This is a list of notable Chinese Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants who have made exceptional contributions to various facets of American society.
To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Chinese American or must have references showing they are Chinese American and are notable.
1.1 Dance 1.2 Fashion design 1.3 Literature 1.4 Theater 1.5 Visual arts
2 Business
2.1 Financial 2.2 Food 2.3 Industrial 2.4 Internet 2.5 Sports and entertainment 2.6 Technology 2.7 Other
3 Entertainment
3.1 Actors 3.2 Directors 3.3 Musicians 3.4 Other
4 Journalism and news media 5 Military 6 Politics and government
6.1 National politics 6.2 Congress 6.3 Local and state 6.4 Law and judiciary 6.5 Community and civil rights
7 Science and academia
7.1 Nobel Prize 7.2 Mathematics award winners 7.3 Chemistry 7.4 Computer science 7.5 Engineering 7.6 Mathematics 7.7 Medicine and biosciences 7.8 Physics 7.9 Economics, Finance, Statistics, OR 7.10 Social sciences 7.11 Humanities 7.12 University administration
8 Sports 9 Other
9.1 Astronauts 9.2 Gang leaders and criminals 9.3 Crime victims 9.4 Religious leaders
Elaine Chao (赵小兰) – current Secretary of Transportation and the Former Secretary of Labor (2001–2009) (Republican) Lanhee Chen (陳仁宜) – conservative government policy academic, policy director in Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign (Republican), news media political commentator Steven Chu (朱棣文) – physicist, former Secretary of Energy (2009–2013), winner of 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics for research in laser cooling (Democratic) Nancy-Ann DeParle – Director of the White House Office of Health Reform (Democratic) Gary Locke (骆家辉) – United States Ambassador to China (2011–2014); United States Secretary of Commerce (2009–2011); Governor of Washington (1997–2005), first and only Chinese American to serve as a state governor (Democratic) Chris Lu (卢沛宁) – Assistant to former President Barack Obama and Cabinet Secretary (Democratic) Tina Tchen (陈远美) – Chief of Staff to the First Lady of the United States, director of Office of Public Liaison during Obama administration (Democratic) Andrew Yang(杨安泽): running for 2020 POTUS
Congress
Daniel Akaka – former US Senator from Hawaii; first Native Hawaiian US Senator; Democrat Judy Chu – first Chinese-American woman to serve as US Representative (2009–present); Democrat Charles Djou – US Representative from Hawaii (2010–2011); Republican Hiram L. Fong – former US Senator from Hawaii; first US Senator of Chinese ancestry; Republican Ted Lieu – Democrat representing the 33rd District of California Grace Meng – Democrat representing the 22nd District of New York David Wu – first Taiwanese American US Representative, Democrat from Oregon
Local and state
Wilma Chan – first Asian American California State Assembly Majority Leader (2002–2004); Democrat John Chiang – California State Controller (2007–present); Democrat Margaret Chin – member of the New York City Council representing Chinatown David Chiu – Democrat representing the 17th Assembly District, California State Assembly March Fong Eu – former Secretary of State of California (1975–1994), elected in 1974, she won reelection four times; United States Ambassador to the Federated States of Micronesia (1994–1996); Democrat Matthew K. Fong – California State Treasurer (1995–1999), adoptive son of March Fong Eu; Republican Allan Fung – Mayor of Cranston, Rhode Island; Republican Tony Hwang – State Representative of the Connecticut General Assembly; Republican Ed Jew – former member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors; Democrat Peter Koo – member of the New York City Council representing Flushing, Queens Ed Lee – Mayor of San Francisco (2011–2017) Harry Lee – longtime sheriff of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana; first elected in 1979, he was re-elected six times and served 27 and a half years (Democratic) Susan C. Lee – Senator, Maryland Senate of Maryland General Assembly;first Asian American elected to Maryland Senate and first Chinese American elected to Maryland House of Delegates and Maryland General Assembly. John Liu – New York City Comptroller (2010–2013) Alex Wan – member of the Atlanta City Council, first openly gay and first Asian American member Shien Biau Woo (吳仙標) – Lieutenant Governor of Delaware (1985–1989), current president of the 80-20 Initiative; Democrat Leland Yee (余胤良) – former California State Assemblyman, current California State Senator Yiaway Yeh – mayor of Palo Alto, California; first Chinese American to hold the office[11] Mae Yih – Oregon State Representative (1977–1983), Oregon State Senator (1983–2003), first Chinese American to serve in a state senate; Democrat
Law and judiciary
