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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)
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

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