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.

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
Nymphia Wind, winner of RuPaul's Drag Race season 16 and 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

Lilan Bowden – actress
Christina Chang – actress
Louis Ozawa Changchien – actor; 1/2 Taiwanese
Arvin Chen – film director and screenwriter
Ian Chen – actor
Lynn Chen – actress
Jay Chern – film director and screenwriter
Rosalie Chiang - actress, writer
Tim Chiou – actor
Jon M. Chu – film director
Roger Fan – actor
Ted Fu – founding member of Wong Fu Productions^[9]
Peter Ho – actor
Janet Hsieh – model and television personality
Stephanie Hsu – actress
George Hu – actor
Eddie Huang – chef, television producer and presenter
Tina Huang – actress
Elaine Kao – actress
Christine Ko – actress
Michelle Krusiec – actress
Katrina Law – actress; 1/2 Taiwanese
Georgia Lee – film director and screenwriter
Erin Li – film director and screenwriter
James Hiroyuki Liao – actor
Annie Lin – musician and attorney
Dan Lin – film and TV producer
Justin Lin – film director
Kelly Lin – actress and model
Stephanie Lin – television journalist and beauty queen
Dyana Liu – actress
Lucy Liu – actress
Andy On – actor
Bertha Bay-Sa Pan – film director, screenwriter and producer
Will Pan – singer-songwriter
Ivan Shaw – actor
Fang-Yi Sheu – modern dancer
Kobe Tai – former pornographic actress
Timothy Tau – film director and screenwriter
Will Tiao – actor and producer
Albert Tsai – actor
Jessika Van – actress and singer
Garrett Wang – actor
Wang Leehom – singer-songwriter and actor
Anya Wu – actress and singer
Constance Wu – actress
Kevin Wu – YouTuber and actor
Camille Chen – actress and director
Raymond Wu – professional poker player
Vanness Wu – singer and actor
Alan Yang – producer, screenwriter and director
Hudson Yang – actor
Jenny Yang – comedian
Welly Yang – actor, writer and singer
Kelvin Yu – actor and writer
Justin Chien - actor, producer and writer

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