List of Chinese Americans

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.

Lists of Americans
By U.S. state
By ethnicity or nationality
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  • Dutch
  • Gambian
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  • German
  • Ghanaian
  • Greek
  • Guatemalan
  • Guinean
  • Guyanese
  • Karen
  • Kazakh
  • Kenyan
  • Korean
  • Kurdish
  • Kuwaiti
  • Taiwan
  • Tajikistani
  • Tanzanian
  • Thai
  • Tibetan
  • Tongan
  • Trinidadian and Tobagonian
  • Turkish
  • Category

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

Arts

Dance

Fashion design

Literature

Theater

Visual arts

Business

Financial

Food

Industrial

Internet

Technology

Other

Entertainment

Actors

Directors

Musicians

Other

Journalism and news media

Military

Politics and government

National politics

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

Local and state

Law and judiciary

Community and civil rights
  • Grace Lee Boggs (Lee 玉平) – community activist in African-American community; leftist writer
  • Chin Lin Sou – community leader
  • 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

Chemistry

Computer science

Engineering

Mathematics

Medicine and biosciences

Physics

Economics, Finance, Statistics, OR

Social sciences

Humanities

University administration

Sports

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
  • 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
  • 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 Eurasian descent who murdered 3 Chinese-Americans at the 2014 Isla Vista shootings
  • Ming Sen Shiue – committed notorious 1980 murder, rape, stalking
  • Stephen Tse – leader of Boston Ping On street gang

Crime victims

Religious leaders
  • Francis Chan – preacher, founder of Cornerstone Community Church in Simi Valley, CA
  • Jacqueline Mates-Muchin – world's first Chinese-American rabbi
  • Ignatius C. Wang – Auxiliary Bishop of San Francisco (2002–2009)
  • Gerrit W. Gong – Member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Footnotes
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