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:List of Asian Americans

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Notable Asian Americans include:

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Academia

=Science=

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Arts/architecture/design

Business and industry

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Entertainment

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  • Ruben A. Aquino, animation director, supervising animator for Walt Disney Animation Studios
  • Chang and Eng Bunker, source for the term "Siamese Twins"
  • Ping Chong, theater director, choreographer, video and installation artist
  • David Koh, documentary film producer and director
  • Shin Lim, close-up magician
  • Alain Nu, mentalist, magician

=Actors and filmmakers=

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= Choreographers and dancers =

=Music=

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==Groups/bands==

=Reality TV participants=

Fashion

Culinary

Law

{{For|a list of Asian Americans who are or have served as judges|List of Asian American jurists}}

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Literature

{{see also|List of Asian-American writers}}

Military

{{See also|Military History of Asian Americans}}

=Individuals=

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  • Leandro Aragoncillo – gunnery sergeant, U.S. Marine Corps. Convicted of spying against the United States Government
  • Raquel C. Bono – rear admiral (lower half), U.S. Navy. Command Surgeon, United States Pacific Command{{cite web |url=http://www.navy.mil/navydata/bios/navybio.asp?bioID=626 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120419105754/http://www.navy.mil/navydata/bios/navybio.asp?bioID=626 |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 19, 2012 |title=Rear Admiral Raquel C. Bono |date=January 10, 2012 |publisher=United States Navy |access-date=July 18, 2012}}{{cite web |url=http://www.pacom.mil/media/news/2012/02/29-Command-surgeon-USPACOM-visits-laos.shtml |title=Command Surgeon, U.S. Pacific Command Visits Laos |author=Embassy of the United States Vientiane, Laos |date=February 29, 2012 |work=News |publisher=United States Pacific Command |access-date=July 18, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120915232328/http://www.pacom.mil/media/news/2012/02/29-Command-surgeon-USPACOM-visits-laos.shtml |archive-date=September 15, 2012 }}
  • Jose Calugas – captain, U.S. Army. Medal of Honor recipient, World War II
  • Joseph Caravalho – brigadier general, U.S. Army. Commanding General, Brooke Army Medical Center{{cite journal |year=2009 |title=Meet the Generals and Admiral |journal=JAVA Advocate |volume=XVII |issue=3 |page=23 |publisher=Japanese American Veterans Association |url=http://www.javadc.org/images/JAVA%20Advocate%20Oct%202009%20%20-%20part%201.pdf |access-date=March 14, 2011 }}{{cite news |title=No shorts and t-shirts here |last=Lafrance |first=Adrienne |url=http://honoluluweekly.com/qanda/2008/08/no-shorts-and-t-shirts-here/ |newspaper=Honolulu Weekly |date=August 13, 2008 |access-date=March 14, 2011}}{{cite video |date=March 14, 2010 |title=AMSA ARC 2009 Conference Keynotes Joseph Caravalho |url=http://vimeo.com/10153057 |format=MP4 |publisher=American Medical Student Association at American River College |access-date=March 14, 2011 |time=19:42}}
  • Ming Chang – rear admiral (upper half), U.S. Navy, retired. Department of Navy Inspector General, 1987–1990{{cite web |url=http://cwrmagonline.com/OutstandingAPAs.aspx |title=OUTSTANDING ASIAN AMERICANS AND PACIFIC ISLANDERS |publisher=The College World Report |access-date=October 26, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708214418/http://cwrmagonline.com/OutstandingAPAs.aspx |archive-date=July 8, 2011 }}{{cite web |url=http://www.wwiimemorial.com/archives/factsheets/memorialadvisory.asp?thispage=factsheet |title=Memorial Advisory Board |publisher=National WWII Memorial |access-date=October 26, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141026131859/http://www.wwiimemorial.com/archives/factsheets/memorialadvisory.asp?thispage=factsheet |archive-date=October 26, 2014 }}{{cite web |url=http://www.history.navy.mil/special%20highlights/asian/ChangM.htm |title=Rear Admiral Ming Erh Chang |work=Navy History & Heritage Command |publisher=United States Navy |access-date=July 18, 2012 |archive-date=October 26, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141026131336/http://www.history.navy.mil/special%20highlights/asian/ChangM.htm |url-status=dead }}
