List of Chinese Americans

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This is a list of notable Chinese Americans, 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

Fashion design

Literature

Theater

Visual arts

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Business

Financial

Food

Industrial

Internet

Technology

Other

Entertainment

Actors

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Directors

Musicians

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Other

Journalism and news media

Military

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Politics and government

National politics

Congress

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  • Hiram L. Fong (鄺友良) – former US Senator from Hawaii; first US Senator of Chinese ancestry; Republican
  • Vince Fong – Republican representing the 20th District of California; former member of the California State Assembly
  • 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

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Law and judiciary

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

Mathematics award winners

Chemistry

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Computer science

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Engineering

Mathematics

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Medicine and biosciences

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Physics

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Economics, Finance, Statistics, OR

Social sciences

Humanities

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University administration

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Earth Sciences

Sports

Other

Astronauts

  • Leroy Chiao (焦立中) – NASA astronaut
  • Kjell N. Lindgren (林其兒) – NASA astronaut
  • Edward Lu (盧傑) – NASA astronaut
  • Taylor Wang (王赣骏) – first ethnic Chinese scientist to go into space, in 1985 on space shuttle Challenger

Gang leaders and criminals

Crime victims

Religious leaders

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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