Olympics. *Norm Chow – former head coach of the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors football, Hawaii football team and former offensive coordinator for the Tennessee Titans after helping lead University of Southern California, USC to several NCAA championships as the offensive coordinator there. Currently the offensive coordinator for the Los Angeles Wildcats (XFL), Los Angeles Wildcats of the XFL (2020), XFL. *Julie Chu – Olympics hockey player *Clarissa Chun – 2 time Olympic Women's freestyle 48 kg (105.5 lbs) wrestler *Patrick Chung – 2-time Super Bowl champion, NFL player of Chinese Jamaican heritage with New England Patriots *Jordan Clarkson – Filipino American NBA player *Bryan Clay – won the decathlon gold medal in the Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's decathlon, 2008 Olympics, the silver medal in the Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's decathlon, 2004 Olympics, and was the sport's 2005 world champion *Alex Compton – basketball coach *Tim Cone – basketball coach *Emily Cross – fencer, Olympic medalist *Natalie Coughlin – Olympic gold medalist in swimming *Johnny Damon – 2 time All-Star MLB outfielder currently a free agent *Toby Dawson – won a 2006 Olympic bronze medal in Men's Freestyle skiing *Bill Demong – Nordic combined skier, Olympic medalist *Kris Dim – International Federation of BodyBuilders, IFBB professional bodybuilding, bodybuilder *Victoria Manalo Draves, Victoria Draves – first Asian American to earn a gold medal in the Olympics, winning both the 1948 platform and springboard events *Mathew Dumba – Canadian ice hockey defenseman for the Minnesota Wild. *Tommy Edman – Major League Baseball player *Mark Foo – professional surfer *Rickie Fowler – golfer *Catherine Fox – swimmer, double Olympic champion *Miki Gorman (1935–2015) – two-time winner of both the Boston Marathon, Boston and New York City Marathon, New York City marathons; former American and unofficial world record holder in the marathon *Alexi Grewal – Olympic medal, Gold medalist in 1984 Summer Olympics in cycling *Eileen Gu – Olympic skier who competes for China *Satoshi Hirayama – baseball player *Derek Ho – professional surfer *Maria Ho – professional poker player *Steven Ho (martial artist), Steven Ho – martial artist *Ken Hoang – professional gamer *Ivana Hong – American gymnast *Ariel Hsing – youngest American U.S. table tennis national champion in history *Rena Inoue – first place in the 2004 and 2006 U.S. Figure Skating Championships (pairs) *Travis Ishikawa – Free Agent first baseman *Haley Ishimatsu – American platform diver and member of the 2008 U.S. Olympic team *Natasha Kai – American soccer player and part of the gold medal-winning team in the 2008 Beijing Olympics *Danielle Kang – professional golfer *Masako Katsura – professional carom billiards player *Evelyn Kawamoto-Konno, Evelyn Kawamoto – won two Olympic bronze medals in swimming in 1952. *Anthony Kim – American professional golfer and part of the winning USA team in the 2008 Ryder Cup *Chloe Kim – American snowboarder and Olympic gold medalist *Ford Konno – former world record holder, two-time Olympic gold medalist, two-time Olympic silver medalist in swimming (1952 and 1956) *Tommy Kono (1930–2016) – former world record holder, two-time Olympic gold medalist and Olympic silver medalist in weightlifting (1952, 1956, and 1960) *Younghoe Koo – current NFL kicker for the Atlanta Falcons *Michelle Kwan – won nine national championships and five world titles, as well as two Olympic medals (silver in 1998, bronze in 2002) in figure skating *Iris Kyle - professional bodybuilder *Kyle Larson – American professional stock car racing driver *Cung Le – UFC mma fighter / former Strikeforce middleweight champion *Jeanette Lee (pool player), Jeanette Lee – pool player *Sammy Lee (diver), Sammy Lee (1920–2016) – became the first Asian American man to earn an Olympic gold medal, when he won in platform diving in both 1948 and 1952 *Sunisa Lee – won the 2020 Olympics all-around gymnastics gold medal *Jeremy Lin – Taiwanese American point guard for the Beijing Ducks and 2019 NBA Finals, 2019 NBA champion. *Tim Lincecum – 2 time Cy Young Award-winning pitcher for the San Francisco Giants *Alysa Liu – figure skater *Mike Lum – Major League Baseball player *Mike Magpayo – current men's basketball head coach at UC Riverside Highlanders men's basketball, UC Riverside; first Asian American to serve in this role at an NCAA Division I school *Alexander Massialas – fencer, Olympic medalist *Kalei Mau – volleyball player *Wataru Misaka – broke the NBA color barrier in the 1947–48 season, when he played for the New York Knicks *Yul Moldauer – artistic gymnast *Collin Morikawa – golfer who won the 2020 PGA Championship and 2021 Open Championship *Mirai Nagasu – women's singles figure skating champion in 2008 and