List of Chinese Americans
The following is a list of Chinese Americans who are famous, have made significant contributions to the American culture or society politically , artistically or scientifically , or have appeared in the news numerous times:
(Chinese name may be placed, if available, beside those persons who currently do not have articles yet. Otherwise, place them in their articles. People in this least must have at least a permanent resident status or American-born.)
Jin Au-yeung - rapper
Chang and Eng Bunker - Siamese twins pioneer immigrants
Bette Bao Lord (包柏漪) - writer, novelist
Anna Chan Chennault (陳香梅) - wife of Claire Chennault , of the Flying Tigers
Eileen Chang , writer
Iris Chang (張純如) - writer
Lia Chang - actor, photographer, writer
Michael Chang - tennis player
Elaine Chao - Secretary of Labor
Rosalind Chao - actor
Christine Chen - Executive Director of the Organization of Chinese Americans
Joan Chen
Julie Chen - newsreader on The Early Show Big Brother Steve Chen - computer scientist, supercomputer designer, Cray
Shiing-shen Chern - mathematician
Katherine Sui Fun Cheung - first female Asian-American pilot
Leroy Chiao - NASA astronaut
Maj. Arthur Chin (陳瑞鈿) - WW II pilot and fighter ace
Frank Chin (趙健秀) - novelist, playwright, and essayist
Ming W. Chin (陳惠明) - Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court
Tiffany Chin (陳婷婷) - figure skater
Vincent Chin - victim of racial crime
Alex Chiu - eccentric
Annabel Chong - adult film actress
Amy Chow (周婉儀) - gymnast and Olympic medal winner
Norm Chow (周友賢) - USC offensive coordinator
Wen Tsing Chow (周文俊) - missile guidance scientist, digital computer pioneer
David Chu (朱欽騏) - fashion designer and founder of Nautica
Paul C.W. Chu (朱經武) - physicist, superconductivity
Steven Chu - 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics, first Asian American to run one of the 16 national laboratories operated by the Department of Energy (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Kam Fong Chun , actor
Connie Chung - TV news anchor
Fan Chung - mathematician
Dong Kingman (曾景文) - watercolor artist and professor
Hiram L. Fong - U.S. Senator
Ben Fong-Torres (方振豪) - journalist, Rolling Stone
David Ho - AIDS researcher
Kelly Hu - actress
Jen-Hsun Huang (黃仁勳) - cofounder, CEO, Nvidia
David Henry Wang (黃哲倫) - playwright
William Hung - of American Idol fame
Maxine Hong Kingston - writer, novelist
James Wong Howe (黃宗霑) - cinematographer
Gish Jen - writer, novelist
Andrea Jung (鍾彬嫻)- CEO, Avon products
Michelle Kwan (關穎珊) - figure skater
Nancy Kwan (關南施) - first Chinese-born star in Western cinema website
Ang Lee - movie director
Bruce Lee - actor, kung fu
Brandon Lee -actor
Ching Yang Lee (黎錦揚) - novelist, Flower Drum Song Coco Lee - singer
Corky Lee - photographer
Gus Lee (李健孫) - writer
Henry C. Lee - forensic scientist
Jason Scott Lee (李截), actor
Li-young lee - poet
Susan Lee (李鳳遷) - Maryland State Delegate and first Asian American woman in the Maryland State Assembly
Tsung-dao Lee - Nobel laureate, Physics
Wen Ho Lee (李文和) - nuclear physicist, accused spy, acquitted
Will Yun Lee (李威勇) - actor
Katrina Leung - businesswoman, Republican activist, and accused spy
Carol Lin - news anchor
Justin Lin (林詣彬) - film director of Better Luck Tomorrow
Maya Lin (林瓔) - architect (Vietnam Veterans Memorial )
T. Y. Lin - civil engineer (bridgebuilder)
Lisa Ling (凌志慧) - TV show host
Eric Liu - writer, a speechwriter of Bill Clinton
Lucy Liu - actress
Gary Locke - Democratic Governor of Washington
Edward Lu - NASA astronaut
Keye Luke - actor
Lue Gim Gong - In 1888 , he invented an orange, which is still grown in Florida , that survives cold weather
Adeline Yen Mah (馬嚴君玲) - author and physician
Yoyo Ma - cellist
Teresa Meng (孟懷縈) - founder, Atheros Communications
Jenny Ming (明珍尼) - president of Old Navy, a unit of Gap, Inc.
Kim Ng - baseball executive
I. M. Pei (貝聿銘) - architect
Gordan Quan (關振鵬) - Houston City Councilman and Asian American advocate
Soong Mei-Ling a.k.a. Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
Robin Shou (仇雲波) - martial artist
Anna Sui - fashion designer
Vivienne Tam (譚燕玉) - fashion designer
Amy Tan - writer
Thomas Tang - judge
Chang-lin Tien - professor, former chancellor UC Berkeley
Samuel C. C. Ting - 1976 Nobel laureate, Physics
Ming Tsai (蔡明)- chef and restauranteur, writer
Daniel Chee Tsui - 1998 Nobel prize, Physics
An Wang - computer engineer
Charles Wang (王嘉廉)- founder, CEO, chairman, Computer Associates
Lili Wang - murdered at her university
Garret Wang - actor in Star Trek: Voyager
Taylor Wang - first ethnic Chinese scientist to go into space, 1985 on space shuttle Challenger
Vera Wang - fashion designer
Wayne Wang - Hollywood director
Pei-Yuan Wei - creator of ViolaWWW
Ming-Na Wen - Macanese -born actress
Anna May Wong - first female Asian-American star of the screen
B.D. Wong (黃榮亮) - actor in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Wong Ching Foo (黃清福) - civil rights activist against Chinese Exclusion Act
David Wong Louie - writer
Jade Snow Wong - writer
Russell Wong (王盛德) - actor
Victor Wong (黃自強) - Hollywood actor
S.B. Woo (吳仙標) - former attorney general and lieutenant governor of Delaware , current president of the 80-20 Initiative
David Wu - first and only Chinese American U.S. Representative, Democrat from Oregon
Frank H. Wu (吳華揚) - a professor of law at Howard University , writer of Yellow: Race in America beyond Black and White, soon to be Dean of Law at Wayne State University in Michigan
Harry Wu - human rights activist
Kiko Wu - adult model and actress
Chien-Shiung Wu - female scientist
Martin Yan - host of Yan Can Cook
Chen Ning Yang - Nobel laureate, Physics
Henry Yang (楊祖佑) - chancellor, UC Santa Barbara
Jeff Yang - founder of A Magazine
Jerry Yang (楊致遠) - founder of Yahoo!
Welly Yang - actor and artist
James Yee - Army Captain formerly charged with sedition
Shing-Tung Yau - mathematician
Laurence Yep - author of children's books
Katherine Young - world's oldest user of the Internet
Kaila Yu - model and singer
Judy Yung - writer
Helen Zia (謝漢蘭) - community activists and writer