  • Dan Choi – first lieutenant, U.S. Army. Gay rights advocate.
  • David S. C. Chu – captain, U.S. Army. Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness (2001–2008), President/CEO of the Institute for Defense Analyses
  • Gordon Pai'ea Chung-Hoon – rear admiral (upper half), U.S. Navy. First Asian American citizen graduate from United States Naval Academy; first Asian American flag officer
  • Anatolio B. Cruz – rear admiral (lower half), U.S. Navy. Deputy Commander, United States Fourth Fleet{{cite web |url=http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=64024 |title=Face of Defense: Siblings Showcase Navy's Diversity |author=Chief of Naval Personnel Diversity Directorate Public Affairs |date=May 20, 2011 |work=American Forces Press Service |publisher=United States Department of Defense |access-date=July 18, 2012}}{{cite web |url=http://www.navy.mil/navydata/bios/navybio.asp?bioID=561 |title=Rear Admiral Anatolio B. "A.B." Cruz, III |date=February 16, 2010 |publisher=United States Navy |access-date=July 18, 2012 |archive-date=July 20, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120720185408/http://www.navy.mil/navydata/bios/navybio.asp?bioID=561 |url-status=dead }}
  • Susan Ahn Cuddy – lieutenant, U.S. Navy. First female Gunnery Officer in the navy
  • John R. D'Araujo Jr. – major general, U.S. Army. First Filipino American to be promoted to a general officer rank. Former Director of the Army National Guard Bureau. Former Director of the Recovery Division for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).{{cite news |first=Bruce |last=Alpert |title=FEMA waived its own advice |url=http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/04/fema_waived_its_own_advice.html |work=The Times-Picayune |publisher=nola.com |date=April 24, 2007 |access-date=June 15, 2009}}{{cite news |first=Catherine |last=Gaco-Escalera |title=What Asian Pacific American Heritage Month means to me |url=http://www.kaiserslauternamerican.com/article.php?i=10190 |work=kaiserslauternamerican.com |publisher=AdvantiPro GmbH |date=May 15, 2009 |access-date=June 15, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713133755/http://www.kaiserslauternamerican.com/article.php?i=10190 |archive-date=July 13, 2011 }}
  • Rudolph Davila – first lieutenant, U.S. Army. Medal of Honor Recipient, World War II
  • John Liu Fugh – major general, U.S. Army, retired. First Chinese American officer to be promoted to a general officer rank in the United States Army; first Chinese American to serve as Judge Advocate General of the Army
  • Barney F. Hajiro – private, U.S. Army. Medal of Honor recipient in World War II
  • Harry B. Harris Jr. – admiral, U.S. Navy. First Asian American to achieve the rank of a four-star admiral
  • Mikio Hasemoto – private, U.S. Army. Posthumous Medal of Honor recipient in World War II
  • Joe Hayashi – private, U.S. Army. Posthumous Medal of Honor recipient in World War II
  • Shizuya Hayashi – private, U.S. Army. Medal of Honor recipient in World War II
