- John A. Burns
John Anthony Burns (March 30, 1909-April 5, 1975) served as the second Governor of the state of Hawaii from 1962 to 1974. Born in Fort Assinniboine, Montana, Burns was a resident of Hawaii since 1913. Burns is often described as the father of the modern Democratic Party of Hawai'i. From 1948 he held various leadership positions in the territorial Democratic Party, culminating in being chair of the territorial party in 1952.
- June Jones
June Sheldon Jones, III (born February 19, 1953, Portland, Oregon) is an American football coach, formerly with the Atlanta Falcons and currently with the University of Hawaiʻi.
- 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), …
- Peter Englert
Peter Englert was the Chancellor of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa from 2002 until 2005. He was appointed by then-UH President Evan Dobelle. Before coming to the University of Hawaii, Englert served as Pro Vice Chancellor and Dean of Science, Architecture and Design at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He has earned three academic degrees in nuclear chemistry from the University of Cologne, Germany.
- Herman Frazier
Herman Ronald Frazier (born October 29, 1954) was a 1976 Olympic Gold medalist in the men's 4x400 meter relay for the United States. He was also chef de mission of the 2004 U.S. Olympic team. Frazier is currently the Athletic Director at the University of Hawaii.
- Colt Brennan
Colton James Brennan (born August 16, 1983; Laguna Beach, California) is an American football quarterback at the University of Hawaii. He holds the NCAA Division I-A record for most touchdown passes in a single season with 58, as well as 18 other NCAA Division I-A records.
- Denise Konan
Denise Eby Konan currently serves as the Interim Chancellor of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. The University of Hawaiʻi Board of Regents approved Konan’s appointment on July 19, 2005. Her one-year appointment was effective August 1, 2005. Konan is a Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and prior to her appointment as Interim Chancellor, she was the department chair.
- Jean Charlot
Louis Henri Jean Charlot was a French painter and illustrator, active in Mexico and the United States. Charlot was born in Paris. His father, Henri, owned an import-export business and was a Russian-born émigré, albeit one who supported the Bolshevik cause. His mother Anna was herself an artist. His mother's family originated from Mexico City, his grandfather a French-Indian "mestizo". Charlot spent an extensive period of his life living and working in Mexico.
- Ryuzo Yanagimachi
Ryuzo Yanagimachi is a pioneer in the cloning field. In 1997 his laboratory at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa successfully cloned mice using the Honolulu technique. The first one was a female named Cumulina from the cells that surround the developing ovarian follicle in mice.
- Glenn Cannon
Glenn Cannon is a Hawaii based actor and educator best known for his roles on "Hawaii Five-0" and "Magnum P.I.". More recently, he has been featured on "Lost" in a pair of different roles. Cannon's career stretches back to the 1950's with roles in shows like "Alfred Hitchcock Presents", "The Outer Limits" and "Combat!". On "Magnum P.I.", Cannon was featured as Dr. Ibold, while on "Hawaii Five-0", …
- George Ariyoshi
George Ryoichi Ariyoshi, served as the third Governor of Hawaii from 1974 to 1986. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He assumed the governorship when John A. Burns was declared incapacitated. When he was elected, Ariyoshi became the first American of Asian descent to be elected governor of a state of the United States. He also holds the record as the longest-serving state governor in Hawaii, a record that will likely never be broken because of term limits.
- Tom Brady
Tom Brady is a director, writer and producer. His movies include the Rob Schneider vehicles "The Hot Chick" and "The Animal". His television writing credits include work for "The Critic", "Sports Night", "The Simpsons" and "Home Improvement". He is an alumnus of Harvard and the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
- Louis Herman
Louis Herman is a researcher in of dolphin sensory abilities, dolphin cognition, and humpback whales. He is currently professor in the Department of Psychology and a cooperating faculty member of the Department of Oceanography at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He founded the Kewalo Basin Marine Mammal Laboratory (KBMML) in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1970 to study bottlenose dolphin perception, cognition, and communication.
- Larry Price
Larry Price is the co-host, with Michael W. Perry, of the conservative "Perry & Price" show on KSSK-FM in Honolulu, Hawaii. He was formerly the head coach of the University of Hawaii at Manoa Rainbow Warrior football team (now called simply the "Warriors").
