- The Rock
Dwayne Douglas Johnson (born May 2 1972) is an American actor and former third-generation professional wrestler, best known for his time in World Wrestling Entertainment as The Rock between 1996 and 2004. Originally known as Rocky Maivia, Johnson first gained mainstream fame as a standout in the then-World Wrestling Federation. He holds the record for most reigns as WWF/E Champion
- Michelle Wie
Michelle Wie (Michelle Sung Wie) was born on Wednesday, October 11, 1989 in Honolulu and is a famous golf player. She studied at Stanford University where she was not eligible for the golf team. The only award she won is the Laureaus World Newcomer of the Year from 2004.
- Don Ho
Don Ho, born Donald Tai Loy Ho, (August 13 1930 - April 14 2007) was a Hawaiian musician and entertainer.
- Tadd Fujikawa
Tadd Fujikawa (born January 8, 1991) is a professional American golfer. Playing as an amateur at age 15, he qualified for the 2006 U.S. Open, the youngest golfer since 1941 to do so. In 2007, he made the cut in a PGA Tour event at the Sony Open in Hawaii. At the age of 16 years, 4 days, he was the second youngest player to ever achieve that feat.
- Neil Abercrombie
Neil A. Abercrombie (born June 26, 1938) is an American politician and elder statesman of the Democratic Party of Hawaii. He is most notable for his service in the United States House of Representatives representing the First Congressional District of Hawaii (map) since 1991. Abercrombie was born in Buffalo, New York to Vera June and Donald Abercrombie. Upon graduating from Williamsville High School (now Williamsville South High School), …
- Nicole Kidman
Nicole Kidman mini-bio : Nicole Mary Kidman is an Academy Award-winning actress, and one of Hollywood's leading actresses. She has also ventured into singing. In 1995, she appeard in To Die For, a satirical comedy that earned her praise from critics and she won a Golden Globe Award for her work in the film. In 2002, Kidman received an Academy Award nomination for her performance in Moulin Rouge! and in 2003 she won the Oscar for her work in The Hours.
- Bette Midler
Bette Midler (born December 1 1945) is an American singer, actress, and comedian, also known to her fans as The Divine Miss M. She is named after the actress Bette Davis although Davis pronounced her first name in two syllables, and Midler uses one. During her career, she has won four Grammy Awards, an Emmy Award, and a Tony Award, and has been nominated for two Academy Awards.
- Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II born August 4, 1961 is the President-elect of the United States of America. The first African American to be elected President of the United States, Obama was the junior United States Senator from Illinois in 2004 and served until his resignation on November 16, 2008, following his election to the Presidency. His term of office as the forty-fourth U.S. president will begin on January 20, 2009.
- Hiram Fong
Hiram Leong Fong (鄺友良; pinyin: Kuàng Yǒuliáng), formally Yau Leong Fong, was an American businessman and politician from Hawaii. He is most notable for his service as Republican United States Senator from 1959 to 1977, and for being the first Asian American and Chinese American and part Native Hawaiian to be elected as such. In 1964, Fong became the first Asian American to run for his party's nomination for President of the United States.
- Jasmine Trias
Jasmine Soriano Trias (born November 3, 1986) is an American singer and entertainer who was the third-place finalist on the third season of "American Idol" due in part to tremendous call-in support from California, New York, and her native state of Hawaii (source: *USA TODAY). She has released two albums to date, one in the United States and one in the Philippines.
- Eddie Kamae
Eddie Kamae was born in Honolulu in 1927. He is an ukulele virtuoso, singer and composer. He is also known as a primary proponent of the "Hawaiian Cultural Renaissance". After learning to play on a found ukulele in his teens, he gained fame in Hawaii with such groups as Ukulele Rascals and Ray Kinney's Orchestra. With famous slack-key guitarist Gabby Pahinui, he later founded Sons of Hawaii, a now-legendary Hawaiian band.
