List of Taiwanese Americans explained
This is a list of notable Taiwanese Americans, including both 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 Taiwanese American or must have references showing they are Taiwanese American and are notable.
List
Art and design
- Malan Breton, fashion designer
- Wenlan Chia, fashion designer
- Doug Chiang, movie designer and artist
- Han Hsiang-ning, artist
- James Jean, artist
- Jen Kao, fashion designer
- Yu Tsai, photographer and America's Next Top Model creative consultant
- Alexander Wang, fashion designer
- Jason Wu, fashion designer
- Luly Yang, fashion designer
- Nymphia Wind, winner of RuPaul's Drag Race season 16 and fashion designer
Business
- Fred Chang, founder of Newegg[1]
- Morris Chang, founder of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company
- Sam Chang, New York hotel developer
- Wayne Chang, founder of Crashlytics, entrepreneur, angel investor, film producer, and philanthropist
- Albert Chao, CEO and co-founder of Westlake Chemical[2]
- Allen Chao, founder of Watson Pharmaceuticals
- Eva Chen, co-founder and CEO of Trend Micro
- Pehong Chen, founder of Gain Technology and Broadvision
- Steve Chen, founder and CEO of Galactic Computing
- Steve Chen, co-founder of YouTube
- Chen Wen-Chi, billionaire president and CEO of VIA Technologies, husband to HTC co-founder Cher Wang
- Albert Cheng, Interim President of Amazon Studios
- Andrew Cherng, founder of Chinese fast food restaurant chain Panda Express[3]
- Ben Chiu, founder of KillerApp.com acquired by CNET
- Yu-kai Chou, gamification expert, entrepreneur and developer of Octalysis[4]
- David Chu, co-founder of Nautica, clothing company
- James Chu, founder, CEO and chairman of ViewSonic[5]
- John Chuang, co-founder and CEO of Aquent[6]
- Victor Ho, co-founder and CEO of FiveStars
- Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com, online shoe store
- Jameson Hsu, co-founder and CEO of Mochi Media
- Jensen Huang, CEO and co-founder of Nvidia
- Robert T. Huang, founder of SYNNEX
- Min H. Kao, co-founder of Garmin, billionaire
- Kai-Fu Lee, President of Google China
- Alfred Lin, venture capitalist at Sequoia Capital
- Dan Lin, Hollywood film producer and former Senior Vice President at Warner Bros. Pictures
- Ivan Linn, CEO and founder of Folks
- Teresa H. Meng, co-founder of Qualcomm Atheros
- Ellen Pao, lawyer and former chief executive officer of Reddit.
- Danny Pang, private equity manager, accused of running a Ponzi scheme
- Will Shu, co-founder and CEO of Deliveroo
- Lisa Su, CEO and president of Advanced Micro Devices
- David Sun, co-founder of Kingston Technologies, billionaire
- Janie Tsao, co-founder of Linksys
- Victor Tsao, co-founder of Linksys
- Greg Tseng, co-founder and CEO of Tagged
- John Tu, Taiwanese American co-founder of Kingston Technologies, billionaire
- Tien Tzuo, co-founder and CEO of Zuora[7]
- William Wang, co-founder and CEO of Vizio
- Jerry Yang, co-founder of Yahoo!, billionaire[8]
- Bing Yeh, founder of Silicon Storage Technology and Greenliant Systems
Entertainment
Journalism
- Ailsa Chang, journalist and news host for National Public Radio
- Emily Chang, journalist and anchor; host of Bloomberg TV's Bloomberg Technology
- Iris Chang, journalist, author of The Rape of Nanking and other books of Chinese history
- Jeff Chang, journalist, hip-hop historian
- Laura Chang, science editor, The New York Times
- Christine Chen, journalist and anchor
- Connie Chung, journalist and anchor; second woman ever to anchor a national news program
- Patty Hou, former news and fashion anchor, current entertainment anchor in Taiwan
- Laura Ling, journalist (mother was Taiwanese; sister of Lisa Ling)
- Lisa Ling, journalist (mother was Taiwanese; sister of Laura Ling)
- Henry Liu, aka Chiang Nan, writer and journalist
- Kristie Lu Stout, journalist and news anchor for CNN International
- Jeff Yang, journalist, author and father of actor Hudson Yang
Literature
- Lan Samantha Chang, fiction writer; director of the Iowa Writer's Workshop
- Ted Chiang, fiction writer, author of Story of Your Life[10]
- Jennifer Chow, novelist, fiction writer, author of The 228 Legacy
- Vanessa Hua, journalist, writer, author of Deceit and Other Possibilities
- Eddie Huang, author of the memoirs (the basis for the TV show of the same name) and Double Cup Love: On the Trail of Family, Food, and Broken Hearts in China.