Norman Bay – former United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico (2000–2001); first Chinese American United States Attorney Margaret Chan – New York State Supreme Court Civil Branch justice in Manhattan[12][13] Denny Chin – judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (1994–present), first Asian American appointed as a United States district court judge outside of the Ninth Circuit Ming Chin – Associate Justice, Supreme Court of California Morgan Chu (朱欽文) – Partner, Chair of Litigation, former Co-Managing Partner of Irell & Manella; former President (2014–15) and board member (2009–15) of Harvard Board of Overseers Amy Chua – professor of law; author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother Dolly M. Gee – federal district judge, United States District Court for the Central District of California Joyce Kennard – Associate Justice, Supreme Court of California George H. King – federal district judge, United States District Court for the Central District of California William F. Lee – co-managing partner of WilmerHale and fellow of the Harvard Corporation Ronald Lew – federal district judge, United States District Court for the Central District of California; first Chinese-American federal judge outside of Hawaii Goodwin Liu – Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California Brian Sun – trial lawyer Thomas Tang – judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit; first Chinese American federal judge Jan C. Ting (丁景安) – professor of law; expert on immigration, national security, and taxation; 2006 Republican candidate for Senate (DE) Delbert Wong – judge UQ
Chen Ning Yang (楊振寧) – 1957 Nobel laureate, Physics, Yang–Mills theory Tsung-dao Lee (李政道) – 1957 Nobel laureate, Physics Samuel C. C. Ting (丁肇中) – 1976 Nobel laureate, Physics Yuan T. Lee (李远哲) – 1986 Nobel Prize, Chemistry Steven Chu (朱棣文) – 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics, US Secretary of Energy (2009) Daniel Chee Tsui (崔琦) – 1998 Nobel laureate, Physics Roger Y. Tsien (錢永健) – 2008 Nobel laureate, chemistry Charles K. Kao (高锟) – 2009 Nobel laureate in Physics who pioneered the development and use of fiber optics in telecommunications
Mathematics award winners
Terence Chi-Shen Tao (陶哲軒) – Fields Medal (2006), Clay Research Award (2003), Crafoord Prize (2012) Shing-Tung Yau (丘成桐) – Fields Medal (1982), Wolf Prize (2010), Crafoord Prize (1994) Andrew Yao (姚期智) – Turing Award (2000) Shiing-Shen Chern (陳省身) – Wolf Prize (1983) Wei Zhang (张伟) - Clay Research Award (2019) Xinyi Yuan (袁新意) - Clay Research Award (2008)
Chemistry
Ching W. Tang – inventor of the organic light-emitting diode(OLED) and the hetero-junction organic photovoltaic cell (OPV); winner of the 2011 Wolf Prize in Chemistry; known as the "father of organic electronics" Roger Y. Tsien (錢永健) – 2008 Nobel laureate, chemistry Peidong Yang – chemist; founding member of the scientific advisory board at Nanosys, a nanomaterials company; co-founder of Alphabet Energy[14] Xiaowei Zhuang – Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and of Physics at Harvard University, member of National Academy of Sciences, MacArthur Fellow (2003) Zhijian Chen (陈志坚) - Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. He is best known for his discovery of mechanisms by which nucleic acids trigger innate and autoimmune responses from the interior of a cell, work for which he received the 2019 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences. Xiaoliang Sunney Xie (谢晓亮) - biochemist, considered a founding father of single-molecule biophysical chemistry and single-molecule enzymology
Computer science
Danqi Chen (陈丹琦): AI professor at Princeton University working in Natural language processing, PhD from Stanford University, former student of Andrew Yao[15] Jianlin Cheng (程建林) – computer and data scientist; Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Missouri, Columbia Wen Tsing Chow (周文俊) – missile guidance scientist, digital computer pioneer Leon Chua – professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley Feng-hsiung Hsu (許峰雄) – IBM developer of Deep Blue, which beat World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov in 1997 Fei-Fei Li (李飞飞) – AI researcher, Stanford University professor Kai Li: Princeton University Ming C. Lin – former Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,[16][17] now at U. Maryland. Andrew Ng (吴恩达) – AI researcher and entrepreneur: Google Brain, Baidu research, Coursera, Stanford University professor Carol E. Reiley: entrepreneur in health, robotics and AI, Andrew Ng's wife Pei-Yuan Wei (魏培源) – creator of ViolaWWW Wen-mei Hwu – professor at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign specializing in compiler design, computer architecture, computer microarchitecture, and parallel processing Andrew Yao (姚期智) – 2000 Turing Award recipient, Yao's principle, former professor at Princeton University Frances Yao (储枫) – computer scientist, researcher in computational geometry and combinatorial algorithms; wife of Andrew Yao Yuanyuan Zhou: Princeton University PhD, currently UC San Diego
Engineering
Minjie Chen: Qinghua, MIT, Princeton EE[18][19] Yuxin Chen: Qinghua, Stanford, Princeton EE[20][21] Huajian Gao – Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Engineering at Brown University Tung Hua Lin (林同驊) – professor (UCLA), aerospace and structural engineer Tung-Yen Lin (林同棪) - (Berkeley) structural engineer who was the pioneer of standardizing the use of prestressed concrete, founded T. Y. Lin International Lee Yuk-Wing (李郁榮) – Professor of Electrical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mathematics
