成就的华人；自己不行别扁华人

List

Arts

• Xu Bing - Artist
• Alan Chin - Artist
• Ching Ho Cheng - Artist
• Mel Chin - Artist
• Ping Chong - contemporary theater director
• James Wong Howe (黃宗霑) - nominated for ten Academy Awards for cinematography, won twice (1955, 1963)
• Maya Lin (林瓔) - architect (Vietnam Veterans Memorial)
• Freida Lee Mock - Academy Award winning documentary filmmaker and co-founder of the American Film Foundation
• Reagan Louie - American photographer and artist whose photography and installations explore cross-cultural identity and global transformation in Asia and in Asian communities in the United States.
• Seong Moy, painter and printmaker
• I. M. Pei (貝聿銘) - architect, designed the Louvre Pyramid
• Goh Choo San - ballet dancer and choreographer
• Mimi So - Jewelry designer
• May Sun - artist, public art
• Christine Wang - architect, curator, artist, founder of Wang Museum of Technology
• Wayne Wang - Hollywood director won the Golden Shell
• Shen Wei - dancer, choreographer and visual artist; MacArthur "genius" grant recipient
• Frank Wong (artist) - Dioramist
• Tyrus Wong (黃齊耀) - Artist
• Frank Wu - science-fiction artist
• Jessica Yu - Academy Award winning documentary filmmaker; film and television director
• Cai Guo-Qiang- (蔡國強)Artist and Gunpowder Works designer.

Fashion design

• Malan Breton, fashion designer
• Wenlan Chia, fashion designer
• Doug Chiang, movie designer and artist
• Joe Allen Hong - fashion designer for Neiman Marcus
• Jen Kao - fashion designer
• Derek Lam - fashion designer
• Phillip Lim - fashion designer
• Mary Ping - fashion designer
• Peter Som - fashion designer
• Anna Sui - fashion designer
• Vivienne Tam - fashion designer
• Yeohlee Teng - fashion designer
• Alexander Wang - fashion designer
• Christine Wang, architect, curator, artist, founder of Wang Museum of Technology
• Vera Wang - fashion designer
• Jason Wu - fashion designer
• Joe Zee - creative director of Elle and host of fashion TV series, All on the Line

Literature

• Bette Bao Lord (包柏漪) - writer, novelist
• Eileen Chang - writer
• Lan Samantha Chang - writer; director of the Iowa Writer's Workshop
• Victoria Chang - writer
• Ted Chiang (姜峯楠) - speculative fiction writer
• Frank Chin (趙健秀) - novelist, playwright, and essayist
• Marilyn Chin - poet
• Ben Fee - writer and labor organizer
• David Henry Hwang (黃哲倫) - playwright
• Gish Jen - writer, novelist
• Ha Jin - novelist, winner of the National Book Award for "Waiting"
• Maxine Hong Kingston - novelist, The Woman Warrior
• Jean Kwok - writer, novelist
• Edward Michael Law-Yone, writer, journalist and father of Wendy Law-Yone
• Wendy Law-Yone, writer
• Gus Lee (李健孫) - writer
• Yiyun Li (李翊雲) - winner of the 2006 PEN/Hemingway Award
• Ed Lin - writer, first author to win three Asian American Literary Awards.^[1]
• Tao Lin - writer
• Eric Liu, author and speechwriter for former U.S. President Bill Clinton.^[2]
• Malinda Lo - writer
• David Wong Louie - writer
• Adeline Yen Mah (馬嚴君玲) - author and physician
• William Marr (馬為義,非馬) - Engineer, poet, translator, and artist
• Anchee Min - author, Red Azalea
• Lisa See - writer
• Timothy Tau - writer, novelist, screenwriter
• Amy Tan - best-selling author, The Joy Luck Club
• Jade Snow Wong - writer
• Shawn Wong - novelist: "Homebase," "American Knees," writer, and Professor
• Timothy C. Wong (黃宗泰) - sinologist, translator, and literary theorist
• Xu Xi, English language novelist based in Hong Kong
• Gene Luen Yang - graphic novelist, whose book American Born Chinese was the first graphic novel to be nominated for a National Book Award
• Laurence Yep (叶祥添) - two time winner of the Newbery Honor
• Judy Yung - writer
• Carolyn Lei-Lanilau - writer

