List of Taiwanese Americans

List of Taiwanese Americans

This is a list of notable Taiwanese Americans.

List

Art and design

* Doug Chiang, movie designer and artist
* Christine Wang, architect, curator, artist, founder of Wang Museum of Technology WangMuseum.org

Business

* Fred Chang, founder of Newegg.com
* Steve Chen (陳世卿), founder and CEO of Galactic Computing
* Steve Chen (陳世駿), co-founder of YouTube
* Yeh Pei-Cheng chairman of Gigabyte Technology, computer hardware manufacture company
* David Chu (朱欽騏), co-founder of Nautica, clothing company
* James Chu, founder of ViewSonic, computer monitor company
* Ancle Hsu, co-founder of Apex Digital
* Jen-Hsun Huang (黃仁勳), co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA, computer graphics card company
* Min H. Kao (高民環), co-founder of Garmin, billionaire
* David Sun, co-founder Kingston Technologies, billionaire
* Victor Tsao, co-founder Linksys
* John Tu, co-founder Kingston Technologies, billionaire
* Jerry Yang (楊致遠), co-founder of Yahoo! billionaire ["Jerry Yang." Yahoo! Media Relations: Management Team. 06 July 2007 ]

Entertainment

* Rosalind Chao - actress
* Ang Lee (李安), film director of "Brokeback Mountain", "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", and "Hulk" [ "Ang Lee." IMDB. 06 July 2007 ]
* Lena Li (李琳玲), Playboy model
*Justin Lin (林詣彬), film director of "Better Luck Tomorrow", "Annapolis" and "" ["Justin Lin." IMDB. 06 July 2007 ]
* Lucy Liu (劉玉玲), actress
* Roger Fan, actor
* Ivan Shaw, actor
* Fang-Yi Sheu (許芳宜), principal dancer of the Martha Graham Dance Company
* Will Tiao (刁毓能), actor and producer, executive producer of Formosa Betrayed
* Welly Yang (楊呈偉), actor, playwright, and singer
* Kaila Yu (于丽萍), model and singer

Journalism

* Jeff Chang - journalist, hip-hop historian
* Laura Chang - science editor, "The New York Times"
* Connie Chung (宗毓華), successful journalist and anchor
* Patty Hou (侯佩岑), former news and fashion anchor, current entertainment anchor in Taiwan
* Chiang Nan (江南), newspaper editor

Literature

* Eric Liu (劉柏川), writer, a speechwriter of Bill Clinton
* Lan Samantha Chang - writer; director of the Iowa Writer's Workshop

Music

* Robert Chen (陳慕融), violinist, Concertmaster of Chicago Symphony Orchestra
* Andrew Chou (周立銘), member of hip-hop group Machi based in Taiwan
* Kenny Chou (周逸銘), member of hip-hop group Machi based in Taiwan
* Evonne Hsu (許慧欣), pop singer based in Taiwan
* Jeffrey Huang (黃立成), leader of hip-hop group Machi based in Taiwan
* Stanley Huang (黃立行), singer based in Taiwan
* Cho-Liang Lin (林昭亮), violinist
* Steven Lin (林智文), member of hip-hop group Machi based in Taiwan
* Jerry Lo (羅百吉), singer-songwriter based in Taiwan
* Wilber Pan (潘瑋柏), pop singer based in Taiwan
* Fan-Wei Qi (范瑋琪), pop singer based in Taiwan
* Vienna Teng (史逸欣), singer-songwriter
* Lara Veronin (梁心頤), vocalist of Taiwanese group Nan Quan Ma Ma
* Lee-Hom Wang (王力宏), pop singer-songwriter based in Taiwan
* Vanness Wu (吳建豪), member of boyband F4 based in Taiwan
* Sophia Yan (嚴倩君), pianist

Politics and government

* Elaine Chao (趙小蘭), United States Secretary of Labor in the George W. Bush Administration
* John Liu (劉醇逸), first Asian American City Councilman of New York City
* David Wu (吳振偉), first and only Taiwanese American U.S. Representative, Democrat from Oregon
* John Chiang California State Controller
* Ted Liu California Assemblyman, 53rd District
* Mike Eng California Assemblyman, 49th District

Science and education

* David Ho (何大一), AIDS researcher, Time's Person of the Year
* Chang-Lin Tien (田長霖), former Chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley ["Chang-Lin Tien 1925-2002: a chancellor's extraordinary legacy." UC Berkeley 2003 http://www.coe.berkeley.edu/forefront/images/sp2003.pdf]
* Henry T. Yang, Chancellor of the University of California, Santa Barbara
* Paul C. W. Chu (朱經武) - physicist, superconductivity
* Steven Chu (朱棣文) - 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)

Sports

* Michael Chang - youngest male tennis player to win a Grand Slam tournament
* Chien-Ming Wang - Starting pitcher for the New York Yankees
* Hong Chih Kuo - Pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers

Other

* Wen Ho Lee (李文和), nuclear physicist, accused spy (acquitted)
* Wayne Lo, American school shooter

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