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	The following is a '''list of ]s''' who are famous, have made significant contributions to the ] ] or ] ]ally, ]ally or ]ally, or have appeared in the ] numerous times.

	See also a ], a list of Americans descended from Taiwanese people. 98% of the population of ] is of ] descent, so there is some overlap between the two lists.
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			This is a list of '''notable ]s''', including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants who have made exceptional contributions to various facets of American society.

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			==Arts==

			===Dance===
			* ] (吴诸珊) – ballet dancer and choreographer
			* ] (沈伟) – dancer, choreographer and visual artist; MacArthur fellow
			* ] (許芳宜) – principal dancer of the ] Dance Company

			===Fashion design===
			* ] (马兰·布莱顿) – ]
			* ] – fashion designer
			* ] – fashion designer
			* ] – fashion designer
			* ] (賈雯蘭) – fashion designer
			* ] (江道格) – movie designer and artist
			* ] (朱欽騏) – co-founder of clothing company ]
			* ] – fashion designer
			* ] – fashion designer for ]
			* ] – fashion designer
			* ] – fashion designer, business entrepreneur
			* ] – fashion designer
			* ] – fashion designer
			* ] – fashion designer, actor, and musician
			* ] – fashion designer
			* ] – fashion designer
			* ] (蕭志美) – fashion designer
			* ] (谭燕玉) – fashion designer
			* ] – fashion designer
			* ] (王大仁) – fashion designer
			* ] – fashion designer
			* ] (王薇薇) – fashion designer
			* ] (吳季剛) – fashion designer
			* ] – creative director of '']'' magazine; host of fashion TV series ''All on the Line''

			===Literature===
			*] (包柏漪) – writer, novelist
			* ] (张爱玲, a.k.a. 张煐) – writer
			* ] (孫康宜) – writer and literary scholar
			* ] – writer; director of the Iowa Writer's Workshop
			* ] – poet, children's writer, and essayist
			* ] (姜峯楠) – speculative fiction writer
			* ] (趙健秀) – novelist, playwright, and essayist
			* ] (陈美玲) – poet
			* ] (张恨棠/木云) – writer and labor organizer
			* ] (黃哲倫) – playwright
			* ] (任璧蓮) – writer, novelist
			* ] (哈金) – novelist, winner of the National Book Award for ''Waiting''
			* ] – novelist, '']''
			* ] (匡灵秀) – fantasy novelist, '']''
			* ] – writer, novelist
			* ] – writer, journalist; father of ]
			* ] – writer
			* ] (李健孫) – writer
			* ] – writer
			* ] (李翊雲) – winner of the 2006 PEN/Hemingway Award
			* ] (林景南) – writer, first author to win three ]<ref>Streetside Chat with Author Ed Lin, TaiwaneseAmerican.org, http://taiwaneseamerican.org/ta/2012/05/24/streetside-chat-with-author-ed-lin/</ref>
			* ] (林韜) – writer
			* ] (劉柏川) – author and speechwriter for former US President ]<ref name="TewariAlvarez2008">{{cite book\|last1=Tewari\|first1=Nita\|last2=Alvarez\|first2=Alvin\|title=Asian American psychology: current perspectives\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m8qgAi0LVj8C&pg=PA117\|access-date=March 6, 2011\|date=September 26, 2008\|publisher=CRC Press\|isbn=978-0-8058-6008-5\|pages=117–}}</ref>
			* ] – writer, young adult novels, '']''
			* ] (雷祖威) – writer
			* ] (陸希未) – writer
			* ] – writer, ]
			* ] (馬嚴君玲) – author and physician
			* ] (馬為義,非馬) – engineer, poet, translator, and artist
			* ] – artist and author of '']''
			* ] (閔安琪) – author, '']''
			* ] (伍綺詩) – writer, novelist
			* ] – writer
			* ] (水仙花) – late 19th/early 20th century Chinese-English American author and journalist
			* ] (譚恩美) – best-selling author, '']''
			* ] (謝韜) – writer, novelist, screenwriter, film director
			* ] (黃玉雪) – writer
			* ] – novelist, ''Homebase'', ''American Knees''; writer; professor
			* ] (黃宗泰) – sinologist, translator, and literary theorist
			* ] (許素細) – English language novelist based in Hong Kong
			*] (严歌苓) – novelist and screenwriter
			* ] (楊謹倫) – graphic novelist, whose book '']'' was the first graphic novel to be nominated for a National Book Award
			* ] (叶祥添) – two-time winner of the ]
			* ] – writer, historian, lecturer, and 2016 "Woman of the Year" California Senate District 13
			* ] – writer
			* ] – author of young adult and middle grade novels
			* ] – essayist, poet, novelist
			* ] – novelist

			===Theater===
			* ] (張家平) – contemporary theater director
			* ] – playwright
			* ] – Tony Award-winning actor, '']'', '']''

			===Visual arts===
			* ] – comic book artist/inker for ] and ].
			* ] – artist
			* ] – artist
			* ] – artist
			* ] (蔡國強) – artist and gunpowder works designer
			* ] (韓湘寧) – artist
			* ] (黃宗霑) – nominated for ten ], won twice (1955, 1963)
			* ] (林瓔) – architect (])
			* ] – artist and designer, Dean of the USC ]<ref>{{Cite web \|title=Haven Lin-Kirk \|url=https://roski.usc.edu/profile/haven-lin-kirk/ \|access-date=March 23, 2024 \|website=Roski School of Art and Design \|language=en-US}}</ref>
			* ] – American photographer
			* ] – painter and printmaker
			* ] (貝聿銘) – architect, designed the ]
			* Irene Mei Zhi Shum (沈美芝) - Contemporary Art Curator
			* ] – jewelry designer
			* ] – artist, public art
			* ] – painter, ceramicist
			* ] – dioramist
			* ] (黃齊耀) – artist
			* ] – science-fiction illustrator
			* ] – artist

			==Business==

			===Financial===
			* ] (陳樂宗) – son of ], property investments
			* ] (劉宏敏) – Global Head of ]
			* ] – co-founder and CEO of ]
			* ] (霍焱) – co-founder of ], 8th largest hedge fund in Europe by assets
			* ] (林君叡) – venture capitalist at ]
			* ] – founder and CEO of ]
			* ] (柳澈漯) – CEO and president of ] (2008–2015)
			* ] (陸潤卿) – co-founder of the Canton Bank of San Francisco (1907-1926) and one of the prime movers in the rebuilding of Chinatown after the 1906 quake
			* ] (李录) – hedge fund manager and founder and chairman of ]
			* ] (吴建民) – CEO and president of ] (1992– )
			* ] (白露龍) – CEO of Enron Xcelerator, a venture capital division of ]
			* ] – former vice-chairman of ]
			* ] (唐騮千) – financier and philanthropist
			* ] (蔡至勇) – financier, former chairman and CEO of ]
			* ] – co-founder of the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange ]
			* ] (黃門贊) – former executive of ]
			* ] (赵鹏) – CEO of Citadel Securities

			===Food===
			* ] (陳河源) – founder of Tawa Supermarket Inc., also known as ]
			* ] (程正昌) – co-founder of ], billionaire
			* ] – owner of Bob Chinn's Crab House, highest grossing restaurant in America
			* ] – founder of Kan's Restaurant
			* ] (譚繼平) – Chicago-based food industry businessman; uncle of ]

			===Industrial===
			* ] – founder of The Chao Group and ]
			* ] – co-founder of ], son of Ting Tsung Chao
			* ] – chair of the Westlake Chemical Corporation, son of Ting Tsung Chao
			* ] – founder of ] pharmaceutical and medical device co.
			* ] – founder and CEO of ] bicycle co.
			* ] – founder and CEO of ]
			* ] – scrap metal and furniture magnate

			===Internet===
			* ] – founder of ], billionaire
			* ] – founder of Gain Technology and ]
			* ] – co-founder of ]
			* ] – co-founder of ]
			* ] – founder of KillerApp.com
			* ] – ''Project Include,'' former ] and ] engineer
			* ] – co-founder of ]
			* ] (謝家華) – co-founder of ], later CEO of ] online shoe store
			* ] – co-founder and CEO of ]
			* ] – co-founder ]
			* ] – founding president of ]
			* ] – Reddit's CEO from 2014 to 2015, filed gender and race discrimination lawsuit against Perkins and lost
			* ] – co-founder and CEO of ], billionaire
			* ] – co-founder and CEO of ]
			* ] – CEO of ] (2012–2014); director of engineering of ] (2005–2010)
			* ] – co-founder of ] component ], billionaire
			* ] – high tech investor and CEO of ] (2006–2011)

			===Technology===
			* ] (程守宗) – CEO of ]; former CEO of ]
			* ] (陳世卿) – founder and CEO of Galactic Computing
			* ] – founder, CEO and chairman of ], one of the largest computer monitor brands
			* ] (庄思浩) – co-founder ] (acquired by ] in 2008)
			* ] (戴伟立) – co-founder of ]
			* ] (傅苹) – co-founder of ]
			* ] (謝明) – co-founder ] (sold to ] in 2009)
			* ] (黃仁勳) – co-founder and CEO of NASDAQ-100 component ]
			* ] – co-founder of '']'' franchise
			* ] – founder of ] company ]
			*] – founded ]
			* ] (高民環) – co-founder of ]
			* ] (林杰屏) – founder of ]
			* ] – CEO of ]
			* ] (黄馨祥) – founder of ] and ]
			* ] (蘇姿豐) – CEO and president of NASDAQ-100 component ]
			* ] (孫大衛) – co-founder and COO of ]
			* ] (周秀文) – co-founder of ]
			* ] (陈立武) – president and CEO of ]
			* ] (曹英偉) – co-founder of ] (sold to ])
			* ] (杜紀川) – co-founder of Kingston Technologies
			* ] – founder and CEO of Scale AI
			* ] (王安) – co-founder of ]
			* ] (王嘉廉) – founder of ], owner of the ]
			* ] (王蔚) – founder and CEO of ]
			* ] (谢青) – founder of ] and ] (acquired by ] in 2004)
			* ] (葉炳輝) – founder of ] and ]
			* ] (袁征) – founder and CEO of ]
			* ] (朱敏) – co-founder of ] (sold to Cisco Systems)

			===Other===
			* ] – New York real estate and hotel developer
			* ] – New York ] and father of ]
			* ] – co-founder and CEO of staffing consultancy ]
			* ] – co-founder of ]
			* ] – shipping, hotel, and canning tycoon
			* ] (鍾彬嫻) – Chair of ]
			* ] – business executive at ] and ], dean of Ohio State University ]
			* ] – co-founder of ]
			* ] (徐迅) – co-founder of ]

			==Entertainment==
			*] – media executive
			* ] – ] film producer and former ] at ]
			* ] – producer and co-founder of ]
			* ] – founder of ]
			* ] – president of International Production for ] and president of International for ]

			===Actors===
			* ] (林家珍) – actress and rapper
			* ] – model and actor
			* ] - actor
			* ] (汪可盈) – actress and singer
			* ] – actress and singer
			* ] — stage, television actress
			* ] – actress, singer
			* ] (陳慧珊) – actress
			* ] – actress
			* ] - actor
			* ] - actress
			* ] – actor
			* ] – actress
			* ] – actress and writer
			* ] – actress
			* ] – actor and comedian
			* ] (陳冲) – actress, '']'', director
			* ] – actress, '']''
			* ] (鄭嘉穎) – actor and singer
			* ] (鄭佩佩) – actress, known for films ] and ]
			* ] – actress, Angela, in ]'s feature film '']'' (2009)
			* ] – actor, writer, director
			* ] – actress
			* ] – adult film actress
			* ] – film and stage actor
			* ], Canadian-American comedian, actor, writer, director, activist, and musician, part of comedy duo ]
			* ] – actress, model
			* ] – actress
			* ] – actress
			* ] – actress and singer
			* ] - actress
			* ] – actor
			* ] – actor and director
			* ] (胡宇威) – actor
			* ] – actress
			* ] – actress, '']''
			* ] – actress, singer and martial artist
			* ] – actress and singer on '']'' and '']''
			* ] – actor and model
			* ] - actor
			* ] - actor
			* ] – actress
			* ] – first Chinese-born star in Western cinema<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.nancy-kwan.com\|title=Nancy Kwan: Hong Kong's Gift to Hollywood\|first=Marlin Home\|last=Entertainment\|website=nancy-kwan.com}}</ref>
			* ] (李國豪) – actor, son of Bruce Lee
			* ] (李小龍) – ] actor, son of ]
			* ] – actor
			* ] – actress, martial artist and stuntwoman
			* ] - actress
			* ] (李香凝) – actress, and daughter of Bruce Lee
			* ] – pornographic actress
			* ] - actor and stuntman
			* ] – actor, '']'', '']''
			* ] - actor and singer
			* ] – actor
			* ] (林小微) – actress, '']''
			* ] – actress
			* ] (刘玉玲) – actress, '']'', '']''
			* ] – actress and singer
			* ] – actor, most notable for his role as ] in '']''
			* ] – actress
			* ] – actor
			* ] (馬泰) – actor
			* ] – actor, notable for playing the role of Ryu in '']''
			* ] – actress
			* ] – actress
			* ] – actor, '']'', most notable for the voice of Lars Barriga ('']'')
			* ] – actress, model and television personality
			* ] – actress, played the title character in Nickelodeon's ''The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo''
			* ] – actress
			* ] – actor; won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in '']''
			* ] – actress, most notable for playing the role of Co-Bao in '']''
			* ] (歐陽萬成) – actor, writer and comedian
			* ] (潘瑋柏) – singer and songwriter
			* ] – actress and singer
			* ] – actor and stunt choreographer; played ] in '']''
			* ] – YouTube personality, musician, and Broadway actor.
			* ] – actor
			* ] - actress
			* ] – actor
			* ] (仇雲波) – actor, stuntman, martial artist
			* ] (岑勇康) – actor, dancer, and singer in '']'' and '']''
			* ] (岑勇) – Hollywood and television actress.
			* ] (唐凯吉) – voice actor
			* ] (刁毓能) – actor and producer
			* ] – actress, '']'' (born in ])
			* ] – actress
			* ] – actress, '']'', '']'', '']'', '']'', '']''; former ] (first non-Caucasian winner)
			* ] – actress, television host, and exercise instructor
			* ] – actress, '']'', "Julie" on '']''
			* ] – actress, singer, portrays "Becca" on MTV's '']''
			* ] – actor in '']''
			* ] (溫明娜) – ]-born actress, '']'', '']''
			* ] - actress, martial artist, stuntwoman and wushu taolu athlete
			* ] (黃柳霜) – first female Asian-American star of the screen
			* ] (王君馨) – actress
			* ] (王敏德) – actor
			* ] (王盛德) – actor
			* ] (黃自強) – actor
			* ] (吳恬敏) – actress
			* ] – actor
			* ] – actress, screenwriter, director
			* ] (吳凱文) – ] star, once #1 all-time most subscribed comedian
			* ] – actor, producer and writer
			* ] – actor and writer, '']''
			* ] – actor and artist
			* ] (葉璇) – actress
			* ] – actor
			* ] – musician and actress
			* ] – actor
			* ] (原麗淇) – actress and daughter of ]
			* ] – actress, singer, model
			* ] – actor, portrayed ] in '']''
			* ] (张楠) – actress, ''Gossip Girl''

