Notable Asian Americans, A-Z
Updated August 5, 2020 |
Infoplease Staff
Grace Park
Biographies of
Notable Asian Pacific Americans
- Agbayani, Benny, baseball
- Ai, poet
- Akaka, Daniel Kahikina, U.S. senator
- Araki, Gregg, director, screenwriter
- Boggs, Grace Lee, activist
- Bose, Amar, physicist
- Bulosan, Carlos, writer
- Bunker, Chang and Eng, circus performers
- Cain, Dean, actor
- Carrere, Tia, actress
- Cates, Phoebe, actress
- Cayetano, Benjamin J., governor of Hawaii
- Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan, astrophysicist
- Chang, Michael, tennis
- Chang, Ming E., business leader, rear admiral (retired)
- Chao, Elaine, secretary of labor
- Chao, Stephen, movie producer, TV executive
- Chawla, Kalpana, astronaut
- Chen, Joan, actress, director
- Chen, Joyce, chef
- Chen, Tei Fu, skin care entrepreneur
- Cho, Margaret, actress, comedian
- Chopra, Deepak, writer
- Chow, Amy, gymnastics
- Chu, Steven, physicist
- Chuang, John, entrepreneur
- Chung, Connie, broadcast journalist
- Chung, Eugene, football
- Cibo Matto, rock band
- Curry, Ann, TV news reporter
- Darling, Ron, baseball
- Davies, Peter Ho, author
- Desai, Anita, writer
- Draves, Vicki Manalo, diving
- Eu, March Fong, California politician
- Fair, Lorrie, soccer
- Faleomavaega, Eni F.H., congressional delegate
- Fox, Catherine, swimming
- Fujimoto, Tak, cinematographer
- Gabriel, Roman, football
- Gong, Lue Gim, horticulturist
- Graves, Danny, baseball
- Hagedorn, Jessica, novelist, poet, and performance artist
- Hayakawa, S. I., former U.S. senator
- Hirabayashi, Gordon Kiyoshi, activist
- Ho, David, AIDS researcher
- Ho, Don, Hawaiian entertainer
- Honda, Mike, congressman
- Hung, William, American Idol contestant
- Hwang, David Henry, playwright
- Iha, James, guitarist
- Inouye, Daniel, politician
- Ito, Michio, dancer, choreographer
- Jen, Gish, novelist
- Jin,Ha, novelist, poet
- Jindal, Bobby, congressman
- Johnson, Dwayne (the Rock), wrestler, entertainer
- Jones, Norah, musician
- Kahanamoku, Duke, swimming, surfing
- Kapany, Narinder S., physicist
- Kariya, Paul, hockey
- Khan, Ali Akbar, musician
- Khorana, Har Gobind, biochemist
- Kim, James J., entrepreneur
- Kim, Steve, electronics entrepreneur
- Kingston, Maxine Hong, writer
- Kono, Tommy, weightlifting
- Korematsu, Fred, activist
- Kumar, Sanjay, computer software executive
- Kuniyoshi, Yasuo, painter
- Kwan, Michelle, figure skating
- Lahiri, Jhumpa, writer
- Lee, Ang, director
- Lee, Bill Lann, government official
- Lee, Brandon, actor
- Lee, Bruce, actor
- Lee, Chang-Rae, novelist
- Lee, Jeanette, billiards
- Lee, Sammy, diving
- Lee, Wen Ho, engineer
- Lee, Yuan T., chemist
- Lew, Ginger Ehn, government official
- Liliuokalani, Hawaiian queen
- Lin, Maya, architect
- Liu, Lucy, actress
- Locke, Gary, governor
- Loh, Sandra Tsing, writer, performer, radio program host
- Louganis, Greg, diving
- Ma, Yo Yo, cellist
- Matsui, Robert, congressman
- Mehta, Zubin, conductor
- Merchant, Ismail, film producer
- Midori, violinist
- Mineta, Norman Y., secretary of transportation
- Mink, Patsy, congresswoman
- Mori, Kyoko, poet, novelist, and nonfiction writer
- Morita, Pat, actor
- Morton, Johnnie, football
- Mow, William, clothing entrepreneur
- Mukherjee, Bharati, writer
- Nair, Mira, film director
- Nakashima, George, woodworker, architectural designer
- Natori, Josie, fashion designer
- Nguyen, Dat, football
- Noguchi, Isamu, sculptor
- Oh, Sandra, actress
- Okada, John, novelist
- Oki, Scott, computer executive
- Ono, Yoko, singer
- Ozawa, Seiji, conductor
- Paik, Nam June, video artist
- Park, Grace, golf
- Parque, Jim, baseball
- Pei, I. M., architect
- Phillips, Lou Diamond, actor
- Reeves, Keanu, actor
- Roberts, Tiffany, soccer
- Rowan, Chad, (Akebono), sumo wrestling
- Sakata, Lenn, baseball
- Santos, Bienvenido, novelist, poet, activist
- Saund, Dalip Singh, ccongressman
- Say, Allen, book illustrator
- Scott, Bobby, congressman
- See, Lisa, writer
- Shimomura, Roger, painter, performance artist
- Shinseki, Eric, U.S. Army general
- Shyamalan, M. Night, film director and screenwriter
- Sidhwa, Bapsy, novelist
- Subbarow, Yellapragada, biochemist
- Sui, Anna, fashion designer
- Takamoto, Iwao, animator
- Takei, George, actor
- Tam, Vivienne, fashion designer
- Tan, Amy, novelist
- Tang, Cyrus, entrepreneur
- Ting, Samuel Chao Chung, physicist
- Tsui, Daniel C., physicist
- Tu, John, software entrepreneur
- Underwood, Robert Anacletus, congressional delegate
- Viloria, Brian, boxing
- Wang, An, computer entrepreneur
- Wang, Charles B., computer software executive
- Wang, Vera, fashion designer
- Wang, Wayne, film director
- Wie, Michelle, golf
- Wong, Tim, high technology executive
- Woo, John, film director
- Woods, Tiger, golf
- Wu, Chien-Shiung, experimental physicist
- Wu, David, U.S. congressman
- Yamaguchi, Kristi, figure skating
- Yamanaka, Lois-Ann, novelist
- Yamasaki, Minoru, architect
- Yang, Jerry, Internet entrepreneur
- Yau, John, critic, poet, essayist
- Yee, James, U.S. Army chaplain
- Yep, Laurence, writer
- Yoo, John, lawyer, political figure
- Yuen, Henry C, high technology entrepreneur
- Yutang, Lin, writer, translator, and editor
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