Notable Asian Americans include:
Academia Manjul Bhargava, mathematician Raj Chetty, professor of economics Leon O. Chua, computer scientist Margaret Chung, first female Chinese physician in the United States S. I. Hayakawa, professor of English, president of San Francisco State University, and U.S. Senator Sumiko Hennessy, professor of social work Hao Huang, Frankel Chair of Music, ethnomusicologist, Scripps College Jaegwon Kim, professor of philosophy Jagdish Natwarlal Bhagwati, professor of economics Eswar Prasad, economist Raghuram Rajan, economist and an international academician Amartya Sen, economist and philosopher Jim Toy, gay activist & educator S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan, NYU mathematician Ocean Vuong, writer, poet, professor Thomas Zacharia, computational material sciences Astrid S. Tuminez, Utah Valley University, President Conrado Gempesaw, Former President, St. John's University
Science
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, 1983 Nobel laureate in Physics. Min Chueh Chang, co-inventor of the combined oral contraceptive pill. Shiing-Shen Chern, mathematician and winner of the 1983 Wolf Prize for his work in differential geometry. Steven Chu, Nobel laureate in Physics in 1997 for research on cooling and trapping atoms using laser light and former United States Secretary of Energy. David D. Ho, HIV/AIDS researcher June Huh, mathematician, 2022 Fields Medal winner. Michio Kaku, theoretical physicist Har Gobind Khorana, shared the Nobel laureate in "Physiology or Medicine" in 1968 for work in genetics and protein synthesis. Tsung-Dao Lee, received the 1957 Nobel Laureate in Physics for work in particle physics along with Chen Ning Yang. Yuan T. Lee, 1986 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry Syukuro Manabe, 2021 Nobel Laureate in Physics Shuji Nakamura, 2014 Nobel Laureate in Physics Yoichiro Nambu, 2008 Nobel laureate in Physics Lam M. Nguyen – computer scientist and applied mathematician Santa J. Ono, former President University of Cincinnati, immunologist and vision scientist, current President of University of Michigan Charles J. Pedersen, 1987 Nobel laureate in Chemistry. Ching W. Tang, inventor of the organic light-emitting diode and the hetero-junction organic photovoltaic cell. Winner of the 2011 Wolf Prize in Chemistry. Terence Tao, mathematician, 2006 Fields Medal winner. Samuel C.C. Ting, 1976 Nobel laureate in physics for discovering the existence of a new particle called j/psi. Roger Y. Tsien, 2008 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, for the discovery of the green fluorescent protein. Daniel Tsui, 1998 Nobel laureate in Physics for contributions to the discovery of the fractional Quantum Hall effect. Chien-Shiung Wu, winner of the 1978 Wolf Prize in Physics. First woman to be elected president of American Physical Society. Chen Ning Yang, received the 1957 Nobel Laureate in Physics for work in particle physics along with Tsung-Dao Lee. Shing-Tung Yau, mathematician, 1982 Fields Medal winner.
Arts/architecture/design Fazlur Rahman Khan, a Bangladeshi-American structural engineer and architect, who was considered the "Einstein of structural engeering", he was the designer of the Willis Tower and John Hancock Center Goil Amornvivat, architect and television presenter, appeared on Top Design, Trading Spaces, and Mad Fashion Salma Arastu, artist Rina Banerjee, artist Temmie Chang, artist and video game designer David Choe, artist Dhairya Dand, inventor and artist George Fan, video game designer, Plants vs. Zombies Maya Lin, architect, designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Seong Moy, artist and printmaker Jane Ng, 3D environmental artist Yatin Patel, photographer and artist Gyo Obata, architect, designed the National Air and Space Museum IM Pei, renowned architect, designed the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Louvre Pyramid Irene Mei Zhi Shum - Contemporary Art Curator Mimi So, jewelry designer Manick Sorcar, animator, artist Minoru Yamasaki, architect, designed the World Trade Center Vern Yip, interior designer, appeared on TLC's Trading Spaces and HGTV's Deserving Design and Design Star Chanel Miller, artist Yu-kai Chou, gamification designer and pioneer