			===Directors===
			* ] – director and screenwriter
			* ] – writer, director
			* ] – director
			*] - writer, producer, director
			* ] – Academy Award-winning director
			* ] (李孟熙) – Canadian / American director, known for gay Asian stories
			* ] – director, '']'', '']'', '']''
			* ] – Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker and co-founder of the ]
			* ] – film director, '']''
			* ] – writer and director
			* ] – ] ]; won the Golden Shell
			* ] – film director
			* ] – Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker; film and television director

			===Musicians===
			* ] – rapper, songwriter, actor
			* ] – singer and member of the ]
			* ] – singer, songwriter, actress, ] VJ
			* ] – rapper
			* ] (曹偌伟) – a.k.a. One Child Policy, electronic musician
			* ] – Hong Kong singer-songwriter, actor
			* ] – violinist, ] of ]
			* ] – bassist of alternative metal band, ]
			* ] – member of hip-hop group ]
			* ] – singer, songwriter
			* ] – model and singer
			* ] – singer, songwriter
			* ] Buck Horvejkul – singer and rapper member of the K-pop group, ]
			* ], composer, writer and professor at ]
			* ] – composer, musician, known for ethereal music and ] (Chinese lute)
			* ] – jazz pianist, composer, band leader
			* ] – singer<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.rockonthenet.com/artists-k/kelis.htm\|title=Rock On The Net: Kelis\|website=rockonthenet.com}}</ref> 1/4 Chinese
			* ] (费翔) – a.k.a. Kris Phillips, pop singer and theater actor
			* ] – singer-songwriter, television host, music executive, film director
			* ] – composer
			* ] – singer
			* ] – composer
			* ] – violinist
			* ] – pianist
			* ] – first violinist for ]
			* ] – rapper and singer of K-pop group ]
			* ] – classical pianist
			* ] – Hong Kong singer-songwriter, actor
			* ] – winner of the 2011 ]
			* ] (馬友友) – cellist
			* ] – jazz double bassist, composer, band leader
			* ] – vocalist and guitarist of ]
			* ] – jazz trumpeter
			* ] – ] artist, 1/4 Chinese
			* ] – guitarist-songwriter for rock band ]
			* ] – singer-songwriter, rapper and actor
			* ] – rapper<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.philstar.com/entertainment/2021/11/10/2140111/saweetie-i-love-my-filipino-side/\|title=Saweetie: I love my Filipino side!\|website=The Philippine Star}}</ref>
			* ] – composer, conductor, and pianist
			* ] – singer
			* ] – singer-songwriter
			* ] – classical saxophonist
			* ] – YouTube singer
			* ] – Taiwanese rapper of K-pop group ]
			* ] – vocalist
			* ] – singer-songwriter, record producer, actor and film director
			* ] – singer
			* ], guitarist of ]
			* ] ("Fresh Kid Ice", 'The Chinaman") – Chinese Trinidadian rapper, member of ]
			* ] – rapper, actor, martial artist, producer of ]
			* ] – actor, singer, director, producer
			* ] – ]
			* ] – singer, songwriter, model
			* ] – violin player

			===Other===
			* ] (暹羅雙胞胎) – Siamese twins, pioneer immigrants
			* ] – chef, author and British television show presenter
			* ] – martial artist and stunt man
			* ] – model and travel host of ''Fun Taiwan''
			* ] (黃頤銘) – writer, celebrity TV chef
			* ] – musician of '']'' fame
			* ] – judge on ]
			* ] – owner of the Hello Deli next to the Ed Sullivan Theater; regular on '']''
			* ] - American Internet Personality; father is of half Chinese ancestry
			* ] – screenwriter
			* ] (林申) – close-up magician
			* ] – "The Chinese Lady," pioneer immigrant
			* ] (庞凤仪) – personal assistant and arts producer for ] and ], romantic partner with Lennon.
			* ] – chef and restaurateur (Blue Ginger); host of Emmy Award-winning television show ''East Meets West''
			* ] – ], stage designer
			* ] (黄君儀) – comedian
			* ] – chef, host of '']''
			* ] (杨燕子) - ]
			* ] – interior designer and TV host

			==Journalism and news media==
			* ] – radio journalist with '']''
			* ] – journalist with '']'' (2002-2004) and '']'' (2013-2016)
			* ] – journalist, '']''
			* ] – journalist from ]
			* ] (張純如) – historian and journalist, ''Thread of the Silkworm'' and ''The Rape of Nanking''
			* ] – journalist, hip-hop historian
			* ] – science editor, '']''
			* ] – founder of the Chinese-American Times newspaper
			* ] – ], staff writer at '']''
			* ] – journalist and anchor
			* ] – newsreader on '']'' and host of '']''
			* ] (陳香梅) – journalist, spouse of ], of the ]
			* ] – former editor '']'', founding member of Seattle Chapter of the ]
			* ] – news director, ''Time'' magazine
			* ] – became the second woman to co-anchor a major network national news broadcast
			* ] – journalist, ] News (2010–2014); alternating anchor on both ''Early Today'' on NBC and ''First Look'' on ]
			* ] (方振豪) – journalist, '']''
			* ] – ] at ] in ]
			* ] (姜偉嘉) - ] correspondent, ]
			* ] (李競) – journalist, '']''
			* ] – Emmy award-winning journalist, ], ], ], ], ] Financial News
			* ] (李秀蘭) – journalist
			*] – ] winning journalist
			* ] – news anchor
			* ] (趙帝恩) – journalist, one of the first Asian Americans on network TV news
			* ] – journalist, sister of ]
			* ] (凌志慧) (1973- ) – journalist, known for her role as a co-host of ABC's ''The View'' and host of ''National Geographic Ultimate Explorer''
			* ] – news anchor, ''Bloomberg Television''
			* ] – news anchor of '']''
			* ] (江南) – newspaper editor
			* ] – news anchor for '']'' in ]
			* ] – journalist, former writer for '']''
			* ] – Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author
			* ] – columnist for '']''
			* ] – ] winning news correspondent and commentator for ''NBC Nightly News'' with Brian Williams, '']'', and ]
			* ] - radio personality at Power 105.1FM
			* ] journalist, 1st Asian American Mainland U.S. newspaper sportswriter, editor, columnist.
			* ] (阮次山) – journalist

			==Military==
			* ] (陳宇暉) – ], ] ], was found shot to death after being racially harassed and beaten by his fellow soldiers in Afghanistan
			* ] (陳瑞鈿) – ] pilot and ] with Canton Provincial Air Force, ]
			* ] (金无怠) – CIA and Army translator and intelligence analyst 1944–1981, spy for China.
			* ] – United States Army ] (retired), ] (2001–2008), president/] of the ]
			* ] – ] ]
			* ] – first Chinese American officer to be promoted to the rank of ] in the United States Army; first Chinese American to serve as ]
			* ] - United States Army; for heroism in World War I he became the first Chinese American to be awarded the ], the military's second highest award for valor.
			* ] – ] ], first Chinese American ]
			* ] (李月英) – first Chinese American woman to earn a ]; flew for the ] during ] as a ] (WASP)
			* ] – Major, US Marine Corps.; first Asian American Marine Corps officer, ] recipient<ref>{{cite web \|url=https://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2010/10-117.html \|title=Veterans History Project Explores Integration of the U.S. Armed Forces Through the Service of Asian-Pacific American Veterans \|first=Jeffrey\|last=Lofton \|author2=Jamie Stevenson \|date=May 18, 2010 \|work=News from the Library of Congress \|publisher=Library of Congress \|access-date=February 14, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news \|title=Heroes visit the National Museum of the Marine Corps \|author=Cpl Christopher Duncan \|url=http://www.quantico.usmc.mil/sentry/StoryView.aspx?SID=2454 \|newspaper=Quantico Sentry \|date=January 30, 2009 \|access-date=February 14, 2011}}</ref>
			* ] – ] ], first female Asian American general officer
			* ] (born 1967 - United States Army Major-General, served in ]
			* ] – United States Army ], only Chinese American to have been awarded the ]
			* ] – United States Air Force ], friend of ]
			* ] – United States Army Major General, Chief of the ] (2011–2014)
			* ] – student leader during the ] and now a ] in the United States Army
			* ] – United States Army ] and ], formerly charged with ]; author of the memoir ''For God and Country: Faith and Patriotism Under Fire''
			* ] – United States Navy Rear Admiral and commander of ]
			* ] – National Commander of ] (2011–2012)

			==Politics and government==

			===National politics===
			* ] (赵小兰) – former Secretary of Transportation (2017-2021) and former Secretary of Labor (2001–2009) (Republican)
			* ] (陳仁宜) – conservative government policy academic, policy director in Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign (Republican), news media political commentator
			* ] (朱棣文) – ], former ] (2009–2013), winner of 1997 ] for research in ] (Democratic)
			* ] – Director of the ] (Democratic)
			* ] (骆家辉) – ] (2011–2014); ] (2009–2011); ] (1997–2005), first and only Chinese American to serve as a ] (Democratic)
			* ] (卢沛宁) – Assistant to former President Barack Obama and ] (Democratic)
			* ] - acting ] (2023-Present)
			* ] (戴琪) – 19th ]
			* ] (陈远美) – Chief of Staff to the First Lady of the United States, director of Office of Public Liaison during Obama administration (Democratic)
			* ] (杨安泽) – unsuccessful 2020 presidential candidate

			===Congress===
			* ] – former ] from ]; first ] US Senator; Democrat
			* ] (趙美心) – first Chinese-American woman to serve as ] (2009–present); Democrat
			* ] (周永康) – US Representative from ] (2010–2011); Republican
			* ] (鄺友良) – former US Senator from Hawaii; first US Senator of Chinese ancestry; Republican
			* ] (劉雲平) – Democrat representing the 33rd District of California
			* ] (孟昭文) – Democrat representing the 22nd District of ]
			* ] (吳振偉) – first Taiwanese American US Representative, Democrat from ]

			===Local and state===
			* ] – first ] California State Assembly Majority Leader (2002–2004); Democrat
			* ] – California State Controller (2007–present); Democrat
			* ] – member of the ] representing ]
			* ] – Democrat representing the ], ]
			* ] – former ] (1975–1994), elected in 1974, she won reelection four times; ] (1994–1996); Democrat
			* ] – ] (1995–1999), adoptive son of ]; Republican
			* ] – Mayor of ]; Republican
			* ] – State Representative of the Connecticut General Assembly; Republican
			* ] – former member of the ]; Democrat
			* ] – member of the ] representing ]
			* ] – Mayor of ] (2011–2017)
			* ] – longtime ] of ]; first elected in 1979, he was re-elected six times and served 27 and a half years (Democratic)
			* ] – Senator, Maryland Senate of Maryland General Assembly;first Asian American elected to Maryland Senate and first Chinese American elected to Maryland House of Delegates and Maryland General Assembly.
			* ] – ] (2010–2013)
			* ] – member of the ], first openly gay and first ] member
			* ] (吳仙標) – ] (1985–1989), current president of the ]; Democrat
			* ] (吳弭) – elected ]
			* ] (] ] ]) – former ]man, current ]
			* ] – mayor of ]; first Chinese American to hold the office<ref name=paonline>{{cite web\|url=http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=23833\|title=Yeh, Scharff to lead Palo Alto council in 2012\|first=Gennady\|last=Sheyner\|website=paloaltoonline.com}}</ref>
			* ] – ] (1977–1983), ] (1983–2003), first Chinese American to serve in a ]; Democrat

			===Law and judiciary===
			* ] – former ] (2000–2001); first Chinese American ]
			* ] – judge of the ] (1994–present), first Asian American appointed as a ] judge outside of the ]
			* ] – Associate Justice, ]
			* ] (朱欽文) – Partner, Chair of Litigation, former Co-Managing Partner of ]; former president (2014–15) and board member (2009–15) of Harvard Board of Overseers
			* ] – professor of law; author of '']''
			* ] – professor of law, author of ''The Cult of the Constitution'', president of ]
			* ] – federal district judge, ]
			* ] – Associate Justice, ]
			* ] – federal district judge, United States District Court for the Central District of California
			* ] – co-managing partner of ] and fellow of the ]
			* ] – federal district judge, ]; first Chinese-American federal judge outside of Hawaii
			* ] – Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California
			* ] – trial lawyer
			* ] – judge of the ]; first Chinese American ]
			* ] (丁景安) – professor of law; expert on immigration, national security, and taxation; 2006 Republican candidate for Senate (DE)
			* ] (王乾) – Lawyer and memoirist
			* ] – judge