- Chad Owens
Chad Owens (Born April 3, 1982, Honolulu, Hawaii) is a Wide Receiver and Punt Returner in the NFL currently with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
- Tia Carrere
Tia Carrere (born Althea Rae Duhinio Janairo on January 2, 1967) is a Hawaiian actress, model, and singer, most widely known for her role as Cassandra in the feature film "Wayne's World".
- Kelly Hu
Kelly Ann Hu is an American actress and former fashion model.
- Kelly Preston
Kelly Kamalelehua Palzis Preston-Travolta (born October 13,1962 in Honolulu, Hawaii) is an American actress. She is mostly famous for being an actress and the wife of actor John Travolta.
- Carrie Ann Inaba
Carrie Ann Inaba (born January 5, 1968) is an American dancer, choreographer, actress, and singer.
- Nicole Scherzinger
Nicole Elikolani Prescovia Scherzinger (also known as Nicole Kea) (born June 29, 1978), is an American singer, dancer, songwriter and occasional actress best known for her work as the lead vocalist for the Pussycat Dolls.
- Shane Komine
Shane Kenji Komine (born October 18, 1980 in Honolulu, Hawaii) is a right-handed major-league pitcher for the Oakland Athletics. He made his major league debut against the Toronto Blue Jays on July 30, 2006 (6 IP, 1 ER, 4 BB, 1 K). He is the third American-born player of full Japanese ancestry in Major League history, after Ryan Kurosaki and Lenn Sakata.
- Benny Agbayani
Benny Agbayani (born December 28, 1971) is a professional baseball player. He was born in Honolulu, Hawaii of Filipino parents, where he attended Saint Louis School and Hawaii Pacific University. He also attended Oregon Institute of Technology.
- Yvonne Elliman
Yvonne Marianne Elliman (born December 29, 1951 in Honolulu, Hawaii) is an American singer and actress. Her father was of Irish descent, and her mother shared Japanese and Chinese ancestries. She was born and raised in Honolulu, and graduated from President Theodore Roosevelt High School in 1970.
- Stein Metzger
Stein Metzger (born November 17, 1972 in Honolulu, Hawaii) is a top beach volleyball player from the United States, playing in the AVP. In 2006 he played with his high school teammate, Mike Lambert, and they advanced to the Final Four in fourteen of the fifteen team events, winning five times. They formed the only team to not have a losing record against any other team that season. Metzger made his Olympic beach volleyball debut at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, …
- Tammy Duckworth
Ladda "Tammy" Duckworth (born March 12 1968) is an Illinois National Guard Major and Iraq War veteran from the U.S. state of Illinois. She was the Democratic nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives seat for the sixth district of Illinois and lost by 2% of the vote in the highly competitive 2006 House election. On 21 November 2006, Duckworth was appointed the director of the Illinois Veterans' Affairs Department by governor Rod Blagojevich.
- 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.
- Dominic Raiola
Dominic Raiola (born December 30, 1978 in Honolulu, Hawaii) is an American football center with the Detroit Lions.
- Alexander Cartwright
Alexander Joy Cartwright was officially credited by the United States Congress on June 3, 1953, with inventing the modern game of baseball. Cartwright was a bookseller in Manhattan, and a volunteer fireman. Cartwright founded the Knickerbocker Baseball Club (after the Knickerbocker Fire Engine Company) in 1842. They played a brand of stick-and-ball game called the town game.
- Hiram Bingham III
Hiram Bingham, formally Hiram Bingham III, (19 November 1875 - 6 June 1956) was an American academic, explorer and politician. He rediscovered the Inca settlement of Machu Picchu in 1911. Later, Bingham served as Governor of Connecticut and a member of the United States Senate.
- Chang Apana
Chang Apana (December 26, 1871-1933) was a Chinese-Hawaiian police officer in Honolulu, Hawaii, and the officially-acknowledged inspiration for the fictional Asian detective character, Charlie Chan, first introduced in 1925 in the mystery novel, "House without a Key". Ah Ping Chang was born in Waipio, Oahu, Hawaii. Ah Ping Chang's family moved back to China when he was only three, but Chang returned at the age of ten to live with his uncle in Waipio.