Business and industry
Steve Chen, co-founder of YouTube Eric S. Yuan, billionaire founder and CEO of Zoom Video Communications, founding engineer at Webex, Ranked No. 1 of Top CEOs in 2018 of a large company on Glassdoor Eric Ly, multi-millionaire co-founder of LinkedIn, founder of Pserdo match Justin Kan, co-founder of Twitch Revathi Advaithi, CEO of Flex (company) Parag Agrawal, CEO of Twitter (2021–2022) Hiroaki Aoki, founder of Benihana Nikesh Arora, CEO of Palo Alto Networks Ramani Ayer, chairman and CEO of The Hartford Financial Services Group Somen Banerjee, founder of Chippendales Ajay Banga, president and CEO of MasterCard (2010–2020) Manoj Bhargava, billionaire founder and CEO of 5-hour Energy Sabeer Bhatia, co-founder of Hotmail Baiju Bhatt, co-founder of Robinhood Aneel Bhusri, CEO of Workday Sanjit Biswas, co-founder of Cisco Meraki Amar Bose, billionaire chairman and founder of Bose Corporation Do Won Chang, billionaire co-founder of Forever 21 Fred Chang, Taiwanese American billionaire founder and CEO of Newegg Roger H. Chen, founder of 99 Ranch Market Sam Chang, founder and CEO of McSam Hotel Group, one of largest hotel developers in New York City Albert Chao, billionaire co-founder and CEO of Westlake Chemical, largest producer LDPE plastic in the US Allen Chao, founder of Watson Pharmaceuticals Jay Chaudhry, CEO and founder of Zscaler Christine Chen, founder and CEO of Chen Communications John S. Chen, executive chairman and CEO of BlackBerry Limited, former CEO of Sybase Eva Chen, co-founder and CEO of Trend Micro Perry Chen, founder and CEO of Kickstarter Tim Chen, co-founder and CEO of NerdWallet Chen Wen-ch'i, billionaire president and CEO of VIA Technologies, husband of Cher Wang, co-founder of HTC Andrew Cherng, billionaire co-founder of Panda Express Peggy Cherng, billionaire co-founder of Panda Express David Chu, co-founder of Nautica James Chu, founder of ViewSonic Alfred Chuang, founder and CEO of BEA Systems Francisco D'Souza, former CEO of Cognizant Weili Dai, billionaire and co-founder of Marvel Technology Group Bharat Desai, billionaire co-founder of Syntel Shar Dubey, CEO of Match Group Tan Hock Eng, CEO of Broadcom, and highest earning CEO in the US in 2017 Vishal Garg (businessman), CEO of Better.com Rajat Gupta, former Worldwide Managing Director (chief executive) of McKinsey & Company Daniel Ha, co-founder of Disqus David T. Hon, founder of Dahon Ming Hsieh, billionaire and philanthropist founder of Cogent Systems acquired by 3M Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos, internet entrepreneur and venture capitalist Jen-Hsun Huang, billionaire co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA Robert T. Huang, founder of Synnex Shelly Hwang, co-founder of Pinkberry Kai Huang, co-founder and CEO of Guitar Hero and RedOctane Subrah Iyar, co-founder of Cisco Webex David Ji, co-founder of Apex Digital Andrea Jung, retired chairman and CEO of Avon Products Johnny Kan, founder of Kan's Restaurant Min Kao, billionaire co-founder of Garmin John Kapoor, billionaire founder of Insys Jawed Karim, co-founder of YouTube Farooq Kathwari, CEO of Ethan Allen (company) Shahid Khan, billionaire president of Flex-N-Gate Corp., owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars Tony Khan, CEO and co-founder of All Elite Wrestling Vinod Khosla, billionaire co-founding CEO of Sun Microsystems and general partner of venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers Hoang Kieu, billionaire Vietnamese-American owner of Shanghai RAAS Blood Products Jeong H. Kim, co-founder and CEO, Yurie Systems (sold to Lucent for $1.1 billion) James Kim, billionaire founder and executive chairman of Amkor Technology George Kurian, CEO of NetApp Arvind Krishna, Chairman and CEO of IBM David Lam, founder of Lam Research Brian Lee, co-founder of LegalZoom, The Honest Company and ShoeDazzle David