			===Community and civil rights===
			* ] (陳玉平) – community activist in African-American community; leftist writer
			* ] – community leader
			* ] – community leader and businessman
			* ] (古今辉) – President, ] in Hawaii, 1892–1898; played an instrumental role in uniting the Chinese and fighting for their rights during the anti-Chinese agitation in Hawaii in the 1880s
			* ] – first licensed Chinese American dentist in the United States, financier of ] in Oakland Chinatown, spouse of Clara Elizabeth Chan Lee
			* ] – first Chinese American woman voter in the United States
			* ] – Chinese advocate for women's suffrage in the United States, community organizer in New York City's Chinatown, and leader of the First Chinese Baptist Church in Chinatown.
			* ] (王清福) – 19th-century civil rights activist and journalist
			* ] (黃金德) – his lawsuit established the principle of citizenship by virtue of birth on US soil
			* ] (吴弘达) – human rights activist, focuses on Laogai prison camps and ]
			* ] – civil rights activist, famous racial discrimination incident by university fraternity
			* ] (萧强) – ] for human rights activism, publisher of ] covering rights and censorship in China, journalism professor
			* ] (容兆珍) – San Francisco Chinatown leader
			* ] (謝漢蘭) – community activist and writer

			==Science and academia==

			===Nobel Prize===
			*] (楊振寧) – 1957 Nobel laureate, Physics, ]
			*] (李政道) – 1957 Nobel laureate, Physics
			* ] (丁肇中) – 1976 Nobel laureate, Physics
			* ] (李远哲) – 1986 Nobel Prize, Chemistry
			* ] (朱棣文) – 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics, US Secretary of Energy (2009)
			* ] (崔琦) – 1998 Nobel laureate, Physics
			* ] (錢永健) – 2008 Nobel laureate, Chemistry
			* ] (高锟) – 2009 Nobel laureate in Physics who pioneered the development and use of fiber optics in telecommunications

			===Mathematics award winners===
			* ] (陶哲軒) – ] (2006), ] (2003), ] (2012)
			* ] (丘成桐) – ] (1982), ] (2010), ] (1994)
			* ] (姚期智) – ] (2000)
			* ] (陳省身) – ] (1983)
			* ] (张伟) – ] (2019)
			* ] (袁新意) – ] (2008)

			===Chemistry===
			* ] – inventor of the ](OLED) and the hetero-junction ] (OPV); winner of the 2011 ]; known as the "father of ]"
			*] (錢永健) – 2008 Nobel laureate, chemistry
			* ] – chemist; founding member of the scientific advisory board at ], a nanomaterials company; co-founder of ]<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://alphabetenergy.com/index.php?action=about_us \|title=Alphabet Energy. Thermoelectrics for waste heat recovery \|publisher=Alphabetenergy.com \|access-date=July 30, 2011}}</ref>
			* ] – Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and of Physics at ], member of ], ] (2003)
			*] (陈志坚) - Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology at ]. He is best known for his discovery of mechanisms by which nucleic acids trigger innate and autoimmune responses from the interior of a cell, work for which he received the 2019 ].
			*] (谢晓亮) - biochemist, considered a founding father of single-molecule biophysical chemistry and single-molecule enzymology

			===Computer science===
			* ] (陈丹琦) – AI professor at ] working in ], PhD from ], former student of ]<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://cs.stanford.edu/~danqi/\|title=Danqi Chen's Homepage\|website=cs.stanford.edu\|access-date=May 6, 2019}}</ref>
			* ] (程建林) – computer and data scientist; Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Missouri, Columbia
			* ] (周文俊) – missile guidance scientist, digital computer pioneer
			* ] – professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley
			* ] (許峰雄) – ] developer of ], which beat World Chess Champion ] in 1997
			* ] (李飞飞) – AI researcher, Stanford University professor
			* ] – Princeton University
			* ] – former ] of Computer Science at the ],<ref name="bio">{{cite web\|url=http://www.cs.unc.edu/People/Faculty/Bios/lin.html\|title=Faculty Biography: Ming C. Lin\|work=People\|publisher=Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\|access-date=February 3, 2010}}</ref><ref name="unchon">, Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, retrieved February 4, 2011.</ref> now at U. Maryland.
			* ] (吴恩达) – AI researcher and entrepreneur: Google Brain, Baidu research, Coursera, Stanford University professor
			* ]: entrepreneur in health, robotics and AI, Andrew Ng's wife
			* ] (魏培源) – creator of ]
			* ] – professor at ] specializing in compiler design, computer architecture, computer microarchitecture, and parallel processing
			* ] (姚期智) – 2000 ] recipient, ], former professor at ]
			* ] (储枫) – computer scientist, researcher in computational geometry and combinatorial algorithms; wife of Andrew Yao
			* ] – Princeton University PhD, currently UC San Diego

			===Engineering===
			* ] – Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Engineering at Brown University
			* ] (林同驊) – professor (]), aerospace and structural engineer
			* ] (林同棪) – (]) structural engineer who was the pioneer of standardizing the use of ], founded ]
			* ] (李郁榮) – Professor of Electrical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

			===Mathematics===
			* ] (陶哲軒) – child genius, ] winner (2006), professor (UCLA), ] (2006), ] (2012), ] (2014). He is the youngest participant to date in the ], first competing at the age of ten; in 1986, 1987, and 1988, he won a bronze, silver, and gold medal. He remains the youngest winner of each of the three medals in the Olympiad's history, winning the gold medal shortly after his thirteenth birthday. Tao received graduated from university at the age of 16 obtaining his bachelor's and master's degrees, received his PhD at the age of 20.
			*] – child prodigy who was once thought to be the "smartest kid in America". At age 10, he earned a perfect score of 800 on the math portion of what is now called the ], a feat considered to be a “remarkable achievement” when a high school junior or senior did it. Ng is a professor of mathematics at ].
			*] (林益) – professor of mathematics, systems science, economics, and finance at Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (] campus)
			*] (张伟) – Professor of Mathematics at the ]
			* ] (张圣容) – professor of mathematics and former chair of the department at ]
			* ] (陈文成) – professor of math at ], victim of Taiwan ] persecution of dissidents (see ])
			* ] (陳省身) – ], considered one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century; worked on differential geometry and topology; known for ], ], ]es
			* ] (朱家琨) – applied mathematician, Fu Foundation Professor Emeritus of Applied Mathematics at ]<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://apam.columbia.edu/ck-chu \|title=faculty directory at Columbia University\|date=July 11, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=http://sites.apam.columbia.edu/newsevents/chu_honorary_degree.html \|title=Columbia University News Release}}</ref>
			* ] (林家翹) – applied mathematician
			*] (田刚) – ] professor emeritus, student of S.T. Yau
			* ] – applied mathematician, professor at the Department of Mathematics at the University of Washington in Seattle
			* ] (杨建平) – ], husband of Alice Chang
			* ] (丘成桐) – ] winner (1982); ] (1984), ] (1994), ] (1997), ] (2010)
			* ] – mathematician, known for establishing the first finite bound on gaps between prime numbers
			*] – Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the ]
			*] (王慕道) – Professor of Mathematics at ], received a PhD in Mathematics in 1998 from Harvard University

			===Medicine and biosciences===
			* ] (陈Priscilla) – ]-graduated pediatrician, Chan-Zuckerberg foundation
			* ] (張明覺) – co-inventor of the ]; made significant contributions to the development of ]
			* ] (朱築文) – biochemist and Professor of Medicine (Oncology) and Biochemistry at the Stanford Medical School; older brother of ]
			* ] (馮元楨) – founder of modern biomechanics
			* ] (呂金功) – horticulturalist
			* ] – scientific researcher and the ] professor at ] in New York City
			* ] – virologist
			* ] – biochemist, received the ] in 2009
			* ] – pioneer of using DNA to diagnose human diseases, research enabled the ], recipient of Lasker Foundation award in 1991<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.laskerfoundation.org/awards/1991_c_description.htm\|title=Diagnosis of genetic diseases by DNA technology – The Lasker Foundation\|first=Lasker\|last=Foundation\|website=The Lasker Foundation\|access-date=October 15, 2012\|archive-date=September 9, 2013\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130909172537/http://www.laskerfoundation.org/awards/1991_c_description.htm\|url-status=dead}}</ref>
			* ] – forensic scientist
			* ] – dermatologist and Internet celebrity as "Dr. Pimple Popper"; now star of the ] series '']''
			* ] – ] and human geneticist
			* ] (李卓皓) – biochemist, discovered ], ] and isolated ]
			* ] – first scientist to use chemotherapy to cure widely metastatic, malignant cancer
			* ] – geneticist
			* ] – cytogeneticist, first person to recognize the normal number of human chromosomes<ref>{{cite news\| url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/dec/11/guardianobituaries.medicalscience \| location=London \| work=The Guardian \| first=Pearce \| last=Wright \| title=Joe Hin Tjio \| date=December 11, 2001}}</ref>
			* ] – immunologist; NYIPLA Inventor of the Year Award in 2007 for her work on UBITh peptide immunogens
			* ] – discovered DNA ]<ref>{{cite journal\|url=http://www.jbc.org/content/282/22/e17\|title=Unwinding the DNA Topoisomerase Story: the Work of James C. Wang\|first1=Nicole\|last1=Kresge\|first2=Robert D.\|last2=Simoni\|first3=Robert L.\|last3=Hill\|date=June 1, 2007\|journal=Journal of Biological Chemistry\|volume=282\|issue=22\|pages=e17\|doi=10.1016/S0021-9258(20)64989-4\|via=www.jbc.org\|doi-access=free}}</ref>
			* ], neuroscientist and author
			* ] – neuroscientist and pharmacology professor
			* ], biochemist best known for his work with ], won the 2000 ], and 2006 ] recipient<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://www.shawprize.org/en/laureates/2006/life/Wang/announcement.html \|title=The Shaw Prize \|access-date=August 1, 2007 \|date=June 21, 2006 \|work= The Shaw Prize \|archive-date=February 21, 2009 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090221022806/http://www.shawprize.org/en/laureates/2006/life/Wang/announcement.html \|url-status=dead }}</ref>
			* ] (温麟衍) – physician; director of ], Health Commissioner of Baltimore, author
			* ] – discovered drug ] and ], ] and ]<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.nature.com/drugdisc/nj/articles/nrd1811.html\|title=drug discovery@nature.com\|website=nature.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|url=http://communications.medicine.iu.edu/newsroom/stories/2011/scientist-who-developed-prozac-receives-international-honor/ \|title=Scientist Who Developed Prozac Receives International Honor - IU Communications - School of Medicine \|access-date=September 17, 2012 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120825015159/http://communications.medicine.iu.edu/newsroom/stories/2011/scientist-who-developed-prozac-receives-international-honor \|archive-date=August 25, 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.spu.edu/depts/uc/response/winter98/features/prozac.html\|title=The Faith of a Scientist\|website=spu.edu}}</ref>
			* ] – virologist and AIDS researcher
			* ] – ] biologist; recognized as one of the 2007 "Persons of the Year" by '']'' magazine<ref>{{cite magazine\| url=http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/personoftheyear/article/0,28804,1690753_1690758_1693587,00.html \| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071221163959/http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/personoftheyear/article/0,28804,1690753_1690758_1693587,00.html \| url-status=dead \| archive-date=December 21, 2007 \| magazine=Time \| title=Person Of The Year 2007 \| date=December 19, 2007}}</ref>
			* ] – ophthalmologist at the Institute for Genomic Medicine, ] known for his work on ]

			===Physics===
			* ] – nuclear physicist
			* ] – the "father of ]" and co-inventor of ]
			* ] (朱經武) – physicist, superconductivity
			* ] (钱学森) – professor of aeronautics, a founder of NASA ], exiled to China
			* ] – professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley and University of California; San Diego and 2009 Shaw Prize recipient<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.shawprize.org/en/laureates/2009/index.html\|title=The Shaw Prize – Top prizes for astronomy, life science and mathematics\|website=shawprize.org\|access-date=November 26, 2012\|archive-date=June 20, 2009\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090620004952/http://www.shawprize.org/en/laureates/2009/index.html\|url-status=dead}}</ref>
			* ] (吳健雄) – ] scientist; considerable contribution to Nobel Prize work by Tsung-dao Lee
			* ], physicist, solar cells. Professor at ]. Fellow, ], ], ], ], and ].
			* ] – physicist specialized in ]; Fellow, ]; Fellow, ]
			* ] – Stanford physicist
			* ] (楊振寧) – 1957 Nobel laureate, Physics, ]
			* ] (李政道) – 1957 Nobel laureate, Physics
			* ] (丁肇中) – 1976 Nobel laureate, Physics
			* ] (朱棣文) – 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics, US Secretary of Energy (2009)
			* ] (崔琦) – 1998 Nobel laureate, Physics
			* ] (高锟) – 2009 Nobel laureate in Physics who pioneered the development and use of fiber optics in telecommunications
			* ] (郗小星) – Physicist at ]]

			=== Economics, Finance, Statistics, OR ===

			*] – ], ]; former economist at the ] and economics professor at the ]<ref> {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923061120/https://www.chase.com/online/private_client/expert-perspectives-anthony-chan.htm\|date=September 23, 2015}} Accessed September 21, 2015.</ref>
			*] (鄒至莊) – Class of 1913 Professor of Political Economy at ], known for ]
			*] (范剑青) – professor of finance and statistics at ]
			*] (萧庆伦) – economist, professor at ]
			*] (李淯) – professor, author and commentator on global economics and finance issues
			*] (郁彬) – Chancellor's Professor in the Departments of Statistics and of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences at ]

			===Social sciences===

			* ] – professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, MacArthur Fellow; wrote ''Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance''
			*] – professor of ] at ] and professor of ] in the ] system
			*] – Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of Sociology at ]; known for applying quantitative ] methods to sociology as well as Chinese studies

			=== Humanities ===
			* ] (陳榮捷) – professor in Chinese philosophy, wrote influential translations
			* ] (麥禮謙) – professor of Chinese American studies
			* ] (林語堂) – Hokkien Chinese writer
			* ] (令狐萍) – professor of History at ], author
			* ] (劉廣京) – Historian of late imperial China; University of California, Davis.
			* ] (宋李瑞芳) – former professor of Asian-American Studies at ]; 'leading authority' on Chinese Americans<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.chiamonline.com/People/QU/bettyleesung.htm\|title=Betty Lee Sung\|publisher=Chiamonline.com\|access-date=April 15, 2015\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923202626/http://www.chiamonline.com/People/QU/bettyleesung.htm\|archive-date=September 23, 2015\|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.las.illinois.edu/news/2006/sung/\|title=Alumni Profile: Rebel With a Cause\|date=March 2006 \|publisher=U. of Illinois College of Liberal Arts and Sciences\|access-date=April 16, 2015}}</ref>
			* ] (酈安治) – associate professor of Journalism at ]
			* ] (鄧嗣禹) – Historian of late imperial China, at University of Indiana.
			* ] (吳修銘) – professor at ], in 2014 ran to become the first Chinese-American ] but lost.
			* ] (楊慶堃) – Sociologist at University of Pittsburgh.
			* ] (楊聯陞) – Sinologist. Harvard University.
			* ] (余英時) – Historian of China; Harvard, Yale, and Princeton Universities.
			* ] (Yuen Ren Chao) (趙元任) – Linguist at Harvard and University of California, Berkeley.

