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.
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
Fred Chang, founder of Newegg
Sam Chang, New York hotel developer
Wayne Chang, founder of Crashlytics, entrepreneur, angel investor, film producer, and philanthropist
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
Albert Cheng, Chief Operating Officer of Amazon Studios
Andrew Cherng, founder of Chinese fast food restaurant chain Panda Express
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
John Chuang, co-founder and CEO of Aquent
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
Chieh Huang, co-founder of Boxed.com and Astro Ape Studios
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
David Niu, co-founder of BuddyTV and TINYpulse
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
William Wang, co-founder and CEO of Vizio
Jerry Yang, co-founder of Yahoo!, billionaire
Bing Yeh, founder of Silicon Storage Technology and Greenliant Systems
Bertha Bay-Sa Pan, film director, screenwriter
Chris Chuang, film producer & writer, 2017 Humanitas Award winner for Jim: The James Foley Story
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
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
Frank Hwang, YouTube celebrity
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
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
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
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
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
Julie Wu, novelist, fiction writer, author of The Third Son
Charles Yu, novelist, fiction writer
Jason Chen, singer
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
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
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
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
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 currently serving as New York City Comptroller
Grace Meng, U.S. Representative (D-NY)
Mary Su, mayor of Walnut, California
Katy Tang, San Francisco Supervisor, District 4
David Wu, first Taiwanese American U.S. Representative (D-OR)
Michelle Wu, Boston City Councillor at Large
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
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
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
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.
Karen Chen, figure skater, 2017 U.S. national champion.
Richard Chen, celebrity chef
Cindy Chiang, winner of the 19th season of The Amazing Race
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
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