- Ed Lin, novelist, fiction writer, author of This Is A Bust
- Francie Lin, novelist, fiction writer, author of The Foreigner
- Grace Lin, children's book writer and illustrator
- Tao Lin, fiction writer
- Eric Liu, writer, speechwriter for Bill Clinton
- Henry Liu, aka Chiang Nan, writer and journalist
- Timothy Tau, fiction writer
- Shawna Yang Ryan, novelist, fiction writer, author of Green Island and Water Ghosts[11]
- Esmé Weijun Wang, writer, author of The Collected Schizophrenias
- Julie Wu, novelist, fiction writer, author of The Third Son[12]
- Charles Yu, novelist, fiction writer
Music
- Jason Chen, singer[13]
- Robert Chen, violinist, Concertmaster of Chicago Symphony Orchestra
- Andrew Chou, member of hip-hop group Machi based in Taiwan
- Peter Ho, singer
- Evonne Hsu, pop singer based in Taiwan
- Stanley Huang, singer based in Taiwan
- Miss Ko, singer-songwriter and rapper
- Gary Kuo, violinist and composer
- Chihchun Chi-sun Lee, composer
- Cho-Liang Lin, violinist
- Joseph Lin, first violinist for Juilliard String Quartet
- Richard Lin, violinist
- Amber Josephine Liu, singer and rapper from South Korean girl group f(x)
- Jerry Lo, singer-songwriter based in Taiwan
- Allen Ma, rapper from South Korean boy group Cravity
- Anthony Neely, singer
- Will Pan, pop singer based in Taiwan
- Fan-Wei Qi, pop singer based in Taiwan
- David Tao, singer-songwriter
- Vienna Teng, singer-songwriter
- Mark Tuan, rapper of South Korean boy group GOT7
- Lara Veronin, vocalist of Taiwanese group Nan Quan Ma Ma
- Dawen Wang, singer-songwriter
- Joanna Wang, singer-songwriter
- Leehom Wang, singer-songwriter based in Taiwan
- Vanness Wu, member of boyband F4 based in Taiwan
- Sophia Yan, pianist
- Cindy Yen, singer-songwriter
- Charlie Yin, producer-performer known as Giraffage
Politics, law and government
- Ling Ling Chang, California State Senator
- Elaine Chao, United States Secretary of Labor in the George W. Bush Administration, Secretary of Transportation in the Donald Trump Administration, wife of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
- Angie Chen Button, Member of the United States House of Representatives (R-TX)
- Lanhee Chen, Policy Director and Chief Policy Adviser to the Romney-Ryan 2012 Presidential Campaign and Hoover Institution Fellow
- Lily Lee Chen, former mayor of Monterey Park, California
- Raymond Chen, United States Circuit Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- John Chiang, California State Controller in 2012
- David Chiu (Member of the California State Assembly)
- Mary Anne Franks, president of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative and expert on the intersection of civil rights and technology
- James C. Ho, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- Ted Lieu, Member of the United States House of Representatives (D-CA)
- Goodwin Liu, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California
- John Liu, first Asian American City Councilman of New York City, and former New York City Comptroller
- Chris Lu,, United States Deputy Secretary of Labor
- Grace Meng, U.S. Representative (D-NY)
- Jimmy Meng, U.S. Representative (D-NY) and father of Grace Meng
- Yuh-Line Niou, Member of the New York State Assembly from the 65th district
- Heidi Shyu, Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering
- Katherine Tai, United States Trade Representative
- Katy Tang, San Francisco Supervisor, District 4
- Chiling Tong, president and CEO of The National Asian Pacific Islander American Chamber of Commerce & Entrepreneurship
- David Wu, first Taiwanese American U.S. Representative (D-OR)
- Michelle Wu, mayor of Boston[14]
- Tim Wu, legal scholar, official in the Biden Administration tasked with Technology and Competition policy
- Andrew Yang, 2020 Presidential Candidate, founder and CEO of Venture for America, PAGE Ambassador, author,[15] and former Attorney at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York City
- Yiaway Yeh, mayor of Palo Alto, California
- Ellen Young, U.S. Representative (D-NY)
Science and education
- Yuan Chang, co-discovered Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) and Merkel cell polyomavirus
- Steve Chen, computer scientist, supercomputer designer, Cray
- Yet-Ming Chiang, materials scientist, professor at MIT, co-founder of American Superconductor, A123 Systems, Desktop Metal
- Hong-Yee Chiu, astrophysicist
- Paul C. W. Chu, 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), Secretary of Energy of the United States from 2009 to 2013
- Fan Chung, mathematician
- David Ho, AIDS researcher, 1996 Times Person of the Year
- Feng-hsiung Hsu, principal designer of the IBM Deep Blue chess machine
- Chenming Hu, developer of FinFET, National Medal of Technology and Innovation winner [16]
- C.-T. James Huang, linguist
- Henry C. Lee, forensic scientist
- Wen Ho Lee, nuclear physicist, wrongly accused for espionage and then acquitted
- Yuan Tseh Lee, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Professor Emeritus University of California at Berkeley (He was Taiwanese American until 1994 when he renounced his American citizenship to become the President of Academia Sinica)
- Jen Sheen, biologist
- Chang-Lin Tien, former Chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley[17]
- Samuel Ting, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1976
- Sam Wang, neuroscientist and author
- Pei-Yuan Wei, creator of ViolaWWW
- Chi-Huey Wong, biochemist; 2014 Wolf Prize in Chemistry winner for his expertise in bioorganic and synthetic chemistry, especially in carbohydrate chemistry and chemical biology
- Alan Ming-ta Wu, molecular biologist and immunologist
- Henry T. Yang, chancellor, UC Santa Barbara
- Yang Yang, physicist, solar cells
- Andrew Chi-Chih Yao, winner of the Turing Award; prominent computer scientist and computational theorist
- Horng-Tzer Yau, mathematician
- Nai-Chang Yeh, physicist specializing in condensed matter physics; Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Fellow, American Physical Society
- Soon Yu, international speaker, consultant, and adjunct professor at Parsons School of Design
Sports
- Joy Burke, professional basketball player
- Corbin Carroll, professional baseball player
- Michael Chang, International Tennis Hall of Fame member; youngest male tennis player to win a Grand Slam tournament
- Richard Chang, retired basketball player
- Karen Chen, figure skater, 2017 U.S. national champion.