			===University administration===
			* ] – professor and former dean at the ]
			* ] – Professor and former Dean in the College of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering at the University of Akron, member of National Academic of Engineering
			* ] – former Director of Asian Studies and Dean of University Advisement, ]
			* ] – President and University Distinguished Professor of the City University of Hong Kong, University Distinguished Professor and former Dean of Engineering at the University of Tennessee
			* ] (李崇道) – former president of ], veterinarian and brother of ]
			* ] - Former President of University of Maryland College Park <ref>{{cite web \| url=https://president.umd.edu/administration/staff/wallace-d-loh \| title=Wallace D. Loh }}</ref>
			* ] – Chancellor of ] (1990–1997)
			* ] – Chancellor and Dean of the ] (2010–2015)
			* ] - Chancellor emerita of University of Hawaii at Hilo <ref> https://www.linkedin.com/in/rose-y-tseng-567b2930 </ref>
			* ] – Chancellor of ]
			* ] - Dean Emeritus of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Nova Southeastern University <ref>{{cite web \| url=https://works.bepress.com/honggang-yang/about/ \| title=SelectedWorks - Honggang Yang }}</ref>

			===Earth Sciences===
			* ] (陈霞芬) – Hydrologist working for ]

			==Sports==
			* ] (倪家骏) – Olympic medal winner, swimming
			* ] – professional wrestler and mixed martial artist
			* ] (陳金海, 陳強尼) – professional poker player
			* ] (張德培) – youngest male tennis player to win a Grand Slam tournament
			* ] – baseball player
			* ] (陳楷雯) – figure skater
			* ] (陳巍) – figure skater, 2022 Olympic gold medalist
			* ] (陳婷婷) – figure skater and 1985 U.S. national champion
			* ] (程拜仁) – soccer player for ] and the ]
			* ] - ] instructor
			* ] – first American-Chinese soccer player to play for the United States national team
			* ] – Strong Safety for the New England Patriots
			* ] (周婉儀) – gymnast and Olympic medal winner
			* ] (周友賢) – ] offensive coordinator
			* ] (朱慧雯) – Olympic medal winner, ice hockey
			* ] – professional surfer
			* ] (高昊) – figure skater
			* ] – poker player
			* ] (谷爱凌) – Free style skier and Olympic gold medalist
			* ] (郭宏源) – badminton player
			* ] (吳俊明) – badminton player
			* ] – gymnastics
			* ] – skateboarder
			* ] (米歇尔·金) - professional bodybuilder
			* ] – poker player
			* ] – tennis player, brother of ]
			* ] – tennis player who won both the 2010 Wimbledon Women's Doubles and 2010 US Open Women's Doubles titles
			* ] – soccer goalkeeper for ]
			* ] – soccer player
			* ] – former figure skater, sister of Michelle Kwan
			* ] (關穎珊) – Olympic medal winner, figure skating<ref>{{cite news\| url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/sports/longterm/olympics1998/sport/figskate/articles/chinese20.htm \| newspaper=The Washington Post \| title=Washingtonpost.com: Chinese Americans Bask in Kwan's Spotlight \| date=February 28, 1999}}</ref>
			* ] – chess player, ] Master
			* ] (林書豪) – professional basketball player, NBA (NY Knicks, Toronto Raptors, etc.), Linsanity
			* ] – gymnastics
			* ] – speedcuber
			* ] (伍佩琴) – ] executive
			* ] – professional wrestler known as Catrina and the WWE as Maxine (Chinese ancestry)
			* ] – professional ] racer
			* ] (谭凯文) – Olympic medal winner, gymnastics
			* ] – professional American football player
			* ] – rhythmic gymnastics
			* ] – professional beach volleyball player and Olympian
			* ] (吳紹綱) – professional ] player
			* ] – sports agent
			* ] – World Champion drag racer
			* ] (于潤荷) – U.S. women's chess champion in 2019 and 2022
			* ] (张圆圆) – figure skater
			* ] - professional golfer on the ]

			==Other==
			===Astronauts===
			* ] – NASA astronaut
			* ] – NASA astronaut
			* ] – NASA astronaut
			* ] – first ethnic Chinese scientist to go into space, in 1985 on space shuttle ''Challenger''

			===Gang leaders and criminals===
			* ] – leader of New York ] street gang
			* ] (周國祥) – also known as "Shrimp Boy", mobster, leader of the San Francisco chapter of ] and San Francisco Chinatown
			* ] (莊炳強) – leader of San Francisco area ] gang
			* David Chou (周文偉) – perpetrator of 2022 ]
			* ] (世荣模拟) – New York Chinatown mobster, leader of the ]
			* ] (伍少衡) – leader of New York ] street gang
			* ] – founder of San Francisco ] (Joe Boys) street gang
			* ] (陈文英) – Double agent for both U.S. and China
			* ] (駱文) – murderer who perpetrated the shooting at ] on December 14, 1992, in ]
			* ] – private equity manager, accused of running a ]
			* ] (馮正初) – San Francisco Chinatown mobster
			* ] – of mixed English and ] descent who perpetrated the ]
			* ] (薛明升) – committed notorious 1980 murder, rape, stalking
			* ] – leader of Boston ] street gang

	===~~Surnames~~ ~~A-C~~===		===Crime victims===
			* ] – her murder was the precipitating event for infamous New York Tong war
	* ] - rapper
			* ] (陳果仁) – beaten to death in 1982 racial hate incident by two White men considered by Chinese-American advocacy groups to be miscarriage of American justice
	* ] (包柏漪) - writer, novelist
			* ] – first Chinese American officer in the ] to ] in 2014
	* ] - former U.S. Attorney
			* ] (鄧月薇) – flight attendant on ], alerted ground crews and kept the world informed of the hijacking in progress
	* ] - Siamese twins pioneer immigrants
	* ] - Hong Kong singer/actress
	* ] - Hong Kong singer, son of ]
	* ] - Professional Poker Player
	* ] - writer
	* ] (張純如) - writer ]
	* ] - journalist, hip-hop historian
	* ] - writer; director of the Iowa Writer's Workshop
	* ] - youngest male tennis player to win a Grand Slam tournament
	* ] (張明覺) - co-inventor of the ].
	* ] - Secretary of Labor *
	* ] - actor
	* ] - actress, director
	* ] - newsreader on '']'' and host of '']''
	* ] - computer scientist, supercomputer designer, Cray
	* ] - bassist to alternative metal band, ]
	* ] (陳香梅) - author, journalist, notable in American public life; also, wife of ], of the ]
	* ] - mathematician
	* ] - NASA astronaut
	* ] (陳瑞鈿) - WW II pilot and fighter ace
	* ] - federal judge, ]
	* ] (趙健秀) - novelist, playwright, and essayist
	* ] - community leader
	* ] (陳婷婷) - figure skater
	* ] - victim of racial crime
	* ] - eccentric
	* ] (邱澤堃) - founder of ]
	* ] - former beauty queen hailing from Hong Kong
	* ] - adult film actress
	* ] - contemporary theater director
	* ] (周婉儀) - gymnast and Olympic medal winner
	* ] - actress, model (father is Chinese-American)
	* ] (周友賢) - Tennessee Titans offensive coordinator
	* ] (周文俊) - missile guidance scientist, digital computer pioneer
	* ] (朱欽騏) - fashion designer and founder of ] *
	* ] - United States Undersecretary of Defense for Readiness.
	* ] - Olympics hockey player
	* ] (朱經武) - physicist, superconductivity
	* ] - 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)
	* ], actor
	* ] - TV news anchor, the second woman ever to anchor a national news program
	* ] - mathematician

	===~~Surnames~~ ~~D-K~~===		===Religious leaders===
			* ] – preacher, founder of Cornerstone Community Church in ]
	* ] - former Republican ] from ]
			* ] – Baptist missionary in Chicago, Chinese school founder, co-author of ]<ref>{{Cite news \|date=July 10, 1904 \|title=These Chinese Tots of Chicago Go to School the Year Round \|pages=38 \|work=The Inter Ocean \|location=Chicago \|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97995922/chinese-school-in-chicago/ \|access-date=March 22, 2022 \|via=]}}</ref>
	* ] - former Republican state treasurer of ]
			* ] – Member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
	* ] (方振豪) - journalist, ]
			* ] (見曇) – Buddhist monk and current abbot of the Chung Tai Zen Center of Houston
	* ] - professional surfer
			* ] – Zen Buddhist Master of ] lineage, founder and head abbot of ]
	* ] (何大一) - AIDS researcher
			* ] – world's first Chinese-American rabbi
	* ] - Chinese Cambodian actor; won an Oscar for Best Supporting actor in ]
			* ] – ] (2002–2009)
	* ] - actress
			* ] (釋延明) – 34th generation Shaolin monk and founder of the USA Shaolin Temple
	* ] (黃仁勳) - cofounder, CEO, ]
			* ] (Guo Gu or 果谷) – Chan teacher of ] lineage, Associate Professor of Religion at ] and founder of Tallahassee Chan Center in ]
	* ] - of ] fame
	* ], actor
	* ] - writer, novelist
	* ] (黃宗霑) - two-time Academy Award winning cinematographer
	* ] (黃哲倫) - playwright
	* ] - owner of the Hello Deli next to the Ed Sullivan Theatre; has made numerous appearances on ]
	* ] - writer, novelist
	* ] - novelist, winner of the National Book Award for "Waiting"
	* ] (鍾彬嫻)- CEO, Avon products
	* ] - Actor and model
	* ] - Co-founder, Chairman and CEO of ] Ltd
	* ] - singer "Kelis, born to a Puerto Rican and Chinese mother and African-American father, began her singing aspirations as a child with the Girl's Choir of Harlem."
	* ] - former figure skater, sister of Michelle Kwan
	* ] (關穎珊) - figure skater
	* ] (關南施) - first Chinese-born star in Western cinema

	===~~Surnames L-M~~===		===Other===
			* ] (帅贝贝) – Prosecuted for murder and ] due to a pregnancy loss after a suicide attempt.
	* ] - former beauty queen hailing from Hong Kong
	* ] - ], ] actor
	* ] -actor, son of ]
	* ] - singer
	* ] (李健孫) - writer
	* ], Sheriff of Jefferson Parish, ].
	* ] - forensic scientist
	* ] (李截) - actor
	* ] (李政道) - 1957 Nobel laureate in Physics
	* ] (李文和) - nuclear physicist, accused spy (acquitted) *
	* ] - ] model *
	* ] (李連杰) - action movie actor
	* ] - singer-songwriter
	* ] - news anchor
	* ] (林瓔) - architect (])
	* ] - journalist, one of the first Asian Americans on network TV news
	* ] - civil engineer (bridgebuilder)
	* ] - actress
	*] (凌志慧) (1973 - ) journalist, known for her role as a co-host of ABC's ''The View'' and host of ''National Geographic Ultimate Explorer''<ref>'''Ling''' - "The Committee of 100, an organization composed of elite Chinese Americans, accepted Lisa Ling as one of its members in 2004"</ref>
	* ] - writer, a speechwriter of ] *
	*] (1968 - ) film/television actress (''Charlie's Angels'', ''Kill Bill'')<ref name="Liu1">{{cite news \| last =Hamamoto\| first =Ben\| coauthors=\| title =O’Donnell Apologizes for ‘Ching-Chang-Chong’ Joke\| pages=\| publisher =Nichi Bei Times\| date =] \| url =http://www.nichibeitimes.com/articles/news.php?subaction=showfull&id=1166726773&archive=&start_from=&ucat=1\| accessdate =2006-12-22 }}</ref>
	* ] - overseas student leader
	* ] - Hong Kong singer
	* ] - former Democratic Governor of Washington
	* ] (尊龍) - actor, most notable for his role as ] in ]
	* ] - writer
	* ] - NASA astronaut
	* ] - In ], he invented an orange, which is still grown in ], that survives cold weather
	* ] - actor
	* ] (馬嚴君玲) - author and physician
	* ] (馬友友) - cellist
	* ] (毛道彰) - singer-songwriter
	* ] - singer-songwriter, model, writer