Business

• Sam Chang - New York real estate and hotel developer
• Allen Chao - founder of Actavis
• Jimmy Chiang - founder of Way Basics
• David Chu - co-founder of Nautica, clothing company
• John Chuang - co-founder and CEO of Aquent^[3]
• Wendi Deng - businesswoman and ex-wife of Rupert Murdoch
• Lew Hing - shipping, hotel, and canning tycoon
• David T. Hon - founder and CEO of Dahon
• Kai Huang - co-founder of Guitar Hero franchise
• Andrea Jung (鍾彬嫻) - Chairman of Avon
• Dan Lin - Hollywood film producer and former Senior Vice President at Warner Bros. Pictures
• Kim Ng (伍佩琴) - Major League Baseball executive
• Patrick Soon-Shiong - surgeon and businessman; founder of Abraxis BioScience, billionaire
• Cyrus Tang - scrap metal and furniture magnate
• Andrea Wong - President of International Production for Sony Pictures Television and the President of International for Sony Pictures Entertainment

Finance

• Yan Huo - hedge fund manager
• John Liew - hedge fund manager
• Alfred Lin, venture capitalist at Sequoia Capital
• Norman Liu - CEO of GECAS
• Li Lu - hedge fund manager and founder and Chairman of Himalaya Capital Management
• Danny Pang, private equity manager, accused of running a Ponzi scheme
• Donald Tang - former Vice-Chairman of Bear Stearns
• Oscar Tang - financier, philanthropist, President of the Phillips Academy Board of Trustees
• Gerald Tsai - financier, former Chairman and CEO of Primerica
• Mun Charn Wong - former executive of Transamerica Corporation

Food

• Roger H. Chen - founder of Tawa Supermarket Inc. also known as 99 Ranch Market
• Andrew Cherng - co-founder of Panda Express
• Bob Chinn, owner of Bob Chinn's Crab House, highest grossing restaurant in America
• Johnny Kan - founder of San Francisco's award winning Kan's Restaurant
• Ping Tom - Chicago-based food industry businessman, uncle of Lauren Tom

Internet

• Fred Chang - founder of Newegg, billionaire
• Pehong Chen - founder of Gain Technology and Broadvision
• Perry Chen - co-founder of Kickstarter
• Steve Chen - co-founder of YouTube
• Ben Chiu - founder of KillerApp.com
• Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com, online shoe store
• Jameson Hsu, co-founder and CEO of Mochi Media
• Kai-Fu Lee - founding President of Google China
• Greg Tseng, co-founder and CEO of Tagged
• Yishan Wong - former CEO of Reddit
• Jerry Yang - co-founder of Yahoo!, billionaire
• David Yu - former CEO of Betfair

Tech

• John S. Chen - CEO of BlackBerry, former CEO of Sybase
• Steve Chen, founder and CEO of Galactic Computing
• James Chu - founder, CEO and Chairman of ViewSonic^[4]
• Alfred Chuang - co-founder and former CEO of BEA Systems
• Weili Dai - co-founder of Marvell Technology Group
• Ping Fu (傅苹) - co-founder of Geomagic
• Ming Hsieh - co-founder and CEO of Cogent Systems
• Jen-Hsun Huang - co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA, computer graphics card company
• Robert T. Huang - founder of Synnex
• Min H. Kao, co-founder of Garmin, billionaire
• John Tu - co-founder Kingston Technologies, billionaire
• An Wang (王安) - computer engineer and inventor; co-founder of Wang Laboratories
• Charles Wang (王嘉廉) - founder, CEO and Chairman of Computer Associates
• William Wang - founder and CEO of Vizio
• Ken Xie - founder of Fortinet and NetScreen
• Bing Yeh - founder of Silicon Storage Technology and Greenliant Systems

