List of Chinese Americans

The following is a list of famous Chinese Americans who have made significant contributions to the American culture or society politically, artistically or scientifically, or have appeared in the news numerous times:

(Chinese name may be placed, if available, beside those persons who currently do not have articles yet. Otherwise, place them in their articles.)

Alice Chuang - ballerina, alicechuang.com
Bette Bao Lord - writer, novelist
Anna Chan Chennault (陳香梅) - wife of Claire Chennault, of the Flying Tigers
Eileen Chang, writer
Iris Chang (張純如) - writer
Lia Chang - actor,photographer, writer
Michael Chang - tennis player
Elaine Chao - Secretary of Labor
Rosalind Chao - actor
Christine Chen - Executive Director of the Organization of Chinese Americans
Steve Chen - computer scientist, supercomputer designer, Cray
Shiing-shen Chern - mathematician
Frank Chin (趙健秀) - novelist, playwright, and essayist
Ming W. Chin (陳惠明) - Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court
Tiffany Chin (陳婷婷) - figure skater
Vincent Chin - victim of racial crime
Alex Chiu - eccentric
Amy Chow (周婉儀) - gymnast and Olympic medal winner
Wen Tsing Chow (周文俊) - missile guidance scientist, digital computer pioneer
Paul C.W. Chu - physicist, superconductivity
Steven Chu - 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics, first Asian American to run one of the 16 national laboratories operated by the Department of Energy (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Connie Chung - TV news anchor
Hiram L. Fong - U.S. Senator
Ben Fong-Torres - journalist, Rolling Stone
David Ho - AIDS researcher
William Hung - of American Idol fame
Maxine Hong Kingston - writer, novelist
Gish Jen - writer, novelist
Andrea Jung (鍾彬嫻)- CEO, Avon products
Michelle Kwan (關家倩) - figure skater
Nancy Kwan (關南施) - first Chinese-born star in Western cinema website
Ang Lee - movie director
Bruce Lee - actor, kung fu
Ching Yang Lee - novelist, Flower Drum Song
Coco Lee - singer
Corky Lee - photographer
Gus Lee - writer
Henry C. Lee - forensic scientist
Susan Lee - Maryland State Delegate and first Asian American woman in the Maryland State Assembly
Tsung-dao Lee - Nobel laureate, Physics
Wen Ho Lee (李文和) - nuclear physicist, accused spy, acquitted
Katrina Leung - businesswoman, Republican activist, and accused spy
Lucy Liu - actress
Maya Lin (林瓔) - architect (Vietnam Veterans Memorial)
T. Y. Lin - civil engineer (bridgebuilder)
Lisa Ling (凌志慧) - TV show host
Eric Liu - writer, a speechwriter of Bill Clinton
Gary Locke - Democratic Governor of Washington
Keye Luke - actor
Jin - rap artist
Yoyo Ma - cellist
Kim Ng - baseball executive
I. M. Pei (貝聿銘) - architect
Gordan Quan, Houston City Councilman and Asian American advocate
Soong Mei-Ling a.k.a. Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
Anna Sui - fashion designer
Amy Tan - writer
Chang-lin Tien - professor, former chancellor UC Berkeley
Samuel C. C. Ting - 1976 Nobel laureate, Physics
Ming Tsai - chef and restauranteur, writer
Chen Ning Yang - Nobel laureate, Physics
Henry Yang - chancellor, UC Santa Barbara
An Wang - computer engineer
Charles Wang (王嘉廉)- founder, CEO, chairman, Computer Associates
Taylor Wang - first ethnic Chinese scientist to go into space, 1985 on space shuttle Challenger
Vera Wang - fashion designer
Wayne Wang - Hollywood director
Ming-Na Wen - Macanese-born actress
Anna May Wong - first female Asian-American star of the screen
Wong Ching Foo - civil rights activist against Chinese Exclusion Act
David Wong Louie - writer
Jade Snow Wong - writer
Russell Wong (王盛德) - actor
Victor Wong (黃自強) - Hollywood actor
S.B. Woo - former lieutenant governor of Delaware, current president of the 80-20 Initiative
David Wu - first and only Chinese-American U.S. Representative, Democrat from Oregon
Frank H. Wu (吳華揚) - a professor of law at Howard University, writer of Yellow: Race in America beyond Black and White, soon to be Dean of Law at Wayne State University in Michigan
Harry Wu - human rights activist
Kiko Wu - adult model and actress
Chien-Shiung Wu - female scientist
Martin Yan - host of Yan Can Cook
Jeff Yang - founder of A Magazine
Jerry Yang (楊致遠) - founder of Yahoo!
Welly Yang - actor and artist
James Yee - Army Captain formerly charged with sedition
Shing-Tung Yau - mathematician
Laurence Yep - author of children's books
Katherine Young - world's oldest user of the Internet
Judy Yung - writer
Helen Zia (謝漢蘭) - community activists and writer