Terence Chi-Shen Tao (陶哲軒) – Child genius, Fields Medal winner (2006), professor (UCLA), MacArthur Fellow (2006), Crafoord Prize (2012), Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics (2014). He is the youngest participant to date in the International Mathematical Olympiad, first competing at the age of ten; in 1986, 1987, and 1988, he won a bronze, silver, and gold medal. He remains the youngest winner of each of the three medals in the Olympiad's history, winning the gold medal shortly after his thirteenth birthday. Tao received graduated from university at the age of 16 obtaining his bachelor's and master's degrees, received his PhD at the age of 20. Lenhard Ng - a child prodigy who was once thought to be the "smartest kid in America". At age 10, he earned a perfect score of 800 on the math portion of what is now called the SAT, a feat considered to be a “remarkable achievement” when a high school junior or senior did it. Ng is a professor of mathematics at the Duke University. Jeffrey Yi-Lin Forrest (林益) - professor of mathematics, systems science, economics, and finance at Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (Slippery Rock campus) Wei Zhang (张伟) - Professor of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sun-Yung Alice Chang (张圣容): professor of mathematics and former chair of the department at Princeton University Chen Wen-chen (陈文成) – professor of math at Carnegie Mellon, victim of Taiwan KMT persecution of dissidents (see White Terror) Shiing-Shen Chern (陳省身) – Wolf Prize, considered one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century; worked on differential geometry and topology; known for Chern-Simons theory, Chern-Weil theory, Chern classes Chia-Kun Chu (朱家琨) – applied mathematician, Fu Foundation Professor Emeritus of Applied Mathematics at Columbia University[22][23] Chia-Chiao Lin (林家翹) – applied mathematician Tian Gang (田刚) – Princeton University professor emeritus, student of S.T. Yau Jason Tom (譚志豪/谭志豪) - mathematics supplemental instructor and mathematics academic coach[24][25] Paul Tseng – applied mathematician, professor at the Department of Mathematics at the University of Washington in Seattle Paul C. Yang (杨建平) – Princeton University, husband of Alice Chang Shing-Tung Yau (丘成桐) – Fields Medal winner (1982); MacArthur Fellow (1984), Crafoord Prize (1994), National Medal of Science (1997), Wolf Prize (2010) Yitang Zhang – mathematician, known for establishing the first finite bound on gaps between prime numbers Stephen Shing-Toung Yau - Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago Mu-Tao Wang (王慕道) - Professor of Mathematics at Columbia University, received a PhD in Mathematics in 1998 from Harvard University
Medicine and biosciences
Priscilla Chan (陈Priscilla): Harvard-graduated pediatrician, Chan-Zuckerberg foundation Min Chueh Chang (張明覺) – co-inventor of the first birth control pill; made significant contributions to the development of in vitro fertilisation Gilbert Chu (朱築文) – biochemist and Professor of Medicine (Oncology) and Biochemistry at the Stanford Medical School; older brother of Steven Chu Yuan-Cheng Fung (馮元楨) – founder of modern biomechanics Lue Gim Gong (呂金功) – horticulturalist David Ho – scientific researcher and the Irene Diamond professor at Rockefeller University in New York City Alice S. Huang – virologist Lin He – biochemist, received the MacArthur Fellowship in 2009 Yuet Wai Kan – pioneer of using DNA to diagnose human diseases, research enabled the Human Genome Project, recipient of Lasker Foundation award in 1991[26] Henry C. Lee – forensic scientist Sandra Lee – dermatologist and Internet celebrity as "Dr. Pimple Popper"; now star of the TLC series Dr. Pimple Popper Ching Chun Li – population geneticist and human geneticist Choh Hao Li (李卓皓) – biochemist, discovered growth hormone, beta-endorphin and isolated luteinizing hormone Min Chiu Li – first scientist to use chemotherapy to cure widely metastatic, malignant cancer Anna Chao Pai – geneticist Joe Hin Tjio – cytogeneticist, first person to recognize the normal number of human chromosomes[27] Chang Yi Wang – immunologist; NYIPLA Inventor of the Year Award in 2007 for her work on UBITh peptide immunogens James C. Wang – discovered DNA topoisomerases[28] Sam Wang, neuroscientist and author Shih-Chun Wang – neuroscientist and pharmacology professor Xiaodong Wang, biochemist best known for his work with cytochrome c, won the 2000 Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry, and 2006 Shaw Prize recipient[29] Leana Wen (温麟衍) – physician; director of Planned Parenthood, Health Commissioner of Baltimore, author David T. Wong – discovered drug Fluoxetine and atomoxetine, duloxetine and dapoxetine [30][31][32] Flossie Wong-Staal – virologist and AIDS researcher Junying Yu – stem cell biologist; recognized as one of the 2007 "Persons of the Year" by TIME magazine [33] Kang Zhang - ophthalmologist at the Institute for Genomic Medicine, University of California, San Diego known for his work on lanosterol
Physics