			<!-- northern Chinese
	===Surnames N-V===
	* ] - Chinese Malaysian actress who played the title character in Nickelodeon's The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo
	* ] (伍佩琴) - baseball executive
	* ] - Hong Kong actress
	* ] - ] on ]
	* ] - Taiwanese pop star *
	* ] (貝聿銘) - architect, designed the Louvre Pyramid
	* ] (仇雲波) - martial artist
	* ] a.k.a. Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
	* ] (Jennifer Tsou) - Television news anchor, Star TV
	* ] - fashion designer
	* ] - adult film actress *
	* ] (譚燕玉) - fashion designer
	* ] - best-selling author
	* ] - Grammy and Oscar award winning composer; recipient of the prestigious Grawemeyer Award for his opera Marco Polo
	* ] - judge
	* ] - mathematician
	* ] - singer-songwriter
	* ] - professor, former chancellor ]
	* ] - actress (born in ])
	* ] - actress *
	* ] - 1976 Nobel laureate, Physics
	* ] - actress, "]", "]", "]", "]", "]", former ] (first non-Caucasian winner) *
	* ] (譚志豪) - beatboxer, mathematician
	* ] - actress
	* ] - Television news anchor, WPIX-TV
	* ] (蔡明)- chef and restaurateur (Blue Ginger); host of Emmy Award winning television show "East Meets West"
	* ] - 1998 Nobel prize, Physics

			Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
	===Surnames W-Z===
			Julia Chang Bloch
	* ] - computer engineer and inventor; co-founder of Wang Laboratories
			C
	* ] (王嘉廉) - founder, CEO, chairman, Computer Associates
			Glen Cao
	* ] (王建民) - pitcher of the ], #40 *
			Kang-i Sun Chang
			Leslie T. Chang
			Min Chueh Chang
			P. C. Chang
			Sun-Yung Alice Chang
			Anna Chennault
			Mung Chiang
			Liang Chow
			D
			Wendi Deng Murdoch
			Tung Hu Ling
			F
			John Fugh
			The Fung Brothers
			H
			Ariel Hsing
			Eddie Huang
			K
			Kaiser Kuo
			L
			Li Fang-Kuei
			Lucy Liu
			Cary Lu
			M
			Adeline Yen Mah
			P
			Anna Chao Pai
			Ellen Pao
			W
			Benjamin Wey
			Allan Wu
			X
			Xue Feng
			Y
			Yu So-chow
			Z
			Jay Zhong
			Zhou Long
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			== References ==
	* ] - murdered at her university
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	* ] (王以瞻) - actor in ]
	* ] (王力宏) - Taiwanese pop singer *
	* ] - first ethnic Chinese scientist to go into space, 1985 on space shuttle Challenger
	* ] - fashion designer
	* ] - ] ]
	* ] - creator of ]
	* ] - ]-born actress
	* ] - first female Asian-American star of the screen
	* ] (黃榮亮) - actor in ], winner of a Tony Award for M Butterfly
	* ] - Model and actress
	* ] - writer
	* ] (王盛德) - actor
	* ] (黃宗泰) - Sinologist, translator, and literary theorist
	* ] (黃自強) - ] actor
	* ] (吳仙標) - former ] and ] of ], current president of the 80-20 Initiative
	* ] (吳健雄)- female scientist
	* ] - first and only Chinese American U.S. Representative, Democrat from ]
	* ] (吳彥祖) - Hong Kong-based Chinese American actor.
	* ] - science-fiction artist
	* ] - human rights activist
	* ] - adult model and actress
	* ] - host of ]
	* ] (楊振寧) - 1957 Nobel laureate in Physics
	* ] (楊祖佑) - chancellor, ]
	* ] - writer, media/business consultant, Asian American culture columnist for the ]
	* ] (楊致遠) - founder of ] *
	* ] (楊紫燁) Filmmaker, Editor
	* ] - actor and artist *
	* ] (丘成桐) - mathematician
	* ] - Army Captain formerly charged with sedition
	* ] (叶祥添)- author of children's books
	* ] (郑珣) - world's oldest user of the Internet
	* ] (于丽萍) - model and singer *
	* ] - journalist
	* ] - writer
	* ] (容闳) - first Chinese and Asian to obtain a degree from an American college (])
	* ] (謝漢蘭) - community activist and writer

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Arts

Dance

Goh Choo San (吴诸珊) – ballet dancer and choreographer
Shen Wei (沈伟) – dancer, choreographer and visual artist; MacArthur fellow
Fang-Yi Sheu (許芳宜) – principal dancer of the Martha Graham Dance Company

Fashion design

Malan Breton (马兰·布莱顿) – fashion designer
Luly Yang – fashion designer
Angel Chang – fashion designer
Monika Chiang – fashion designer
Wenlan Chia (賈雯蘭) – fashion designer
Doug Chiang (江道格) – movie designer and artist
David Chu (朱欽騏) – co-founder of clothing company Nautica
Diana Eng – fashion designer
Joe Allen Hong – fashion designer for Neiman Marcus
Jen Kao – fashion designer
Jonathan Koon – fashion designer, business entrepreneur
Derek Lam – fashion designer
Phillip Lim – fashion designer
Peter Mui – fashion designer, actor, and musician
Mary Ping – fashion designer
Peter Som – fashion designer
Anna Sui (蕭志美) – fashion designer
Vivienne Tam (谭燕玉) – fashion designer
Yeohlee Teng – fashion designer
Alexander Wang (王大仁) – fashion designer
Kaisik Wong – fashion designer
Vera Wang (王薇薇) – fashion designer
Jason Wu (吳季剛) – fashion designer
Joe Zee – creative director of Elle magazine; host of fashion TV series All on the Line

Literature

Bette Bao Lord (包柏漪) – writer, novelist
Eileen Chang (张爱玲, a.k.a. 张煐) – writer
Kang-i Sun Chang (孫康宜) – writer and literary scholar
Lan Samantha Chang – writer; director of the Iowa Writer's Workshop
Victoria Chang – poet, children's writer, and essayist
Ted Chiang (姜峯楠) – speculative fiction writer
Frank Chin (趙健秀) – novelist, playwright, and essayist
Marilyn Chin (陈美玲) – poet
Ben Fee (张恨棠/木云) – writer and labor organizer
David Henry Hwang (黃哲倫) – playwright
Gish Jen (任璧蓮) – writer, novelist
Ha Jin (哈金) – novelist, winner of the National Book Award for Waiting
Maxine Hong Kingston – novelist, The Woman Warrior
R. F. Kuang (匡灵秀) – fantasy novelist, The Poppy War
Jean Kwok – writer, novelist
Edward Michael Law-Yone – writer, journalist; father of Wendy Law-Yone
Wendy Law-Yone – writer
Gus Lee (李健孫) – writer
Carolyn Lei-Lanilau – writer
Yiyun Li (李翊雲) – winner of the 2006 PEN/Hemingway Award
Ed Lin (林景南) – writer, first author to win three Asian American Literary Awards
Tao Lin (林韜) – writer
Eric Liu (劉柏川) – author and speechwriter for former US President Bill Clinton
Malinda Lo – writer, young adult novels, Ash
David Wong Louie (雷祖威) – writer
Marie Lu (陸希未) – writer
Ling Ma – writer, Severance
Adeline Yen Mah (馬嚴君玲) – author and physician
William Marr (馬為義,非馬) – engineer, poet, translator, and artist
Chanel Miller – artist and author of Know My Name
Anchee Min (閔安琪) – author, Red Azalea
Celeste Ng (伍綺詩) – writer, novelist
Lisa See – writer
Sui Sin Far (水仙花) – late 19th/early 20th century Chinese-English American author and journalist
Amy Tan (譚恩美) – best-selling author, The Joy Luck Club
Timothy Tau (謝韜) – writer, novelist, screenwriter, film director
Jade Snow Wong (黃玉雪) – writer
Shawn Wong – novelist, Homebase, American Knees; writer; professor
Timothy C. Wong (黃宗泰) – sinologist, translator, and literary theorist
Xu Xi (許素細) – English language novelist based in Hong Kong
Geling Yan (严歌苓) – novelist and screenwriter
Gene Luen Yang (楊謹倫) – graphic novelist, whose book American Born Chinese was the first graphic novel to be nominated for a National Book Award
Laurence Yep (叶祥添) – two-time winner of the Newbery Honor
Connie Young Yu – writer, historian, lecturer, and 2016 "Woman of the Year" California Senate District 13
Judy Yung – writer
Kat Zhang – author of young adult and middle grade novels
Jenny Zhang – essayist, poet, novelist
Jenny Tinghui Zhang – novelist

Theater

Ping Chong (張家平) – contemporary theater director
Dan Kwong – playwright
BD Wong – Tony Award-winning actor, M Butterfly, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Visual arts

Ernie Chan – comic book artist/inker for Marvel Comics and DC Comics.
Ching Ho Cheng – artist
Alan Chin – artist
Mel Chin – artist
Cai Guo-Qiang (蔡國強) – artist and gunpowder works designer
Han Hsiang-ning (韓湘寧) – artist
James Wong Howe (黃宗霑) – nominated for ten Academy Awards for cinematography, won twice (1955, 1963)
Maya Lin (林瓔) – architect (Vietnam Veterans Memorial)
Haven Lin-Kirk – artist and designer, Dean of the USC Gayle Garner Roski School of Art and Design
Reagan Louie – American photographer
Seong Moy – painter and printmaker
I. M. Pei (貝聿銘) – architect, designed the Louvre Pyramid
Irene Mei Zhi Shum (沈美芝) - Contemporary Art Curator
Mimi So – jewelry designer
May Sun – artist, public art
Fan Tchunpi – painter, ceramicist
Frank Wong – dioramist
Tyrus Wong (黃齊耀) – artist
Frank Wu – science-fiction illustrator
Xu Bing – artist

Business

Financial

Gerald Chan (陳樂宗) – son of T.H. Chan, property investments
Ida Liu (劉宏敏) – Global Head of Citi Private Bank
Tim Chen – co-founder and CEO of NerdWallet
Yan Huo (霍焱) – co-founder of Capula Investment Management, 8th largest hedge fund in Europe by assets
Alfred Lin (林君叡) – venture capitalist at Sequoia Capital
Ken Lin – founder and CEO of Credit Karma
Norman Liu (柳澈漯) – CEO and president of GECAS (2008–2015)
Look Tin Eli (陸潤卿) – co-founder of the Canton Bank of San Francisco (1907-1926) and one of the prime movers in the rebuilding of Chinatown after the 1906 quake
Li Lu (李录) – hedge fund manager and founder and chairman of Himalaya Capital
Dominic Ng (吴建民) – CEO and president of East West Bank (1992– )
Lou Pai (白露龍) – CEO of Enron Xcelerator, a venture capital division of Enron
Donald Tang – former vice-chairman of Bear Stearns
Oscar Tang (唐騮千) – financier and philanthropist
Gerald Tsai (蔡至勇) – financier, former chairman and CEO of Primerica
Gary Wang – co-founder of the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX
Mun Charn Wong (黃門贊) – former executive of Transamerica Corporation
Peng Zhao (赵鹏) – CEO of Citadel Securities

Food

Roger H. Chen (陳河源) – founder of Tawa Supermarket Inc., also known as 99 Ranch Market
Andrew Cherng (程正昌) – co-founder of Panda Express, billionaire
Bob Chinn – owner of Bob Chinn's Crab House, highest grossing restaurant in America
Johnny Kan – founder of Kan's Restaurant
Ping Tom (譚繼平) – Chicago-based food industry businessman; uncle of Lauren Tom

Industrial

Ting Tsung Chao – founder of The Chao Group and Westlake Chemical
Albert Chao – co-founder of Westlake Chemical, son of Ting Tsung Chao
James Yuan Chao – chair of the Westlake Chemical Corporation, son of Ting Tsung Chao
Allen Chao – founder of Allergan, plc pharmaceutical and medical device co.
David T. Hon – founder and CEO of Dahon bicycle co.
Noel Lee – founder and CEO of Monster Cable
Cyrus Tang – scrap metal and furniture magnate

Internet

Fred Chang – founder of Newegg, billionaire
Pehong Chen – founder of Gain Technology and Broadvision
Perry Chen – co-founder of Kickstarter
Steve Chen – co-founder of YouTube
Ben Chiu – founder of KillerApp.com
Tracy Chou – Project Include, former Pinterest and Quora engineer
Daniel Ha – co-founder of Disqus
Tony Hsieh (謝家華) – co-founder of LinkExchange, later CEO of Zappos online shoe store
Jameson Hsu – co-founder and CEO of Mochi Media
Justin Kan – co-founder Twitch
Kai-Fu Lee – founding president of Google China
Ellen Pao – Reddit's CEO from 2014 to 2015, filed gender and race discrimination lawsuit against Perkins and lost
Ben Silbermann – co-founder and CEO of Pinterest, billionaire
Greg Tseng – co-founder and CEO of Tagged
Yishan Wong – CEO of Reddit (2012–2014); director of engineering of Facebook (2005–2010)
Jerry Yang – co-founder of NASDAQ-100 component Yahoo!, billionaire
David Yu – high tech investor and CEO of Betfair (2006–2011)

Technology

John S. Chen (程守宗) – CEO of BlackBerry; former CEO of Sybase
Steve Chen (陳世卿) – founder and CEO of Galactic Computing
James Chu – founder, CEO and chairman of ViewSonic, one of the largest computer monitor brands
Alfred Chuang (庄思浩) – co-founder BEA Systems (acquired by Oracle in 2008)
Weili Dai (戴伟立) – co-founder of Marvell Technology Group
Ping Fu (傅苹) – co-founder of Geomagic
Ming Hsieh (謝明) – co-founder Cogent Systems (sold to 3M in 2009)
Jensen Huang (黃仁勳) – co-founder and CEO of NASDAQ-100 component NVIDIA
Kai Huang – co-founder of Guitar Hero franchise
Robert T. Huang – founder of Fortune 500 company Synnex
David Ji – founded Apex Digital
Min Kao (高民環) – co-founder of Garmin
David Lam (林杰屏) – founder of Lam Research
Deb Liu – CEO of Ancestry.com
Patrick Soon-Shiong (黄馨祥) – founder of Abraxis BioScience and NantHealth
Lisa Su (蘇姿豐) – CEO and president of NASDAQ-100 component Advanced Micro Devices
David Sun (孫大衛) – co-founder and COO of Kingston Technologies
Sehat Sutardja (周秀文) – co-founder of Marvell Technology Group
Lip-Bu Tan (陈立武) – president and CEO of Cadence Design Systems
Victor Tsao (曹英偉) – co-founder of Linksys (sold to Cisco Systems)
John Tu (杜紀川) – co-founder of Kingston Technologies
Alexandr Wang – founder and CEO of Scale AI
An Wang (王安) – co-founder of Wang Laboratories
Charles Wang (王嘉廉) – founder of CA Technologies, owner of the New York Islanders
William Wang (王蔚) – founder and CEO of Vizio
Ken Xie (谢青) – founder of Fortinet and NetScreen (acquired by Juniper Networks in 2004)
Bing Yeh (葉炳輝) – founder of Silicon Storage Technology and Greenliant Systems
Eric Yuan (袁征) – founder and CEO of Zoom
Min Zhu (朱敏) – co-founder of WebEx (sold to Cisco Systems)

