- Jackie Chan
Chan Kong-Sang, also known as Sing Lung or Jackie Chan SBS, (born on April 7, 1954) is a Chinese actor, director, martial artist, film producer, screenwriter, singer and stunt performer. Chan is one of the best known names in kung fu and action movies worldwide for his acrobatic fighting style, comic timing, usage of improvised weapons and his innovative stunts.
- Enrique Iglesias
Enrique Miguel Iglesias Preysler (born May 8, 1975, in Madrid, Spain) is a Grammy Award and Latin Grammy Award-winning Spanish-born, Miami-based singer and is of Asian and european ancestry. His Asian ancestry comes from his mother's side of the family. Iglesias is the son of the famous Spanish singer Julio Iglesias and the Filipina socialite Isabel Preysler.
- Jarah Mariano
Jarah M. Mariano is an Asian supermodel. She is of Hawaiian, Korean, and Chinese descent.
- Lucy Liu
Lucy Alexis Liu is an Emmy Award-nominated American actress. She became known after starring in the television series "Ally McBeal" (1998-2002) and has also appeared in several notable film roles, including "Kill Bill" and "Charlie's Angels".
- Celeste Thorson
Celeste Thorson is an American actress, model, photographer and writer. She is best known for her role as a host in the Destination X Hawaii TV Series and modeling campaigns for Body Glove, Nokia, Yahoo!, BIOQUE, and Paul Mitchell. A political activist Thorson has worked with the Save the Children, Greenpeace, Human Rights Campaign, Public Interest Research Group, and Sierra Club. Along with modeling she's also appeared in several music videos including the Rolling Stones - Rain Fall Down.
- Yoshua Daely
Green Property and Resort Management. Has 30 years experience in Hospitality Industry, previously working with various hotels and resorts. Involved with The HITA properties. It is a luxury traditional home concept that will feature all exclusive private villas in a design that respects the surrounding environment, offer an enriching lifestyle experience that is based on local art, culture and community spirit.
- 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.
- Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee (November 27, 1940 - July 20, 1973) was a martial artist, philosopher, instructor, and martial arts actor widely regarded as the most influential martial artist of the 20th century. Born in San Francisco and raised in Hong Kong, Lee is best remembered for the presentation of Chinese martial arts to the non-Chinese world.
- Salman Rushdie
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is a British-Indian novelist and essayist. He first achieved fame with his second novel, "Midnight's Children" (1981), which won the Booker Prize. Much of his early fiction is set at least partly on the Indian subcontinent. His style is often classified as magical realism, while a dominant theme of his work is the long, rich and often fraught story of the many connections, disruptions and migrations between the East and the West.
- Daisuke Matsuzaka
is a Japanese starting pitcher for the Boston Red Sox. He previously played for the Seibu Lions in Japan's Pacific League. He was selected the MVP of the 2006 World Baseball Classic and is an Olympic bronze medalist
- Asia Carrera
Asia Carrera (born Jessica Andrea Steinhauser on August 6, 1973 in New York City) is a former American pornographic actress.
- Dave Bautista
David Michael Bautista (born January 18 1969), better known as Dave Batista or by the ring name Batista, is an American professional wrestler. Batista is currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment wrestling on its "SmackDown!" brand. While in the WWE, Batista has been a 2 time World Heavyweight Champion, a 2 time World Tag Team Champion (with Ric Flair) and a 1 time WWE Tag Team Champion (with Rey Mysterio).
- Michelle Branch
Michelle Jacquet DeSevren Branch-Landau (born July 2, 1983) is a Grammy Award-winning American singer, songwriter and guitarist. She made her debut in 2000, and released the platinum-selling albums "The Spirit Room" and "Hotel Paper" in August 2001 and June 2003 respectively. In 2004, she formed the musical duo The Wreckers with fellow musician Jessica Harp.
- Anatol Lieven
Anatol Lieven is a British author, journalist, and policy analyst. He is presently a Senior Researcher (Bernard L. Schwartz fellow and American Strategy Program fellow) at the New America Foundation, where he focuses on US global strategy and the war on terror. Between 2000 and 2005, he was a Senior Associate for Foreign and Security policy at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Previously a journalist with the Financial Times covering Central Europe, …
- 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.
- Lakshmi Mittal
Lakshmi Nivas Mittal is a London-based Indian billionaire industrialist, born in Sadulpur Village, in the Churu district of Rajasthan, India, and residing in Kensington, London. He is the fifth richest person in the world, with a fortune of US$32 billion according to "Forbes". The "Financial Times" named Mittal its 2006 Person of the Year. In May 2007, he was named one of the "100 most influential people" by "Time" magazine.
- Jayantha Dhanapala
Jayantha Dhanapala is a member of the Board of Sponsors of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Dr. Dhanapala was Sri Lanka's official candidate for the post of Secretary-General of the United Nations, before withdrawing from the race on 29 September 2006.
- 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.
- Lou Diamond Phillips
Lou Diamond Phillips (born February 17, 1962) is an American film and television actor.
- James Yun
James Eas Yun (born May 13, 1981) is a Korean-American professional wrestler. Yun is best known for his work in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) as one-third of the Jung Dragons, Yang, and the independent circuit as Jimmy Yang. After a brief stint as Akio, a henchman for Tajiri in late 2003-early 2004, he returned to the WWE in 2006 on the "SmackDown!" brand as Jimmy Wang Yang.
- 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.
