Entertainers
Angela Perez Baraquio
(Miss America 2001)
Brian Ching
(First Hawaiian to play on national soccer team)
Bryan Clay
(Olympic Decathlon silver medalist)
Carole Kai Onouye
(singer and philanthropist)
Don Ho
(singer)
Don Stroud, actor
Duke Paoa Kahanamoku, Olympic Swimmer
Duane Chapman, "Dog the Bounty Hunter"
Frank Delima, Comedian
Harold Sakata, actor
Henry Berger, Bandmaster
Hoku Ho, singer
Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, singer
Jack Johnson, singer and documentary film maker
James Shigeta, actor
Jean Erdman, dancer and choreographer
Kelly Hu, actress and Miss Teen USA 1985
Lauren Graham, TV actress
Mackey Feary, singer
Malani Bilyeu, Singer
Nicole Kidman, Actress born in Hawaii
Steven Fung, filmmaker
Tia Carrere, singer and actress
Missionaries
Amos S. Cooke, missionary and educator
Father Damien, Molokai leper colony worker
Gerrit P. Judd, missionary
Hiram Bingham I, missionary
Hiram Bingham II, missionary
Hiram Bingham III, US Senator from Connecticut, discovered Macchu Picchu
Samuel N. Castle, missionary
Politics
Benjamin J. Cayetano, First Filipino American Governor
Daniel K. Akaka, first native Hawaiian US Senator
Daniel K. Inouye, senator
George Ariyoshi, first Japanese-American elected governor
Herbert Choy, First Asian-American Federal judge in history
Hiram L. Fong, first Chinese-American senator
Sanford B. Dole, territorial governor
Royalty
King Kamehameha I, United Hawaiian Islands, first king
King Kamehameha II (Liholiho)
King Kamehameha V (Lot), Last of Kamehameha kings
King Lunalilo, made king in 1873, died after 1.5 years
King David Kalakaua
Queen Kaahumanu
Queen Emma
Queen Liliuokalani, Last Hawaiian Queen
Qeen Kapiolani
Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop
Princess Victoria Kaiulani Cleghorn, Last Hawaiian Princess
Science and Nature
Ellison Onizuka, astronaut
Merlin Tuttle, mammalogist
Thomas Jaggar, geologist and founder of Hawaiian Volcano Observatory
Sports
Alexander Cartwright, father of American Baseball
Andy Irons, Surfer
Benny Agbayani, Pro baseball player
Bethany Hamilton, surfer and shark attack survivor
Chad Rowan Yokozuna (Akebono), sumo wrestler
Duke Paoa Kahanamoku, Olympic swimmer
Laird Hamilton, Surver
Ron Darling, baseball player
Salevaa Atisanoe (Konishiki), sumo wrestler
Shanon Kimua, Mr. Olympia 2005
Others
Annie Montague Alexander, philanthropist and financier
Charles R. Bishop, banker, philanthropist
Claus Spreckels, developer
George Helm, Kahoolawe Ohana activist
George Parsons Lathrop, journalist, poet
Gerrit P. Judd, advisor
Henry J. Kaiser, Industrialist
James D. Dole, Pineapple plantation owner
Kawaipuna Prejean, Hawaiian activist
Robert Kiyosaki, author of financial books
Steve Case, former CEO of American Online
See also:
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Wikipedia List of Famous Hawaiians
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