- Stuart Fairchild, professional baseball player
- Tora Harris, high jumper; also of African-American descent
- Ariel Hsing, youngest U.S. table tennis national champion[18]
- Jerry Hsu, professional skateboarder
- Jason Jung, tennis player on ATP Tour; also won the gold medal at the 2017 Summer Universiade .
- Vania King, tennis player on WTA Tour
- Candie Kung, golf player in the LPGA
- Alexander Massialas, foil fencer
- Janet Lee, tennis player on WTA Tour
- Jeremy Lin, first Taiwanese-American player in the NBA
- Joseph Lin, professional basketball player. Younger brother of Jeremy Lin
- Howard Shu, badminton player
- Kevin Tan, 2008 Olympic Games men's gymnastics bronze medalist
- Chien-Ming Wang, professional MLB pitcher, won 19 games with New York Yankees both in 2006 and 2007.
- Timothy Wang, table tennis player
Other
- Richard Chen, celebrity chef
- Hank Chien, world champion of Donkey Kong
- Arthur Chu, Jeopardy! contestant
- Tammy and Victor Jih, winners of the 14th season of The Amazing Race
- Crystal Lee, beauty queen; Miss California 2013; Miss America 2014 first runner-up; Miss Chinatown USA 2010; Miss California Outstanding Teen 2008
- Wayne Lo, American school shooter
- Ai-jen Poo, labor activist, president of the National Domestic Workers Alliance
- Jian Tan, Buddhist monk and current abbot of the Chung Tai Zen Center of Houston
- Nancy Wang Yuen, sociologist
Notes and References
- Web site: Branching out from techie heaven. December 29, 2007. Los Angeles Times.
- Web site: Article. February 14, 2018. www.westlake.com.
- News: Curb your enthusiasm. The Economist. 2 December 2010.
- Web site: Yu-kai Chou, Gamification Expert, Entrepreneur, and Follower of Christ. April 1, 2014.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20090826121942/http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/08/0821_most_successful_immigrants/9.htm "James Chu."
- Web site: Asianlife.com – Magazine. www.asianlife.com.
- News: Tien Tzuo of Zuora: 'Don't Expect Me to Manage You' (Published 2017). Adam. Bryant. The New York Times. January 6, 2017.
- News: Jerry Yang. 27 October 2014. Forbes.
- "Ted Fu." http://taiwaneseamerican.org/census2010/photo.php
- News: Ted Chiang's Soulful Science Fiction . Rothman . Joshua . . 5 January 2017 . 7 January 2017.
- Web site: Shawna Yang Ryan. www.shawnayangryan.com.
- Web site: Julie Wu. Julie Wu.
- http://ericchow.me/blog/index.php/beats-and-tunes-jason-chen/ "Jason Chen"
- Web site: Official Campaign Website | Michelle Wu for Boston. www.michelleforboston.com.
- Book: Link to Book. 978-0062292049. Yang. Andrew. 4 February 2014. HarperCollins .
- Web site: National Science and Technology Medals Foundation. dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160608034745/http://nationalmedals.org/laureates/chenming-hu . 2016-06-08 .
- "Chang-Lin Tien 1925–2002: a chancellor's extraordinary legacy." UC Berkeley 2003 Web site: Archived copy . 2005-06-17 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20050513095822/http://www.coe.berkeley.edu/forefront/images/sp2003.pdf . 2005-05-13 .
- News: Warren Buffett's Olympic Discovery. Jared. Diamond. Wall Street Journal. May 3, 2012. www.wsj.com.
