List of Asian Americans

This page is a list of notable Asian Americans.

Academia

Arts/architecture/design

Business and industry
Indra Nooyi

Entertainment
  • Ruben A. Aquino, animation director, supervising animator for Walt Disney Animation Studios
  • Chang and Eng Bunker, (the source for the term "Siamese Twins")
  • Ping Chong, theater director, choreographer, video and installation artist
  • Shin Lim, close-up magician
  • Dolce Wang, Walt Disney Imagineer, musician, installation artist

Actors and filmmakers
Aziz Ansari
Dante Basco
John Cho
Jamie Chung
James Hong
Kelly Hu
Ken Jeong
Mindy Kaling
Nancy Kwan
Bruce Lee
Will Yun Lee
Justin Lin
Lucy Liu
Pat Morita
Kumail Nanjiani
Sandra Oh
Keanu Reeves
Rob Schneider
Brenda Song
George Takei
Steven Yeun

Choreographers and dancers

Music
Paul Anka
Joe Hahn
Norah Jones
Bruno Mars
Allan Pineda
Mike Shinoda

Groups/bands

Reality TV participants

Fashion

Culinary
  • David Chang, founder of the Momofuku restaurant group and in multiple television shows
  • Joyce Chen, popularized northern-style Chinese cuisine in the United States
  • Cecilia Chiang (江孫芸), founder of the Mandarin Restaurant. Chiang's son, Philip Chiang, is the co-founder of restaurant chain P. F. Chang's China Bistro
  • Roy Choi, creator of the gourmet Korean taco truck, Kogi
  • Cristeta Comerford, White House Executive Chef, won with Bobby Flay in an Iron Chef America challenge
  • Eddie Huang, chef and author of Fresh Off the Boat
  • Niki Nakayama, chef and owner of Michelin-starred n/naka restaurant
  • Ming Tsai (蔡明), chef and restaurateur (Blue Ginger); host of Emmy Award-winning television show East Meets West
  • Martin Yan, chef and food writer, hosted his award-winning PBS-TV cooking show Yan Can Cook since 1982
  • Jennifer Yee, award-winning, James Beard, nominated pastry chef

Law
For a list of Asian Americans who are or have served as judges, see List of Asian American jurists.
Lance Ito
Fred Korematsu

Literature

Military

Individuals
Eric Shinseki

Foreign military service

Units
  • 1st & 2nd Filipino Infantry Regiments – segregated units predominately Filipino American units of World War II[39]
    • 5217th Reconnaissance Battalion – unit which drew soldiers from the 1st and 2nd Filipino Infantry Regiments for armed reconnaissance in the Philippines, and assisted resistance efforts[40]
  • 442nd Regimental Combat Team – highly decorated Asian American unit of World War II
  • Military Intelligence Service – Unit primarily composed of Japanese-American linguists during World War II
  • Philippine Scouts – segregated Filipino American Army units from 1901 to 1946
    • 12th Infantry Division – division composed of Regular Army and Philippine Scouts soldiers from 1921 to 1947
    • 26th Cavalry Regiment – last U.S. cavalry regiment to engage in horse-mounted warfare
  • USS Rizal – Interwar period destroyer with a primarily Filipino American crew

News/media/journalism

Politics
Daniel Akaka
Tammy Duckworth
Nikki Haley
Daniel Inouye
Bobby Jindal

Religion
  • Randolph Roque Calvo, 7th Bishop of Reno, mixed Chamorro, Filipino, and Spanish
  • Francis Chan, American preacher. He is the former teaching pastor of Cornerstone Community Church in Simi Valley, California, a Christian church he and his wife started in 1994.
  • Bruce Reyes-Chow, first American-born Asian American to be elected moderator of the 2.2-million-member Presbyterian Church (USA) in 2008.
  • Hae Jong Kim, elected Bishop of United Methodist Church in 1992.
  • Seyoon Kim, biblical scholar at Fuller Theological Seminary.
  • Sang Hyun Lee, theologian at Princeton Theological Seminary.
  • Dominic Mai Thanh Lương, auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange
  • Andrew S. Park, teaches at United Theological Seminary in Trotwood, Ohio.
  • Peter C. Phan, American Catholic theologian who is a native of Vietnam.
  • Oscar A. Solis, first Filipino American Roman Catholic bishop in the United States.
  • C. S. Song, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Theology and Asian Cultures at the Pacific School of Religion and acting minister at the Formosan United Methodist Church in San Leandro, California.
  • Ignatius C. Wang, first Chinese American to become a bishop in the Catholic Church.
  • Amos Yong, professor of systematic theology at Regent University.

Science
Steven Chu

Space

This section is a list of astronauts of Asian ancestry who are, by birth or naturalization, American citizens.

No. Image Name
Birth date		 Ancestry Birth Comment Missions (Launch date)
1 Ellison Onizuka
June 24, 1946		  Japan  United States First Japanese American in space. Died on the Challenger. STS-51-C (January 24, 1985)
STS-51-L (January 28, 1986)
2 Taylor Gun-jin Wang
June 16, 1940		 Republic of China First Chinese American astronaut in space. STS-51-B (April 29, 1985)
3 Franklin Chang-Diaz
April 5, 1950		  China
 Costa Rica		  Costa Rica STS-61-C (January 12, 1986)
STS-34 (October 18, 1989)
STS-46 (July 31, 1992)
STS-60 (February 3, 1994)
STS-75 (February 22, 1996)
STS-91 (June 2, 1998)
STS-111 (June 5, 2002)
4 Eugene Trinh
September 14, 1950		  South Vietnam First Vietnamese American in space. STS-50 (June 25, 1992)
5 Leroy Chiao, Taiwanese American astronaut
August 28, 1960		 Taiwan  United States Served on ISS Expedition 10. STS-65 (July 8, 1994)
STS-72 (January 11, 1996)
STS-92 (October 11, 2000)
Soyuz TMA-5 (October 14, 2004)
6 Ed Lu
July 1, 1963		  China  United States Served on ISS Expedition 7. STS-84 (May 15, 1997)
STS-106 (September 8, 2000)
Soyuz TMA-2 (April 6, 2003)
7 Kalpana Chawla
March 17, 1962		  India First Indian American in space. Died on the Columbia. STS-87 (November 19, 1997)
STS-107 (January 16, 2003)
8 Mark L. Polansky
June 2, 1956		  South Korea  United States First Korean American in space STS-98 (February 7, 2001)
STS-116 (December 9, 2006)
STS-127 (July 15, 2009)
9 Daniel M. Tani
February 1, 1961		  Japan  United States Served on ISS Expedition 16. STS-108 (December 5, 2001)
STS-120 (October 23, 2007)
STS-122 (February 7, 2008)
10 Sunita Pandya Williams
September 19, 1965		  India  United States Served on ISS Expedition 14/15 and Expedition 32/33. Second female commander of ISS. STS-116/117 (December 9, 2006)
Soyuz TMA-05M (July 15, 2012)
11 Kjell N. Lindgren
January 23, 1973		 Taiwan
 United States		 Taiwan Selected in 2009 to NASA Astronaut Group 20. He launched to the International Space Station as part of Expedition 44 in June 2015 with Soyuz TMA-17M. Soyuz TMA-17M (July 22, 2015)
12 Raja Chari
June 24, 1977		  India  United States Selected in 2017 to NASA Astronaut Group 22.
12 Jonny Kim
February 5, 1984		  South Korea  United States Selected in 2017 to NASA Astronaut Group 22.

Sports

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