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Pages in category "American actresses of Asian descent" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
C. T.V. Carpio; Teresa Castillo; Miya Cech; Flora Chan; Jacki R. Chan; JuJu Chan; Michele B. Chan; Emily Chang (actress) Yin Chang; Rosalind Chao; Zoë Chao; Camille Chen
Kurt Lee – Major, US Marine Corps.; first Asian American Marine Corps officer, Navy Cross recipient [7] [8] Coral Wong Pietsch – United States Army Reserve Brigadier General, first female Asian American general officer; Suzanne Vares-Lum (born 1967 - United States Army Major-General, served in Iraq War
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
The majority of Americans can’t name a single famous Asian American, according to a recent survey. The most common answers besides "I can't think of one" was Jackie Chan, who's not American, and ...
Early Asian American actors such as Sessue Hayakawa, Anna May Wong, and Bruce Lee encountered a movie-making culture and industry that wanted to cast them as caricatures. Some, like actress Merle Oberon, hid their ethnicity to avoid discrimination by Hollywood's racist laws. Asian Americans are rapidly gaining access to the American mainstream. [2]
Stephanie Murphy (born Đặng Thị Ngọc Dung) – first Vietnamese-American Congresswoman representing Florida's 7th congressional district [36] (Democratic) Jacqueline Nguyen – U.S. circuit judge; first Vietnamese-American federal judge; [37] first Asian-American woman to sit on the federal appellate court [38]
JoAnne S. Bass, 19th Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force, first female senior enlisted service member of any United States military branch, first Asian American to hold the senior enlisted position in the Air Force; Daniel Choi, U.S. Army officer and gay rights activist; Susan Ahn Cuddy, first female gunnery officer in the United States Navy