Entertainment

• Tyson Beckford - model and actor
• T. V. Carpio - actress and singer
• JuJu Chan - actress
• Yin Chang - actress, Nelly Yuki in The CW series Gossip Girl.
• Louis Ozawa Changchien, actor
• Rosalind Chao - actress
• Arvin Chen - film director and screenwriter
• Fala Chen - television actress
• Joan Chen (陳冲) - actress, The Last Emperor, director
• Lynn Chen - actress, Saving Face
• Kevin Cheng - TVB actor
• Karin Anna Cheung - actress, Angela, in Quentin Lee's feature film The People I've Slept With (2009)
• Feodor Chin - actor, writer, director
• Mandy Cho - former beauty queen and actress
• Annabel Chong - adult film actress
• China Chow - actress, model (father is Chinese-American)
• Kelsey Chow- actress
• Tze Chun - writer, director
• Michaela Conlin - actress
• Leah Dizon - model and singer
• Esther Eng - director
• Roger Fan, actor
• Ted Fu, founding member of Wong Fu Productions^[5]
• Steven Ho - martial artist and stunt man
• Ken Hom - chef, author and British television show presenter
• Janet Hsieh, model and travel host of Fun Taiwan
• George Hu, actor
• Kelly Hu - actress
• Eddie Huang - writer
• William Hung - actor and musician of American Idol fame
• Carrie Ann Inaba, dancer, actress
• Celina Jade - actress, singer and martial artist
• Rupert Jee - owner of the Hello Deli next to the Ed Sullivan Theater; has made numerous appearances on the Late Show with David Letterman
• Malese Jow - actress & singer on Unfabulous and Bratz
• Archie Kao - actor and model
• Michelle Krusiec, actress
• Ke Huy Quan - actor and stunt choreographer - played Short Round in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
• Nancy Kwan (關南施) - first Chinese-born star in Western cinema ^[6]
• Nichkhun - 3/4 Chinese. Member of South Korean Boy Band 2PM. Mainly active in South Korea, China and Thailand.
• Miranda Kwok - writer, actor, producer, martial artist, screenwriter Spartacus: Blood and Sand
• Dan Kwong - performance artist, writer, teacher, playwright (Be Like Water)
• Tiffany Lam - former beauty queen hailing from Hong Kong
• Ang Lee - Academy Award winning director
• Bruce Lee - martial artist, kung fu actor
• Brandon Lee - actor, son of Bruce Lee
• Jason Scott Lee (李截) - actor
• Michelle Lee - actress, martial artist and stuntwoman
• Shannon Lee, actress, and daughter of Bruce Lee
• Ken Leung - actor (Lost, X-Men: The Last Stand)
• James Hiroyuki Liao, actor
• Justin Lin - director, Better Luck Tomorrow, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, Fast & Furious
• Dyana Liu, actress
• Lucy Liu (劉玉玲) - actress, Charlie's Angels, Kill Bill
• John Lone (尊龍) - actor, most notable for his role as Pu Yi in The Last Emperor
• Jodi Long - actress
• Mynette Louie - producer
• Keye Luke - actor
• Byron Mann - actor, notable for playing the role of Ryu in Street Fighter (1994 film)
• Marie Matiko - actress
• Meiling Melançon -, actress
• Olivia Munn - actress, model and television personality
• Irene Ng - Chinese Malaysian actress who played the title character in Nickelodeon's The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo
• Melissa Ng - Hong Kong actress
• Haing S. Ngor (吳漢潤, Khmer: ????? ????? ???) - actor; won an Oscar for Best Supporting actor in The Killing Fields
• Julia Nickson-Soul - actress, most notable for playing the role of Co-Bao in Rambo: First Blood Part II
• Jimmy Ouyang - actor, writer and comedian
• Janel Parrish - actress & singer
• David Ren - Film Director of Shanghai Kiss
• Aaron Shang - actor & singer
• Ivan Shaw, actor
• Fang-Yi Sheu, principal dancer of the Martha Graham Dance Company
• Robin Shou (仇雲波) - actor, stuntman, martial artist
• Harry Shum, Jr. (岑勇康) - actor, dancer, and singer in Glee
• Timothy Tau - writer and director
• Will Tiao, actor and producer
• Jennifer Tilly - actress (born in California), Bound
• Meg Tilly - actress
• Chuti Tiu - actress, Desire, 24, Dragnet, Beautiful, The Specials, former America's Junior Miss (first non-Caucasian winner)
• Kiana Tom - actress, television host, and exercise instructor
• Lauren Tom - actress, The Joy Luck Club, "Julie" on Friends
• Ming Tsai (蔡明) - chef and restaurateur (Blue Ginger); host of Emmy Award winning television show East Meets West
• Jessika Van - actress, singer, portrays "Becca" on MTV's Awkward
• Kelly Vitz - actress on Sky High and Nancy Drew
• Joanna Wang - singer
• Gwendoline Yeo (杨时贤) - musician and actress
• Liu Yifei - actress and singer
• Garrett Wang (王以瞻) - actor in Star Trek: Voyager
• Leehom Wang, singer, actor, and songwriter
• Ming-Na Wen - Macanese-born actress, ER, Mulan
• Anna May Wong (黃柳霜) - first female Asian-American star of the screen
• B. D. Wong (黃榮亮) - Tony Award winning actor, M Butterfly, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
• Grace Wong - actress
• Kristina Wong - comedian
• Michael Wong - actor
• Russell Wong (王盛德) - actor
• Victor Wong (黃自強) - Hollywood actor
• Daniel Wu (吳彥祖) - Hong Kong-based Chinese American actor
• Kevin Wu (吳凱文) - YouTube star, once #1 Most Subscribed Comedian (All Time)
• Raymond Wu, well-known professional poker player
• Vanness Wu - actor, singer, director, producer based in Asia
• Martin Yan - chef, host of Yan Can Cook
• Ruby Yang - film director
• Welly Yang - actor and artist
• XiXi Yang - TV host and model
• Kelvin Han Yee - actor
• Vern Yip - interior designer and TV host
• Eugenia Yuan, actress and daughter of Cheng Pei-pei
• Catalina Yue - actress, singer, model
• Victor Sen Yung - actor, portrayed Hop Sing in Bonanza
• Nan Zhang - actress, Gossip Girl as Kati Farkas