Lee, founder of Jamison Services, largest real estate private office landlord in the country Kai-Fu Lee, founding president of Google China Noel Lee, founder of Monster Cable Thai Lee, billionaire Thai-born Korean American co-founder and CEO of SHI International Corp, largest woman-owned business in the US Christine Liang, president and founder of ASI Corp. Kenneth Lin, co-founder of Credit Karma Kumar Malavalli, co-founder of Brocade Communications Systems Sandeep Mathrani, CEO of WeWork Sanjay Mehrotra, co-founder of SanDisk, president and CEO of Micron Technology Apoorva Mehta, co-founder of Instacart Ivan Menezes, CEO of Diageo Teresa H. Meng, founder of Atheros Communications acquired by Qualcomm and formed Qualcomm Atheros Neal Mohan, CEO of YouTube Moon Kook-jin, founder of Kahr Arms, manufacturer of the Desert Eagle Bobby Murphy, billionaire co-founder of Snapchat Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO of Microsoft Laxman Narasimhan, Designated CEO of Starbucks (2023–2024) Shantanu Narayen, Chairman and CEO of Adobe Systems Indra Nooyi, Chairman and CEO of PepsiCo (2006–2018) Ellen Pao, former CEO of Reddit James Park, co-founder and CEO of Fitbit Vikram Pandit, president and CEO of Citigroup Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet (Google) Christine Poon, former vice chairman of Johnson & Johnson and worldwide chairman of J&J's Pharmaceuticals Group Ritu Raj, founder of Wag Hotels Raj Rajaratnam, billionaire founder of Galleon Group Vivek Ranadivé, founder of TIBCO Software and owner of Sacramento Kings Punit Renjen, CEO of Deloitte Steve Sanghi, founder, chairman and CEO of Microchip Technology Niraj Shah, billionaire co-founder and CEO of Wayfair Ram Shriram, billionaire co-founder of Junglee.com and early investor in Google John J. Sie, founder of Starz Inc. Ben Silbermann, billionaire co-founder and CEO of Pinterest Pradeep Sindhu, founder of Juniper Networks Patrick Soon-Shiong, billionaire surgeon and founder of Abraxis BioScience and owner of the Los Angeles Times K. R. Sridhar, founder and CEO of Bloom Energy Lisa Su, president and CEO of Advanced Micro Devices Raj Subramaniam, president and CEO of FedEx Anjali Sud, CEO of Vimeo David Sun, billionaire Taiwanese American co-founder of Kingston Technology Rajeev Suri, CEO of Nokia Sehat Sutardja, CEO of Marvell Technology Group Sonia Syngal, CEO of Gap Inc. Lip-Bu Tan, president and CEO of Cadence Design Systems Wayne Ting, CEO of Lime Janie Tsao, co-founder of Linksys Victor Tsao, co-founder of Linksys Greg Tseng, co-founder of Tagged Kevin Tsujihara, chairman and CEO of Warner Bros. John Tu, billionaire Taiwanese American co-founder of Kingston Technologies Jayshree Ullal, CEO of Arista Networks Romesh T. Wadhwani, billionaire founder of Symphony Technology Group An Wang, founder of Wang Laboratories Charles B. Wang, co-founder and former CEO of Computer Associates International, Inc. Niniane Wang, technology executive Roger Wang, billionaire founder chairman of Golden Eagle International Group William Wang, billionaire Taiwanese American co-founder and CEO of Vizio Padmasree Warrior, CEO of Fable and former CTO of Cisco and Motorola Andrea Wong, president and CEO of Lifetime Networks Yishan Wong, former CEO of Reddit Sheryl WuDunn, won Pulitzer Prize at The New York Times in 1990; currently, an investment banker Jeff Yang, co-founded A Magazine in 1989 and is a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. Jerry Yang, Taiwanese American billionaire and co-founder and former CEO of Yahoo! Bing Yeh, co-founder of Silicon Storage Technology, acquired by Microchip Technology and Greenliant Systems Gideon Yu, co-owner of San Francisco 49ers and former CFO of Facebook and YouTube Min Zhu, co-founder and former president and chief technical officer of WebEx. Sheila Lirio Marcelo, founder and former CEO and chairwoman of Care.com. Morris Chang, founder and chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.
Entertainment
Ruben A. Aquino, animation director, supervising animator for Walt Disney Animation Studios