- Albert J. Simone
Dr. Albert Joseph Simone (b. 1935) is a former president of the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York, USA. He became president of RIT on September 1, 1992, succeeding M. Richard Rose. Simone was previously president of the University of Hawaii System and chancellor of the University of Hawaii at Manoa. His tenure saw additional PhD programs (in microsystems engineering, computing and information sciences, …
- Terence Knapp
Terence Richard Knapp (born February 14, 1932) is an English actor, director, educator, and author. He is an Emeritus Professor of Theatre, University of Hawaii at Manoa, a (Sir Winston, KG) Churchill Fellow and a Royal Academy of Dramatic Art Associate.
- Alexander Vovin
Alexander Vovin is a professor of eastern languages and linguistics at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
- David J. Tholen
David J. Tholen is an American astronomer at the Institute for Astronomy of the University of Hawaii, who specializes in planetary and solar system astronomy. Tholen has discovered a number of asteroids, including the lost, which may be an Apohele asteroid, and, which certainly is; in fact, it has the smallest semimajor axis and aphelion distance among the known asteroids. He won the H. C. Urey Prize in 1990.
- Georgia Engel
Georgia Bright Engel (born July 28, 1948, in Washington, D.C.) is an American film and television actress. She is a graduate of the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She is probably best known as Georgette Franklin Baxter from "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," on which Engel appeared from 1972 until the show ended in 1977. The role won her two Emmy nominations.
- Dave Shoji
Dave Shoji is Head Coach of the University of Hawaii at Mānoa Rainbow Wahine Volleyball team since 1975. Under his leadership, the Rainbow Wahine won four national titles (1979, 1982, 1983, 1987). Shoji has an overall record of 924-163-1, or .849 winning percentage. As of 2006, he is the only second coach in NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball history to reach surpass the 900 win mark.
- Timmy Chang
Timothy Kealii'okaaina Awa Chang (born October 9, 1981 in Waipahu, Hawaii) is an American football quarterback famous for leading the Warriors of University of Hawai'i. He is of mixed Hawaiian, Chinese, and Spanish descent. He is currently a quarterback for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. He was signed by the Arizona Cardinals of the NFL in 2005, but was cut in training camp. That year, Chang also played in the preseason for the Detroit Lions but did not make the final roster.
- Riley Wallace
Riley Wallace (born October 25, 1941 in Alton, Illinois) was the men's basketball coach at the University of Hawaii. When Wallace took over the program in 1987, it had suffered through four-straight losing seasons, including a combined 11-43 mark during the latter two years. He has guided Hawaii to nine of its 12 all-time postseason appearances, including a school-record streak of four straight from 2001-04.
- James Aiona
James R. "Duke" Aiona, Jr. (born June 8, 1955), is the current Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii. He is of Chinese, Portuguese and Hawaiian descent. Prior to his election to the office in 2002, he was a jurist, serving both as an attorney and a judge for the state. He got his nickname "Duke", named after Dodgers centerfielder Duke Snider, from his father, James Aiona, Sr.
- Bob Nash
Robert (Bob) Lee Nash (born August 24, 1950, in Hartford, Connecticut) is the head men's basketball coach at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He took over for the retired Riley Wallace in April 2007. He played professionally during the 1970s as a member of the Detroit Pistons, San Diego Conquistadors, and Kansas City Kings.
- W. Wesley Peterson
W. Wesley Peterson, PhD, is an American mathematician and computer scientist. He is best known for inventing the Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC), for which research he was awarded the Japan Prize in 1999. Peterson is a professor of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He has co-authored a number of books on the topic of error correcting codes, …
- Al Noga
Alapati Noga (born September 16, 1965 in Honolulu, Hawaii) is a former football defensive lineman who played seven seasons in the NFL. Noga was an Outland Trophy finalist, and an AP first team All-American at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He was drafted by the Minnesota Vikings with the 71st pick in the third round in the 1988 NFL Draft. In the December 27, 1999 issue of Sports Illustrated he was listed as number 46 on their "50 Greatest Hawaii Sports Figures" list.
- Cal Lee
Cal Lee (born October 20, 1946) is the linebackers coach for the University of Hawaii football team. Lee is well known for his tremendous success as a prep football coach in Hawaii.