- Michael Chang
Michael Te-Pei Chang (張德培; Pinyin: Zhāng Dépéi; born February 22 1972, in Hoboken, New Jersey, USA) is an American former professional tennis player. He is best remembered for becoming the youngest-ever male winner of a Grand Slam singles title when he won the French Open in 1989 at the age of 17. Utilizing tremendous speed and strong determination, …
- Bai Ling
Bai Ling (born October 10 1961) is a Chinese actress who has also attained fame in the United States. Bai, her surname, literally means "white". Ling, a common Chinese given name, means clever.
- Anita Rani
Anita Rani is a Radio and Television Presenter and journalist in the United Kingdom Born in Bradford, England in 1977 to parents from the Punjabi Sikh community, she spent her childhood living in the town of her birth. She developed an early interest in journalism, hosting her first show at the age of 14 and later studying Broadcasting at the University of Leeds. After leaving university she worked as a researcher for the BBC and other organisations.
- Sonya Thomas
Sonya "The Black Widow" Thomas (born Lee Sun-kyung (이선경) in 1969) is a top-ranked Korean-born American competitive eater from Alexandria, Virginia. Thomas joined the International Federation of Competitive Eating in 2003 and quickly rose to the top of the ranks, beating eating greats such as Cookie Jarvis and Eric Booker. The 105-pound Thomas is the number four competitive eater in the United States, and ranked fifth in the world, with 29 world titles.
- Rhona Mitra
Rhona Mitra (born August 9, 1976) is an English actress. She is sometimes credited as Rona Mitra.
- Michelle Kwan
Michelle Wing Kwan is an American figure skater and media celebrity who has won nine U.S. championships, five world championships, and two Olympic medals. She has remained competitive for over a decade and is the most decorated figure skater in U.S. history. Known for her consistency and expressive artistry on ice, she is widely considered to be one of the greatest figure skaters of all time despite having never won an Olympic gold medal.
- Cung Le
Cung Lê is a Vietnamese-American kickboxer and mixed martial artist fighting out of San Jose, California.
- Kristi Yamaguchi
Kristi Tsuya Yamaguchi (born July 12, 1971) is an American figure skater. In December 2005, she was inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame.
- 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, …
- Connie Yu-Hwa Chung
Constance Yu-Hwa Chung Povich (born August 20, 1946) is an American journalist who has appeared on many USA television news networks.
- Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri
Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri PhD, DLitt, FRAS (born 1935) is Professor Emeritus of Political Science of the University Grants Commission, India, and Fellow in International Relations at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, UK. He is one of the foremost living Indian scholars in Political Science, International Relations, and South Asian Studies (especially South Asian history and politics).
- Anil Kumble
Anil Kumble(Kannada:ಅನಿಲ್ ಕುಂಬ್ಳೆ) (born 17 October, 1970 in Bangalore, Karnataka) is an Indian cricketer who has been a member of the Indian cricket team since 1990. He is currently the highest wicket-taker for India in both One-Day International and Test matches, having taken over 545 Test wickets and 330 ODI wickets. He is one of only two bowlers ever to have taken all 10 wickets in a test innings, the other being Jim Laker.
- Chang-Lin Tien
Chang-lin Tien, as the 8th Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley (1990–97), was the first Asian American and Chinese American to head a major U.S. university. Born in Wuhan, mainland China, Tien and his family fled to Taiwan in 1949 at the end of the Chinese Civil War. He earned a BS in mechanical engineering from the National Taiwan University in 1955 and went on to a fellowship at the University of Louisville in 1956, …
- Fareena Alam
Fareena Alam (born 1978 in London) is Editor of Q News, a British Muslim Magazine. In 2005, she was named Media Professional of the Year by Islamic Relief. In 2006, she was named Media Professional of the Year at the Asian Women of Achievement Awards. Fareena is an established journalist. She is possibly the youngest, Editor of a Muslim current affairs publication, Q News. She is a freelance contributor to British and international newspapers.
- K. J. Yesudas
Kattassery Joseph Yesudas (usually referred to as Dr. K. J. Yesudas or Jesudas, Malayalam: കാട്ടശ്ശേരി ജോസഫ് യേശുദാസ് , also nicknamed "Gana Gandharvan") (born January 10, 1940) is an eminent Indian classical musician and leading playback singer of film songs in many Indian languages.
- Anoushka Shankar
Anoushka Shankar (b. June 9, 1981) is a sitar player and composer in the United Kingdom. She is the daughter of Ravi Shankar, Indian sitar player, and Sukanya Rajan. Through her father, she is the half-sister of Grammy winner Norah Jones. Shankar was born in London. When she was nine years old, her father began training her in the sitar. She gave a public performance at the age of thirteen; since then she has become a world famous sitar artist.
- Martin Yan
Martin Yan (甄文達; Pinyin: Zhēn Wéndá; later 殷文達; pinyin: Yīn Wéndá; note that 甄 and 殷 are both pronounced "Yan" in Cantonese) (born 1948) is a Chinese-born American chef and actor who hosts the award-winning national cooking show "Yan Can Cook". He currently resides in Hillsborough, California, south of San Francisco, and is married to Susan ("Sue") with twin sons, Colin and Devin.
- José Wendell Capili
José Wendell Capili is a poet and academic from the Philippines. He earned his degrees from the University of Santo Tomas, University of the Philippines, University of Tokyo and University of Cambridge. He is an Associate Professor at the College of Arts and Letters, University of the Philippines, where he previously served as Associate Dean for Administration and Development. Capili is the author of "A Madness of Birds" (poetry, University of the Philippines Press, …
- Parmjit Dhanda
Parmjit Singh Dhanda (born September 17, 1971) is a British Labour Party politician. He was elected Member of Parliament for Gloucester in the 2001 general election, succeeding Tess Kingham as the Labour MP for the seat. He was re-elected in 2005 general election. Parmjit Dhanda is currently Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Department of Communities and Local Government.