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** RJ "Rockadile" Puno
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* [[SoReal Cru]] [[ABDC]] [[America's Best Dance Crew (season 2)|season 2]] Runner-ups
** Ailyn "eye candy" Isidro
** Andrew "Goodfoot" Baterina
** Brian Puspos
** Brian Fucanan
** Jackie Lautchang


* [[Quest Crew]] [[ABDC]] [[America's Best Dance Crew (season 3)|season 3]] Champions
* [[Quest Crew]] [[ABDC]] [[America's Best Dance Crew (season 3)|season 3]] Champions

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This is a list of Filipino Americans who have made significant contributions to the American culture, politics, or society. It also includes those with notable mentions in the American media.

To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Filipino American or must have references showing they are Filipino American and are notable.

List

Arts and letters

Dance

Dance solo
Dance group
  • Super Cr3w ABDC season 2 Champions
    • Ronnie "Ronnie Boy" Abaldonado
    • Angelito “Vex” Casal
    • RJ "Rockadile" Puno
  • SoReal Cru ABDC season 2 Runner-ups
    • Ailyn "eye candy" Isidro
    • Andrew "Goodfoot" Baterina
    • Brian Puspos
    • Brian Fucanan
    • Jackie Lautchang
  • Hype 5-0 ABDC season 5 Third Place
    • Allen-Charles "Brain" Pascual
    • Brittnie "Britazzle" Aguilar
    • Jonathan Ramones
    • Joshua "Hazmat" Ulep
    • Marc "DueyNutz" Duey

Education

Graphic arts

Visual Art

  • Leo Valledor(1936–1989)– Painter who pioneered the Hard-edge painting style.

History

  • Dorothy Cordova – Activist, professor, Co-founder of the Filipino American National Historical Society.
  • Fred Cordova – Author of "Filipinos: Forgotten Asian Americans"; co-founder of the Filipino American National Historical Society.
  • Alex S. Fabros, Jr. – Historian, professor, retired U.S. Army officer; Documentaries: “Filipino Americans: Discovering their Past for the Future”,[12] "Unsung Heroes"; historian, "Filipinas Magazine";[13] and winner of New American Media's "Ethnic Pulitzer Prize".[14][15]

Journalism

Law

  • Simeon R. Acoba, Jr., JD - 2000-2010 Associate Justice on the Hawaii State Supreme Court [22]
  • Kiwi Camara - Filipino American attorney, who in 2001, became the youngest person to enter Harvard Law School; graduated magna cum laude in 2004; earlier graduated with a computer science degree Summa Cum Laude from Hawaii Pacific University in Honolulu.
  • Tani Cantil-Sakauye - Filipino-American Associate Justice of California's 3rd District Court of Appeals, also CA Governor Arnold Scwharzeneger's nominee for Chief Justice of California.

Literature

Theater

Business

Culinary arts

Engineering and technology

Fashion and pageantry

Fashion

Pageants

Health science

Labor

  • Philip Vera Cruz – co-founder of the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee, which later merged with the National Farm Workers Association to become the United Farm Workers; vice-president of the United Farm Workers
  • Rich J. Corpuz Sales extraordinaire, Flint, Michigan.

Military

Politics

Religion

Sports

Baseball

Basketball

Contact sports/martial arts

Figure skating

  • Tai Babilonia – Olympic figure skater (African American mother; Filipino and Hopi-Indian father)
  • Elizabeth Punsalan – U.S. Olympic figure skater (pairs/ice dancing) (Filipino father)
  • Amanda Evora – U.S. Olympic figure skater (pairs/ice dancing)

* Tim David U.S. Adult figure skater (singles)

American football

Golf

Poker

Skateboarding

Daniel Castillo Chad Tim TIm

Soccer

Softball

Speed Skating

Apolo Ohno

Stacking

Tennis

Volleyball

Water sports

Wrestlers

Mixed Martial Arts

Television and film

Disc jockeys

Music

Musicians


Musical groups
  • One Vo1ce – All-Filipina girl R&B/OPM singing group from the San Francisco Bay Area
  • Death Angel – Thrash Metal band.
  • Kai – San Francisco Bay Area boy band
  • Moonpools & Caterpillars – Filipino American rock band based in California in the 1990s
  • My American Heart – Rock band.
  • Native Guns – Bambu and Kiwi of the LA hip hop group.
  • Legaci – Filipino-American R&B band from the San Francisco Bay Area, California, formed in 1997. They are currently the backup singers for Canadian Pop-R&B singer Justin Bieber on the My World Tour. www.legacimusic.com
  • Rhythm Natives – Filipino American hip hop band from Los Angeles.[86]
  • Blue Scholars – Geo, MC of the duo, is Filipino-American

Reality show

Internet

  • Christine Gambito – an American Internet personality, actress, and comedian; she maintains one of the most-subscribed-to channels on YouTube.
  • Reynaldo Lapuz – Reynaldo Lapuz became an instant internet sensation when he joined the American Idol Season 7 auditions, with the video of his audition singing his original composition "We're Brothers Forever".
  • Joseph Vincent Encarnacion
  • AJ Rafael
  • "J.R.A." JR Aquino

Other

  • Leandro Aragoncillo – former FBI intelligence analyst and retired Gunnery Sergeant in the United States Marine Corps who was charged with espionage and leaking classified information against President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
  • Thomas Beatie, the notorious "Pregnant Man" who underwent hormone treatment to become a man. He later gained widespread media notoriety after he became pregnant.[99]
  • Andrew Cunanan – Filipino American gay alleged spree killer during the mid-1990s; allegedly murdered several of his lovers, including the Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace. Father was a retired United States Navy from the Philippines.
  • Christina Marie Williams – (1985–1998) murdered child.[100][101]

