This is a list of notable Taiwanese Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.
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.
List
Art and design
- James Jean, artist
- Jason Wu, fashion designer
- Luly Yang, fashion designer
- Wenlan Chia, fashion designer
- Doug Chiang, movie designer and artist
- Han Hsiang-ning, artist
- Jen Kao, fashion designer
- Yu Tsai, photographer and America's Next Top Model creative consultant
- Alexander Wang, fashion designer
- Malan Breton, fashion designer
Business
- Fred Chang, founder of Newegg[1]
- Sam Chang, New York hotel developer
- Wayne Chang, founder of Crashlytics, entrepreneur, angel investor, film producer, and philanthropist
- Albert Chao, CEO and co-founder of Westlake Chemical [2]
- Allen Chao, founder of Watson Pharmaceuticals
- Eva Chen, co-founder and CEO of Trend Micro
- Pehong Chen, founder of Gain Technology and Broadvision
- Steve Chen, founder and CEO of Galactic Computing
- Steve Chen, co-founder of YouTube
- Albert Cheng, Interim President of Amazon Studios
- Andrew Cherng, founder of Chinese fast food restaurant chain Panda Express[3]
- Ben Chiu, founder of KillerApp.com acquired by CNET
- Yu-kai Chou, gamification expert, entrepreneur and developer of Octalysis[4]
- David Chu, co-founder of Nautica, clothing company
- James Chu, founder, CEO and chairman of ViewSonic[5]
- John Chuang, co-founder and CEO of Aquent[6]
- Victor Ho, co-founder and CEO of FiveStars
- Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com, online shoe store
- Jameson Hsu, co-founder and CEO of Mochi Media
- Jensen Huang, CEO and co-founder of Nvidia
- Robert T. Huang, founder of SYNNEX
- 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
- Teresa H. Meng, co-founder of Qualcomm Atheros
- Ellen Pao, lawyer and former chief executive officer of Reddit.
- Danny Pang, private equity manager, accused of running a Ponzi scheme
- Lisa Su, CEO and president of Advanced Micro Devices
- David Sun, co-founder of Kingston Technologies, billionaire
- Victor Tsao, co-founder of Linksys
- Greg Tseng, co-founder and CEO of Tagged
- John Tu, Taiwanese American co-founder of Kingston Technologies, billionaire
- Tien Tzuo, co-founder and CEO of Zuora [7]
- William Wang, co-founder and CEO of Vizio
- Chen Wen-Chi, billionaire president and CEO of VIA Technologies, husband to HTC co-founder Cher Wang
- Jerry Yang, co-founder of Yahoo!, billionaire[8]
- Bing Yeh, founder of Silicon Storage Technology and Greenliant Systems
Entertainment
- Tiffany Ann Hsu, famous actress
- Bertha Bay-Sa Pan, film director, screenwriter
- Louis Ozawa Changchien, actor; 1/2 Taiwanese
- Arvin Chen, film director, screenwriter
- Lynn Chen, actress
- Jay Chern, film director, screenwriter
- Tim Chiou, actor
- Jon M. Chu, film director
- Tina Huang, stage & television actress
- Roger Fan, actor
- Ted Fu, founding member of Wong Fu Productions[9]
- Janet Hsieh, model and travel host of Fun Taiwan
- George Hu, actor based in Taiwan
- Ching He Huang, cooking show host
- Eddie Huang, host of Fresh Off the Boat for VICE TV, chef, owner of BAOHAUS
- Elaine Kao, actress
- Christine Ko, actress
- Michelle Krusiec, actress
- Katrina Law, actress; 1/2 Taiwanese
- Ang Lee, award-winning director of Brokeback Mountain and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
- Georgia Lee, film director, screenwriter, director/writer of Red Doors
- Erin Li, film director, screenwriter
- James Hiroyuki Liao, actor
- Annie Lin, musician and attorney
- Dan Lin, film and TV producer, former senior VP of production at Warner Bros., current CEO Lin Pictures
- Justin Lin, film director
- Stephanie Lin, show host at Skillz (company), beauty queen, Miss Asian America 2015-16
- Dyana Liu, actress
- Lucy Liu, actress
- Andy On, actor
- Ivan Shaw, actor
- Fang-Yi Sheu, modern dancer
- Kobe Tai, former adult film actress
- Chase Tang, actor
- Timothy Tau, film director, screenwriter
- Mark Tuan, rapper, singer, and main rapper of Got7
- Will Tiao, actor and producer
- Jessika Van, actress, singer
- Leehom Wang, singer, actor, and songwriter
- Constance Wu, actress, Fresh Off The Boat
- Garrett Wang, actor who starred on Star Trek: Voyager
- Hudson Yang, actor and star of Fresh Off The Boat
- Jenny Yang, comedian
- Charles Yu, writer for HBO's Westworld and also fiction writer
- Kelvin Yu, actor from Master of None and writer on Bob's Burgers
- Kevin Wu, YouTube celebrity, contestant on the 17th season of The Amazing Race
- Raymond Wu, professional poker player
- Welly Yang, actor, playwright, and singer
- Will Pan, singer and songwriter
- Alan Yang, producer, playwright, and director
Journalism
- Emily Chang (journalist), journalist and anchor; host of Bloomberg TV's Bloomberg Technology
- Jeff Chang, journalist, hip-hop historian
- Iris Chang, journalist, author of The Rape of Nanking and other books of Chinese history.