Other

Sam Chang – New York real estate and hotel developer
James S.C. Chao – New York shipping magnate and father of Elaine Chao
John Chuang – co-founder and CEO of staffing consultancy Aquent
Andy Fang – co-founder of DoorDash
Lew Hing – shipping, hotel, and canning tycoon
Andrea Jung (鍾彬嫻) – Chair of Avon
Christine Poon – business executive at Bristol Myers Squib and Johnson & Johnson, dean of Ohio State University Fisher College of Business
Stanley Tang – co-founder of DoorDash
Tony Xu (徐迅) – co-founder of DoorDash

Entertainment

Stephen Chao – media executive
Dan Lin – Hollywood film producer and former SVP at Warner Bros.
Mynette Louie – producer and co-founder of Gamechanger Films
John J. Sie – founder of Starz Inc.
Andrea Wong – president of International Production for Sony Pictures Television and president of International for Sony Pictures Entertainment

Actors

Awkwafina (林家珍) – actress and rapper
Tyson Beckford – model and actor
Ross Butler - actor
Chloe Bennet (汪可盈) – actress and singer
T. V. Carpio – actress and singer
Tina Huang — stage, television actress
Tia Carrere – actress, singer
Flora Chan (陳慧珊) – actress
JuJu Chan – actress
Michael Paul Chan - actor
Emily Chang - actress
Louis Ozawa Changchien – actor
Rosalind Chao – actress
Zoë Chao – actress and writer
Fala Chen – actress
Hank Chen – actor and comedian
Joan Chen (陳冲) – actress, The Last Emperor, director
Lynn Chen – actress, Saving Face
Kevin Cheng (鄭嘉穎) – actor and singer
Cheng Pei-pei (鄭佩佩) – actress, known for films Come Drink with Me and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Karin Anna Cheung – actress, Angela, in Quentin Lee's feature film The People I've Slept With (2009)
Feodor Chin – actor, writer, director
Lori Tan Chinn – actress
Annabel Chong – adult film actress
Peter Chong – film and stage actor
Tommy Chong, Canadian-American comedian, actor, writer, director, activist, and musician, part of comedy duo Cheech & Chong
China Chow – actress, model
Kelsey Chow – actress
Michaela Conlin – actress
Auliʻi Cravalho – actress and singer
Tiffany Espensen - actress
Roger Fan – actor
James Hong – actor and director
George Hu (胡宇威) – actor
Kelly Hu – actress
Madison Hu – actress, Bizaardvark
Celina Jade – actress, singer and martial artist
Malese Jow – actress and singer on Unfabulous and The Vampire Diaries
Archie Kao – actor and model
Lawrence Kao - actor
Matthew Yang King - actor
Michelle Krusiec – actress
Nancy Kwan – first Chinese-born star in Western cinema
Brandon Lee (李國豪) – actor, son of Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee (李小龍) – kung fu actor, son of Lee Hoi-chuen
Jason Scott Lee – actor
Michelle Lee – actress, martial artist and stuntwoman
Peyton Elizabeth Lee - actress
Shannon Lee (李香凝) – actress, and daughter of Bruce Lee
Kaylani Lei – pornographic actress
Al Leong - actor and stuntman
Ken Leung – actor, Lost, X-Men: The Last Stand
Telly Leung - actor and singer
James Hiroyuki Liao – actor
Julia Ling (林小微) – actress, Chuck
Dyana Liu – actress
Lucy Liu (刘玉玲) – actress, Charlie's Angels, Kill Bill
Liu Yifei – actress and singer
John Lone – actor, most notable for his role as Puyi in The Last Emperor
Jodi Long – actress
Keye Luke – actor
Tzi Ma (馬泰) – actor
Byron Mann – actor, notable for playing the role of Ryu in Street Fighter
Marie Matiko – actress
Meiling Melançon – actress
Matthew Moy – actor, 2 Broke Girls, most notable for the voice of Lars Barriga (Steven Universe)
Olivia Munn – actress, model and television personality
Irene Ng – actress, played the title character in Nickelodeon's The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo
Melissa Ng – actress
Haing S. Ngor – actor; won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in The Killing Fields
Julia Nickson-Soul – actress, most notable for playing the role of Co-Bao in Rambo: First Blood Part II
Jimmy Ouyang (歐陽萬成) – actor, writer and comedian
Will Pan (潘瑋柏) – singer and songwriter
Janel Parrish – actress and singer
Ke Huy Quan – actor and stunt choreographer; played Short Round in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Chester See – YouTube personality, musician, and Broadway actor.
Ivan Shaw – actor
Freda Foh Shen - actress
Parry Shen – actor
Robin Shou (仇雲波) – actor, stuntman, martial artist
Harry Shum, Jr. (岑勇康) – actor, dancer, and singer in Glee and Shadowhunters
Soo Yong (岑勇) – Hollywood and television actress.
Kaiji Tang (唐凯吉) – voice actor
Will Tiao (刁毓能) – actor and producer
Jennifer Tilly – actress, Bound (born in California)
Meg Tilly – actress
Chuti Tiu – actress, Desire, 24, Dragnet, Beautiful, The Specials; former America's Junior Miss (first non-Caucasian winner)
Kiana Tom – actress, television host, and exercise instructor
Lauren Tom – actress, The Joy Luck Club, "Julie" on Friends
Jessika Van – actress, singer, portrays "Becca" on MTV's Awkward
Garrett Wang – actor in Star Trek: Voyager
Ming-Na Wen (溫明娜) – Macanese-born actress, ER, Mulan
Samantha Win - actress, martial artist, stuntwoman and wushu taolu athlete
Anna May Wong (黃柳霜) – first female Asian-American star of the screen
Grace Wong (王君馨) – actress
Michael Wong (王敏德) – actor
Russell Wong (王盛德) – actor
Victor Wong (黃自強) – actor
Constance Wu (吳恬敏) – actress
Daniel Wu – actor
Jade Wu – actress, screenwriter, director
Kevin Wu (吳凱文) – YouTube star, once #1 all-time most subscribed comedian
Leonard Wu – actor, producer and writer
Bowen Yang – actor and writer, Saturday Night Live
Welly Yang – actor and artist
Michelle Ye (葉璇) – actress
Kelvin Han Yee – actor
Gwendoline Yeo – musician and actress
Keone Young – actor
Eugenia Yuan (原麗淇) – actress and daughter of Cheng Pei-pei
Catalina Yue – actress, singer, model
Victor Sen Yung – actor, portrayed Hop Sing in Bonanza
Nan Zhang (张楠) – actress, Gossip Girl

Directors

Arvin Chen – director and screenwriter
Tze Chun – writer, director
Esther Eng – director
Dayyan Eng - writer, producer, director
Ang Lee – Academy Award-winning director
Quentin Lee (李孟熙) – Canadian / American director, known for gay Asian stories
Justin Lin – director, Better Luck Tomorrow, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, Fast & Furious
Freida Lee Mock – Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker and co-founder of the American Film Foundation
David Ren – film director, Shanghai Kiss
Timothy Tau – writer and director
Wayne Wang – Hollywood director; won the Golden Shell
Ruby Yang – film director
Jessica Yu – Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker; film and television director

Musicians

Jin Au-yeung – rapper, songwriter, actor
Carmit Bachar – singer and member of the Pussycat Dolls
Baiyu – singer, songwriter, actress, mtvU VJ
Foxy Brown – rapper
Dennis Ruowei Cao (曹偌伟) – a.k.a. One Child Policy, electronic musician
Jaycee Chan – Hong Kong singer-songwriter, actor
Robert Chen – violinist, concertmaster of Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Chi Cheng – bassist of alternative metal band, Deftones
Andrew Chou – member of hip-hop group Machi
Dawen – singer, songwriter
Leah Dizon – model and singer
Khalil Fong – singer, songwriter
Nichkhun Buck Horvejkul – singer and rapper member of the K-pop group, 2PM
Hao Huang (pianist), composer, writer and professor at Scripps College
Lucia Hwong – composer, musician, known for ethereal music and pipa (Chinese lute)
Jon Jang – jazz pianist, composer, band leader
Kelis – singer 1/4 Chinese
Fei Xiang (费翔) – a.k.a. Kris Phillips, pop singer and theater actor
Larissa Lam – singer-songwriter, television host, music executive, film director
Chihchun Chi-sun Lee – composer
CoCo Lee – singer
Dai-Keong Lee – composer
Cho-Liang Lin – violinist
Jenny Lin – pianist
Joseph Lin – first violinist for Juilliard String Quartet
Amber Liu – rapper and singer of K-pop group f(x)
Kate Liu – classical pianist
Justin Lo – Hong Kong singer-songwriter, actor
Zhou Long – winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Music
Yo-Yo Ma (馬友友) – cellist
Charles Mingus – jazz double bassist, composer, band leader
Chino Moreno – vocalist and guitarist of Deftones
Fats Navarro – jazz trumpeter
Ne-Yo – R&B artist, 1/4 Chinese
Richard On – guitarist-songwriter for rock band O.A.R.
Will Pan – singer-songwriter, rapper and actor
Saweetie – rapper
Bright Sheng – composer, conductor, and pianist
Shunza – singer
Vienna Teng – singer-songwriter
Kenneth Tse – classical saxophonist
Sam Tsui – YouTube singer
Mark Tuan – Taiwanese rapper of K-pop group Got7
Lara Veronin – vocalist
Wang Leehom – singer-songwriter, record producer, actor and film director
Joanna Wang – singer
Kiki Wong, guitarist of Smashing Pumpkins
Chris Wong Won ("Fresh Kid Ice", 'The Chinaman") – Chinese Trinidadian rapper, member of 2 Live Crew
Only Won – rapper, actor, martial artist, producer of Finding Cleveland
Vanness Wu – actor, singer, director, producer
Sophia Yan – classical pianist
Catalina Yue – singer, songwriter, model
Nancy Zhou – violin player

Other

Chang and Eng Bunker (暹羅雙胞胎) – Siamese twins, pioneer immigrants
Ken Hom – chef, author and British television show presenter
Steven Ho – martial artist and stunt man
Janet Hsieh – model and travel host of Fun Taiwan
Eddie Huang (黃頤銘) – writer, celebrity TV chef
William Hung – musician of American Idol fame
Carrie Ann Inaba – judge on Dancing with the Stars
Rupert Jee – owner of the Hello Deli next to the Ed Sullivan Theater; regular on Late Show with David Letterman
Zach King - American Internet Personality; father is of half Chinese ancestry
Miranda Kwok – screenwriter
Shin Lim (林申) – close-up magician
Afong Moy – "The Chinese Lady," pioneer immigrant
May Pang (庞凤仪) – personal assistant and arts producer for John Lennon and Yoko Ono, romantic partner with Lennon.
Ming Tsai – chef and restaurateur (Blue Ginger); host of Emmy Award-winning television show East Meets West
Shen Wei – choreographer, stage designer
Kristina Wong (黄君儀) – comedian
Martin Yan – chef, host of Yan Can Cook
Janet Yang (杨燕子) - film producer
Vern Yip – interior designer and TV host

Journalism and news media

Ben Calhoun – radio journalist with This American Life
Melissa Chan – journalist with ABC News (2002-2004) and Al Jazeera America (2013-2016)
Sewell Chan – journalist, The New York Times
Emily Chang – journalist from CNN
Iris Chang (張純如) – historian and journalist, Thread of the Silkworm and The Rape of Nanking
Jeff Chang – journalist, hip-hop historian
Laura Chang – science editor, The New York Times
William Y. Chang – founder of the Chinese-American Times newspaper
Adrian Chen – investigative journalist, staff writer at The New Yorker
Christine Chen – journalist and anchor
Julie Chen – newsreader on The Early Show and host of Big Brother
Anna Chen Chennault (陳香梅) – journalist, spouse of Claire Chennault, of the Flying Tigers
Ron Chew – former editor International Examiner, founding member of Seattle Chapter of the Asian American Journalists Association
Howard G. Chua-Eoan – news director, Time magazine
Connie Chung – became the second woman to co-anchor a major network national news broadcast
Veronica De La Cruz – journalist, NBC News (2010–2014); alternating anchor on both Early Today on NBC and First Look on MSNBC
Ben Fong-Torres (方振豪) – journalist, Rolling Stone
Cindy Hsu – news reporter at WCBS-TV in New York City
Weijia Jiang (姜偉嘉) - White House correspondent, CBS News
Jennifer 8. Lee (李競) – journalist, The New York Times
Melissa Lee – Emmy award-winning journalist, CNBC, NBC News, MSNBC, Bloomberg Television, CNN Financial News
Portia Li (李秀蘭) – journalist
Dion Lim – Emmy Award winning journalist
Carol Lin – news anchor
Sam Chu Lin (趙帝恩) – journalist, one of the first Asian Americans on network TV news
Laura Ling – journalist, sister of Lisa Ling
Lisa Ling (凌志慧) (1973- ) – journalist, known for her role as a co-host of ABC's The View and host of National Geographic Ultimate Explorer
Betty Liu – news anchor, Bloomberg Television
Richard Lui – news anchor of MSNBC
Chiang Nan (江南) – newspaper editor
Kaity Tong – news anchor for WPIX-TV in New York City
Edward Wong – journalist, former writer for The New York Times
Sheryl WuDunn – Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author
Jeff Yang – columnist for The Wall Street Journal
John Yang – Peabody Award winning news correspondent and commentator for NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, Today, and MSNBC
Angela Yee - radio personality at Power 105.1FM
Al Young journalist, 1st Asian American Mainland U.S. newspaper sportswriter, editor, columnist.
Anthony Yuen (阮次山) – journalist