References

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  2. ^ http://www.fullforcecrew.com/team/chris.php
  3. ^ http://www.mtv.com/ontv/dyn/dance_crew/cast_member
  4. ^ "Center for Southeast Asian Studies"
  5. ^ "Fil-Am Observer"
  6. ^ "Ruth Elynia S. Mabanglo Vitae"
  7. ^ "Baldomero M. Olivera's Research Interests"
  8. ^ Famous Ilocanos and Ilocanas
  9. ^ Harvard Catalyst Profile
  10. ^ "Alfredo Alcala was born in the Philippines", "he would later revive his creation in America"
  11. ^ "Barry's earliest work includes stories of her growing up a working-class, mixed-race Filipina in Seattle in the 1960s"
  12. ^ "Filipino Americans: Discovering their Past for the Future"
  13. ^ Alex Fabros, “The Boogie Woogie Boys,” Filipinas: A Magazine for all Filipinos, September 1993; and “They Were All Young and Daring: The Bahala Na Batallion, Part I,” Filipinas, July 1994.
  14. ^ "7th Annual Ethnic Pulizters"
  15. ^ "Filipinos—Forgotten Heroes of the UFW"
  16. ^ Pulitzer Prize Citation
  17. ^ "Dani D'Umuk Aguila: The Little Giant with the Pen"
  18. ^ "Delfin Cruz was the contemporary of Carlos Bulusan and an early activist for the Filipino American Civil Rights Movement from 1935-1942"
  19. ^ Pulitzer Prize Citation Page
  20. ^ cites GMA cites Filipino photojournalist for winning the much-coveted Pulitzer prize
  21. ^ Jose Antonio Vargas
  22. ^ Biographical Information on the Hawaii State Juiciary Official Website
  23. ^ "Filipina Activist Buell"
  24. ^ "File of Filipino Author Carlos Bulosan", All the Conspirators
  25. ^ Amazon Website
  26. ^ "Cabico is a Filipino-American and one of the founders of the Asian Arts Collective"
  27. ^ Dianne de Las Casas' Website
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  30. ^ Harvard Business School Bulletin Online
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  36. ^ Official Bacarra Site Trivia
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  42. ^ "Miss November Raquel Gibson is half-Italian, half-Filipino and 100 percent proof that beauty is the universal language."
  43. ^ "NY Fashion Diary"
  44. ^ http://www.importtuner.com/models/0512_cover_model_alie_layus/index.html
  45. ^ "Juicy Miss Bits"
  46. ^ http://www.islandscene.com/Article.aspx?id=667
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  48. ^ http://www.mindanaoan.com/2009/07/15/miss-us-international-2009-is-daughter-of-cagayan-de-oro-and-balingasag-misamis-oriental-couple/
  49. ^ 12th Filipinas Magazine Achievement Awards
  50. ^ Abay Neuroscience Center
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  54. ^ Pierce College Foundation
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  79. ^ "Superstar For The Preschool Set". MidWeek. 2005-12-23. Retrieved 2006-12-11.
  80. ^ http://www.hawaii.edu/cps/seminar-castillo.doc
  81. ^ Gregory Urbano (9 August 2009). "SPiN's HHOF: Phoebe Cates vs. Nicollette Sheridan". CBS SPorts. Retrieved 15 October 2009 quote=Her grandfather was of Filipino descent, and her father and grandmother were of Russian Jewish origin.. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); Missing pipe in: |accessdate= (help)
  82. ^ "America's Dawn Comes Up in France" Dean, Loomis. Life, March 14, 1960, pp 2, 57.
  83. ^ Devlin"On a lighter note, a Jew with Filipino roots is a rare one. But rarer still is a Jew with Filipino roots and working in Hollywood (well, there’s Rob Schneider). Your (bemused) comments, please. I’m a Filipino-Russian Jew with an Irish last name. You can’t get much more mixed up than that."
  84. ^ [2] of "Flavor of Love," VH1's "Charm School" Alternate, VH1’s Big in '06 Awards, TFC's "Pinagmulan," TFC's "Speak-Out," NBC's "Identity" and "Joey."
  85. ^ "Fil-Am star helps change the world... I'm proud of my ethnicities and I will always be proud of being a Filipino."
  86. ^ http://rhythmnatives.com
  87. ^ http://www.bravotv.com/the-fashion-show/bio/james-paul
  88. ^ http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/4ns/studentDetails/James-Paul+Ancheta/83818
  89. ^ http://www.nbc.com/Mommas_Boys/contestants/girls/girls_17.shtml
  90. ^ "Making Ravioli with Leah Cohen". Decider: New York. My mom is Filipino, but she thought she was Italian.
  91. ^ "The Apprentice contestant is born in Kentucky with Filipina mother and American father.
  92. ^ "But it’s Sam, half-Indian and half-Filipino, who is the self-proclaimed ladies man. Will brains beat out brawn in the hunt for the gold?"
  93. ^ Queeen for a Day
  94. ^ GLAAD.org Cinequeer: Greggy Gets Gorgeous
  95. ^ Greggy Goes from N.E.R.D to H-A-W-T
  96. ^ Asian Week: Geek in Hot Water
  97. ^ Interview With Greggy Soriano afterelton.com
  98. ^ Exclusive Interview: Randi and Greggy of Beauty and the Geek
  99. ^ First Pregnant Man is Filipino
  100. ^ "described as Filipina American with brown eyes and shoulder-length brown hair..."
  101. ^ "Christina was born in Okinawa, Japan of a Filipino mother and an American father who was a United States Navy"