List of Korean Americans

The following is a list of notable Korean Americans, including 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 Korean American or must have references showing they are Korean American and are notable.

Lists of Americans
By U.S. state
By ethnicity or nationality
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  • Category

Art and design

Business

Criminals and murderers

Culinary arts

Entertainment

Journalism

Law and government

Elected officials

Literature

See Korean American writers for a more extensive list.

Military

Music

Religion

Science, technology and education
  • Tae-Ung Baik, professor of law at the University of Hawaii Manoa William S. Richardson School of Law; legal scholar of international human rights law and Korean law
  • Victor Cha, professor in Asian studies, former Director for Asian Affairs in the White House's National Security Council
  • Dennis Choi, neuroscientist at Emory University, member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, former executive vice president for neuroscience at Merck, former chairman of the department of neurology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
  • Howard Choi, spinal cord injury specialist
  • John Chun, designer of AC Cobra and Shelby Mustang GT350 and GT500 models; Tonka Toys designer[28]
  • Jefferson Han, one of the main developers of "multi-touch sensing" technology, owner of Perceptive Pixel company
  • Moo-Young Han, physicist
  • Dennis Hong, professor and the founding director of RoMeLa (Robotics & Mechanisms Laboratory) of the Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Department at UCLA[29]
  • Hyun Yi Kang, scholar and writer; chair of Women's Studies and Associate Professor in Comparative Literature and English at University of California, Irvine
  • Larry Kwak, world-renowned physician and scientist who has pioneered breakthrough innovations in immunology and cancer vaccines; and named one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in 2010.[30]
  • Minsoo Kang, historian and writer at University of Missouri
  • Sung-Mo "Steve" Kang, chancellor of University of California, Merced; former professor of electrical and computer engineering at various institutions
  • Jaegwon Kim, William Herbert Perry Faunce Professor of Philosophy at Brown University
  • Jeong H. Kim, president of Bell Labs
  • No-Hee Park, Dean of the School of Dentistry at the University of California, Los Angeles.
  • Waun Ki Hong, Division Head and Professor at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and pioneer in field of cancer chemoprevention and cancer medicine.[31][32]
  • Jim Yong Kim, Francois Xavier Bagnoud Professor Health and Human Rights at Harvard University; former director of HIV/AIDS at the World Health Organization; 17th president of Dartmouth College; president of the World Bank
  • Peter S. Kim, president of Merck, former MIT-Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research biochemist, member of National Academy of Sciences
  • Howard Koh, professor of the Practice of Public Health; associate dean for Public Health Practice at the Harvard School of Public Health; former Massachusetts Commissioner of Public Health
  • Benjamin W. Lee, theoretical physicist (influenced development of the Standard Model)
  • Chang-Rae Lee, professor of creative writing at Princeton University; novelist
  • Marina Lee, co-founder of an international program on empathy and global citizenship development in youth
  • David Oh, NASA engineer and lead flight director of the Mars Curiosity rover[33]
  • Gary Pak, professor of English at University of Hawaii; one of the most important Asian Hawaiian writers
  • Andrew S. Park, Methodist theologian
  • Mark L. Polansky, NASA astronaut
  • Michelle Rhee, former chancellor of District of Columbia Public Schools; education reform advocate
  • Sebastian Seung, computational neuroscientist, brain and cognitive sciences professor at MIT, and author of Connectomes
  • Nam-Pyo Suh, doctor of engineering of Carnegie Mellon University, 14th president of KAIST in South Korea
  • Jeannie Suk, assistant professor of law at Harvard Law School; award-winning writer
  • Meredith Jung-En Woo, dean of the college and graduate school of arts and sciences at the University of Virginia, professor of political science and Korean studies
  • Ji-Yeon Yuh, professor in Asian American history and Asian diasporas at the Northwestern University
  • Joon Yun, radiologist; founder of Palo Alto Institute

Sports

Other
  • Philip Jaisohn, first Korean to become an American citizen; first Korean American to receive an American medical degree
  • Song Oh-kyun, Korean independence activist
  • Song Yi-kyun, Korean independence activist and aviator

References
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