Sow-Hsin Chen – nuclear physicist Alfred Y. Cho – the "father of molecular beam epitaxy" and co-inventor of quantum cascade lasers Paul C. W. Chu (朱經武) – physicist, superconductivity Qian Xuesen (钱学森) – professor of aeronautics, a founder of NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, exiled to China Frank Shu – professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley and University of California; San Diego and 2009 Shaw Prize recipient[34] Chien-Shiung Wu (吳健雄) – Manhattan Project scientist; considerable contribution to Nobel Prize work by Tsung-dao Lee Nai-Chang Yeh – physicist specialized in condensed matter physics; Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Fellow, American Physical Society Shoucheng Zhang, Stanford physicist Chen Ning Yang (楊振寧) – 1957 Nobel laureate, Physics, Yang–Mills theory Tsung-dao Lee (李政道) – 1957 Nobel laureate, Physics Samuel C. C. Ting (丁肇中) – 1976 Nobel laureate, Physics Steven Chu (朱棣文) – 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics, US Secretary of Energy (2009) Daniel Chee Tsui (崔琦) – 1998 Nobel laureate, Physics Charles K. Kao (高锟) – 2009 Nobel laureate in Physics who pioneered the development and use of fiber optics in telecommunications
Economics, Finance, Statistics, OR
Anthony Chan – chief economist, JPMorgan Chase; former economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and economics professor at the University of Dayton[35] Gregory Chow (鄒至莊) – Class of 1913 Professor of Political Economy at Princeton University, known for Chow test Jianqing Fan: professor of finance and statistics at Princeton University William C. Hsiao – economist, professor at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Ann Lee – professor, author and commentator on global economics and finance issues
Social sciences
Angela Lee Duckworth – professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, MacArthur Fellow; wrote Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance Peter Kwong – professor of Asian American studies at Hunter College and professor of sociology in the City University of New York system Yu Xie: Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of Sociology at Princeton University; known for applying quantitative data science methods to sociology as well as Chinese studies
Humanities
Wing-tsit Chan (陳榮捷): professor in Chinese philosophy, wrote influential translations Chen Guangchen (陳廣琛): Peking, Harvard, Princeton comparative literature and East-Asian studies[36][37][38] Thomas W. Chinn (陈参盛 [陳參盛]) – co-founder of the Chinese American Historical Society Yiju Huang – assistant professor of Chinese and comparative literature at Fordham University in New York City[39] Him Mark Lai – Professor of Chinese American studies Lin Yutang: Hokkien Chinese writer Huping Ling – Professor of History at Truman State University, author Betty Lee Sung (宋李瑞芳) – former professor of Asian-American Studies at City College of New York; 'leading authority' on Chinese Americans[40][41] Andrew Lih (酈安治) – Associate Professor of Journalism at American University Tim Wu – professor at Columbia Law School, in 2014 ran to become the first Chinese-American lieutenant governor of New York State but lost
University administration
Jim Chen – professor and former dean at the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law Stephen Z.D. Cheng – Professor and former Dean in the College of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering at the University of Akron, member of National Academic of Engineering David Jung-Kuang Chiu – former Director of Asian Studies and Dean of University Advisement, Hofstra University Way Kuo – President and University Distinguished Professor of the City University of Hong Kong, University Distinguished Professor and former Dean of Engineering at the University of Tennessee Robert C. T. Lee (李崇道) – former President of National Chung Hsing University, veterinarian and brother of Tsung-dao Lee Chang-Lin Tien – Chancellor of University of California, Berkeley (1990–1997) Frank H. Wu – Chancellor and Dean of the University of California, Hastings College of the Law (2010–2015) Henry T. Yang – Chancellor of UC Santa Barbara UQ
那么接近这个阶层的美国华人大家知道吗？！
有钱的现在牛逼人物是台湾的多，比如显卡大户。那么当年的王安在哪里？！这些牛逼的华人都是神马圈子？！为啥干干净净的跟不存在一样？！
没有任何花边新闻，犯罪，也没有人站出来说话，做政客。。。是他们隐藏的好，是根本不存在，还是一种普通人不知道的人生，再不需要衣锦还乡？？
回厉害过当皇帝去吧
我们加拿大是垃圾进口国？
最讨厌这种假价值观了。中国美国大多人都尊重心地正直的。这个和奉承有钱有势的根本不冲突。美国公司里奉承老板的人多了去了。拍马屁的也不少。那些人也是为了自己和家人生活更好而已。说这种假大空这说明你思维根本不成熟。绝大多数人每天工作都是希望自己多赚点钱。向往自己发达是人之常情。世界上每个人谁每天不往钱看？为了钱折腰？
知道就说说 不知道也可以听听。
都这么大怨气，为啥啊？！
其他华人成功的路子学学不是挺好吗？！
典型的懂了一点美国，就以为美国跟中国一样的那种观点。顺着老板说难道不是理所当然吗？这是生活，也是自然选择，你是老板难道选个每天跟你顶牛的？把这个放下，再想想，美国捧老板也是限于工作环境，而在中国你敢开比老板还好的车吗，你敢说你的房子比老板住的好吗？
人前人后的言行不一样，这个中国人美国人都一样吧。美国人也不会在老板面前说自己的房子比老板好啊。国内老板有些雇的富二代家里开的车比老板好多了，老板也不会怎么样。只要雇员没有故意让老板难堪就可以了。你是不是没有社会经验，没有工作过，没有朋友啊。这些事情太普通不过了吧。
不评价lz内容，单纯说你这个。你在公司里白女老板背coach你敢天天爱马仕加身么？在中国比老板房子住的好车开的好的多的是吧？我好些朋友车房都比直属上司好。只要你家里有钱老板管你车房啊？别天天不干活还去老板面前炫耀自己的比他好不就得了？要是靠工资买房买车的话你老板卖得比你差就说明不在乎喽。再说老板怎么知道你住的有多好？车能贵到哪里去，老板这点眼界都没有？要是富二代住豪宅开超跑那炫耀也没关系吧？老板还得巴结你呢。
美国医院杀人太多了
看看现在的样子？！
不看病
拿口罩做借口。
This is a list of notable Chinese Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants who have made exceptional contributions to various facets of American society.