- Laura Chang, science editor, The New York Times
- Christine Chen, journalist and anchor
- Connie Chung, journalist and anchor; second woman ever to anchor a national news program
- Patty Hou, former news and fashion anchor, current entertainment anchor in Taiwan
- Laura Ling, journalist (mother was Taiwanese; sister of Lisa Ling)
- Lisa Ling, journalist (mother was Taiwanese; sister of Laura Ling)
- Henry Liu, aka Chiang Nan, newspaper editor
- Jeff Yang, journalist, author and father of actor Hudson Yang
Literature
- Lan Samantha Chang, fiction writer; director of the Iowa Writer's Workshop
- Ted Chiang, fiction writer, author of Story of Your Life[10]
- Jennifer Chow, novelist, fiction writer, author of The 228 Legacy
- Vanessa Hua, journalist, writer, author of Deceit and Other Possibilities
- Eddie Huang, author of the memoirs Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir (the basis for the TV show of the same name) and Double Cup Love: On the Trail of Family, Food, and Broken Hearts in China.
- Ed Lin, novelist, fiction writer, author of This Is A Bust
- Francie Lin, novelist, fiction writer, author of The Foreigner
- Grace Lin, children's book writer and illustrator
- Tao Lin, fiction writer
- Eric Liu, writer, speechwriter for Bill Clinton
- Timothy Tau, fiction writer
- Shawna Yang Ryan, novelist, fiction writer, author of Green Island and Water Ghosts[11]
- Esmé Weijun Wang, writer, author of The Collected Schizophrenias
- Julie Wu, novelist, fiction writer, author of The Third Son[12]
- Charles Yu, novelist, fiction writer
Music
- Jason Chen, singer[13]
- Robert Chen, violinist, Concertmaster of Chicago Symphony Orchestra
- Andrew Chou, member of hip-hop group Machi based in Taiwan
- Dawen, singer-songwriter
- Evonne Hsu, pop singer based in Taiwan
- Stanley Huang, singer based in Taiwan
- Chihchun Chi-sun Lee, composer
- Cho-Liang Lin, violinist
- Joseph Lin, first violinist for Juilliard String Quartet
- Amber Josephine Liu, singer and rapper from South Korean girl group f(x)
- Mark Tuan, rapper of South Korean boy group GOT7
- Jerry Lo, singer-songwriter based in Taiwan
- Will 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, singer-songwriter based in Taiwan
- Vanness Wu, member of boyband F4 based in Taiwan
- Sophia Yan, pianist
- Charlie Yin, producer-performer known as Giraffage
- Joanna Wang, singer-songwriter
Politics, law and government
- Andrew Yang, 2020 Presidential Candidate, founder and CEO of Venture for America, PAGE Ambassador, author,[14] and former Attorney at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York City
- James C. Ho, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals the Fifth Circuit Texas
- Elaine Chao, United States Secretary of Labor in the George W. Bush Administration, Secretary of Transportation in the Donald Trump Administration, wife of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
- Ling Ling Chang, California State Senator
- Lanhee Chen, Policy Director and Chief Policy Adviser to the Romney-Ryan 2012 Presidential Campaign and Hoover Institution Fellow
- Raymond Chen, United States Circuit Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- John Chiang, California State Controller in 2012
- Ted Lieu, Member of the United States House of Representatives (D-CA)
- Goodwin Liu, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California
- John Liu, first Asian American City Councilman of New York City, and former New York City Comptroller
- Grace Meng, U.S. Representative (D-NY)
- Yuh-Line Niou, Member of the New York State Assembly from the 65th district
- Katy Tang, San Francisco Supervisor, District 4
- David Chiu (Member of the California State Assembly)
- David Wu, first Taiwanese American U.S. Representative (D-OR)
- Michelle Wu, Boston City Councillor at Large [15]
- Sherman Wu, civil rights activist and scientist
- Yiaway Yeh, mayor of Palo Alto, California
Science and education
- Yuan Chang, co-discovered Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) and Merkel cell polyomavirus