Military

Danny Chen (陳宇暉) – Private, United States Army Infantryman, was found shot to death after being racially harassed and beaten by his fellow soldiers in Afghanistan
Arthur Chin (陳瑞鈿) – World War II pilot and fighter ace with Canton Provincial Air Force, National Revolutionary Army
Larry Wu-tai Chin (金无怠) – CIA and Army translator and intelligence analyst 1944–1981, spy for China.
David S. C. Chu – United States Army Captain (retired), Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness (2001–2008), president/CEO of the Institute for Defense Analyses
Gordon Pai'ea Chung-Hoon – United States Navy Rear Admiral (Upper Half)
John Liu Fugh – first Chinese American officer to be promoted to the rank of major general in the United States Army; first Chinese American to serve as Judge Advocate General of the Army
Lau Sing Kee - United States Army; for heroism in World War I he became the first Chinese American to be awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, the military's second highest award for valor.
Wah Kau Kong – United States Air Force Second Lieutenant, first Chinese American fighter pilot
Hazel Ying Lee (李月英) – first Chinese American woman to earn a pilot's license; flew for the United States Army Air Forces during World War II as a Woman Airforce Service Pilot (WASP)
Kurt Lee – Major, US Marine Corps.; first Asian American Marine Corps officer, Navy Cross recipient
Coral Wong Pietsch – United States Army Reserve Brigadier General, first female Asian American general officer
Suzanne Vares-Lum (born 1967 - United States Army Major-General, served in Iraq War
Francis B. Wai – United States Army Captain, only Chinese American to have been awarded the Medal of Honor
Mun Charn Wong – United States Air Force Lieutenant Colonel, friend of Wah Kau Kong
Ted Wong – United States Army Major General, Chief of the U.S. Army Dental Corps (2011–2014)
Xiong Yan – student leader during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 and now a chaplain in the United States Army
James Yee – United States Army Captain and chaplain, formerly charged with sedition; author of the memoir For God and Country: Faith and Patriotism Under Fire
Jonathan A. Yuen – United States Navy Rear Admiral and commander of Naval Supply Systems Command
Fang Wong – National Commander of The American Legion (2011–2012)

Politics and government

National politics

Elaine Chao (赵小兰) – former Secretary of Transportation (2017-2021) and former Secretary of Labor (2001–2009) (Republican)
Lanhee Chen (陳仁宜) – conservative government policy academic, policy director in Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign (Republican), news media political commentator
Steven Chu (朱棣文) – physicist, former Secretary of Energy (2009–2013), winner of 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics for research in laser cooling (Democratic)
Nancy-Ann DeParle – Director of the White House Office of Health Reform (Democratic)
Gary Locke (骆家辉) – United States Ambassador to China (2011–2014); United States Secretary of Commerce (2009–2011); Governor of Washington (1997–2005), first and only Chinese American to serve as a state governor (Democratic)
Chris Lu (卢沛宁) – Assistant to former President Barack Obama and Cabinet Secretary (Democratic)
Julie Su - acting United States Secretary of Labor (2023-Present)
Katherine Tai (戴琪) – 19th United States Trade Representative
Tina Tchen (陈远美) – Chief of Staff to the First Lady of the United States, director of Office of Public Liaison during Obama administration (Democratic)
Andrew Yang (杨安泽) – unsuccessful 2020 presidential candidate

Congress

Daniel Akaka – former US Senator from Hawaii; first Native Hawaiian US Senator; Democrat
Judy Chu (趙美心) – first Chinese-American woman to serve as US Representative (2009–present); Democrat
Charles Djou (周永康) – US Representative from Hawaii (2010–2011); Republican
Hiram L. Fong (鄺友良) – former US Senator from Hawaii; first US Senator of Chinese ancestry; Republican
Ted Lieu (劉雲平) – Democrat representing the 33rd District of California
Grace Meng (孟昭文) – Democrat representing the 22nd District of New York
David Wu (吳振偉) – first Taiwanese American US Representative, Democrat from Oregon

Local and state

Wilma Chan – first Asian American California State Assembly Majority Leader (2002–2004); Democrat
John Chiang – California State Controller (2007–present); Democrat
Margaret Chin – member of the New York City Council representing Chinatown
David Chiu – Democrat representing the 17th Assembly District, California State Assembly
March Fong Eu – former Secretary of State of California (1975–1994), elected in 1974, she won reelection four times; United States Ambassador to the Federated States of Micronesia (1994–1996); Democrat
Matthew K. Fong – California State Treasurer (1995–1999), adoptive son of March Fong Eu; Republican
Allan Fung – Mayor of Cranston, Rhode Island; Republican
Tony Hwang – State Representative of the Connecticut General Assembly; Republican
Ed Jew – former member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors; Democrat
Peter Koo – member of the New York City Council representing Flushing, Queens
Ed Lee – Mayor of San Francisco (2011–2017)
Harry Lee – longtime sheriff of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana; first elected in 1979, he was re-elected six times and served 27 and a half years (Democratic)
Susan C. Lee – Senator, Maryland Senate of Maryland General Assembly;first Asian American elected to Maryland Senate and first Chinese American elected to Maryland House of Delegates and Maryland General Assembly.
John Liu – New York City Comptroller (2010–2013)
Alex Wan – member of the Atlanta City Council, first openly gay and first Asian American member
Shien Biau Woo (吳仙標) – Lieutenant Governor of Delaware (1985–1989), current president of the 80-20 Initiative; Democrat
Michelle Wu (吳弭) – elected Mayor of Boston
Leland Yee (余胤良) – former California State Assemblyman, current California State Senator
Yiaway Yeh – mayor of Palo Alto, California; first Chinese American to hold the office
Mae Yih – Oregon State Representative (1977–1983), Oregon State Senator (1983–2003), first Chinese American to serve in a state senate; Democrat

Law and judiciary

Norman Bay – former United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico (2000–2001); first Chinese American United States Attorney
Denny Chin – judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (1994–present), first Asian American appointed as a United States district court judge outside of the Ninth Circuit
Ming Chin – Associate Justice, Supreme Court of California
Morgan Chu (朱欽文) – Partner, Chair of Litigation, former Co-Managing Partner of Irell & Manella; former president (2014–15) and board member (2009–15) of Harvard Board of Overseers
Amy Chua – professor of law; author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Mary Anne Franks – professor of law, author of The Cult of the Constitution, president of Cyber Civil Rights Initiative
Dolly M. Gee – federal district judge, United States District Court for the Central District of California
Joyce Kennard – Associate Justice, Supreme Court of California
George H. King – federal district judge, United States District Court for the Central District of California
William F. Lee – co-managing partner of WilmerHale and fellow of the Harvard Corporation
Ronald Lew – federal district judge, United States District Court for the Central District of California; first Chinese-American federal judge outside of Hawaii
Goodwin Liu – Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California
Brian Sun – trial lawyer
Thomas Tang – judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit; first Chinese American federal judge
Jan C. Ting (丁景安) – professor of law; expert on immigration, national security, and taxation; 2006 Republican candidate for Senate (DE)
Qian Julie Wang (王乾) – Lawyer and memoirist
Delbert Wong – judge

Community and civil rights

Grace Lee Boggs (陳玉平) – community activist in African-American community; leftist writer
Chin Lin Sou – community leader
Hung Wai Ching – community leader and businessman
Goo Kim Fui (古今辉) – President, United Chinese Society in Hawaii, 1892–1898; played an instrumental role in uniting the Chinese and fighting for their rights during the anti-Chinese agitation in Hawaii in the 1880s
Charles Goodall Lee – first licensed Chinese American dentist in the United States, financier of Chinese American Citizens Alliance in Oakland Chinatown, spouse of Clara Elizabeth Chan Lee
Clara Elizabeth Chan Lee – first Chinese American woman voter in the United States
Mabel Ping-Hua Lee – Chinese advocate for women's suffrage in the United States, community organizer in New York City's Chinatown, and leader of the First Chinese Baptist Church in Chinatown.
Wong Chin Foo (王清福) – 19th-century civil rights activist and journalist
Wong Kim Ark (黃金德) – his lawsuit established the principle of citizenship by virtue of birth on US soil
Harry Wu (吴弘达) – human rights activist, focuses on Laogai prison camps and human rights in China
Sherman Wu – civil rights activist, famous racial discrimination incident by university fraternity
Xiao Qiang (萧强) – MacArthur Fellowship for human rights activism, publisher of China Digital Times covering rights and censorship in China, journalism professor
John C. Young (容兆珍) – San Francisco Chinatown leader
Helen Zia (謝漢蘭) – community activist and writer

Science and academia

Nobel Prize

Chen Ning Yang (楊振寧) – 1957 Nobel laureate, Physics, Yang–Mills theory
Tsung-dao Lee (李政道) – 1957 Nobel laureate, Physics
Samuel C. C. Ting (丁肇中) – 1976 Nobel laureate, Physics
Yuan T. Lee (李远哲) – 1986 Nobel Prize, Chemistry
Steven Chu (朱棣文) – 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics, US Secretary of Energy (2009)
Daniel Chee Tsui (崔琦) – 1998 Nobel laureate, Physics
Roger Y. Tsien (錢永健) – 2008 Nobel laureate, Chemistry
Charles K. Kao (高锟) – 2009 Nobel laureate in Physics who pioneered the development and use of fiber optics in telecommunications

Mathematics award winners

Terence Chi-Shen Tao (陶哲軒) – Fields Medal (2006), Clay Research Award (2003), Crafoord Prize (2012)
Shing-Tung Yau (丘成桐) – Fields Medal (1982), Wolf Prize (2010), Crafoord Prize (1994)
Andrew Yao (姚期智) – Turing Award (2000)
Shiing-Shen Chern (陳省身) – Wolf Prize (1983)
Wei Zhang (张伟) – Clay Research Award (2019)
Xinyi Yuan (袁新意) – Clay Research Award (2008)

Chemistry

Ching W. Tang – inventor of the organic light-emitting diode(OLED) and the hetero-junction organic photovoltaic cell (OPV); winner of the 2011 Wolf Prize in Chemistry; known as the "father of organic electronics"
Roger Y. Tsien (錢永健) – 2008 Nobel laureate, chemistry
Peidong Yang – chemist; founding member of the scientific advisory board at Nanosys, a nanomaterials company; co-founder of Alphabet Energy
Xiaowei Zhuang – Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and of Physics at Harvard University, member of National Academy of Sciences, MacArthur Fellow (2003)
Zhijian Chen (陈志坚) - Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. He is best known for his discovery of mechanisms by which nucleic acids trigger innate and autoimmune responses from the interior of a cell, work for which he received the 2019 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.
Xiaoliang Sunney Xie (谢晓亮) - biochemist, considered a founding father of single-molecule biophysical chemistry and single-molecule enzymology

Computer science

Danqi Chen (陈丹琦) – AI professor at Princeton University working in Natural language processing, PhD from Stanford University, former student of Andrew Yao
Jianlin Cheng (程建林) – computer and data scientist; Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Missouri, Columbia
Wen Tsing Chow (周文俊) – missile guidance scientist, digital computer pioneer
Leon Chua – professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley
Feng-hsiung Hsu (許峰雄) – IBM developer of Deep Blue, which beat World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov in 1997
Fei-Fei Li (李飞飞) – AI researcher, Stanford University professor
Kai Li – Princeton University
Ming C. Lin – former Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, now at U. Maryland.
Andrew Ng (吴恩达) – AI researcher and entrepreneur: Google Brain, Baidu research, Coursera, Stanford University professor
Carol E. Reiley: entrepreneur in health, robotics and AI, Andrew Ng's wife
Pei-Yuan Wei (魏培源) – creator of ViolaWWW
Wen-mei Hwu – professor at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign specializing in compiler design, computer architecture, computer microarchitecture, and parallel processing
Andrew Yao (姚期智) – 2000 Turing Award recipient, Yao's principle, former professor at Princeton University
Frances Yao (储枫) – computer scientist, researcher in computational geometry and combinatorial algorithms; wife of Andrew Yao
Yuanyuan Zhou – Princeton University PhD, currently UC San Diego

Engineering

Huajian Gao – Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Engineering at Brown University
Tung Hua Lin (林同驊) – professor (UCLA), aerospace and structural engineer
Tung-Yen Lin (林同棪) – (Berkeley) structural engineer who was the pioneer of standardizing the use of prestressed concrete, founded T. Y. Lin International
Lee Yuk-Wing (李郁榮) – Professor of Electrical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mathematics