To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Chinese American or must have references showing they are Chinese American and are notable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_Americans
1 Arts
1.1 Dance
1.2 Fashion design
1.3 Literature
1.4 Theater
1.5 Visual arts
2 Business
2.1 Financial
2.2 Food
2.3 Industrial
2.4 Internet
2.5 Sports and entertainment
2.6 Technology
2.7 Other
3 Entertainment
3.1 Actors
3.2 Directors
3.3 Musicians
3.4 Other
4 Journalism and news media
5 Military
6 Politics and government
6.1 National politics
6.2 Congress
6.3 Local and state
6.4 Law and judiciary
6.5 Community and civil rights
7 Science and academia
7.1 Nobel Prize
7.2 Mathematics award winners
7.3 Chemistry
7.4 Computer science
7.5 Engineering
7.6 Mathematics
7.7 Medicine and biosciences
7.8 Physics
7.9 Economics, Finance, Statistics, OR
7.10 Social sciences
7.11 Humanities
7.12 University administration
8 Sports
9 Other
9.1 Astronauts
9.2 Gang leaders and criminals
9.3 Crime victims
9.4 Religious leaders
UQ
Politics and government
National politics
Elaine Chao (赵小兰) – current Secretary of Transportation and the Former Secretary of Labor (2001–2009) (Republican)
Lanhee Chen (陳仁宜) – conservative government policy academic, policy director in Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign (Republican), news media political commentator
Steven Chu (朱棣文) – physicist, former Secretary of Energy (2009–2013), winner of 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics for research in laser cooling (Democratic)
Nancy-Ann DeParle – Director of the White House Office of Health Reform (Democratic)
Gary Locke (骆家辉) – United States Ambassador to China (2011–2014); United States Secretary of Commerce (2009–2011); Governor of Washington (1997–2005), first and only Chinese American to serve as a state governor (Democratic)
Chris Lu (卢沛宁) – Assistant to former President Barack Obama and Cabinet Secretary (Democratic)
Tina Tchen (陈远美) – Chief of Staff to the First Lady of the United States, director of Office of Public Liaison during Obama administration (Democratic)
Andrew Yang(杨安泽): running for 2020 POTUS
Congress
Daniel Akaka – former US Senator from Hawaii; first Native Hawaiian US Senator; Democrat
Judy Chu – first Chinese-American woman to serve as US Representative (2009–present); Democrat
Charles Djou – US Representative from Hawaii (2010–2011); Republican
Hiram L. Fong – former US Senator from Hawaii; first US Senator of Chinese ancestry; Republican
Ted Lieu – Democrat representing the 33rd District of California
Grace Meng – Democrat representing the 22nd District of New York
David Wu – first Taiwanese American US Representative, Democrat from Oregon
Local and state
Wilma Chan – first Asian American California State Assembly Majority Leader (2002–2004); Democrat
John Chiang – California State Controller (2007–present); Democrat
Margaret Chin – member of the New York City Council representing Chinatown
David Chiu – Democrat representing the 17th Assembly District, California State Assembly
March Fong Eu – former Secretary of State of California (1975–1994), elected in 1974, she won reelection four times; United States Ambassador to the Federated States of Micronesia (1994–1996); Democrat
Matthew K. Fong – California State Treasurer (1995–1999), adoptive son of March Fong Eu; Republican
Allan Fung – Mayor of Cranston, Rhode Island; Republican
Tony Hwang – State Representative of the Connecticut General Assembly; Republican
Ed Jew – former member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors; Democrat
Peter Koo – member of the New York City Council representing Flushing, Queens
Ed Lee – Mayor of San Francisco (2011–2017)
Harry Lee – longtime sheriff of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana; first elected in 1979, he was re-elected six times and served 27 and a half years (Democratic)
Susan C. Lee – Senator, Maryland Senate of Maryland General Assembly;first Asian American elected to Maryland Senate and first Chinese American elected to Maryland House of Delegates and Maryland General Assembly.