Music

• Kelis Rogers Mora - singer
• Jin Au-yeung - rapper, songwriter, actor
• Baiyu - singer, songwriter, actress, mtvU VJ
• Carmit Bachar - singer and member of The Pussycat Dolls
• Flora Chan - Hong Kong-born singer, actress
• Jaycee Chan - Hong Kong singer-songwriter, actor
• Robert Chen - violinist, Concertmaster of Chicago Symphony Orchestra
• Shunza - singer
• Chi Cheng - bassist to alternative metal band, Deftones
• Andrew Chou - member of hip-hop group Machi
• Dawen - singer, songwriter
• Nichkhun Buck Horvejkul - singer and rapper member of the K-pop group, 2PM
• Jack Hsu - frontman of The Hsu-nami^[7]
• Kelis - singer^[8] 1/4 Chinese
• Jon Jang - jazz pianist, composer, band leader
• Larissa Lam - singer-songwriter, television host, music executive
• Chihchun Chi-sun Lee - composer
• CoCo Lee - singer
• Dai-Keong Lee - composer
• Cho-Liang Lin - violinist
• Joseph Lin - first violinist for Juilliard String Quartet
• Amber Liu (singer) - rapper and singer of K-pop group f(x)
• Justin Lo - Hong Kong singer-songwriter, actor
• Zhou Long - Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Music
• Yo-Yo Ma (馬友友) - cellist
• Charles Mingus - jazz double bassist, composer, band leader
• Ne-Yo - R&B artist, 1/4 Chinese
• Richard On - guitarist-songwriter for rock band O.A.R.
• Wilber Pan - singer-songwriter, rapper and actor
• Bright Sheng - composer, conductor, and pianist
• Vienna Teng - singer-songwriter
• Jason Tom - beatboxer
• Kenneth Tse - classical saxophonist
• Sam Tsui - YouTube singer
• Lara Veronin - vocalist
• Leehom Wang - singer-songwriter, record producer, actor and film director
• Chris Wong Won ("Fresh Kid Ice", 'The Chinaman") - Chinese Trinidadian rapper, member of 2 Live Crew
• Only Won - rapper, actor, martial artist
• Sophia Yan - pianist
• Catalina Yue - singer, songwriter, model
• Nancy Zhou - violin player
• Chino Moreno - vocalist and guitarist of Deftones

Military

• Arthur Chin (陳瑞鈿) - World War II pilot and fighter ace with Canton Provincial Air Force, National Revolutionary Army
• David S. C. Chu - United States Army Captain (retired), Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness (2001–2008), president/CEO of the Institute for Defense Analyses
• Gordon Pai'ea Chung-Hoon - United States Navy Rear Admiral (Upper Half)
• John Liu Fugh - first Chinese American officer to be promoted to the rank of Major General in the United States Army; first Chinese American to serve as Judge Advocate General of the Army
• Wah Kau Kong - United States Air Force Second Lieutenant, first Chinese American fighter pilot
• Hazel Ying Lee (李月英) - first Chinese American woman to earn a pilot's license; flew for the United States Army Air Forces during World War II as a Women Airforce Service Pilot (WASP)
• Kurt Lee – Major, US Marine Corps. First Asian American Marine Corps officer, Navy Cross recipient^[9][10]
• Coral Wong Pietsch - United States Army Reserve Brigadier General, first female Asian American general officer
• Xiong Yan - Student leader during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 and now a chaplain in the United States Army.
• James Yee, United States Army Captain and chaplain, formerly charged with sedition; author of the memoir For God and Country: Faith and Patriotism Under Fire.
• Francis B. Wai - United States Army Captain, only Chinese American to have been awarded the Medal of Honor
• Mun Charn Wong - United States Air Force Lieutenant Colonel, friend of Wah Kau Kong
• Danny Chen (陳宇暉) - Private, United States Army Infantryman, was found shot to death after being harassed and beaten by his fellow soldiers in Afghanistan
• John C. Young (容兆珍) - United States Army Colonel

