List of Taiwanese Americans

This is a list of notable Taiwanese Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.

To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Taiwanese American or must have references showing they are Taiwanese American and are notable. Whether Taiwanese Americans should also be called Chinese Americans is a subject of controversy.

List

Art and design

• Wenlan Chia, fashion designer
• Doug Chiang, movie designer and artist
• Jen Kao, fashion designer
• Yu Tsai, photographer and America's Next Top Model creative consultant
• Alexander Wang, fashion designer
• Jason Wu, fashion designer

Business

• Fred Chang, founder of Newegg^[1]
• Sam Chang, New York hotel developer
• Wayne Chang, founder of Crashlytics, entrepreneur, angel investor, film producer, and philanthropist
• Allen Chao, founder of Watson Pharmaceuticals
• Pehong Chen, founder of Gain Technology and Broadvision
• Steve Chen, founder and CEO of Galactic Computing
• Steve Chen, co-founder of YouTube
• Andrew Cherng, founder of Chinese fast food restaurant chain Panda Express^[2]
• Jimmy Chiang, founder of Way Basics
• Ben Chiu, founder of KillerApp.com acquired by CNET
• David Chu, co-founder of Nautica, clothing company
• James Chu, founder, CEO and chairman of ViewSonic^[3]
• John Chuang, co-founder and CEO of Aquent^[4]
• Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com, online shoe store
• Jameson Hsu, co-founder and CEO of Mochi Media
• Jen-Hsun Huang, co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA, computer graphics card company
• Robert T. Huang, founder of SYNNEX
• Min H. Kao, co-founder of Garmin, billionaire
• Kai-Fu Lee, President of Google China
• Alfred Lin, venture capitalist at Sequoia Capital
• Dan Lin, Hollywood film producer and former Senior Vice President at Warner Bros. Pictures
• Ellen Pao, lawyer and former chief executive officer of Reddit.
• Danny Pang, private equity manager, accused of running a Ponzi scheme
• Greg Tseng, co-founder and CEO of Tagged
• John Tu, Taiwanese American co-founder of Kingston Technologies, billionaire
• Stanley Wang, founder and CEO of Pantronix Corporation^[5]
• William Wang, co-founder and CEO of Vizio
• Jerry Yang, co-founder of Yahoo!, billionaire^[6]
• Bing Yeh, founder of Silicon Storage Technology and Greenliant Systems

Entertainment

• Bertha Bay-Sa Pan, film director, screenwriter
• Louis Ozawa Changchien, actor; 1/2 Taiwanese
• Arvin Chen, film director, screenwriter
• Lynn Chen, actress
• Bart Kwan, comedian, founder of Just Kidding Film; 1/2 Taiwanese
• Jay Chern, film director, screenwriter
• Jon M. Chu, film director
• Roger Fan, actor
• Ted Fu, founding member of Wong Fu Productions^[7]
• Christie Hsiao, film producer and founder of Serenity Media Group
• Janet Hsieh, model and travel host of Fun Taiwan
• George Hu, actor based in Taiwan
• Ching He Huang, cooking show host
• Eddie Huang, host of Fresh Off the Boat for VICE TV
• Sam Huang, travel expert ^[8]
• Frank Hwang, YouTube celebrity^[9]
• Michelle Krusiec, actress
• Katrina Law, actress; 1/2 Taiwanese
• Ang Lee, award-winning director of Brokeback Mountain and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
• Erin Li, film director, screenwriter
• James Hiroyuki Liao, actor
• Annie Lin, musician and attorney
• Dan Lin, film and TV producer, former senior VP of production at Warner Bros., current CEO Lin Pictures
• Justin Lin, film director
• Vincent Lin, award-winning filmmaker and founder of Valiant Pictures^[10]
• Dyana Liu, actress
• Lucy Liu, actress
• Andy On, actor
• Ivan Shaw, actor
• Fang-Yi Sheu, principal dancer of the Martha Graham Dance Company
• David Shih, actor^[11]
• Timothy Tau, film director, screenwriter
• Will Tiao, actor and producer
• Leehom Wang, singer, actor, and songwriter
• Constance Wu, actress, Fresh Off The Boat
• Kevin Wu, YouTube celebrity, contestant on the 17th season of The Amazing Race
• Raymond Wu, professional poker player
• Welly Yang, actor, playwright, and singer

Journalism

• Jeff Chang, journalist, hip-hop historian
• Laura Chang, science editor, The New York Times
• Christine Chen, journalist and anchor
• Connie Chung, journalist and anchor; second woman ever to anchor a national news program
• Patty Hou, former news and fashion anchor, current entertainment anchor in Taiwan
• Laura Ling, journalist (mother was Taiwanese; sister of Lisa Ling)
• Lisa Ling, journalist (mother was Taiwanese; sister of Laura Ling)
• Chiang Nan, newspaper editor

Literature

• Lan Samantha Chang, fiction writer; director of the Iowa Writer's Workshop
• Jennifer Chow, novelist, fiction writer, author of The 228 Legacy
• Ed Lin, novelist, fiction writer, author of This Is A Bust
• Francie Lin, novelist, fiction writer, author of The Foreigner
• Grace Lin, children's book writer and illustrator
• Tao Lin, fiction writer
• Eric Liu, writer, speechwriter for Bill Clinton
• Timothy Tau, fiction writer
• Shawna Yang Ryan, novelist, fiction writer, author of Green Island and Water Ghosts^[12]
• Julie Wu, novelist, fiction writer, author of The Third Son^[13]
• Charles Yu, novelist, fiction writer