John Liu – New York City Comptroller (2010–2013)
Alex Wan – member of the Atlanta City Council, first openly gay and first Asian American member
Shien Biau Woo (吳仙標) – Lieutenant Governor of Delaware (1985–1989), current president of the 80-20 Initiative; Democrat
Leland Yee (余胤良) – former California State Assemblyman, current California State Senator
Yiaway Yeh – mayor of Palo Alto, California; first Chinese American to hold the office[11]
Mae Yih – Oregon State Representative (1977–1983), Oregon State Senator (1983–2003), first Chinese American to serve in a state senate; Democrat
Law and judiciary
Norman Bay – former United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico (2000–2001); first Chinese American United States Attorney
Margaret Chan – New York State Supreme Court Civil Branch justice in Manhattan[12][13]
Denny Chin – judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (1994–present), first Asian American appointed as a United States district court judge outside of the Ninth Circuit
Ming Chin – Associate Justice, Supreme Court of California
Morgan Chu (朱欽文) – Partner, Chair of Litigation, former Co-Managing Partner of Irell & Manella; former President (2014–15) and board member (2009–15) of Harvard Board of Overseers
Amy Chua – professor of law; author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Dolly M. Gee – federal district judge, United States District Court for the Central District of California
Joyce Kennard – Associate Justice, Supreme Court of California
George H. King – federal district judge, United States District Court for the Central District of California
William F. Lee – co-managing partner of WilmerHale and fellow of the Harvard Corporation
Ronald Lew – federal district judge, United States District Court for the Central District of California; first Chinese-American federal judge outside of Hawaii
Goodwin Liu – Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California
Brian Sun – trial lawyer
Thomas Tang – judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit; first Chinese American federal judge
Jan C. Ting (丁景安) – professor of law; expert on immigration, national security, and taxation; 2006 Republican candidate for Senate (DE)
Delbert Wong – judge
UQ
Science and academia
Nobel Prize
Chen Ning Yang (楊振寧) – 1957 Nobel laureate, Physics, Yang–Mills theory
Tsung-dao Lee (李政道) – 1957 Nobel laureate, Physics
Samuel C. C. Ting (丁肇中) – 1976 Nobel laureate, Physics
Yuan T. Lee (李远哲) – 1986 Nobel Prize, Chemistry
Steven Chu (朱棣文) – 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics, US Secretary of Energy (2009)
Daniel Chee Tsui (崔琦) – 1998 Nobel laureate, Physics
Roger Y. Tsien (錢永健) – 2008 Nobel laureate, chemistry
Charles K. Kao (高锟) – 2009 Nobel laureate in Physics who pioneered the development and use of fiber optics in telecommunications
Mathematics award winners
Terence Chi-Shen Tao (陶哲軒) – Fields Medal (2006), Clay Research Award (2003), Crafoord Prize (2012)
Shing-Tung Yau (丘成桐) – Fields Medal (1982), Wolf Prize (2010), Crafoord Prize (1994)
Andrew Yao (姚期智) – Turing Award (2000)
Shiing-Shen Chern (陳省身) – Wolf Prize (1983)
Wei Zhang (张伟) - Clay Research Award (2019)
Xinyi Yuan (袁新意) - Clay Research Award (2008)
Chemistry
Ching W. Tang – inventor of the organic light-emitting diode(OLED) and the hetero-junction organic photovoltaic cell (OPV); winner of the 2011 Wolf Prize in Chemistry; known as the "father of organic electronics"
Roger Y. Tsien (錢永健) – 2008 Nobel laureate, chemistry
Peidong Yang – chemist; founding member of the scientific advisory board at Nanosys, a nanomaterials company; co-founder of Alphabet Energy[14]
Xiaowei Zhuang – Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and of Physics at Harvard University, member of National Academy of Sciences, MacArthur Fellow (2003)
Zhijian Chen (陈志坚) - Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. He is best known for his discovery of mechanisms by which nucleic acids trigger innate and autoimmune responses from the interior of a cell, work for which he received the 2019 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.
Xiaoliang Sunney Xie (谢晓亮) - biochemist, considered a founding father of single-molecule biophysical chemistry and single-molecule enzymology
Computer science
Danqi Chen (陈丹琦): AI professor at Princeton University working in Natural language processing, PhD from Stanford University, former student of Andrew Yao[15]
Jianlin Cheng (程建林) – computer and data scientist; Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Missouri, Columbia
Wen Tsing Chow (周文俊) – missile guidance scientist, digital computer pioneer
Leon Chua – professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley
Feng-hsiung Hsu (許峰雄) – IBM developer of Deep Blue, which beat World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov in 1997
Fei-Fei Li (李飞飞) – AI researcher, Stanford University professor
Kai Li: Princeton University
Ming C. Lin – former Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,[16][17] now at U. Maryland.