News media

• Ben Calhoun, radio journalist with This American Life
• Sewell Chan - journalist, The New York Times
• Emily Chang - journalist from CNN
• Jeff Chang - journalist, hip-hop historian
• Iris Chang - historian and journalist, Thread of the Silkworm and The Rape of Nanking
• Laura Chang - science editor, The New York Times
• Christine Chen, journalist and anchor
• Julie Chen - newsreader on The Early Show and host of Big Brother
• Anna Chen Chennault (陳香梅) - journalist, wife of Claire Chennault, of the Flying Tigers
• Ron Chew - former editor International Examiner, founding member Seattle Chapter, Asian American Journalists Association
• Connie Chung - became the second woman to co-anchor a major network’s national news broadcast
• Veronica De La Cruz - journalist, worked for NBC News from (2010–2014) and alternating anchor on both Early Today on NBC and First Look on MSNBC
• Ben Fong-Torres (方振豪) - journalist, Rolling Stone
• Jennifer 8. Lee - journalist, The New York Times
• Melissa Lee - Emmy award winning journalist, CNBC, NBC News, MSNBC, Bloomberg Television and CNN Financial News.
• Portia Li (李秀蘭) - journalist
• Carol Lin - news anchor
• Sam Chu Lin - journalist, one of the first Asian Americans on network TV news
• Laura Ling - journalist, sister of Lisa Ling
• Lisa Ling (凌志慧) (1973 - ) - journalist, known for her role as a co-host of ABC's The View and host of National Geographic Ultimate Explorer^[11]
• Betty Liu – news anchor, Bloomberg Television
• Chiang Nan, newspaper editor
• Terry Tang - Deputy editorial page editor, The New York Times ^[12]
• Kaity Tong - news anchor for WPIX-TV
• Sheryl WuDunn - Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author
• John Yang - Peabody Award winning news correspondent and commentator for NBC Night News with Brian Williams, Today (NBC program), and MSNBC
• Jeff Yang - columnist for The Wall Street Journal
• Al Young - Journalist; Boston Globe; First Asian American sportswriter in the mainland USA at a metropolitan daily; Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) Pioneer in Journalism Honor Roll List (1925–75).
• Anthony Yuen - journalist
• Andrea Wong - journalist, Bloomberg News^[13]
• Edward Wong - journalist, former writer for The New York Times

Politics and government

• Daniel Akaka - former U.S. Senator from Hawaii, and also the first Native Hawaiian US Senator. Democrat.
• Wilma Chan - First Asian American California State Assembly Majority Leader (2002–2004). Democrat.
• Elaine Chao - U.S. Secretary of Labor from 2001 to 2009. Republican.
• John Chiang - California State Controller (2007–present). Democrat.
• Jay Chen, Hacienda-La Puente School Board, running for US Congress District 39
• Lanhee Chen, policy director in Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign
• Margaret Chin - Member of the New York City Council representing Chinatown.
• Judy Chu - First Chinese-American woman to serve as U.S. Representative (2009–present). Democrat.
• Steven Chu - physicist, former United States Secretary of Energy (2009–2013), winner of 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics for research in laser cooling
• Nancy-Ann DeParle - Director of the White House Office of Health Reform
• Charles Djou - U.S. Representative from Hawaii (2010–2011). Republican.
• March Fong Eu - former Secretary of State of California (1975–1994), elected in 1974, she won reelection four times; United States Ambassador to the Federated States of Micronesia (1994–1996). Democrat.
• Hiram L. Fong - former U.S. Senator from Hawaii and the FIRST US Senator of Chinese ancestry. Republican.
• Matthew K. Fong - California State Treasurer (1995–1999), adoptive son of March Fong Eu. Republican.
• Allan Fung - Mayor of Cranston, Rhode Island. Republican.
• 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
• Tony Hwang, State Representative of the Connecticut General Assembly. Republican.
• Ed Jew - former member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Democrat.
• Peter Koo - Member of the New York City Council representing Flushing, Queens.
• Ed Lee - Mayor of San Francisco
• Harry Lee - Longtime sheriff of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana; first elected in 1979, he was re-elected six times and served 27 and a half years. Democrat.
• Susan C. Lee - Delegate, Maryland House of Delegates of Maryland General Assembly, First Chinese American elected to Maryland General Assembly (2002–Present).
• Li Baodong – President of the United Nations Security Council during months in 2011 and 2012
• Liu Jieyi – Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations since 2013
• John Liu - New York City Comptroller and former member of the New York City Council.
• Chin Lin Sou - community leader
• Wenjian Liu - first Chinese American officer in the New York City Police Department to die in the line of duty in 2014
• Gary Locke - current United States Ambassador to China (2011-to present); former United States Secretary of Commerce (2009–2011); former Governor of Washington (1997–2005), first and only Chinese American to serve as a state governor. Democrat.
• Chris Lu - Assistant to the President and Cabinet Secretary
• Grace Meng Democrat representing the 22nd district of New York
• Tina Tchen - Chief of Staff to the First Lady of the United States
• Alex Wan - the first openly-gay and first Asian American member of the Atlanta City Council, elected to the position for District 6 in the November 2009 municipal election.^[14]
• Shien Biau Woo (吳仙標) - Lieutenant Governor of Delaware (1985–1989), current president of the 80-20 Initiative. Democrat.
• David Wu, first Taiwanese American U.S. Representative, Democrat from Oregon
• Leland Yee (余胤良) - former California State Assemblyman, current California State Senator
• Yiaway Yeh - mayor of Palo Alto, California and second youngest mayor in Palo Alto history and the first Chinese American to hold the office.^[15]
• Mae Yih - Oregon State Representative (1977–1983), Oregon State Senator (1983–2003), first Chinese American to serve in a state senate. Democrat.

