List of Taiwanese Americans
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This is a list of notable Taiwanese Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.
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To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Taiwanese American or must have references showing they are Taiwanese American and are notable. Whether Taiwanese Americans should also be called Chinese Americans is a subject of some controversy.
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[edit] List
[edit] Art and design
- Malan Breton, fashion designer
- Doug Chiang, movie designer and artist
- Anna Hu, award-winning jewelry designer [1]
- Christine Wang, architect, curator, artist, founder of Wang Museum of Technology
- Jason Wu, fashion designer
- Alexander Wang, fashion designer
[edit] Business
- Sam Chang, New York hotel developer
- Allen Chao, founder of Watson Pharmaceuticals
- Pehong Chen, founder of Gain Technology and Broadvision
- Steve Chen, founder and CEO of Galactic Computing
- Steve Chen, co-founder of YouTube
- Ben Chiu, founder of KillerApp.com acquired by CNET
- David Chu, co-founder of Nautica, clothing company
- James Chu, founder, CEO and chairman of ViewSonic [2]
- Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com, online shoe store
- Jameson Hsu, co-founder and CEO of Mochi Media
- Jen-Hsun Huang, co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA, computer graphics card company
- Min H. Kao, co-founder of Garmin, billionaire
- Kai-Fu Lee, President of Google China
- Alfred Lin, venture capitalist at Sequoia Capital
- Dan Lin, Hollywood film producer and former Senior Vice President at Warner Bros. Pictures
- Danny Pang, private equity manager, accused of running a Ponzi scheme
- Greg Tseng, co-founder and CEO of Tagged
- John Tu, co-founder Kingston Technologies, billionaire
- Jerry Yang, co-founder of Yahoo!, billionaire [3]
- Bing Yeh, founder of Silicon Storage Technology and Greenliant Systems
[edit] Entertainment
- Louis Ozawa Changchien, actor; he is 1/2 Taiwanese
- Roger Fan, actor
- Janet Hsieh, model and travel host of Fun Taiwan
- George Hu, actor based in Taiwan
- Frank Hwang, YouTube celebrity [4]
- Ang Lee, film director
- Justin Lin, film director
- Lucy Liu, actress
- Ivan Shaw, actor
- Fang-Yi Sheu, principal dancer of the Martha Graham Dance Company
- Will Tiao, actor and producer
- Kevin Wu, YouTube celebrity
- Raymond Wu, well-known professional poker player
- Welly Yang, actor, playwright, and singer
- Leehom Wang, singer, actor, and songwritter
[edit] Journalism
- Jeff Chang, journalist, hip-hop historian
- Laura Chang, science editor, The New York Times
- Christine Chen, journalist and anchor
- Connie Chung, journalist and anchor
- Laura Ling, journalist (Mother was Taiwanese; sister of Lisa Ling)
- Lisa Ling, journalist (Mother was Taiwanese; sister of Laura Ling)
- Patty Hou, former news and fashion anchor, current entertainment anchor in Taiwan
- Chiang Nan, newspaper editor
[edit] Literature
- Tao Lin, writer
- Eric Liu, writer, a speechwriter of Bill Clinton
- Lan Samantha Chang, writer; director of the Iowa Writer's Workshop
[edit] Music
- Dawen
- Jason Chen, singer [5]
- Robert Chen, violinist, Concertmaster of Chicago Symphony Orchestra
- Andrew Chou, member of hip-hop group Machi based in Taiwan
- Connie Chung, TV news anchor, the second woman ever to anchor a national news program
- Evonne Hsu, pop singer based in Taiwan
- Stanley Huang, singer based in Taiwan
- Chihchun Chi-sun Lee, composer
- Cho-Liang Lin, violinist
- Victor Lin, pianist [6]
- Amber Liu (singer), singer/rapper from Korean pop group f(x) (band)
- Jerry Lo, singer-songwriter based in Taiwan
- Wilber Pan, pop singer based in Taiwan
- Fan-Wei Qi, pop singer based in Taiwan
- Vienna Teng, singer-songwriter
- Lara Veronin, vocalist of Taiwanese group Nan Quan Ma Ma
- Leehom Wang, pop singer-songwriter based in Taiwan
- Vanness Wu, member of boyband F4 based in Taiwan
- Sophia Yan, pianist
- Jason Yang, electric violinist [7]
[edit] Politics, law and government
- Elaine Chao, United States Secretary of Labor in the George W. Bush Administration
- John Chiang California State Controller
- John Liu, first Asian American City Councilman of New York City, and currently serving as New York City Comptroller
- David Wu, first and only Taiwanese American U.S. Representative, Democrat from Oregon
- Sherman Wu, civil rights activist and scientist
[edit] Science and education
- Steve Chen, computer scientist, supercomputer designer, Cray
- 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), current Secretary of Energy of the United States
- Fan Chung, mathematician
- David Ho, AIDS researcher, Time's Person of the Year
- Henry C. Lee, forensic scientist
- Yuan Tseh Lee, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Professor Emeritus University of California at Berkeley (He was Taiwanese American until 1994 when he renounced his American citizenship to become the President of Academia Sinica)
- Chang-Lin Tien, former Chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley[8]
- Sam Wang (neuroscientist), neuroscientist and author
- Pei-Yuan Wei, creator of ViolaWWW
- Henry T. Yang, chancellor, UC Santa Barbara
- Andrew Chi-Chih Yao, a winner of the Turing Award, a prominent computer scientist and computational theorist.