Andrew Ng (吴恩达) – AI researcher and entrepreneur: Google Brain, Baidu research, Coursera, Stanford University professor
Carol E. Reiley: entrepreneur in health, robotics and AI, Andrew Ng's wife
Pei-Yuan Wei (魏培源) – creator of ViolaWWW
Wen-mei Hwu – professor at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign specializing in compiler design, computer architecture, computer microarchitecture, and parallel processing
Andrew Yao (姚期智) – 2000 Turing Award recipient, Yao's principle, former professor at Princeton University
Frances Yao (储枫) – computer scientist, researcher in computational geometry and combinatorial algorithms; wife of Andrew Yao
Yuanyuan Zhou: Princeton University PhD, currently UC San Diego
Engineering
Minjie Chen: Qinghua, MIT, Princeton EE[18][19]
Yuxin Chen: Qinghua, Stanford, Princeton EE[20][21]
Huajian Gao – Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Engineering at Brown University
Tung Hua Lin (林同驊) – professor (UCLA), aerospace and structural engineer
Tung-Yen Lin (林同棪) - (Berkeley) structural engineer who was the pioneer of standardizing the use of prestressed concrete, founded T. Y. Lin International
Lee Yuk-Wing (李郁榮) – Professor of Electrical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mathematics
Terence Chi-Shen Tao (陶哲軒) – Child genius, Fields Medal winner (2006), professor (UCLA), MacArthur Fellow (2006), Crafoord Prize (2012), Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics (2014). He is the youngest participant to date in the International Mathematical Olympiad, first competing at the age of ten; in 1986, 1987, and 1988, he won a bronze, silver, and gold medal. He remains the youngest winner of each of the three medals in the Olympiad's history, winning the gold medal shortly after his thirteenth birthday. Tao received graduated from university at the age of 16 obtaining his bachelor's and master's degrees, received his PhD at the age of 20.
Lenhard Ng - a child prodigy who was once thought to be the "smartest kid in America". At age 10, he earned a perfect score of 800 on the math portion of what is now called the SAT, a feat considered to be a “remarkable achievement” when a high school junior or senior did it. Ng is a professor of mathematics at the Duke University.
Jeffrey Yi-Lin Forrest (林益) - professor of mathematics, systems science, economics, and finance at Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (Slippery Rock campus)
Wei Zhang (张伟) - Professor of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sun-Yung Alice Chang (张圣容): professor of mathematics and former chair of the department at Princeton University
Chen Wen-chen (陈文成) – professor of math at Carnegie Mellon, victim of Taiwan KMT persecution of dissidents (see White Terror)
Shiing-Shen Chern (陳省身) – Wolf Prize, considered one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century; worked on differential geometry and topology; known for Chern-Simons theory, Chern-Weil theory, Chern classes
Chia-Kun Chu (朱家琨) – applied mathematician, Fu Foundation Professor Emeritus of Applied Mathematics at Columbia University[22][23]
Chia-Chiao Lin (林家翹) – applied mathematician
Tian Gang (田刚) – Princeton University professor emeritus, student of S.T. Yau
Jason Tom (譚志豪/谭志豪) - mathematics supplemental instructor and mathematics academic coach[24][25]
Paul Tseng – applied mathematician, professor at the Department of Mathematics at the University of Washington in Seattle
Paul C. Yang (杨建平) – Princeton University, husband of Alice Chang
Shing-Tung Yau (丘成桐) – Fields Medal winner (1982); MacArthur Fellow (1984), Crafoord Prize (1994), National Medal of Science (1997), Wolf Prize (2010)
Yitang Zhang – mathematician, known for establishing the first finite bound on gaps between prime numbers
Stephen Shing-Toung Yau - Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago
Mu-Tao Wang (王慕道) - Professor of Mathematics at Columbia University, received a PhD in Mathematics in 1998 from Harvard University
Medicine and biosciences
Priscilla Chan (陈Priscilla): Harvard-graduated pediatrician, Chan-Zuckerberg foundation
Min Chueh Chang (張明覺) – co-inventor of the first birth control pill; made significant contributions to the development of in vitro fertilisation
Gilbert Chu (朱築文) – biochemist and Professor of Medicine (Oncology) and Biochemistry at the Stanford Medical School; older brother of Steven Chu
Yuan-Cheng Fung (馮元楨) – founder of modern biomechanics
Lue Gim Gong (呂金功) – horticulturalist
David Ho – scientific researcher and the Irene Diamond professor at Rockefeller University in New York City
Alice S. Huang – virologist
Lin He – biochemist, received the MacArthur Fellowship in 2009
Yuet Wai Kan – pioneer of using DNA to diagnose human diseases, research enabled the Human Genome Project, recipient of Lasker Foundation award in 1991[26]
Henry C. Lee – forensic scientist
Sandra Lee – dermatologist and Internet celebrity as "Dr. Pimple Popper"; now star of the TLC series Dr. Pimple Popper
Ching Chun Li – population geneticist and human geneticist
Choh Hao Li (李卓皓) – biochemist, discovered growth hormone, beta-endorphin and isolated luteinizing hormone
Min Chiu Li – first scientist to use chemotherapy to cure widely metastatic, malignant cancer
Anna Chao Pai – geneticist