Law and judiciary

• Norman Bay - former United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico (2000–2001); first Chinese American United States Attorney.
• Denny Chin - judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (1994–present), first Asian American appointed as a United States district court judge outside of the Ninth Circuit
• Ming Chin - Associate Justice, Supreme Court of California.
• Morgan Chu - former managing partner of Irell & Manella
• Amy Chua - Professor of Law; author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother.
• Dolly M. Gee - Federal district judge, United States District Court for the Central District of California.
• Joyce Kennard - Associate Justice, Supreme Court of California.
• George H. King - Federal district judge, United States District Court for the Central District of California.
• William F. Lee - co-managing partner of WilmerHale and fellow of the Harvard Corporation
• Ronald Lew - Federal district judge, United States District Court for the Central District of California, first Chinese-American federal judge outside of Hawaii.
• Goodwin Liu - Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California.
• Brian Sun - trial lawyer
• Thomas Tang - judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit; first Chinese American federal judge.
• Delbert Wong - judge

Civil Rights

• 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
• Helen Zia (謝漢蘭) - community activist and writer

Science and academia

• Min Chueh Chang (張明覺) - co-inventor of the first birth control pill. Made significant contributions to the development of In vitro fertilisation
• Sow-Hsin Chen - nuclear physicist
• Jianlin Cheng (程建林) - Computer and Data Scientist, Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Missouri, Columbia
• Leroy Chiao - NASA astronaut
• Alfred Y. Cho - known as the "father of molecular beam epitaxy" and co-inventor of Quantum cascade lasers
• Wen Tsing Chow (周文俊) - missile guidance scientist, digital computer pioneer
• Paul C. W. Chu (朱經武) - physicist, superconductivity
• Gilbert Chu, biochemist and Professor of Medicine (Oncology) and Biochemistry at the Stanford Medical School, older brother of Steven Chu
• Leon Chua - Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley
• Yuan-Cheng Fung (馮元楨) - Founder of Modern Biomechanics
• Huajian Gao - Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Engineering at Brown University
• Lue Gim Gong (呂金功) - horticulturalist
• Lin He, biochemist, received the MacArthur Fellowship in 2009.^[16]
• David Ho - scientific researcher and the Irene Diamond professor at Rockefeller University in New York City
• Feng-hsiung Hsu (許峰雄) - IBM developer of Deep Blue, which beat World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov in 1997
• Alice S. Huang - Distinguished virologist
• Wen-mei Hwu - professor at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign specializing in compiler design, computer architecture, computer microarchitecture, and parallel processing
• Yuet Wai Kan - pioneer of using DNA to diagnose human diseases, research enabled the Human Genome Project, recipient of Lasker Foundation award in 1991^[17]
• Henry C. Lee, forensic scientist
• Ching Chun Li - population geneticist and human geneticist
• Choh Hao Li (李卓皓) - biochemist, discovered Growth hormone, Beta-endorphin and isolated Luteinizing hormone
• Min Chiu Li - first scientist to use chemotherapy to cure widely metastatic, malignant cancer
• Ming C. Lin, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.^[18][19]
• T. Y. Lin (林同炎) - civil engineer (bridgebuilder)
• Tung Hua Lin (林同驊) - Professor (UCLA), aerospace and structural engineer
• Kjell N. Lindgren - NASA astronaut
• Edward Lu - NASA astronaut
• Anna Chao Pai - geneticist
• Frank Shu, professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley and University of California, San Diego and 2009 Shaw Prize recipient^[20]
