List of Taiwanese Americans
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This is a list of notable Taiwanese Americans.
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[edit] List
[edit] Art and design
- Doug Chiang, movie designer and artist
- Christine Wang, architect, curator, artist, founder of Wang Museum of Technology WangMuseum.org
[edit] Business
- Fred Chang, founder of Newegg.com
- Steve Chen (陳世卿), founder and CEO of Galactic Computing
- Steve Chen (陳世駿), co-founder of YouTube
- Yeh Pei-Cheng chairman of Gigabyte Technology, computer hardware manufacture company
- David Chu (朱欽騏), co-founder of Nautica, clothing company
- James Chu, founder of ViewSonic, computer monitor company
- Ancle Hsu, co-founder of Apex Digital
- Jen-Hsun Huang (黃仁勳), co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA, computer graphics card company
- Min H. Kao (高民環), co-founder of Garmin, billionaire
- David Sun, co-founder Kingston Technologies, billionaire
- Victor Tsao, co-founder Linksys
- John Tu, co-founder Kingston Technologies, billionaire
- Jerry Yang (楊致遠), co-founder of Yahoo! billionaire [1]
[edit] Entertainment
- Rosalind Chao - actress
- Ang Lee (李安), film director of Brokeback Mountain, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and Hulk [2]
- Lena Li (李琳玲), Playboy model
- Justin Lin (林詣彬), film director of Better Luck Tomorrow, Annapolis and The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift [3]
- Lucy Liu (劉玉玲), actress
- Roger Fan, actor
- Ivan Shaw, actor
- Fang-Yi Sheu (許芳宜), principal dancer of the Martha Graham Dance Company
- Will Tiao (刁毓能), actor and producer, executive producer of Formosa Betrayed
- Welly Yang (楊呈偉), actor, playwright, and singer
- Kaila Yu (于丽萍), model and singer
[edit] Journalism
- Jeff Chang - journalist, hip-hop historian
- Laura Chang - science editor, The New York Times
- Connie Chung (宗毓華), successful journalist and anchor
- Patty Hou (侯佩岑), former news and fashion anchor, current entertainment anchor in Taiwan
- Chiang Nan (江南), newspaper editor
[edit] Literature
- Eric Liu (劉柏川), writer, a speechwriter of Bill Clinton
- Lan Samantha Chang - writer; director of the Iowa Writer's Workshop
[edit] Music
- Robert Chen (陳慕融), violinist, Concertmaster of Chicago Symphony Orchestra
- Andrew Chou (周立銘), member of hip-hop group Machi based in Taiwan
- Kenny Chou (周逸銘), member of hip-hop group Machi based in Taiwan
- Evonne Hsu (許慧欣), pop singer based in Taiwan
- Jeffrey Huang (黃立成), leader of hip-hop group Machi based in Taiwan
- Stanley Huang (黃立行), singer based in Taiwan
- Cho-Liang Lin (林昭亮), violinist
- Steven Lin (林智文), member of hip-hop group Machi based in Taiwan
- Jerry Lo (羅百吉), singer-songwriter based in Taiwan
- Wilber Pan (潘瑋柏), pop singer based in Taiwan
- Fan-Wei Qi (范瑋琪), pop singer based in Taiwan
- Vienna Teng (史逸欣), singer-songwriter
- Lara Veronin (梁心頤), vocalist of Taiwanese group Nan Quan Ma Ma
- Lee-Hom Wang (王力宏), pop singer-songwriter based in Taiwan
- Vanness Wu (吳建豪), member of boyband F4 based in Taiwan
- Sophia Yan (嚴倩君), pianist
[edit] Politics and government
- Elaine Chao (趙小蘭), United States Secretary of Labor in the George W. Bush Administration
- John Liu (劉醇逸), first Asian American City Councilman of New York City
- David Wu (吳振偉), first and only Taiwanese American U.S. Representative, Democrat from Oregon
[edit] Science and education
- David Ho (何大一), AIDS researcher, Time's Person of the Year
- Chang-Lin Tien (田長霖), former Chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley[4]
- Henry T. Yang, Chancellor of the University of California, Santa Barbara
- Paul C. W. Chu (朱經武) - 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)
[edit] Other
- Wen Ho Lee (李文和), nuclear physicist, accused spy (acquitted)
- Wayne Lo, American school shooter
- Michael Chang - youngest male tennis player to win a Grand Slam tournament
- Chien-Ming Wang - Starting pitcher for the New York Yankees
- Hong Chih Kuo - Pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers
[edit] References
- ^ "Jerry Yang." Yahoo! Media Relations: Management Team. 06 July 2007 <http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/press/management.cfm>
- ^ "Ang Lee." IMDB. 06 July 2007 <http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000487/>
- ^ "Justin Lin." IMDB. 06 July 2007 <http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0510912/>
- ^ "Chang-Lin Tien 1925-2002: a chancellor's extraordinary legacy." UC Berkeley 2003 http://www.coe.berkeley.edu/forefront/images/sp2003.pdf
