- Tiger Woods
Eldrick "Tiger" Woods (born December 30, 1975) is an American professional golfer whose achievements to date rank him among the most successful golfers of all time. Currently the World No. 1, Woods was the highest paid professional athlete in 2006, having earned an estimated $100 million from winnings and endorsements.
- Amy Tan
Amy Tan is an American writer whose works explore mother-daughter relationships and what it means to grow up as a first generation Asian American. In 1993, Tan's adaptation of her most popular fiction work, "The Joy Luck Club", became a commercially successful film. She has written several other books, including "The Kitchen God's Wife", "The Hundred Secret Senses", and "The Bonesetter's Daughter", …
- Ang Lee
Ang Lee (born October 23, 1954) is a film director from Taiwan.
- David Henry Hwang
David Henry Hwang (born August 11, 1957) is a contemporary American playwright who has risen to prominence as the preeminent Asian American dramatist in the U.S. He was born in Los Angeles, California and was educated at Stanford University and the Yale School of Drama. His first play was produced at the Okada House dormitory at Stanford and he briefly studied playwriting with Sam Shepard and Maria Irene Fornes.
- Justin Lin
Justin Lin (born 1973) is a Taiwanese-American film director. He earned an MFA in film directing from the famed UCLA Film School. Lin was born in Taipei. His solo directorial debut "Better Luck Tomorrow" (1997's "Shopping for Fangs" was co-directed by Quentin Lee) made a huge splash with critics and fans alike.
- Tera Patrick
Tera Patrick (born Linda Ann Hopkins on July 25, 1976 in Great Falls, Montana) is an American pornographic actress.
- John Cho
John Yohan Cho (born June 16, 1972) is a Korean American film/television actor, known for his roles in the "American Pie" films and "Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle" (2004).
- Wen Ho Lee
Wen Ho Lee (born December 21, 1939) is a Taiwanese-born American scientist who worked for the University of California at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and was accused of stealing secrets about the U.S.'s nuclear arsenal for the People's Republic of China (PRC) in December 1999. After investigators dropped these original accusations, the government conducted a new investigation and charged Lee with improper handling of restricted data, …
- Vincent Chin
Vincent Chin (1955 - June 23, 1982) was a Chinese American industrial draftsman murdered in 1982 in the United States, in the Detroit, Michigan enclave of Highland Park by two white autoworkers, Chrysler plant superintendent Ronald Ebens and his recently laid off step-son, Michael Nitz. Raised in Detroit, Chin was the adopted son and the only child of Bing Hing Chin and Lily Chin.
- Helen Zia
Helen Zia (1952 -) is an American journalist and scholar who has covered Asian American communities and social and political movements for decades. She was born in New Jersey to first generation immigrants from Shanghai. She entered Princeton University in the early 1970s and was a member of its first graduating class of women. As a student, Zia was among the founders of the Asian American Students Association.
- Avena Lee
Avena Lee (born November 12 1982) is an American pornographic actress.
- Asia Carrera
Asia Carrera (born Jessica Andrea Steinhauser on August 6, 1973 in New York City) is a former American pornographic actress.
- Sandra Oh
Sandra Oh (born July 20, 1971) is a Golden Globe Award-winning and a two-time Emmy Award-nominated Canadian actress. She is known to American audiences for her role as Dr. Cristina Yang in the ABC series "Grey's Anatomy" and her roles in the feature films, "Under the Tuscan Sun" and "Sideways". In 2005, Oh made "People" magazine's list of the 50 Most Beautiful People. Oh has also won the Screen Actors Guild's award and Genie Award twice each.
