List of Taiwanese Americans

This is a list of notable Taiwanese Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.

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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

• 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