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Art and design
- Doug Chiang, movie designer and artist
- Christine Wang, architect, curator, artist, founder of Wang Museum of Technology WangMuseum.org
- Jason Wu - fashion designer* Ruby Yang (楊紫燁) - filmmaker, Editor
- Alexander Tu - Artist, Filmmaker, Curator
Business
- Christine Chen, founder and CEO of Chen Communications, former Emmy award winning journalist and news anchor
- Steve Chen (陳世卿), founder and CEO of Galactic Computing
- Steve Chen (陳世駿), co-founder of YouTube
- David Chu (朱欽騏), co-founder of Nautica, clothing company
- Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com, online shoe store
- 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
- Kai-Fu Lee - President of Google China
- John Tu, co-founder Kingston Technologies, billionaire
- Jerry Yang (楊致遠), co-founder of Yahoo!, billionaire [1]
- Ben Chiu (邱澤堃), founder of KillerApp.com acquired by CNET
Entertainment
- Rosalind Chao, actress
- Roger Fan, actor
- George Hu (胡宇崴), actor
- Ang Lee (李安), film director of Brokeback Mountain, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and Hulk [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
- 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 [7]
- Lucy Liu (劉玉玲), actress
- Ivan Shaw, actor
- Fang-Yi Sheu (許芳宜), principal dancer of the Martha Graham Dance Company
- Welly Yang (楊呈偉), actor, playwright, and singer
- Kaila Yu (于麗萍), model and singer
- KevJumba, a Youtube celebrity
Journalism
- Jeff Chang - journalist, hip-hop historian
- Laura Chang - science editor, The New York Times
- Christine Chen, successful journalist and anchor
- 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
Literature
- Eric Liu (劉柏川), writer, a speechwriter of Bill Clinton
- Lan Samantha Chang - writer; director of the Iowa Writer's Workshop
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
- Connie Chung - TV news anchor, the second woman ever to anchor a national news program
- Evonne Hsu (許慧欣), pop singer based in Taiwan
- Stanley Huang (黃立行), singer based in Taiwan
- Cho-Liang Lin (林昭亮), violinist
- 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
- Leehom 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
Politics and government
- Elaine Chao (趙小蘭), United States Secretary of Labor in the George W. Bush Administration
- John Chiang California State Controller
- 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
- Sherman Wu - civil rights activist and scientist
Science and education
- Steve Chen - computer scientist, supercomputer designer, Cray
- Paul C. W. Chu (朱經武) - physicist, superconductivity
- Steven Chu (朱棣文) - 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), current Secretary of Energy of the United States
- Fan Chung (金芳蓉)- mathematician
- David Ho (何大一), AIDS researcher, Time's Person of the Year
- Henry C. Lee (李昌鈺)- forensic scientist
- Chang-Lin Tien (田長霖), former Chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley[8]
- Pei-Yuan Wei - creator of ViolaWWW
- Henry T. Yang (楊祖佑) - chancellor, UC Santa Barbara
- Andrew Chi-Chih Yao - a winner of the Turing Award, a prominent computer scientist and computational theorist.
- Nai-Chang Yeh - a world class physicist specialized in condensed matter physics. Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Fellow, American Physical Society.
- Li-Huei Tsai - HHMI Investigator and Professor of MIT specialized in brain development and Alzheimer disease[9].
Sports
- Michael Chang - youngest male tennis player to win a Grand Slam tournament
- Kevin Tan - 2008 Beijing Olympics bronze medallist US Gymnastics Team
Other
- Wen Ho Lee (李文和), nuclear physicist, wrongly accused for espionage and then acquitted
- Wayne Lo, American school shooter
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/>
- ^ Ang Lee 'very satisfied' new film shown in entirety - The China Post
- ^ Ang Lee returns to Taiwan for the premiere of Lust, Caution - Movies
- ^ ANTARA :: Ang Lee donates prize money to promote Taiwan`s film industry
- ^ http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=festivals&jump=features&id=2660&articleid=VR1117973407
- ^ "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
- ^ "HHMI Investigator." http://www.hhmi.org/research/investigators/tsai_bio.html
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