- Nai-Chang Yeh, a world class physicist specialized in condensed matter physics. Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Fellow, American Physical Society.
- Li-Huei Tsai, HHMI Investigator and Professor of MIT specialized in brain development and Alzheimer disease[9].
[edit] Sports
- Jeremy Lin, first Taiwanese American in NBA
- Chien-Ming Wang, Major League Baseball player currently playing for the Washington Nationals
- Michael Chang, International Tennis Hall of Fame member; youngest male tennis player to win a Grand Slam tournament
- Tora Harris, high jumper; also of African-American descent
- Vania King, tennis player on WTA Tour
- Kevin Tan, 2008 Olympic Games Men's Gymnastics bronze medalist
- Andy Wang, Mixed-Martial Artist, participant of The Ultimate Fighter 5
[edit] Other
- Tammy and Victor Jih, winners of the 14th season of The Amazing Race [10]
- Hubert Chang, claimed to be the third co-founder of Google [11]
- Cindy Chiang, winner of the 19th season of The Amazing Race [12]
- Andrew Hsu, co-founder of World Children's Organization (WCO) [13]
- Bill Lee, son-in-law of Al Gore [14]
- Wen Ho Lee, nuclear physicist, wrongly accused for espionage and then acquitted
- Wayne Lo, American school shooter
- Tim Soo, creator of Invisible Instruments [15]
- Oliver Yeh, launched a camera into space [16]
[edit] References
- ^ "Anna Hu." <http://www.taiwantrade.com.tw/MAIN/en_front/searchserv.do?method=listNewsDetail&information_id=32875&locale=2>
- ^ "James Chu." <http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/08/0821_most_successful_immigrants/9.htm>
- ^ "Jerry Yang." Yahoo! Media Relations: Management Team. 06 July 2007 <http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/press/management.cfm>
- ^ "Frank Hwang." <http://www.8asians.com/2009/09/20/frank-hwang-aka-ice1cube/>
- ^ "Jason Chen." <http://etodac.wordpress.com/2010/04/10/beats-and-tunes-jason-chen/>
- ^ "Victor Lin." <http://www.victorlin.net/bio.php>
- ^ "Jason Yang." <http://jasonyangviolin.com/misc/faq>
- ^ "Chang-Lin Tien 1925-2002: a chancellor's extraordinary legacy." UC Berkeley 2003 http://www.coe.berkeley.edu/forefront/images/sp2003.pdf
- ^ "HHMI Investigator." http://www.hhmi.org/research/investigators/tsai_bio.html
- ^ "Tammy and Victor." <http://www.sun2surf.com/article.cfm?id=33746>
- ^ "Hubert Chang." <http://googletruth.wordpress.com/>
- ^ "Cindy Chiang." <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXF_3pfT1Dk>
- ^ "Andrew Hsu." <http://tw.epochtimes.com/7/6/21/58593.htm>
- ^ "Bill Lee." <http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2007/07/25/2003371199>
- ^ "Tim Soo." <http://www.timsoo.com/?p=1612>
- ^ "Oliver Yeh." <http://www.wretch.cc/blog/simon4901211/27682316>