Joe Hin Tjio – cytogeneticist, first person to recognize the normal number of human chromosomes[27]
Chang Yi Wang – immunologist; NYIPLA Inventor of the Year Award in 2007 for her work on UBITh peptide immunogens
James C. Wang – discovered DNA topoisomerases[28]
Sam Wang, neuroscientist and author
Shih-Chun Wang – neuroscientist and pharmacology professor
Xiaodong Wang, biochemist best known for his work with cytochrome c, won the 2000 Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry, and 2006 Shaw Prize recipient[29]
Leana Wen (温麟衍) – physician; director of Planned Parenthood, Health Commissioner of Baltimore, author
David T. Wong – discovered drug Fluoxetine and atomoxetine, duloxetine and dapoxetine [30][31][32]
Flossie Wong-Staal – virologist and AIDS researcher
Junying Yu – stem cell biologist; recognized as one of the 2007 "Persons of the Year" by TIME magazine [33]
Kang Zhang - ophthalmologist at the Institute for Genomic Medicine, University of California, San Diego known for his work on lanosterol
Physics
Sow-Hsin Chen – nuclear physicist
Alfred Y. Cho – the "father of molecular beam epitaxy" and co-inventor of quantum cascade lasers
Paul C. W. Chu (朱經武) – physicist, superconductivity
Qian Xuesen (钱学森) – professor of aeronautics, a founder of NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, exiled to China
Frank Shu – professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley and University of California; San Diego and 2009 Shaw Prize recipient[34]
Chien-Shiung Wu (吳健雄) – Manhattan Project scientist; considerable contribution to Nobel Prize work by Tsung-dao Lee
Nai-Chang Yeh – physicist specialized in condensed matter physics; Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Fellow, American Physical Society
Shoucheng Zhang, Stanford physicist
Chen Ning Yang (楊振寧) – 1957 Nobel laureate, Physics, Yang–Mills theory
Tsung-dao Lee (李政道) – 1957 Nobel laureate, Physics
Samuel C. C. Ting (丁肇中) – 1976 Nobel laureate, Physics
Steven Chu (朱棣文) – 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics, US Secretary of Energy (2009)
Daniel Chee Tsui (崔琦) – 1998 Nobel laureate, Physics
Charles K. Kao (高锟) – 2009 Nobel laureate in Physics who pioneered the development and use of fiber optics in telecommunications
Economics, Finance, Statistics, OR
Anthony Chan – chief economist, JPMorgan Chase; former economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and economics professor at the University of Dayton[35]
Gregory Chow (鄒至莊) – Class of 1913 Professor of Political Economy at Princeton University, known for Chow test
Jianqing Fan: professor of finance and statistics at Princeton University
William C. Hsiao – economist, professor at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Ann Lee – professor, author and commentator on global economics and finance issues
Social sciences
Angela Lee Duckworth – professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, MacArthur Fellow; wrote Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
Peter Kwong – professor of Asian American studies at Hunter College and professor of sociology in the City University of New York system
Yu Xie: Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of Sociology at Princeton University; known for applying quantitative data science methods to sociology as well as Chinese studies
Humanities
Wing-tsit Chan (陳榮捷): professor in Chinese philosophy, wrote influential translations
Chen Guangchen (陳廣琛): Peking, Harvard, Princeton comparative literature and East-Asian studies[36][37][38]
Thomas W. Chinn (陈参盛 [陳參盛]) – co-founder of the Chinese American Historical Society
Yiju Huang – assistant professor of Chinese and comparative literature at Fordham University in New York City[39]
Him Mark Lai – Professor of Chinese American studies
Lin Yutang: Hokkien Chinese writer
Huping Ling – Professor of History at Truman State University, author
Betty Lee Sung (宋李瑞芳) – former professor of Asian-American Studies at City College of New York; 'leading authority' on Chinese Americans[40][41]
Andrew Lih (酈安治) – Associate Professor of Journalism at American University
Tim Wu – professor at Columbia Law School, in 2014 ran to become the first Chinese-American lieutenant governor of New York State but lost
University administration
Jim Chen – professor and former dean at the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law
Stephen Z.D. Cheng – Professor and former Dean in the College of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering at the University of Akron, member of National Academic of Engineering
David Jung-Kuang Chiu – former Director of Asian Studies and Dean of University Advisement, Hofstra University
Way Kuo – President and University Distinguished Professor of the City University of Hong Kong, University Distinguished Professor and former Dean of Engineering at the University of Tennessee
Robert C. T. Lee (李崇道) – former President of National Chung Hsing University, veterinarian and brother of Tsung-dao Lee
Chang-Lin Tien – Chancellor of University of California, Berkeley (1990–1997)
Frank H. Wu – Chancellor and Dean of the University of California, Hastings College of the Law (2010–2015)
Henry T. Yang – Chancellor of UC Santa Barbara
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