- Lauren Helen Graham
Lauren Helen Graham (born March 16, 1967) is a Golden Globe-nominated American actress. She is perhaps best known for her starring role as Lorelai Gilmore on "Gilmore Girls".
- Timothy Olyphant
Timothy David "Tim" Olyphant (born May 20 1968) is an American actor. Olyphant is known for his film roles, as well as for playing sheriff Seth Bullock on the series "Deadwood".
- Don Stroud
Don Stroud (born 1 September 1943 in Honolulu) is an American actor and surfer who appeared in many films in the 1960s, '70s and '80s. He has starred in over 100 movies and 175 television shows to date. He co-starred with Clint Eastwood in two films, "Coogan's Bluff" in 1968 and "Joe Kidd" in 1972. He also co-starred in "The Buddy Holly Story" (1978), and played a James Bond villain in the 1989 film "Licence to Kill".
- Keiko Agena
Christine Keiko Agena (born October 3, 1973) is an American actress. She is known professionally as Keiko Agena.
- 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.
- Michael Lambert
Michael ("Mike") Allen Lambert (born April 14, 1974 in Honolulu, Hawaii) is an former American volleyball player, who was a member of the United States men's national volleyball team that finished in ninth place at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. A major in political science at Stanford University, Lambert joined the USA national team on an extended tryout basis in July 1995. He made a breakthrough at the August '95 Centennial Cup in Atlanta, …
- Chris Fuamatu-Ma'Afala
Chris Fuamatu-Ma'afala (born March 4, 1977 in Honolulu, Hawaii) is an American football running back who most recently played for the Jacksonville Jaguars of the NFL. He was selected with the 25th pick of the sixth round of the 1998 NFL Draft by the Pittsburgh Steelers out of the University of Utah. He scored the game winning touchdown with under a minute left in "The Comeback II". He is now living in his hometown after being let go by the Jaguars.
- Shannyn Sossamon
Shannon Marie Sossamon (born October 3, 1978), better known as Shannyn Sossamon, is an American actress, musician and dancer.
- Esera Tuaolo
Esera Tavai Tuaolo, born July 11 1968 in Honolulu, Hawaii played professional football in the National Football League for nine years, including participation in the Super Bowl.
- William Kwai Sun Chow
William Kwai Sun Chow was instrumental in the development of the martial arts in the United States, specifically the family of styles referred to as kenpo/kempo, kajukenbo and karazenpo go shinjutsu. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii he was the third of sixteen children and first son born to Sun Chow Hoon (aka Ah Hoon Chow) and Rose Kalamalio Naehu. William’s father came to Hawaii at the age of 19 and worked in a laundry as an immigrant laborer. His mother was of Hawaiian descent.
- Amanda Schull
Amanda Schull was born August 26, 1978 in Honolulu, Hawaii. She attended Punahou School, the oldest private school in Hawaii, and trained at Hawaii State Ballet under the instruction of John Landovsky. During Schull's sophomore year at Indiana University (as a ballet and journalism major) she attended the San Francisco Ballet School Summer Intensive. SFBS subsequently offered Schull a scholarship to continue her studies for an additional year.
- Rod Lurie
Rod Lurie (born May 15, 1962) is an American director, screenwriter and former film critic. The son of internationally syndicated cartoonist Ranan Lurie, he was born in Israel but moved to the United States at a young age, growing up in Greenwich, Connecticut and Honolulu, Hawaii. Graduating from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1984, he served in the U.S. Army as an Air Defense Artillery officer, then became an entertainment reporter and film critic, …
- Kimberly Dozier
Kimberly Dozier (born July 6, 1966 in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States) is a reporter and correspondent for CBS News, who holds both American and British citizenship. She was stationed in Baghdad as the chief reporter in Iraq for CBS News for nearly three years prior to being critically wounded on May 29, 2006.