- Wayne Wang
Wayne Wang (born January 12, 1949) is a Chinese American film director. Born in Hong Kong, he studied film and television at California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland. "Chan Is Missing" (1982) and "Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart" (1985) established his reputation. He is best known for the independent features "Smoke" (1995) and "Anywhere But Here" (1999). He is married to a former Miss Hong Kong, Cora Miao, …
- Joan Chen
Joan Chen Chong (Mandarin Pinyin: Chén Chōng; Cantonese: 陳沖/Chan Chung; Cantonese IPA: ; Jyutping: can4 cung1; Yale: chan4 chung1) (born as Chen Chong on April 26, 1961, in Shanghai, China) is a Chinese American actress, film director, screenwriter and producer, best known for her roles in "The Last Emperor", "Twin Peaks", "Red Rose, White Rose", "Saving Face", …
- Kobe Tai
Carla Carter (born January 15, 1972), better known by her stage name Kobe Tai, is a pornographic actress of Taiwanese and Japanese heritage
- Mike Honda
Michael Makoto (Mike) Honda (born June 27, 1941) is an American Democratic politician. He currently serves as Congressman for California's 15th congressional district, which encompasses Silicon Valley. (map)
- Maggie Q
Margaret Denise Quigley (Vietnamese: Lý Mỹ Kỳ, born May 22, 1979), better known as Maggie Q, is an American actress and former fashion model. She initially gained fame in Hong Kong.
- Elaine Chao
Elaine Lan Chao (born March 26, 1953) currently serves as the 24th United States Secretary of Labor in the Cabinet of President of the United States George W. Bush. She is the first Asian American woman and first Taiwanese American to be appointed to a President's Cabinet in American history. Chao is the President's only original cabinet member, making her the longest serving cabinet member during President Bush's administration.
- Frank Chin
Frank Chin (born February 25 1940) is an American author and playwright. Frank Chin was born in Berkeley, California, but was raised to the age of six by a retired Vaudeville couple in Placerville, California. At six his mother brought him back to the San Francisco Bay Area to live in Oakland Chinatown. He attended college at the University of California, Berkeley. He received an American Book Award in 1989 for a collection of short stories, …
- Lily Thai
Lily Thai, also known as Lily Than or Lilly Thai (born November 7, 1981 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA) is an American pornographic actress of Filipino and Italian descent; raised in Austin, Texas.
- Eric Byler
Eric Byler (born January 15, 1972) is an American film director, screenwriter and political activist. He identifies as hapa biracial, born to a Chinese American mother and a Caucasian American father. He grew up in Virginia, Hawaii (where he attended Moanalua High School), and California. He graduated from Wesleyan University in 1994, majoring in film. He currently resides in Charlottesville, Virginia.
- Leland Yee
Leland Yee (born 1948 in China) is a California State Senator in District 8. Yee's district includes the western half of San Francisco and parts of San Mateo County. Previously, Yee was the California State Assemblyman for the 12th Assembly District and the Supervisor of San Francisco's Sunset District. In 2004, Assemblymember Yee became the first Asian American to be appointed Speaker pro Tempore, …
- Greg Pak
Greg Pak is a New York-based film director/comic book writer. His early work is noted for its strong Asian American themes. His New York University (NYU) student film, "Fighting Grandpa", about his Korean grandparents, won the Gold Medal at the 25th Student Academy Awards. His short film "Asian Pride Porn", starring playwright David Henry Hwang and director Michael Kang, was licensed to Atom Films.
- Barbara Jane Reyes
Barbara Jane Reyes is an American poet. She was born in Manila, Philippines and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She received her undergraduate education at UC Berkeley, and her MFA at San Francisco State University. She is the author of "Gravities of Center" (Arkipelago, 2003) and "Poeta en San Francisco" (Tinfish, 2005), for which she received the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets.
- Bobby Jindal
Piyush "Bobby" Jindal (born June 10, 1971, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana) is a Louisiana politician. Jindal was elected as a Republican to the United States House of Representatives on November 2, 2004, from Louisiana's First Congressional District (map), based in the suburbs of New Orleans. He was re-elected to Congress in the 2006 election with 88 percent of the vote in the 1st district. He intends to be a candidate for Governor of Louisiana in the October 20, 2007 election.