• Ching W. Tang, inventor of the organic light-emitting diode(OLED) and the hetero-junction organic photovoltaic cell (OPV). Winner of the 2011 Wolf Prize in Chemistry. Widely known as the " father of Organic electronics "
• Joe Hin Tjio - cytogeneticist, first person to recognize the normal number of human chromosomes.^[21]
• An Wang - computer engineer and inventor
• Chang Yi Wang - Prominent immunologist. NYIPLA Inventor of the Year Award in 2007 for her work on UBITh Peptide Immunogens
• James C. Wang, discovered DNA topoisomerases^[22]
• Sam Wang (neuroscientist), neuroscientist and author
• Taylor Wang - first ethnic Chinese scientist to go into space, 1985 on space shuttle Challenger
• Xiaodong Wang, biochemist best known for his work with cytochrome c, won the 2000 Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry, and 2006 Shaw Prize recipient.^[23]
• Pei-Yuan Wei, creator of ViolaWWW
• David T. Wong, discovered drug Fluoxetine and atomoxetine, duloxetine and dapoxetine ^[24][25][26]
• Flossie Wong-Staal - virologist and AIDS researcher
• Chien-Shiung Wu (吳健雄) - female scientist with the considerable contribution to the acquisition of Nobel Prize by Tsung-dao Lee, worked on the Manhattan Project.
• Peidong Yang - chemist and a founding member of the scientific advisory board at Nanosys, a nanomaterials company, and he is also the cofounder of Alphabet Energy.^[27]
• Frances Yao, computer scientist, researcher in computational geometry and combinatorial algorithms and wife of Andrew Yao
• Andrew Yao (姚期智), 2000 Turing Award recipient
• Nai-Chang Yeh, physicist specialized in condensed matter physics. Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Fellow, American Physical Society.
• Junying Yu - stem cell biologist. Recognized as one of the "Person of the Year" for 2007 by TIME magazine ^[28]
• Xiaowei Zhuang – Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and of Physics at Harvard University, member of National Academy of Sciences, MacArthur Fellow (2003)

Liberal arts

• Thomas W. Chinn (陈参盛 [陳參盛]) - co-founder of the Chinese American Historical Society
• Gregory Chow (鄒至莊) – Class of 1913 Professor of Political Economy at Princeton University, known for Chow test
• William C. Hsiao - economist, Professor at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
• Him Mark Lai - Professor of Chinese American studies
• Ann Lee, professor, author and commentator on global economics and finance issues
• Andrew Lih (酈安治) - Associate Professor of Journalism at American University
• Huping Ling - Professor of History at Truman State University, author
• Betty Lee Sung (宋李瑞芳), former professor of Asian-American Studies at City College of New York and leading authority on Chinese Americans^[29][30]
• Tim Wu - professor at Columbia Law School, ran unsuccessfully to become the first Chinese American lieutenant governor of New York State in 2014

Mathematicians

• Sun-Yung Alice Chang - Professor of mathematics and chair of the department at Princeton University
• Shiing-Shen Chern - mathematician in Geometry
• Chia-Kun Chu (朱家琨） – Applied mathematician, Fu Foundation Professor Emeritus of Applied Mathematics at Columbia University^[31][32]
• Terence Chi-Shen Tao (陶哲軒) - mathematician, Fields Medal winner (2006), Professor (UCLA), MacArthur Fellow (2006), Crafoord Prize (2012), Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics (2014)
• Paul Tseng, Applied mathematician and a professor at the Department of Mathematics at the University of Washington in Seattle
• Shing-Tung Yau (丘成桐) - mathematician, Fields Medal winner (1982); MacArthur Fellow (1984), Crafoord Prize (1994), National Medal of Science (1997), Wolf Prize (2010)
• Yitang Zhang - mathematician, known for establishing the first finite bound on gaps between prime numbers

