Famous asian women

Famous asians
Asian heroes in history
Famous asian role models

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List of Asian Americans

Notable Asian Americans include:

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

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 Presiden

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Though the Gold Rush triggered the first major wave of Asian immigrants to the United States in the 1840s, their presence in America predates the country itself. For example, in 1763, facing a life of forced labor and imprisonment during the Spanish galleon trade, a group of Filipinos jumped ship near New Orleans and established the settlement of Saint Malo, forming one of the first documented Asian American communities in North America.

While Americans with ancestral ties to Asia have made countless significant contributions throughout the country’s history, most have never made it into textbooks. From atomic science, to labor rights, to YouTube, here are a few examples of some of the major advancements made by Asian Americans.

Atomic Science

Professor Chien-Shiung Wu (left), pictured with Dr. Y.K. Lee and L. W. Mo, her associates, conducting experiments, March 21, 1963.

In the 1940s and 1950s, Chinese-born physicist Chien-Shiung Wu, Ph.D., was instrumental in the developing field of atomic science. This included the Manhattan Project: the code name for research into ato

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Asian Americans in the People’s History of the United States

Profiles

Profile.
Brief profiles of people and events from Asian American and Pacific Islander people’s history.

Themes: Asian American, Immigration, Imperialism, Labor, Laws & Citizen Rights, Organizing, Pacific Islander

Here are more than 20 Asian Americans and events of note in people’s history for the curriculum and as a starting point for students to do further research.

We also recommend reading “Dear Educators, It Is Time to Fight for Asian America” by Wayne Au and Moé Yonamine in Rethinking Schools, the list of recommended titles for pre-K to 12 about Asian Americans at Social Justice Books, 11 Moments From Asian American History That You Should Know by Olivia Waxman and Paulina Cachero, and A Young Organizer’s Guide to Asian American Activists by Jess Eng.

To suggest a name or event to be added to this list, email zep@zinnedproject.org.

Eqbal Ahmad

A Pakistani political scientist, writer, editor, and antiwar activist, Eqbal Ahmad was b