List of Chinese Canadians

This is a list of Chinese Canadians including both original immigrants who obtained Canadian citizenship and their Canadian-born descendants who are notable, have made significant contributions to the Canadian or international culture or society politically, artistically or scientifically, or have prominently appeared in the news.

Politics and public service

Law and judiciary

  • Jim Chu (朱小荪), first Chinese Chief Constable of the Vancouver Police Service
  • Susan Eng (伍素屏), former chair of the Metro Toronto Police Services Board
  • Avvy Go (吳瑤瑤), prominent social justice lawyer and member of the Order of Ontario
  • Guo Guoting, prominent lawyer who defended dissidents and Falun Gong practitioners
  • Linda Ann Loo, Judge of the Supreme Court of British Columbia
  • Won Alexander Cumyow (溫金有), first person of Chinese origin born in Canada; as a court interpreter, was also the first ethnic-Chinese government official in Canada
  • Kew Dock Yip, first Chinese-Canadian lawyer

Business

Athletics

Visual arts

  • Raymond Chow, martial arts film producer
  • Richard Fung, video artist, writer, public intellectual and theorist
  • Terence Koh, diverse work sometimes involving queer, punk, and pornographic sensibilities
  • Ken Lum, public art champion, award-winning educator
  • Bruce Mau, design, architecture, art, museums, film, eco-environmental design, and conceptual philosophy
  • Paul Wong, award-winning artist, curator, and organizer of public interventions
  • Tobi Wong, artist
  • Xiaojing Yan (闫晓静), sculptor, installation artist
  • Tong Shen, paper cut, installation artist
  • Matthew Wong, painter

Entertainment

Media

  • Amanda Lang, business journalist
  • Josephine Au, reporter and producer for Canadian Omni.2 TV news Cantonese language service
  • Steve Chao, journalist for Al Jazeera English, formerly with CTV News
  • Wei Chen, journalist for Canadian radio and TV
  • Cindy Cheung, TV presenter, most recently with Fairchild Television
  • Sharlene Chiu, television reporter, host, and producer most known for MTV News Canada
  • Lila Feng, television weather presenter and program host
  • Mellissa Fung, journalist for CBC news
  • Jiang Weiping, journalist, emigrated to Canada after release from prison in China
  • Bernard Lo, news anchor and show host for financial TV shows, based in Hong Kong
  • Elaine Lui, television reporter, entertainer, "gossip maven" for CTV Television Network
  • Sheng Xue (also known as Reimonna Sheng), Canadian Chinese journalist, writer, activist for civil rights in China
  • Ziya Tong, Canadian television personality and producer, news and science shows
  • Jan Wong (黃明珍), journalist for several Canadian newspapers, known for Lunch With... column

Literature

Science and technology

  • Thomas Chang, physician, medical scientist, and inventor credited with co-inventing the world's first artificial cell
  • James K. M. Cheng, architect
  • Kin-Yip Chun, geophysicist
  • Roger Hui, computer scientist and co-developer of the J programming language
  • Yuet Wai Kan, medical scientist and physician; pioneer of applying molecular biology and genetics into clinical medicine
  • Victor Ling, medical researcher whose research focuses on drug resistance in cancer; known for his discovery of P-glycoprotein
  • Tak Wah Mak, medical researcher, geneticist, oncologist, and biochemist; known for his discovery of the T-cell receptor and pioneering work in the genetics of immunology
  • Bing Thom, architect
  • Paul Tseng, applied mathematician who went missing while kayaking in the Yangtze River in the Yunnan province of China and is presumed dead
  • Tsui Lap-chee (徐立之), geneticist
  • Joseph Yu Kai Wong, physician and philanthropist
  • William Kwong Yu Yeung, astronomer; discoverer of asteroids and the comet 172P/Yeung

Education and academia

Other

References

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