Music

• Jason Chen, singer^[14]
• Robert Chen, violinist, Concertmaster of Chicago Symphony Orchestra
• Andrew Chou, member of hip-hop group Machi based in Taiwan
• Dawen
• Evonne Hsu, pop singer based in Taiwan
• Jack Hsu, frontman of The Hsu-nami^[15]
• Stanley Huang, singer based in Taiwan
• Chihchun Chi-sun Lee, composer
• Cho-Liang Lin, violinist
• Joseph Lin, first violinist for Juilliard String Quartet
• Amber Liu, singer and rapper from South Korean girl group f(x)
• Mark Tuan, rapper of the South Korean group GOT7
• Jerry Lo, singer-songwriter based in Taiwan
• Wilber Pan, pop singer based in Taiwan
• Fan-Wei Qi, pop singer based in Taiwan
• Vienna Teng, singer-songwriter
• Lara Veronin, vocalist of Taiwanese group Nan Quan Ma Ma
• Leehom Wang, singer-songwriter based in Taiwan
• Vanness Wu, member of boyband F4 based in Taiwan
• Sophia Yan, pianist

Politics, law and government

• Ling Ling Chang, California State Assemblywoman^[16]
• Elaine Chao, United States Secretary of Labor in the George W. Bush Administration, wife of Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
• Carol K. Chen, mayor of Cerritos, California^[17]
• Jay Chen, Hacienda-La Puente School Board
• Lanhee Chen, Policy Director and Chief Policy Adviser to the Romney-Ryan 2012 Presidential Campaign and Hoover Institution Fellow
• Raymond Chen, United States Circuit Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
• John Chiang, California State Controller in 2012
• Shing-Fu Hsueh, mayor of West Windsor Township^[18]
• Goodwin Liu, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California
• John Liu, first Asian American City Councilman of New York City, and currently serving as New York City Comptroller
• Grace Meng, U.S. Representative (D-NY)
• Mary Su, mayor of Walnut, California^[19]
• Katy Tang, San Francisco Supervisor, District 4
• David Wu, first Taiwanese American U.S. Representative (D-OR)
• Michelle Wu, Boston City Councillor at Large ^[20]
• Sherman Wu, civil rights activist and scientist
• Yiaway Yeh, mayor of Palo Alto, California

Science and education

• Yuan Chang, co-discovered Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) and Merkel cell polyomavirus
• Steve Chen, computer scientist, supercomputer designer, Cray
• Paul C. W. Chu, physicist, superconductivity
• Steven Chu, 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics, first Asian-American to run one of the 16 national laboratories operated by the Department of Energy (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), current Secretary of Energy of the United States
• Fan Chung, mathematician
• Hu Dunfu, mathematician and higher education pioneer
• David Ho, AIDS researcher, Time's Person of the Year
• Feng-hsiung Hsu, principal designer of the IBM Deep Blue chess machine
• Henry C. Lee, forensic scientist
• Yuan Tseh Lee, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Professor Emeritus University of California at Berkeley (He was Taiwanese American until 1994 when he renounced his American citizenship to become the President of Academia Sinica)
• Chang-Lin Tien, former Chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley^[21]
• Samuel Ting, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1976
• Sam Wang, neuroscientist and author
• Pei-Yuan Wei, creator of ViolaWWW
• Chi-Huey Wong, biochemist; 2014 Wolf Prize in Chemistry winner for his expertise in bioorganic and synthetic chemistry, especially in carbohydrate chemistry and chemical biology
• Henry T. Yang, chancellor, UC Santa Barbara
• Andrew Chi-Chih Yao, winner of the Turing Award; prominent computer scientist and computational theorist
• Nai-Chang Yeh, physicist specializing in condensed matter physics; Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Fellow, American Physical Society

Sports

• Michael Chang, International Tennis Hall of Fame member; youngest male tennis player to win a Grand Slam tournament
• Tora Harris, high jumper; also of African-American descent
• Ariel Hsing, youngest U.S. table tennis national champion^[22]
• Jerry Hsu, professional skateboarder
• Vania King, tennis player on WTA Tour
• Candie Kung, golf player in the LPGA
• Jeremy Lin, first Taiwanese-American player in the NBA
• Kevin Tan, 2008 Olympic Games men's gymnastics bronze medalist
• Chien-Ming Wang , Prefession MLB pitcher, won 19 games with New York Yankees both in 2006 and 2007.

Other

• Richard Chen, celebrity chef
• Cindy Chiang, winner of the 19th season of The Amazing Race^[23]
• Hank Chien, world champion of Donkey Kong
• Arthur Chu, Jeopardy! contestant
• Tammy and Victor Jih, winners of the 14th season of The Amazing Race
• Crystal Lee, beauty queen; Miss California 2013; Miss America 2014 first runner-up; Miss Chinatown USA 2010; Miss California Outstanding Teen 2008
• Wen Ho Lee, nuclear physicist, wrongly accused for espionage and then acquitted
• Wayne Lo, American school shooter

References