List of famous Chinese Americans

The following is a list of famous Chinese Americans who have made significant contributions to the American culture or society artistically or scientifically, or have appeared in the news numerous times:

• Iris Chang[?] (張純如) - writer
• Elaine Chao - Secretary of Labor
• Rosalind Chao - actor
• Shiing-shen Chern[?] (陳省身) - mathematician
• Vincent Chin[?] (陳果仁) - victim of racial crime [1] (http://www.asianweek.com/061397/feature.html)
• Connie Chung - TV news anchor
• David Ho - AIDS researcher
• Maxine Hong Kingston - writer
• Gish Jen - writer
• Michelle Kwan - athlete
• Tsung-dao Lee - Nobel laureate, Physics
• Wen Ho Lee[?] (李文和) - nuclear physicist [2] (http://www.wenholee.org)
• Katrina Leung - businesswoman, accused spy
• Lucy Liu - actress
• Maya Lin - architect (Vietnam Veterans Memorial)
• Lisa Ling[?] (凌志慧) - TV show host
• Eric Liu[?] - writer, a speechwriter of Bill Clinton
• Gary Locke - Governor of Washington
• I. M. Pei - architect
• Yoyo Ma - cellist
• Amy Tan - writer
• Chang-lin Tien - Educator, UC Berkeley
• Samuel C. C. Ting - Nobel laureate, Physics
• Chen Ning Yang - Nobel laureate, Physics
• An Wang - computer engineer
• Vera Wang - fashion designer
• Wayne Wang - Hollywood director
• Ming-Na Wen[?] (溫明娜) - Macanese-born actress
• David Wong Louie - writer
• Victor Wong[?] (黃自強) - Hollywood actor
• Frank H. Wu[?] (吳華揚) - a professor of law at Howard University, writer
• Chien-Shiung Wu - female scientist
• Jerry Yang - founder of Yahoo!
• Judy Yung[?] - writer
• Helen Zia[?] (謝漢蘭) - community activists and writer