- Don Ho
Don Ho, born Donald Tai Loy Ho, (August 13 1930 - April 14 2007) was a Hawaiian musician and entertainer. - Liliuokalani
Liliuokalani, Queen of Hawaii, originally named Lydia Kamakaeha, and Lydia Liliuokalani Paki. And she was also known as Lydia Kamakaeha Paki, with the chosen royal name of Liliuokalani, and later named Lydia K. Dominis, was the last monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii. - Jake Shimabukuro
Jake Shimabukuro (born November 3, 1976 in Honolulu, Hawaii) is a ukulele virtuoso known for his lightning-fast fingers. His music combines elements of jazz, rock, Hawaiian, and pop. A fifth generation Japanese American, Jake initially gained attention in Hawaii in 1998 as a member of the trio "Pure Heart", playing alongside Lopaka Colon (percussion), and Jon Yamasato (guitar). While Jake was working at a music store in Honolulu, … - Andy Irons
Andy Irons (born 24 July 1978) is a professional surfer. Irons, a Hawaiian, was reared on the dangerous and shallow reefs of the North Shore in Kauai, and has 3 world titles (2002, 2003, 2004). An inspiration to many young groms, he and his family host the Annual Irons Brothers Pinetrees Classic, a contest for youngsters, to give back to the community that has given them so much. The governor of Hawaii deemed February 13 forever 'Andy Irons day'. - James Campbell
James Campbell (February 4, 1826 - April 21, 1900) is the founder of the Estate of James Campbell, one of the largest and wealthiest landowners in the United States Territory of Hawai'i and present-day State of Hawai'i. It is on land owned by the heirs of James Campbell that the Second City of Kapolei is being developed, the largest and most modern of the suburbs of Honolulu. - 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". - 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. - Teanna Kai
Teanna Kai (born March 25, 1978) is an Asian American pornographic actress. Kai has stated two different backgrounds in public interviews. In one version, she is half-Hawaiian/half-Filipina, was born in Manila and came to America in 1994, living in Stockton, California. In a second version, she is full-Vietnamese, was born in Vietnam, escaped with her parents when she was seven or eight to Singapore. Her family first relocated to Minnesota then to northern California. - Peter Moon
Peter Moon is a ʻukulele and (slack-key) guitar master - Raiatea Helm
Raiatea Mokihana Maile Helm (born August 8, 1984) is a Hawaiian singer who accompanies herself on the ukulele. She released her debut album, "Far Away Heaven", through Riptide Records in 2003. Her second, critically acclaimed, album, "Sweet & Lovely" was issued by her own "Raiatea Helm" label in 2005. Helm has not yet toured extensively, but performs regularly at Humuhumunukunukuapuaa Restaurant in the Grand Wailea Resort Hotel & Spa. - 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. - Charles Reed Bishop
Charles Reed Bishop was a businessman in Hawaii during the 1800s. He was the husband of Bernice Pauahi Bishop, late heir to the Hawaiian throne, one of the first trustees of the Kamehameha Schools, and the founder of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum. - Akira Lane
Akira Lane is a successful Asian American nude model and actress of Hawaiian and Okinawan heritage. Lane is bilingual and fluent in Japanese and English, and graduated San Diego State University with a B.A. in International Business. She is known as one of the few people that personally interacts with her fans via e-mail and goes to conventions to meet her fans personally, giving her the reputation as one of the most accessible models in her industry. - Bulldog
BullDog (real name Henry Conaty) is a popular actor in the state of Hawaii. He is most frequently seen on stage as a company actor at the Honolulu Theatre for Youth. He has also worked as an actor, board member and director at Kumu Kahua Theatre. One of the most recognizable actors in Hawaii, BullDog's face is almost synonymous with the Honolulu Theatre for Youth, a nationally praised professional theatre company in Honolulu. - Haunani-Kay Trask
Haunani-Kay Trask (born October 3, 1949) is a California-born Native Hawaiian academic, activist, radical, militant, documentarist and writer. Trask is a professor of Hawaiian Studies with the University of Hawaii System and has represented Native Hawaiians in the United Nations and various other global conferences. She is a noted author of several books of poetry and prose, "Light in the Crevice Never Seen", … - Neal Blaisdell