Nobel prize winners

• Steven Chu - 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics, U.S. Secretary of Energy (2009)
• Charles K. Kao - 2009 Nobel laureate in Physics who pioneered the development and use of fiber optics in telecommunications
• Tsung-dao Lee (李政道) - 1957 Nobel laureate in Physics
• Yuan T. Lee, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1986 "for his contributions to the dynamics of chemical elementary processes"
• Samuel C. C. Ting - 1976 Nobel laureate, Physics
• Roger Y. Tsien (錢永健) - 2008 Nobel laureate, chemistry
• Daniel Chee Tsui - 1998 Nobel prize, Physics
• Chen Ning Yang (楊振寧) - 1957 Nobel laureate in Physics

University administrators

• Jim Chen - Professor and former Dean at the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law
• Stephen Z.D. Cheng - Polymer scientist, Professor and former Dean in the College of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering at the University of Akron, Member of National Academic of Engineering
• David Jung-Kuang Chiu - Former Director of Asian Studies and Dean of University Advisement, Hofstra University
• Way Kuo - President and University Distinguished Professor of the City University of Hong Kong, University Distinguished Professor and former Dean of Engineering at the University of Tennessee
• Robert C. T. Lee (李崇道) - former President of National Chung Hsing University, veterinarian and brother of Tsung-dao Lee
• Frank H. Wu - chancellor and dean of the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, law professor, author, and public intellectual
• Henry T. Yang, chancellor, UC Santa Barbara

Sports

• Nathan Adrian - Olympic medal winner, swimming
• Johnny Chan - professional Poker Player
• Michael Chang (張德培) - youngest male tennis player to win a Grand Slam tournament
• Ray Chang - baseball player
• Tiffany Chin (陳婷婷) - figure skater
• Brian Ching (程拜仁) - soccer player for Houston Dynamo and the United States national team
• Mark Chung - First American-Chinese soccer player to play for the United States national team
• Amy Chow (周婉儀) - gymnast and Olympic medal winner
• Norm Chow (周友賢) - UCLA Bruins offensive coordinator
• Julie Chu - Olympic medal winner, ice hockey
• Mark Foo - professional surfer
• Christina Gao - figure skater
• Chau Giang - poker player
• Rudy Gunawan - badminton player
• Tony Gunawan - badminton player
• Ivana Hong - gymnastics
• Jerry Hsu - skateboarder
• John Juanda - poker player
• Phillip King - tennis player, brother of Vania King
• Vania King - tennis player who won both the 2010 Wimbledon Women's Doubles and 2010 US Open Women's Doubles titles
• Karen Kwan - former figure skater, sister of Michelle Kwan
• Michelle Kwan (關穎珊) - Olympic medal winner, figure skating ^[33]
• Jeremy Lin (林書豪) - professional basketball player
• Corrie Lothrop - gymnastics
• Chuck Sun - professional Motocross racer
• Kevin Tan - Olympic medal winner, gymnastics
• Ed Wang- professional American football player
• Lisa Wang - rhythmic gymnastics
• Kevin Wong - professional beach volleyball player and Olympian
• Al Young - World Champion drag racer
• Caroline Zhang- figure skater

Other

• Chang and Eng Bunker (暹羅雙胞胎) - Siamese twins, pioneer immigrants
• Vincent Chin - killed in fight, considered by Chinese-American advocacy groups to be victim of bias crime and miscarriage of American justice.
• Bow Kum - victim of New York Chinatown gangsters, her murder started infamous tong war
• Clara Elizabeth Chan Lee - first Chinese American woman voter in the United States.
• Liang May Seen, first woman of Chinese descent to live in Minnesota
• 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.
• Crystal Lee - beauty queen who was Miss California 2013, the first runner-up in the Miss America 2014 pageant, Miss Chinatown USA 2010, and Miss California Outstanding Teen 2008.
• Tyson Mao - speedcuber
• Jacqueline Mates-Muchin - first Chinese-American rabbi in the world
• Betty Ong (鄧月薇) - flight attendant on American Airlines Flight 11
• Katherine Young (郑珣) - world's oldest user of the Internet
• Yung Wing (容闳) - first Chinese and first Asian person to obtain a degree from an American college (Yale University)

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.
• Johnny "Onionhead" Eng (伍少衡) - leader of New York Flying Dragons street gang
• Mock Duck (世荣模拟) - New York Chinatown mobster, leader of the Hip Sing Tong.
• Wayne Lo (駱文) - murderer who perpetrated the shooting at Simon's Rock College of Bard on December 14, 1992 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
• Little Pete (馮正初) - San Francisco Chinatown mobster