an Olympic bronze medalist *Haruki Nakamura – Free Safety of the Carolina Panthers *Hikaru Nakamura – became the youngest American ever to earn the titles of National Master (age 10) and International Grandmaster (age 15) in chess *Paeng Nepomuceno – won in almost every major international bowling championships *Kim Ng – current general manager of the Miami Marlins; first woman to serve in that role in any of the Major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada, "Big Four" professional leagues of North America *Dat Nguyen – was an All-American linebacker at Texas A&M Aggies football, Texas A&M University and later became the first Vietnamese American in the National Football League *Apolo Anton Ohno – won eight Olympic medals in short-track speed skating (two gold) in 2002, 2006, and 2010 as well as a world cup championship *Naomi Osaka – Japanese-American tennis champion *Yoshinobu Oyakawa – former world record holder and 1952 Olympic gold medalist in the 100-meter backstroke *Tommy Pham – Major League Baseball player *Rajeev Ram – tennis player, Olympic medalist *Dave Roberts (outfielder), Dave Roberts – former Major League Baseball player, 2004 World Series champion, and current manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers. *Jason Robertson (ice hockey), Jason Robertson – left winger for the Dallas Stars in the National Hockey League *Kyla Ross – 2012 Olympic gold medalist gymnast, numerous World Championships medalist, and NCAA champion *Addison Russell – Filipino-American Baseball Player, and 2016 World Series Champion *Harold Sakata – won a weightlifting silver medal in the 1948 Olympics *Eric Sato – won a 1988 Olympic gold medal in volleyball *Liane Sato – won a 1992 Olympic bronze medal in volleyball *Alex Shibutani – figure skater, Olympic medalist *Maia Shibutani – figure skater, Olympic medalist *Dave Shoji – former head coach of the Hawaii Rainbow Wahine volleyball, Hawaii Rainbow Wahine volleyball team and the winningest head coach in NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball History. *Erik Shoji – volleyball player, Olympic medalist *Kawika Shoji – volleyball player, Olympic medalist *Vijay Singh – professional golfer *Wesley So – chess grandmaster *Erik Spoelstra – head coach of the Miami Heat; Filipino mother *Kurt Suzuki – Major League Baseball player *Kevin Tan – American gymnast and part of the bronze medal-winning team in the 2008 Beijing Olympics *Sonya Thomas – one of the world's top competitive eaters *Brandon Vera – UFC fighter *Shane Victorino – former Major League Baseball player, and 2x World Series Champion (2008, 2013). *Hines Ward – was the MVP of Super Bowl XL while playing for the Pittsburgh Steelers *Ed Wang – became the first fully Chinese-American selected in the NFL Draft when drafted by the Buffalo Bills *Michelle Wie – golfer *Kolten Wong – Major League Baseball player *Tiger Woods – golfer of Chinese, Thai, Caucasian, African American, and Native American descent; self described as "Cablinasian" (a syllabic abbreviation he coined from Caucasian, Black, American Indian, and Asian) *Kristi Yamaguchi – won three national figure skating championships, two world titles, and the 1992 Olympic gold medal *Tabitha Yim – American gymnast *Wally Yonamine – multisport athlete, played for the San Francisco 49ers (1947), Yomiuri Giants (1951–1960), Chunichi Dragons (1961–1962), and manager of the Chunichi Dragons (1972–1977). Only American to be admitted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame. *Al Young (dragster driver), Al Young – world champion race car driver *Jennifer Yu (chess player), Jennifer Yu – U.S. women's chess champion in 2019 and 2022 *Caroline Zhang – American figure skater and 2007 Junior World Champion


Other

*Frank Chu – professional protester *Edsel Ford Fong – waiter known for his rudeness *Chol Soo Lee – man falsely accused of killing Chinatown (San Francisco), Chinatown gang leader *Wayne Lo – mass murderer *Charles Ng – serial killer *Hiu Lui Ng – Chinese immigrant who died in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody *Betty Ong – flight attendant killed in the September 11 attacks *Bei Bei Shuai – woman charged with attempted murder after her suicide attempt resulted in the death of her fetus *Chai Vang – mass murderer *Eddy Zheng – youth counselor


See also

*List of Asian American writers *List of Bangladeshi Americans *List of Burmese Americans *List of Cambodian Americans *List of Chinese Americans *List of Filipino Americans *List of Hmong Americans *List of Indian Americans *List of Indonesian Americans *List of Japanese Americans *List of Korean Americans *List of Laotian Americans *List of Pakistani Americans *List of Sri Lankan Americans *List of Taiwanese Americans *List of Vietnamese Americans


Footnotes

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