Neal Shaw Blaisdell (November 6, 1902 - October 5, 1975) served as Mayor of Honolulu from 1954 to 1968. Born in Honolulu, Hawai'i of part-Hawaiian descent, Blaisdell attended Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania where he was quarterback of the school's football team (he was later inducted into the Bucknell Athletic Hall of Fame). He returned to Honolulu to become a teacher, high school coach and athletic director. - Kiana Tom
Kiana Tom (Born 14 March 1965 in Maui, Hawaii, USA) is an American model, television show fitness instructor, actress and a former "Los Angeles Raider" cheerleader. She is part Chinese, Hawaiian and Irish. She stands 5'6" (170 centimetres) tall. She is also trained as a virtuoso piano player. Since 1988, she was one of the hosts of a fitness instruction television series called "BodyShaping". Eventually, she went on to host her own show, … - Robert Kiyosaki
Robert Toru Kiyosaki (born April 8, 1947) is an investor, businessman, self-help author and motivational speaker. Kiyosaki is best known for his "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" series of motivational books and other material. He has written 18 books which combined have sold over 26 million copies. Although beginning as a self-publisher, he was subsequently published by Warner Books, a division of Hachette Book Group USA, … - Jason Scott Lee
Jason Scott Lee is an American movie actor. - Kitana Baker
Kitana Baker (born Christi Michell Josenhans on July 15 1977) is a model and actress based in the Los Angeles area. Born in Anaheim, California, and of Chinese, Hawaiian, German and Irish ancestry, Baker has appeared in numerous films, videos and television shows, and has worked for both E! and "Playboy". She does most of her modeling for her official website, which she frequently promotes on radio (including "The Howard Stern Show"). - Andy Bumatai
Andy Bumatai is a Hawaii based comedian and actor. Bumatai began his career opening for popular Hawaiian comedian Frank DeLima and soon found himself replacing the late Rap Raplinger in Booga Booga, Hawaii's seminal sketch comedy group. He went on to perform stand up comedy extensively on the mainland and in Hawaii. Bumatai's film credits include "Whoopie Boys", "Man Called Sarge" and "Aloha Summer". Bumatai recorded a number of comedy albums. - Harry Owens
Harry Owens (18 April 1902 - 12 December 1986) was an American composer, bandleader and songwriter. Owens was born in O'Neill, Nebraska, and started his band in 1926, when he was booked into the Lafayette Cafe in Los Angeles. The big turning point in his career came in 1934 with his arrival in Hawaii and his appointment as music director of The Royal Hawaiian Hotel. He set to learning all he could about the local culture by mixing and working with native Hawaiians. - Mark Keali'I Ho'Omalu
'Mark Keali`i Ho`omalu' is a contemporary Hawaiian chanter, born and raised in Aiea, Oahu. At the age of 15, he started his hula career with John Pi`ilani Watkins doing various "luau" and Polynesian shows around Oahu. In 1979 he joined a "halau", which became the foundation for Mark's hula education as an "`olapa" and chanter. Ho`omalu moved to California in 1979 to teach hula with Tiare Clifford of Tiare Otea in San Francisco. - Lois-Ann Yamanaka
Lois-Ann Yamanaka is a Japanese American poet and novelist from Hawaiʻi. Many of her critically acclaimed literary works are written in Hawaiian Pidgin, and some of her writing has dealt with controversial ethnic issues. In particular, her works confront themes of Asian American families and the local culture of Hawaii. Among her principal works are: * "Saturday Night at the Pahala Theatre", … - Natasha Kai
Natasha Kai (born May 22, 1983, Hawaii) is an American soccer player and member of the United States women's national soccer team. Kai is one of the most famous female athletes from Hawaii, where she starred at the University of Hawaii and was the Conference Player of the Year three times. Presently Natasha plays forward where she is noteworthy for adding a burst of energy to the team when she enters as a substitute for offense. - Don Blanding
