List of famous Chinese Americans
The following is a
list of famous Chinese Americans who have made significant contributions to the
American culture or
society artistically or scientifically, or have appeared in the
news numerous times:
- Bette Bao Lord - 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 - photographer
- Michael Chang - tennis player
- Elaine Chao - Secretary of Labor
- Rosalind Chao - actor
- Steve Chen - computer scientist, supercomputer designer, Cray
- Shiing-shen Chern (陳省身) - mathematician
- 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
- Amy Chow (周婉儀) - gymnast and Olympic medal winner
- Paul C.W. Chu - physicist, superconductivity
- Steven Chu - 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics
- Connie Chung - TV news anchor
- Ben Fong-Torres - journalist, Rolling Stone
- David Ho - AIDS researcher
- Maxine Hong Kingston - writer, novelist
- Gish Jen - writer, novelist
- Andrea Jung (鍾彬嫻)- CEO, Avon products
- Michelle Kwan (關家倩) - figure skater
- Ang Lee - movie director
- Bruce Lee - actor, kung fu
- Ching Yang Lee - novelist, Flower Drum Song
- Coco Lee - singer
- Corky Lee - photographer
- Gus Lee - writer
- Henry C. Lee - forensic scientist
- Tsung-dao Lee - Nobel laureate, Physics
- Wen Ho Lee (李文和) - nuclear physicist, accused spy, acquitted
- Katrina Leung - businesswoman, accused spy
- Lucy Liu - actress
- Maya Lin (林瓔) - architect (Vietnam Veterans Memorial)
- Lisa Ling (凌志慧) - TV show host
- Eric Liu - writer, a speechwriter of Bill Clinton
- Gary Locke - Governor of Washington
- Keye Luke - actor
- Yoyo Ma - cellist
- Kim Ng - baseball executive
- I. M. Pei (貝聿銘) - architect
- Soong Mei-Ling a.k.a. Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
- Anna Sui - fashion designer
- Amy Tan - writer
- Chang-lin Tien - academic, former chancellor UC Berkeley
- Samuel C. C. Ting - 1976 Nobel laureate, Physics
- Ming Tsai - chef and restauranteur, writer
- Chen Ning Yang - Nobel laureate, Physics
- Henry Yang - chancellor, UC Santa Barbara
- An Wang - computer engineer
- Charles Wang (王嘉廉)- founder, CEO, chairman, Computer Associates
- Taylor Wang - first ethnic Chinese scientist to go into space, 1985 on space shuttle Challenger
- Vera Wang - fashion designer
- Wayne Wang - Hollywood director
- Ming-Na Wen (溫明娜) - Macanese-born actress
- Anna May Wong - first female Asian-American star of the screen
- Wong Ching Foo - 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 - lieutenant governor of Delaware
- Frank H. Wu (吳華揚) - a professor of law at Howard University, writer
- Harry Wu - human rights activist
- Chien-Shiung Wu - female scientist
- Martin Yan - host of Yan Can Cook
- Jeff Yang - founder of A Magazine
- Jerry Yang (楊致遠) - founder of Yahoo!
- Welly Yang - actor and artist
- Laurence Yep - author of children's books
- Katherine Young - world's oldest user of the Internet
- Judy Yung - writer
- Helen Zia (謝漢蘭) - community activists and writer
