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The following is a list of Chinese Americans who are famous, have made significant contributions to the American culture or society politically, artistically or scientifically, or have appeared in the news numerous times:( Chinese name may be placed, if available, beside those persons who currently do not have articles yet. Otherwise, place them in their articles.)
- Jin Au-yeung - rapper
- Alice Chuang - ballerina, alicechuang.com
- Bette Bao Lord - writer, novelist
- Anna Chan Chennault (陳香梅) - wife of Claire Chennault, of the Flying Tigers
- Eileen Chang, writer
- Iris Chang (張純如) - writer
- Lia Chang - actor,photographer, writer
- Michael Chang - tennis player
- Elaine ChaoElaine Lan Chao ( Chinese: , pinyin: Zhao Xiolan, Wade-Giles Chao Hsiao-lan; b. March 26, 1953) currently serves as the 24th U. Secretary of Labor. She is the first Asian American woman and first Chinese American to be appointed to the federal cabinet. - Secretary of Labor
- Rosalind ChaoRosalind Chao or Chao Jyalin ( Pinyin: Zhao Jialin) is a Chinese American actress born in Anaheim, California. Her birthday is somewhat of a mystery. Different sources give 1956; September 23, 1957; September 23, 1959; or September 29, 1964. Her parents w - actor
- Christine Chen - Executive Director of the Organization of Chinese Americans
- Joan ChenJoan Chen ( born April 26, 1961) is an actor and film director. Born in Shanghai, China. At age eighteen she won the Golden Rooster award for acting in China. At age twenty she moved to the United States where she studied film at California State Universi
- Julie ChenJulie Chen (born January 6, 1970) is a Chinese American news anchor and television presenter. She was born in New York City. From 1999 to 2002, she was the host of the early-morning CBS Morning News''. In 2002, she moved to the late morning and became one - newsreader on The Early ShowThe Early Show is the current edition of the CBS Morning News an American television series broadcast by CBS from New York City, 7:00 to 9:00 AM (EST), Mondays through Fridays. There is also a related series titled The Saturday Early Show''. The Early Sho and host of Big Brother
- Steve ChenSupercomputing legend Steve Chen Steve Chen, PhD'75, is a pioneer in the design and development of large-scale, parallel supercomputing systems. From Burroughs to Cray Research to his own companies, SSI and Chen Systems, Chen is recognized the world over - computer scientist, supercomputer designer, Cray
- Shiing-shen ChernShiing-shen CHERN (; Pinyin: Chen Xngshen; born October 26 1911) is a Chinese mathematician, who was one of the leading differential geometers of the twentieth century. He was born in Kashing, Chekiang Province in China. From 1926, he was a student at Nan - mathematician
- Leroy Chiao - NASA astronaut
- Frank Chin (趙健秀) - novelist, playwright, and essayist
- Ming W. Chin (陳惠明) - Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court
- Tiffany Chin (陳婷婷) - figure skater
- Vincent Chin - victim of racial crime
- Alex Chiu - eccentric
- Amy Chow (周婉儀) - gymnast and Olympic medal winner
- Wen Tsing Chow (周文俊) - missile guidance scientist, digital computer pioneer
- 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)
- Connie Chung - TV news anchor
- Fan Chung - mathematician
- Hiram L. Fong - U.S. Senator
- Ben Fong-Torres - journalist, Rolling Stone
- David Ho - AIDS researcher
- Jen-Hsun Huang - cofounder, CEO, Nvidia
- William Hung - of American Idol fame
- Maxine Hong Kingston - writer, novelist
- Gish Jen - writer, novelist
- Andrea Jung (鍾彬嫻)- CEO, Avon products
- Michelle Kwan (關穎珊) - figure skater
- Nancy Kwan (關南施) - first Chinese-born star in Western cinema website
- Ang Lee - movie director
- Bruce Lee - actor, kung fu
- Brandon Lee -actor
- Ching Yang Lee - novelist, Flower Drum Song
- Corky Lee - photographer
- Gus Lee - writer
- Henry C. Lee - forensic scientist
- Jason Scott Lee (李截), actor
- Li-young lee - poet
- Susan Lee - Maryland State Delegate and first Asian American woman in the Maryland State Assembly
- Tsung-dao Lee - Nobel laureate, Physics
- Wen Ho Lee (李文和) - nuclear physicist, accused spy, acquitted
- Katrina Leung - businesswoman, Republican activist, and accused spy
- Carol Lin - news anchor
- Maya Lin (林瓔) - architect ( Vietnam Veterans Memorial)
- T. Y. Lin - civil engineer (bridgebuilder)
- Lisa Ling (凌志慧) - TV show host
- Eric Liu - writer, a speechwriter of Bill Clinton
- Lucy Liu - actress
- Gary Locke - Democratic Governor of Washington
- Edward Lu - NASA astronaut
- Keye Luke - actor
- Lue Gim Gong - In 1888, he invented an orange, which is still grown in Florida, that survives cold weather
- Jin - rap artist
- Yoyo Ma - cellist
- Teresa Meng - founder, Atheros Communications
- Kim Ng - baseball executive
- I. M. Pei (貝聿銘) - architect
- Gordan Quan , Houston City Councilman and Asian American advocate
- Soong Mei-Ling a.k.a. Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
- Anna Sui - fashion designer
- Vivienne Tam – fashion designer
- Amy Tan - writer
- Thomas Tang - judge
- Chang-lin Tien - professor, former chancellor UC Berkeley
- Samuel C. C. Ting - 1976 Nobel laureate, Physics
- Ming Tsai - chef and restauranteur, writer
- Daniel Chee Tsui - 1998 Nobel prize, Physics
- Chen Ning Yang - Nobel laureate, Physics
- Henry Yang - chancellor, UC Santa Barbara
- An Wang - computer engineer
- Charles Wang (王嘉廉)- founder, CEO, chairman, Computer Associates
- Lili Wang - murdered at her university
- Garret Wang - actor in
- Taylor Wang - first ethnic Chinese scientist to go into space, 1985 on space shuttle Challenger
- Vera Wang - fashion designer
- Wayne Wang - Hollywood director
- Pei-Yuan Wei - creator of ViolaWWW
- Ming-Na Wen - Macanese-born actress
- Anna May Wong - first female Asian-American star of the screen
- Wong Ching Foo - civil rights activist against Chinese Exclusion Act
- David Wong Louie - writer
- Jade Snow Wong - writer
- Russell Wong (王盛德) - actor
- Victor Wong (黃自強) - Hollywood actor
- S.B. Woo - former attorney general and lieutenant governor of Delaware, current president of the 80-20 Initiative
- David Wu - first and only Chinese American U.S. Representative, Democrat from Oregon
- Frank H. Wu (吳華揚) - a professor of law at Howard University, writer of Yellow: Race in America beyond Black and White, soon to be Dean of Law at Wayne State University in Michigan
- Harry Wu - human rights activist
- Kiko Wu - adult model and actress
- Chien-Shiung Wu - female scientist
- Martin Yan - host of Yan Can Cook
- Jeff Yang - founder of A Magazine
- Jerry Yang (楊致遠) - founder of Yahoo!
- Welly Yang - actor and artist
- James Yee - Army Captain formerly charged with sedition
- Shing-Tung Yau - mathematician
- Laurence Yep - author of children's books
- Katherine Young - world's oldest user of the Internet
- Kaila Yu - model and singer
- Judy Yung - writer
- Helen Zia (謝漢蘭) - community activists and writer
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