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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.
List
Art and design
Malan Breton , fashion designer
Wenlan Chia , fashion designer
Doug Chiang , movie designer and artist
Han Hsiang-ning , artist
James Jean , artist
Jen Kao , fashion designer
Yu Tsai , photographer and
America's Next Top Model creative consultant
Alexander Wang , fashion designer
Jason Wu , fashion designer
Luly Yang , fashion designer
Business
Fred Chang , founder of
Newegg
[1]
Morris Chang , founder of
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company
Sam Chang , New York hotel developer
Wayne Chang , founder of
Crashlytics , entrepreneur, angel investor, film producer, and philanthropist
Albert Chao , CEO and co-founder of
Westlake Chemical
[2]
Allen Chao , founder of
Watson Pharmaceuticals
Eva Chen , co-founder and CEO of
Trend Micro
Pehong Chen , founder of Gain Technology and
Broadvision
Steve Chen , founder and CEO of Galactic Computing
Steve Chen , co-founder of
YouTube
Chen Wen-Chi , billionaire president and CEO of
VIA Technologies , husband to
HTC co-founder
Cher Wang
Albert Cheng , Interim President of
Amazon Studios
Andrew Cherng , founder of Chinese fast food restaurant chain
Panda Express
[3]
Ben Chiu , founder of KillerApp.com acquired by
CNET
Yu-kai Chou , gamification expert, entrepreneur and developer of
Octalysis
[4]
David Chu , co-founder of
Nautica , clothing company
James Chu , founder, CEO and chairman of
ViewSonic
[5]
John Chuang , co-founder and CEO of
Aquent
[6]
Victor Ho , co-founder and CEO of FiveStars
Tony Hsieh , CEO of
Zappos.com , online shoe store
Jameson Hsu , co-founder and CEO of
Mochi Media
Jensen Huang , CEO and co-founder of
Nvidia
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
Ivan Linn , CEO and founder of Folks
Teresa H. Meng , co-founder of
Qualcomm Atheros
Ellen Pao , lawyer and former chief executive officer of Reddit.
Danny Pang , private equity manager, accused of running a
Ponzi scheme
Will Shu , co-founder and CEO of
Deliveroo
Lisa Su , CEO and president of
Advanced Micro Devices
David Sun , co-founder of
Kingston Technologies , billionaire
Janie Tsao , co-founder of
Linksys
Victor Tsao , co-founder of
Linksys
Greg Tseng , co-founder and CEO of
Tagged
John Tu , Taiwanese American co-founder of
Kingston Technologies , billionaire
Tien Tzuo , co-founder and CEO of
Zuora
[7]
William Wang , co-founder and CEO of
Vizio
Jerry Yang , co-founder of
Yahoo! , billionaire
[8]
Bing Yeh , founder of
Silicon Storage Technology and
Greenliant Systems
Entertainment
Journalism
Ailsa Chang , journalist and news host for
National Public Radio
Emily Chang , journalist and anchor; host of Bloomberg TV's Bloomberg Technology
Iris Chang , journalist, author of
The Rape of Nanking and other books of Chinese history
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)
Henry Liu , aka Chiang Nan, writer and journalist
Kristie Lu Stout , journalist and news anchor for
CNN International
Jeff Yang , journalist, author and father of actor
Hudson Yang
Literature
Lan Samantha Chang , fiction writer; director of the Iowa Writer's Workshop
Ted Chiang , fiction writer, author of
Story of Your Life
[10]
Jennifer Chow , novelist, fiction writer, author of The 228 Legacy
Vanessa Hua , journalist, writer, author of Deceit and Other Possibilities
Eddie Huang , author of the memoirs
Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir (the basis for the TV show of the same name) and Double Cup Love: On the Trail of Family, Food, and Broken Hearts in China .
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
Henry Liu , aka Chiang Nan, writer and journalist
Timothy Tau , fiction writer
Shawna Yang Ryan , novelist, fiction writer, author of Green Island and Water Ghosts
[11]
Esmé Weijun Wang , writer, author of
The Collected Schizophrenias
Julie Wu , novelist, fiction writer, author of The Third Son
[12]
Charles Yu , novelist, fiction writer
Music
Jason Chen , singer
[13]
Robert Chen , violinist,
Concertmaster of
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Chou , member of hip-hop group
Machi based in Taiwan
Peter Ho , singer
Evonne Hsu , pop singer based in Taiwan
Stanley Huang , singer based in Taiwan
Miss Ko , singer-songwriter and rapper
Gary Kuo , violinist and composer
Chihchun Chi-sun Lee , composer
Cho-Liang Lin , violinist
Joseph Lin , first violinist for
Juilliard String Quartet
Richard Lin , violinist
Amber Josephine Liu , singer and rapper from South Korean girl group
f(x)
Jerry Lo , singer-songwriter based in Taiwan
Allen Ma , rapper from South Korean boy group
Cravity
Anthony Neely , singer
Will Pan , pop singer based in Taiwan
Fan-Wei Qi , pop singer based in Taiwan
David Tao , singer-songwriter
Vienna Teng , singer-songwriter
Mark Tuan , rapper of South Korean boy group
GOT7
Lara Veronin , vocalist of Taiwanese group
Nan Quan Ma Ma
Dawen Wang , singer-songwriter
Joanna Wang , singer-songwriter
Leehom Wang , singer-songwriter based in Taiwan
Vanness Wu , member of boyband
F4 based in Taiwan
Sophia Yan , pianist
Cindy Yen , singer-songwriter
Charlie Yin , producer-performer known as Giraffage
Politics, law and government
Ling Ling Chang ,
California State Senator
Elaine Chao ,
United States Secretary of Labor in the
George W. Bush Administration,
Secretary of Transportation in the
Donald Trump Administration, wife of
Senate Minority Leader
Mitch McConnell (
R -
KY )
Angie Chen Button , Member of the
United States House of Representatives (R-
TX )
Lanhee Chen , Policy Director and Chief Policy Adviser to the Romney-Ryan 2012 Presidential Campaign and
Hoover Institution Fellow
Lily Lee Chen , former mayor of
Monterey Park, California