Terence Chi-Shen Tao (陶哲軒) – child genius, Fields Medal winner (2006), professor (UCLA), MacArthur Fellow (2006), Crafoord Prize (2012), Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics (2014). He is the youngest participant to date in the International Mathematical Olympiad, first competing at the age of ten; in 1986, 1987, and 1988, he won a bronze, silver, and gold medal. He remains the youngest winner of each of the three medals in the Olympiad's history, winning the gold medal shortly after his thirteenth birthday. Tao received graduated from university at the age of 16 obtaining his bachelor's and master's degrees, received his PhD at the age of 20.
Lenhard Ng – child prodigy who was once thought to be the "smartest kid in America". At age 10, he earned a perfect score of 800 on the math portion of what is now called the SAT, a feat considered to be a “remarkable achievement” when a high school junior or senior did it. Ng is a professor of mathematics at Duke University.
Jeffrey Yi-Lin Forrest (林益) – professor of mathematics, systems science, economics, and finance at Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (Slippery Rock campus)
Wei Zhang (张伟) – Professor of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sun-Yung Alice Chang (张圣容) – professor of mathematics and former chair of the department at Princeton University
Chen Wen-chen (陈文成) – professor of math at Carnegie Mellon, victim of Taiwan KMT persecution of dissidents (see White Terror)
Shiing-Shen Chern (陳省身) – Wolf Prize, considered one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century; worked on differential geometry and topology; known for Chern-Simons theory, Chern-Weil theory, Chern classes
Chia-Kun Chu (朱家琨) – applied mathematician, Fu Foundation Professor Emeritus of Applied Mathematics at Columbia University
Chia-Chiao Lin (林家翹) – applied mathematician
Tian Gang (田刚) – Princeton University professor emeritus, student of S.T. Yau
Paul Tseng – applied mathematician, professor at the Department of Mathematics at the University of Washington in Seattle
Paul C. Yang (杨建平) – Princeton University, husband of Alice Chang
Shing-Tung Yau (丘成桐) – Fields Medal winner (1982); MacArthur Fellow (1984), Crafoord Prize (1994), National Medal of Science (1997), Wolf Prize (2010)
Yitang Zhang – mathematician, known for establishing the first finite bound on gaps between prime numbers
Stephen Shing-Toung Yau – Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago
Mu-Tao Wang (王慕道) – Professor of Mathematics at Columbia University, received a PhD in Mathematics in 1998 from Harvard University

Medicine and biosciences

Priscilla Chan (陈Priscilla) – Harvard-graduated pediatrician, Chan-Zuckerberg foundation
Min Chueh Chang (張明覺) – co-inventor of the first birth control pill; made significant contributions to the development of in vitro fertilisation
Gilbert Chu (朱築文) – biochemist and Professor of Medicine (Oncology) and Biochemistry at the Stanford Medical School; older brother of Steven Chu
Yuan-Cheng Fung (馮元楨) – founder of modern biomechanics
Lue Gim Gong (呂金功) – horticulturalist
David Ho – scientific researcher and the Irene Diamond professor at Rockefeller University in New York City
Alice S. Huang – virologist
Lin He – biochemist, received the MacArthur Fellowship in 2009
Yuet Wai Kan – pioneer of using DNA to diagnose human diseases, research enabled the Human Genome Project, recipient of Lasker Foundation award in 1991
Henry C. Lee – forensic scientist
Sandra Lee – dermatologist and Internet celebrity as "Dr. Pimple Popper"; now star of the TLC series Dr. Pimple Popper
Ching Chun Li – population geneticist and human geneticist
Choh Hao Li (李卓皓) – biochemist, discovered growth hormone, beta-endorphin and isolated luteinizing hormone
Min Chiu Li – first scientist to use chemotherapy to cure widely metastatic, malignant cancer
Anna Chao Pai – geneticist
Joe Hin Tjio – cytogeneticist, first person to recognize the normal number of human chromosomes
Chang Yi Wang – immunologist; NYIPLA Inventor of the Year Award in 2007 for her work on UBITh peptide immunogens
James C. Wang – discovered DNA topoisomerases
Sam Wang, neuroscientist and author
Shih-Chun Wang – neuroscientist and pharmacology professor
Xiaodong Wang, biochemist best known for his work with cytochrome c, won the 2000 Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry, and 2006 Shaw Prize recipient
Leana Wen (温麟衍) – physician; director of Planned Parenthood, Health Commissioner of Baltimore, author
David T. Wong – discovered drug Fluoxetine and atomoxetine, duloxetine and dapoxetine
Flossie Wong-Staal – virologist and AIDS researcher
Junying Yu – stem cell biologist; recognized as one of the 2007 "Persons of the Year" by TIME magazine
Kang Zhang – ophthalmologist at the Institute for Genomic Medicine, University of California, San Diego known for his work on lanosterol

Physics

Sow-Hsin Chen – nuclear physicist
Alfred Y. Cho – the "father of molecular beam epitaxy" and co-inventor of quantum cascade lasers
Paul C. W. Chu (朱經武) – physicist, superconductivity
Qian Xuesen (钱学森) – professor of aeronautics, a founder of NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, exiled to China
Frank Shu – professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley and University of California; San Diego and 2009 Shaw Prize recipient
Chien-Shiung Wu (吳健雄) – Manhattan Project scientist; considerable contribution to Nobel Prize work by Tsung-dao Lee
Yang Yang, physicist, solar cells. Professor at UCLA. Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Physical Society, Materials Research Society, Royal Society of Chemistry, and Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers.
Nai-Chang Yeh – physicist specialized in condensed matter physics; Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Fellow, American Physical Society
Shoucheng Zhang – Stanford physicist
Chen Ning Yang (楊振寧) – 1957 Nobel laureate, Physics, Yang–Mills theory
Tsung-dao Lee (李政道) – 1957 Nobel laureate, Physics
Samuel C. C. Ting (丁肇中) – 1976 Nobel laureate, Physics
Steven Chu (朱棣文) – 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics, US Secretary of Energy (2009)
Daniel Chee Tsui (崔琦) – 1998 Nobel laureate, Physics
Charles K. Kao (高锟) – 2009 Nobel laureate in Physics who pioneered the development and use of fiber optics in telecommunications
Xiaoxing Xi (郗小星) – Physicist at Temple University]

Economics, Finance, Statistics, OR

Anthony Chan – chief economist, JPMorgan Chase; former economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and economics professor at the University of Dayton
Gregory Chow (鄒至莊) – Class of 1913 Professor of Political Economy at Princeton University, known for Chow test
Jianqing Fan (范剑青) – professor of finance and statistics at Princeton University
William C. Hsiao (萧庆伦) – economist, professor at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Ann Lee (李淯) – professor, author and commentator on global economics and finance issues
Bin Yu (郁彬) – Chancellor's Professor in the Departments of Statistics and of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences at University of California, Berkeley

Social sciences

Angela Lee Duckworth – professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, MacArthur Fellow; wrote Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
Peter Kwong – professor of Asian American studies at Hunter College and professor of sociology in the City University of New York system
Yu Xie – Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of Sociology at Princeton University; known for applying quantitative data science methods to sociology as well as Chinese studies

Humanities

Wing-tsit Chan (陳榮捷) – professor in Chinese philosophy, wrote influential translations
Him Mark Lai (麥禮謙) – professor of Chinese American studies
Lin Yutang (林語堂) – Hokkien Chinese writer
Huping Ling (令狐萍) – professor of History at Truman State University, author
Liu Kwang-ching (劉廣京) – Historian of late imperial China; University of California, Davis.
Betty Lee Sung (宋李瑞芳) – former professor of Asian-American Studies at City College of New York; 'leading authority' on Chinese Americans
Andrew Lih (酈安治) – associate professor of Journalism at American University
Teng Ssu-yu (鄧嗣禹) – Historian of late imperial China, at University of Indiana.
Tim Wu (吳修銘) – professor at Columbia Law School, in 2014 ran to become the first Chinese-American lieutenant governor of New York State but lost.
C.K. Yang (楊慶堃) – Sociologist at University of Pittsburgh.
Yang Lien-sheng (楊聯陞) – Sinologist. Harvard University.
Yu Ying-shih (余英時) – Historian of China; Harvard, Yale, and Princeton Universities.
Zhao Yuanren (Yuen Ren Chao) (趙元任) – Linguist at Harvard and University of California, Berkeley.

University administration

Jim Chen – professor and former dean at the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law
Stephen Z.D. Cheng – Professor and former Dean in the College of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering at the University of Akron, member of National Academic of Engineering
David Jung-Kuang Chiu – former Director of Asian Studies and Dean of University Advisement, Hofstra University
Way Kuo – President and University Distinguished Professor of the City University of Hong Kong, University Distinguished Professor and former Dean of Engineering at the University of Tennessee
Robert C. T. Lee (李崇道) – former president of National Chung Hsing University, veterinarian and brother of Tsung-dao Lee
Wallace Loh - Former President of University of Maryland College Park
Chang-Lin Tien – Chancellor of University of California, Berkeley (1990–1997)
Frank H. Wu – Chancellor and Dean of the University of California, Hastings College of the Law (2010–2015)
Rose Tseng - Chancellor emerita of University of Hawaii at Hilo
Henry T. Yang – Chancellor of UC Santa Barbara
Honggang Yang - Dean Emeritus of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Nova Southeastern University

Earth Sciences

Sherry Chen (陈霞芬) – Hydrologist working for National Weather Service

Sports

Nathan Adrian (倪家骏) – Olympic medal winner, swimming
Shayna Baszler – professional wrestler and mixed martial artist
Johnny Chan (陳金海, 陳強尼) – professional poker player
Michael Chang (張德培) – youngest male tennis player to win a Grand Slam tournament
Ray Chang – baseball player
Karen Chen (陳楷雯) – figure skater
Nathan Chen (陳巍) – figure skater, 2022 Olympic gold medalist
Tiffany Chin (陳婷婷) – figure skater and 1985 U.S. national champion
Brian Ching (程拜仁) – soccer player for Houston Dynamo and the United States national team
William Kwai-sun Chow - martial arts instructor
Mark Chung – first American-Chinese soccer player to play for the United States national team
Patrick Chung – Strong Safety for the New England Patriots
Amy Chow (周婉儀) – gymnast and Olympic medal winner
Norm Chow (周友賢) – UCLA Bruins offensive coordinator
Julie Chu (朱慧雯) – Olympic medal winner, ice hockey
Mark Foo – professional surfer
Christina Gao (高昊) – figure skater
Chau Giang – poker player
Eileen Gu (谷爱凌) – Free style skier and Olympic gold medalist
Rudy Gunawan (郭宏源) – badminton player
Tony Gunawan (吳俊明) – badminton player
Ivana Hong – gymnastics
Jerry Hsu – skateboarder
Michelle Jin (米歇尔·金) - professional bodybuilder
John Juanda – poker player
Phillip King – tennis player, brother of Vania King
Vania King – tennis player who won both the 2010 Wimbledon Women's Doubles and 2010 US Open Women's Doubles titles
Jonathan Klinsmann – soccer goalkeeper for LA Galaxy
Theodore Ku-DiPietro – soccer player
Karen Kwan – former figure skater, sister of Michelle Kwan
Michelle Kwan (關穎珊) – Olympic medal winner, figure skating
Alice Lee – chess player, FIDE Master
Jeremy Lin (林書豪) – professional basketball player, NBA (NY Knicks, Toronto Raptors, etc.), Linsanity
Corrie Lothrop – gymnastics
Tyson Mao – speedcuber
Kim Ng (伍佩琴) – Major League Baseball executive
Karlee Perez – professional wrestler known as Catrina and the WWE as Maxine (Chinese ancestry)
Chuck Sun – professional Motocross racer
Kevin Tan (谭凯文) – Olympic medal winner, gymnastics
Ed Wang – professional American football player
Lisa Wang – rhythmic gymnastics
Kevin Wong – professional beach volleyball player and Olympian
Raymond Wu (吳紹綱) – professional poker player
Don Yee – sports agent
Al Young – World Champion drag racer
Jennifer Yu (于潤荷) – U.S. women's chess champion in 2019 and 2022
Caroline Zhang (张圆圆) – figure skater
Rose Zhang - professional golfer on the LPGA Tour

Other

Astronauts

Leroy Chiao – NASA astronaut
Kjell N. Lindgren – NASA astronaut
Edward Lu – NASA astronaut
Taylor Wang – first ethnic Chinese scientist to go into space, in 1985 on space shuttle Challenger

Gang leaders and criminals

Wing Yeung Chan – leader of New York Ghost Shadows street gang
Raymond Kwok Chow (周國祥) – also known as "Shrimp Boy", mobster, leader of the San Francisco chapter of Chinese Freemasons and San Francisco Chinatown
Peter Chong (莊炳強) – leader of San Francisco area Wo Hop To gang
David Chou (周文偉) – perpetrator of 2022 Laguna Woods church shooting
Mock Duck (世荣模拟) – New York Chinatown mobster, leader of the Hip Sing Tong
Johnny "Onionhead" Eng (伍少衡) – leader of New York Flying Dragons street gang
Joe Fong – founder of San Francisco Chung Ching Yee (Joe Boys) street gang
Katrina Leung (陈文英) – Double agent for both U.S. and China
Wayne Lo (駱文) – murderer who perpetrated the shooting at Simon's Rock College of Bard on December 14, 1992, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts
Danny Pang – private equity manager, accused of running a Ponzi scheme
Little Pete (馮正初) – San Francisco Chinatown mobster
Elliot Rodger – of mixed English and Malaysian Chinese descent who perpetrated the 2014 Isla Vista shootings
Ming Sen Shiue (薛明升) – committed notorious 1980 murder, rape, stalking
Stephen Tse – leader of Boston Ping On street gang

Crime victims

Bow Kum – her murder was the precipitating event for infamous New York Tong war
Vincent Jen Chin (陳果仁) – beaten to death in 1982 racial hate incident by two White men considered by Chinese-American advocacy groups to be miscarriage of American justice
Wenjian Liu – first Chinese American officer in the New York City Police Department to die in the line of duty in 2014
Betty Ong (鄧月薇) – flight attendant on American Airlines Flight 11, alerted ground crews and kept the world informed of the hijacking in progress

Religious leaders

Francis Chan – preacher, founder of Cornerstone Community Church in Simi Valley, CA
Chow Leung – Baptist missionary in Chicago, Chinese school founder, co-author of Chinese Fables and Folk Stories
Gerrit W. Gong – Member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Jian Tan (見曇) – Buddhist monk and current abbot of the Chung Tai Zen Center of Houston
Jakusho Kwong – Zen Buddhist Master of Shunryu Suzuki lineage, founder and head abbot of Sonoma Mountain Zen Center
Jacqueline Mates-Muchin – world's first Chinese-American rabbi
Ignatius C. Wang – Auxiliary Bishop of San Francisco (2002–2009)
Shi Yan Ming (釋延明) – 34th generation Shaolin monk and founder of the USA Shaolin Temple
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

Other

Bei Bei Shuai (帅贝贝) – Prosecuted for murder and feticide due to a pregnancy loss after a suicide attempt.

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