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Barbi Benton, model/actress, has a home in Hawaii. Henri Berger, composer and royal bandmaster of the Kingdom of Hawaii. Daniel Bess, actor, Rick Allen on 24. Henry Bianchini, Hawaiian-based sculptor, painter and printmaker. Ashley Bickerton, contemporary artist, painter, sculptor. Hiram Bingham I, missionary.
Thomas O. Bales Jr., medical technology and aerospace inventor and entrepreneur. James Dole, developer of the pineapple industry in Hawaii, namesake of the Dole Food Company [25] Genshiro Kawamoto, billionaire real estate investor [26][27] Stanley Kennedy Sr. founder of Hawaiian Airlines. Darren Kimura, businessman, founder of Sopogy.
Gabby Pahinui (1921-1980), Slack-key guitarist and singer. Dennis Pavao (1951–2002), Hawaiian falsetto singer and musician; one of several Hawaiian musicians who during the 1970s, led the Hawaiian music renaissance. Kalani Peʻa (born 1983), Grammy award-winning singer, songwriter, entertainer, and educator.
Swimming. Warren Kealoha, 1920 and 1924 gold medalist in swimming. Buster Crabbe, 1928 bronze and 1932 gold medalist in swimming, then Hollywood leading man. Lindsey Berg, two-time silver medalist setter for US Volleyball, 2004, 2008, and 2012.
Eddie Aikau. Edward Ryan Makuahanai Aikau (May 4, 1946 – March 17, 1978) was a Hawaiian lifeguard and surfer. As the first lifeguard at Waimea Bay on the island of Oahu, he saved over 500 people and became famous for surfing the big Hawaiian surf, winning several awards including the 1977 Duke Kahanamoku Invitational Surfing Championship.
Native Hawaiians (also known as Indigenous Hawaiians, Kānaka Maoli, Aboriginal Hawaiians, or simply Hawaiians; Hawaiian: kānaka, kānaka ʻōiwi, Kānaka Maoli, and Hawaiʻi maoli) are the Indigenous Polynesian people of the Hawaiian Islands. Hawaii was settled at least 800 years ago by Polynesians who sailed from the Society Islands.
This category is for people from the United States state of Hawaii Classification : People : By nationality : American : By state : Hawaii Also: Countries : United States : States : Hawaii : People
Notable works. A Shoal of Time. Gavan Daws is an American writer, historian and filmmaker residing in Honolulu, Hawaii. He writes about Hawaii, the Pacific, and Asia. He is a retired professor of history at University of Hawaii at Manoa. [1] Daws is originally from Australia and got his B.A. in English and History from the University of Melbourne.