- Leon Edel
Joseph Leon Edel was a North American literary critic and biographer. He was the elder brother of North American philosopher Abraham Edel. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he grew up in Saskatchewan. Edel attended McGill University and the Université de Paris. While at the former he co-founded the influential "McGill Fortnightly Review". Edel taught English and American literature at Sir George Williams University (now Concordia University, 1932-1934), …
- Mouse Davis
Darrel "Mouse" Davis (born September 6, 1932 in Palouse, Washington) is a veteran high school, college, and professional football coach. He helped to popularize the use of the the Run & Shoot offense.
- Keiko Bonk
Keiko Cecilia Bonk (born July 13, 1954) is an American activist, artist, musician and politician working in the state of Hawaii. She was the highest ranking elected Green Party member in the United States, having been the first from the party elected to a countywide leadership position. She served the County of Hawaii as its chairman from 1995 to 1996. With the support of presidential candidate Ralph Nader, Bonk achieved strong showings campaigning for county mayor.
- Mike Wilton
Mike Wilton head coach of the Warrior Volleyball team for the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
- Andrew Nelson
Andrew Nathaniel Nelson (December 23 1893 - May 17 1975) was an American missionary and scholar of East Asian languages and literatures, best-known for his work in Japanese lexicography. He was born in Great Falls, Montana to Swedish immigrant parents and earned his B.A. from Walla Walla College. In 1918, he began his long career of service in the Seventh-day Adventist missions of East Asia, …
- Michael Okuda
Michael Okuda is a graphic designer who is best known for his work on "Star Trek". In the mid-1980s he designed the look of animated computer displays for the "Enterprise"-A bridge in "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home". This led to a staff position on "Star Trek: The Next Generation" in 1987 as a scenic artist, adding detail to set designs and props.
- John Chin Young
John Chin Young was a painter who was born in Honolulu on March 26, 1909. He was the son of Chinese immigrants and began drawing at the age of eight, stimulated by Chinese calligraphy, which he learned in Chinese language school. Young had his first and only art lessons while a student at McKinley High School in Honolulu. Thereafter, his art was entirely self-taught. Young is best known for his Zen-like depictions of horses, but he also painted landscapes, children, …
- John Mackey
John Mackey is an American mathematician. He received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1994 and is currently a lecturer and assistant department head at Carnegie Mellon University. His main contributions to mathematics have been his discoveries of many new bounds for Ramsey numbers. In 1994 he discovered new bounds for R(6, 6) through R(10, 10), and proved that 41<=R(5, 5)<=55, at the time a great feat.
- Juliette May Fraser
Juliette May Fraser was an American painter, muralist and printmaker. She was born in Honolulu in 1887. After graduating from Wellesley College with a degree in art, she returned to Hawaii for several years. She continued her studies with Eugene Speicher and Frank Du Mond at the Art Students League of New York and at the John F. Carlson School of Landscape Painting in Woodstock, New York.
- Nola Nahulu
Nola A. Nāhulu is one of Hawaii's most prominent choral conductors. She is the artistic director of the Hawaii Youth Opera Chorus (HYOC), as well as the Kawaiahao Church Choir, Kawaiolaonāpukanileo, an a cappella Hawaiian choral ensemble, and others. She is a teacher and lecturer at UH Mānoa. Additionally, she runs Bette Muumuu, a well-known dress manufacturer in Hawaii. Nola Nāhulu is a graduate of Kamehameha Schools.
- Bumpei Akaji
Bumpei Akaji was an American sculptor. He was born in Lawai, on the Hawaiian island of Kauai in 1921. In 1943 he joined the United States Army and was sent to Italy with the 100th Battalion of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. He was inspired by the artwork in Florence and received a discharge in Italy. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence and at the Academia de Belle Arti, Brera, in Milan on a Fulbright Scholarship.
- Irving Copi
Irving Marmer Copi (born Copilowish, July 28 1917-August 19 2002) was an American philosopher, author and logician. He was born in Duluth, Minnesota, and died at his home in Honolulu, Hawaii. Copi had appointments at the University of Illinois, the United States Air Force Academy, …
- Alan Leitner
Alan Leitner is an American abstract artist. He was born in 1947 in an ethnically diverse section of Los Angeles. Alan was the middle of three children in a Jewish family. He received his B.S. in art in 1971 from Woodbury University in Los Angeles, where he met his first wife who wanted to move to Hawaii. Also in 1971, he acquired an art foundry that produced blown glass, sculpture, ceramics and paintings, which contributed greatly to his understanding of art.