- Miko Lee
Miko Lee (born March 30, 1980 in San Diego, California) is an adult film actress of Vietnamese and Chinese descent. She had breast implants midway through her career and is known for a buxom figure and numerous hardcore anal sex and lesbian scenes. She is also renowned for doing "anything" (to quote various websites) for the camera, though her work is typical of mainstream American pornography. Since her first adult film in 1999, Miko has appeared in numerous movies, …
- Jessica Hagedorn
Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn was born (and raised) in Manila, Philippines in 1949. With her background, a Scots-Irish-French-Filipino mother and a Filipino-Spanish father with one Chinese ancestor, Hagedorn adds a unique perspective to Asian American performance and literature. Her mixed media style often incorporates song, poetry, images, and spoken dialogue.
- Charmane Star
Charmane Star (born May 5, 1979) is a Filipino-American pornographic actress.
- Jarah Mariano
Jarah M. Mariano is an Asian supermodel. She is of Hawaiian, Korean, and Chinese descent.
- Jessica Yu
Jessica Lingman Yu (born 1966) is an American film director, writer, producer, and editor. A Yale University graduate, she has worked in both documentaries and dramatic films. She won an Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject for "Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien" (1996). She, her husband Mark Salzman, and their daughter Ava live in Los Angeles.
- Brenda Song
Brenda Song (born March 27, 1988) is an American actress. She currently co-stars in the Disney Channel Original Series, "The Suite Life of Zack & Cody" as London Tipton. She has also made appearances in other Disney Channel original series and films.
- John Liu
John Liu is a New York City elected official, currently serving on the New York City Council representing District 20. He was elected in 2001 to represent northeast Queens (Flushing, Queensboro Hill, Mitchell Gardens, Kissena Park, Harding Heights, Auburndale, part of Whitestone) and was re-elected in 2005.
- Gary Locke
well im a down to earth guy who loves life.
- Michael Kang
Michael Kang (born May 3, 1970 in Providence, Rhode Island) is an American film director. His major full-length directorial debut is the independent movie "The Motel", which won the NHK film award in 2003 at Sundance. He is currently working on a Korean-American project called "West 32nd". He is a Korean American filmmaker based in New York and Los Angeles.
- Eileen Tabios
Eileen Tabios (born 1960) is an award-winning Filipino-American poet, fiction writer, conceptual/visual artist, editor, anthologist, critic and publisher. Born in Ilocos Sur, Philippines, Eileen Tabios moved to the United States at the age of 10. She holds a B.A. in political science from Barnard College and a M.B.A. in economics and international business from New York University Graduate School of Business. Her last corporate career was in international project finance.
- Norman Mineta
Norman Yoshio Mineta (born November 12, 1931) is an American politician of the Democratic Party. He is one of the most successful Asian American politicians in U.S. history. Mineta most recently served in the President's Cabinet of George W. Bush as the United States Secretary of Transportation, the only Democratic Cabinet Secretary in the Republican George W. Bush Administration.
- Kimora Lee Simmons
Kimora Lee Simmons (born Kimora Perkins on May 3, 1975 in St. Louis, Missouri) is a former fashion model, the head of design for Baby Phat, and occasional actress. Simmons is the daughter of a Korean and Japanese mother, Joanne Perkins, and African American father, Vernon Whitlock, Jr., a former federal marshall who after serving time in jail, is now a barber in St. Louis. Kimora began her modeling career at age 13. By the age of 10, …
- Eugenia Yuan
- Brandon Lee
Brandon Lee (b. March 18, 1979), born Jon Enriquez, is a gay Asian American pornographic actor. He took his "screen name" from Brandon Lee, the deceased son of martial arts actor Bruce Lee. Brandon Lee, however, is of Filipino-Chinese descent. Lee also performed under the name Sean Martinez early in his career. Lee appeared in pornographic movies exclusively as a top, until 2005.