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Shien Biau Woo became the first Asian American statewide officer in the Northeast, when he was elected Lieutenant Governor of Delaware in 1984. Leana Wen, prominent Asian American and public health leader, currently Commissioner of Health in Baltimore. David Wu, first Taiwanese American U.S. Representative (D-OR) Lily Wu, mayor of Wichita, Kansas
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. Narendra Modi is the most-followed politician on Instagram, with over 92 million followers.
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]
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 ...
Image credits: Edilzon Gamez / Getty Images #3 Selena Gomez. Hollywood is the prime stage for cultivating fame, and Selena Gomez has shown that this is her playground. The American actress-singer ...
Frank Jao – pioneer behind Little Saigon, Westminster, California, and the Asian Garden Mall; Eric Ly – co-founder of LinkedIn, a social networking service [16] Bill Nguyen – founder of onebox.com and lala.com, sold for $850 million and $80 million respectively [17] David Tran – founder of Huy Fong Foods, maker of famous Sriracha Chili ...
Sessue Hayakawa was the first and one of the few Asian American/Asian actors to find stardom in the United States and Europe and was also the first leading Asian male actor in the United States. He became the first male sex symbol of Hollywood long before and the precursor to Rudolph Valentino . [ 19 ]
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 ...