Donald Benson Blanding (November 7, 1894-June 9, 1957) was an American poet who sentimentalized warm climates and was sometimes described as "poet laureate of Hawaii". He was also known as a journalist, author of prose, illustrator, and speaker. Blanding was born on November 7, 1894, in Kingfisher, Oklahoma (in the period as a territory prior to that state's creation). He trained between 1913 and 1915 at the Art Institute of Chicago. - Jason Momoa
Joseph Jason Namakaeha Momoa was born on August 1, 1979 in Honolulu, Hawaii and was raised in Norwalk, Iowa by his mother. He is 6′4″ and of mixed Hawaiian and Caucasian descent. - Glen Grant
Glen Grant was a Hawaiian historian, author and folklorist. He was primarily known for his Obake Files, a collection of articles and stories regarding native and imported folktales and mythology in Hawaii. Grant was also the author of the "Chicken skin" series of ghost story anthologies, as well as host of the long-running radio show of the same name. - Gavan Daws
Gavan Daws writes about Hawai'i, the Pacific, and Asia. He has also made documentary films about the region. His other work includes song lyrics and a stage play. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Humanities in Australia, and served as the Pacific member of the UNESCO Commission on the Scientific and Cultural History of Humankind. - Herb Kawainui Kane
Herbert "Herb" Kawainui Kane (born 1928) is an artist-historian and author with special interest in Hawai'i and the South Pacific. Born in Minnesota, Kane was actually raised in Waipio and Hilo, Hawaii, and Wisconsin. His art and articles have appeared in locations such as the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts and the National Park Service, as well as in books and major magazines, including National Geographic. - Eva Larue
Eva LaRue (born Eva Maria LaRuy on December 27, 1966 in Long Beach, California) is an American actress. - 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". - Jarah Mariano
Jarah M. Mariano is an Asian supermodel. She is of Hawaiian, Korean, and Chinese descent. - Fred Korematsu
Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu was one of the many Japanese-American citizens living on the West Coast during World War II. Shortly after the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, authorizing the Secretary of War to require all Japanese-Americans in "Military Area No. 1" (the West Coast "exclusion zone") to report to the Internment Camps. Fred Korematsu was born in 1919 to Japanese parents living in Oakland, … - James Dole
James Drummond Dole, also known as the "Pineapple King", was a United States industrialist who developed the pineapple industry in Hawaii and established the Hawaiian Pineapple Company. Hawaiian Pineapple Company, or HAPCO, was later reorganized to become the present-day Dole Food Company, which now does business in over 90 countries. Its most prized crop continues to be authentic Hawaiian-grown pineapples. Dole was a cousin of Sanford B. Dole, … - Kitty Yung
Kitty Yung (born February 6, 1970 in Los Angeles, California) is the pseudonym of an American pornographic actress of Korean and Hawaiian descent, a fact she states has helped her during her career. She describes herself as a tomboy during her early life, enjoying sports and outdoor activities. She initially worked as an account manager, and in 1993 became involved in the adult film industry after answering an ad in the LA Weekly for lingerie modeling. - Lilikala Kame'Eleihiwa
Lilikala K. Kameʻeleihiwa is a Hawaiian artist and director and professor at the University of Hawaiʻi's Center for Hawaiian Studies. Her earliest work was published under the name of Lilikala L. Dorton. Trained as a historian, she is also an expert in Hawaiian cultural traditions and in the issues driving the Hawaiian sovereignty movement. - Malia Jones
Malia Jones (born March 27, 1977) is a model and surfer from Hawaii. She is credited with furthering the interest of young girls in the sport of surfing. Malia is of Hawaiian, Spanish-Filipino and German descent. - 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. - Claus Spreckels
Claus Spreckels, formally Adolph Claus J. Spreckels (July 9, 1828-December 26, 1908), "(his last name has also been spelled officially as Spreckles)", was a major industrialist in Hawai'i during the kingdom, republican and territorial periods of the islands' history. He also involved himself in several California enterprises. In 1880, he purchased the "Pacific Commercial Advertiser" and became a publisher.
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