- Steve Chen, computer scientist, supercomputer designer, Cray
- Yet-Ming Chiang, materials scientist, professor at MIT, co-founder of American Superconductor, A123 Systems, Desktop Metal
- 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), Secretary of Energy of the United States from 2009 to 2013
- Fan Chung, mathematician
- Hu Dunfu, mathematician and higher education pioneer
- David Ho, AIDS researcher, Time's Person of the Year
- Feng-hsiung Hsu, principal designer of the IBM Deep Blue chess machine
- Chenming Hu, developer of FinFET, National Medal of Technology and Innovation winner [16]
- 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[17]
- Samuel Ting, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1976
- Sam Wang, neuroscientist and author
- Pei-Yuan Wei, creator of ViolaWWW
- Chi-Huey Wong, biochemist; 2014 Wolf Prize in Chemistry winner for his expertise in bioorganic and synthetic chemistry, especially in carbohydrate chemistry and chemical biology
- Henry T. Yang, chancellor, UC Santa Barbara
- Andrew Chi-Chih Yao, winner of the Turing Award; prominent computer scientist and computational theorist
- Nai-Chang Yeh, physicist specializing in condensed matter physics; Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Fellow, American Physical Society
- Soon Yu, international speaker, consultant, and adjunct professor at Parsons School of Design
Sports
- Joy Burke, professional basketball player
- Michael Chang, International Tennis Hall of Fame member; youngest male tennis player to win a Grand Slam tournament
- Karen Chen, figure skater, 2017 U.S. national champion.
- Tora Harris, high jumper; also of African-American descent
- Ariel Hsing, youngest U.S. table tennis national champion[18]
- Jerry Hsu, professional skateboarder
- Jason Jung, tennis player on ATP Tour; also won the gold medal at the 2017 Summer Universiade .
- Vania King, tennis player on WTA Tour
- Candie Kung, golf player in the LPGA
- Jeremy Lin, first Taiwanese-American player in the NBA
- Joseph Lin, professional basketball player. Younger brother of Jeremy Lin
- Kevin Tan, 2008 Olympic Games men's gymnastics bronze medalist
- Chien-Ming Wang, professional MLB pitcher, won 19 games with New York Yankees both in 2006 and 2007.
Other
- Richard Chen, celebrity chef
- Hank Chien, world champion of Donkey Kong
- Arthur Chu, Jeopardy! contestant
- Tammy and Victor Jih, winners of the 14th season of The Amazing Race
- Crystal Lee, beauty queen; Miss California 2013; Miss America 2014 first runner-up; Miss Chinatown USA 2010; Miss California Outstanding Teen 2008
- Wen Ho Lee, nuclear physicist, wrongly accused for espionage and then acquitted
- Wayne Lo, American school shooter
- Nancy Wang Yuen, sociologist
References
- ^ "Branching out from techie heaven". Los Angeles Times. December 29, 2007.
- ^ "Article". www.westlake.com. February 14, 2018.
- ^ "Curb your enthusiasm" – via The Economist.
- ^ "Yu-kai Chou, Gamification Expert, Entrepreneur, and Follower of Christ". April 1, 2014.
- ^ "James Chu."
- ^ "Asianlife.com - Magazine". www.asianlife.com.
- ^ Bryant, Adam (January 6, 2017). "Tien Tzuo of Zuora: 'Don't Expect Me to Manage You' (Published 2017)" – via NYTimes.com.
- ^ "Jerry Yang". Forbes. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
- ^ "Ted Fu." http://taiwaneseamerican.org/census2010/photo.php
- ^ Rothman, Joshua (5 January 2017). "Ted Chiang's Soulful Science Fiction". The New Yorker. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
- ^ "Shawna Yang Ryan". www.shawnayangryan.com.
- ^ "Julie Wu". Julie Wu.
- ^ "Jason Chen".
- ^ Yang, Andrew (4 February 2014). Link to Book. ISBN 978-0062292049.
- ^ "Official Campaign Website | Michelle Wu for Boston". www.michelleforboston.com.
- ^ https://www.nationalmedals.org/laureates/chenming-hu
- ^ "Chang-Lin Tien 1925-2002: a chancellor's extraordinary legacy." UC Berkeley 2003 "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2005-05-13. Retrieved 2005-06-17.
- ^ Diamond, Jared (May 3, 2012). "Warren Buffett's Olympic Discovery" – via www.wsj.com.