Raymond Chen ,
United States Circuit Judge on the
United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
John Chiang , California State Controller in 2012
David Chiu (Member of the
California State Assembly )
Mary Anne Franks , president of the
Cyber Civil Rights Initiative and expert on the intersection of civil rights and technology
James C. Ho , Judge of the United States Court of Appeals the Fifth Circuit Texas
Ted Lieu , Member of the
United States House of Representatives (D-
CA )
Goodwin Liu , Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court of California
John Liu , first Asian American City Councilman of
New York City , and former
New York City Comptroller
Chris Lu , ,
United States Deputy Secretary of Labor
Grace Meng , U.S. Representative (D-
NY )
Jimmy Meng , U.S. Representative (D-
NY ) and father of
Grace Meng
Yuh-Line Niou , Member of the New York State Assembly from the 65th district
Heidi Shyu ,
Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering
Katherine Tai ,
United States Trade Representative
Katy Tang , San Francisco Supervisor, District 4
Chiling Tong , president and CEO of The National Asian Pacific Islander American Chamber of Commerce & Entrepreneurship
David Wu , first Taiwanese American
U.S. Representative (
D -
OR )
Michelle Wu ,
mayor of Boston
[14]
Tim Wu , legal scholar, official in the
Biden Administration tasked with Technology and Competition policy
Andrew Yang , 2020 Presidential Candidate, founder and CEO of
Venture for America ,
PAGE Ambassador, author,
[15] and former Attorney at
Davis Polk & Wardwell in
New York City
Yiaway Yeh , mayor of
Palo Alto , California
Ellen Young , U.S. Representative (D-
NY )
Science and education
Yuan Chang , co-discovered
Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) and
Merkel cell polyomavirus
Steve Chen , computer scientist, supercomputer designer, Cray
Yet-Ming Chiang , materials scientist, professor at MIT, co-founder of
American Superconductor ,
A123 Systems ,
Desktop Metal
Hong-Yee Chiu , astrophysicist
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), Secretary of Energy of the United States from 2009 to 2013
Fan Chung , mathematician
David Ho ,
AIDS researcher, 1996
Time ' s
Person of the Year
Feng-hsiung Hsu , principal designer of the
IBM Deep Blue chess machine
Chenming Hu , developer of FinFET,
National Medal of Technology and Innovation winner
[16]
C.-T. James Huang , linguist
Henry C. Lee , forensic scientist
Wen Ho Lee , nuclear physicist,
wrongly accused for espionage and then acquitted
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 )
Jen Sheen , biologist
Chang-Lin Tien , former Chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley
[17]
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
Alan Ming-ta Wu , molecular biologist and immunologist
Henry T. Yang , chancellor,
UC Santa Barbara
Yang Yang , physicist, solar cells
Andrew Chi-Chih Yao , winner of the
Turing Award ; prominent computer scientist and computational theorist
Horng-Tzer Yau , mathematician
Nai-Chang Yeh , physicist specializing in
condensed matter physics ; Fellow,
American Association for the Advancement of Science ; Fellow,
American Physical Society
Soon Yu , international speaker, consultant, and adjunct professor at
Parsons School of Design
Sports
Joy Burke , professional basketball player
Corbin Carroll , professional baseball player
Michael Chang ,
International Tennis Hall of Fame member; youngest male tennis player to win a Grand Slam tournament
Richard Chang , retired basketball player
Karen Chen , figure skater,
2017 U.S. national champion.
Stuart Fairchild , professional baseball player
Tora Harris , high jumper; also of African-American descent
Ariel Hsing , youngest U.S. table tennis national champion
[18]
Jerry Hsu , professional skateboarder
Jason Jung , tennis player on
ATP Tour ; also won the gold medal at the
2017 Summer Universiade .
Vania King , tennis player on
WTA Tour
Candie Kung , golf player in the
LPGA
Alexander Massialas , foil fencer
Janet Lee , tennis player on
WTA Tour
Jeremy Lin , first Taiwanese-American player in the
NBA
Joseph Lin , professional basketball player. Younger brother of
Jeremy Lin
Howard Shu , badminton player
Kevin Tan ,
2008 Olympic Games men's gymnastics bronze medalist
Chien-Ming Wang , professional MLB pitcher, won 19 games with New York Yankees both in 2006 and 2007.
Timothy Wang , table tennis player
Other
Richard Chen , celebrity chef
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
Wayne Lo , American school shooter
Ai-jen Poo , labor activist, president of the
National Domestic Workers Alliance
Jian Tan , Buddhist monk and current abbot of the Chung Tai Zen Center of Houston
Nancy Wang Yuen , sociologist
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"Curb your enthusiasm" . The Economist . 2 December 2010.
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"Yu-kai Chou, Gamification Expert, Entrepreneur, and Follower of Christ" . April 1, 2014.
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"James Chu."
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"Asianlife.com – Magazine" . www.asianlife.com .
^ Bryant, Adam (January 6, 2017).
"Tien Tzuo of Zuora: 'Don't Expect Me to Manage You' (Published 2017)" . The New York Times .
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"Jerry Yang" . Forbes . Retrieved 27 October 2014 .
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"Ted Chiang's Soulful Science Fiction" .
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"Shawna Yang Ryan" . www.shawnayangryan.com .
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"Julie Wu" . Julie Wu .
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