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Only Asian American naval recipient of the Medal of Honor; Eleanor Valentin – rear admiral (lower half), Medical Corps, U.S. Navy. Commander, Naval Medical Support Command [33] Francis B. Wai – captain, U.S. Army. Only Chinese American to have been awarded the Medal of Honor; Ehren Watada – first lieutenant, U.S. Army.
Huping Ling (令狐萍) – professor of History at Truman State University, author; Liu Kwang-ching (劉廣京) – Historian of late imperial China; University of California, Davis. Betty Lee Sung (宋李瑞芳) – former professor of Asian-American Studies at City College of New York; 'leading authority' on Chinese Americans [26] [27]
Emily Sim, born August 27, 1995, who goes by Emirichu online, is a Korean-American storytime YouTuber who is most famous for her animations. She talks about her experience growing up Asian American in quite a few videos.
Yeoh's achievement was particularly poignant given the history of anti-Asian discrimination in Hollywood. Merle Oberon, a best actress nominee in 1935 for “The Dark Angel," hid her South Asian ...
First Asian (and first Asian-American, overall) to be nominated for Best Actor, First Asian (and first Asian-American) to win Best Actor. Brynner became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1943. 1982 Ben Kingsley / Gandhi: Mahatma Gandhi: Won Half-Indian descent (father is Indian). [22] 1984 F. Murray Abraham / Amadeus: Antonio Salieri: Won
Lionel Messi is the most-followed South American on Instagram, with over 504 million followers. Selena Gomez is the most-followed woman, actress, singer, and North American on Instagram, with over 421 million followers. Virat Kohli is the most-followed Asian on Instagram, with over 270 million followers.
A majority of respondents, 52%, said they couldn’t think of any famous Asian American. Nine percent named Chan, who is from Hong Kong, and 5% named actor Bruce Lee, who is Asian American but who ...
Below, 27 Asian celebrities who must have signed a pact with the god of time because somehow, they just don’t seem to age. 🤔 Lucy Liu, 53 Taylor Hill / Getty Images