  • Oscar Hilman – brigadier general, U.S. Army, retired.[http://www.onephil.com/washington.htm One Philippines] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080622014719/http://www.onephil.com/washington.htm |date=June 22, 2008}}[http://www.pierce.ctc.edu/foundation/alumni/profiles_2006.php Pierce College Foundation] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080820031010/http://www.pierce.ctc.edu/foundation/alumni/profiles_2006.php |date=August 20, 2008}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.facesseattle.org/docs/2007ConfBiosSummary.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=September 26, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726044410/http://www.facesseattle.org/docs/2007ConfBiosSummary.pdf |archive-date=July 26, 2011 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=http://washingtonarmyguard.org/news/archive/fo-hilman.shtml |title=COL Oscar Hilman Appointed New Commander For Key Washington Army National Guard Unit |last=Ames |first=Charles |date=August 2002 |publisher=washingtonarmyguard.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080827175730/http://washingtonarmyguard.org/news/archive/fo-hilman.shtml |archive-date=August 27, 2008 }}
  • Kwang-Ping Hsu – Captain, U.S. Coast Guard. First first foreign-born graduate from the United States Coast Guard Academy
  • Daniel Inouye – captain, U.S. Army. Senator from Hawaii, Medal of Honor recipient World War II
  • Theodore Kanamine – United States Army brigadier general
  • Terry Teruo Kawamura – sergeant first class, U.S. Army. Posthumous Medal of Honor recipient in Vietnam War
  • Andrew Kim – former head of CIA's Korea Mission Center
  • Young-Oak Kim – colonel, U.S. Army. First ethnic minority to lead a U.S. Army Battalion
  • Yeiki Kobashigawa – second lieutenant, U.S. Army. Medal of Honor recipient in World War II
  • Wah Kau Kong – second lieutenant, U.S. Army Air Corps. First Chinese American fighter pilot
  • Alice K. Kurashige – captain, U.S. Marine Corps. First Japanese American woman to be commissioned in the United States Marine Corps{{cite web |url=http://www.usmc.mil/news/publications/Documents/A%20History%20of%20the%20Women%20Marines%201946-1977%20PCN%2019000309400_2.pdf |title=The Korean War Years |author=Colonel Mary V. Stremlow |year=1986 |work=The History of the Women Marines 1946–1977 |publisher=United States Marine Corps |access-date=January 29, 2011}}
  • Robert T. Kuroda – staff sergeant, U.S. Army. Posthumous Medal of Honor recipient in World War II
  • Ben Kuroki – technical sergeant, U.S. Army Air Corps. Only Japanese American Army Air Force pilot to fly combat missions in the Pacific theater in World War II
  • Hazel Ying Lee (李月英) – civilian, Women Airforce Service Pilot (WASP). First Chinese American woman to earn a pilot's license; flew for the United States Army Air Forces during World War II
  • Kurt Lee – major, US Marine Corps. First Asian American marine corps officer, Navy Cross recipient{{cite web |url=https://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2010/10-117.html |title=Veterans History Project Explores Integration of the U.S. Armed Forces Through the Service of Asian-Pacific American Veterans |last=Lofton |first=Jeffrey |author2=Jamie Stevenson |date=May 18, 2010 |work=News from the Library of Congress |publisher=Library of Congress |access-date=February 14, 2011}}{{cite news |title=Heroes visit the National Museum of the Marine Corps |author=Cpl Christopher Duncan |url=http://www.quantico.usmc.mil/sentry/StoryView.aspx?SID=2454 |newspaper=Quantico Sentry |date=January 30, 2009 |access-date=February 14, 2011}}
  • Brian L. Losey – rear admiral (lower half), U.S. Navy. Navy SEAL, and Commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, Africa (SOCAFRICA); Japanese American and first Asian American SEAL flag officer{{cite web |url=http://www.history.navy.mil/diversity/brochures/AsianPacificInUSN_Final.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120720185821/http://www.history.navy.mil/diversity/brochures/AsianPacificInUSN_Final.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 20, 2012 |title=Asian Pacific Americans in the United States Navy |author=Chief of Naval Personnel |work=Navy Diversity Directorate (N134) |publisher=Naval History & Heritage Command |access-date=July 18, 2012 |quote=Both men are of Japanese American heritage. Admiral Losey is also the first Asian Pacific American flag officer from the SEAL community. }}
  • Viet Luong – major general, U.S. Army. First Vietnam-born general officer.{{cite news |last=Tan |first=Michelle |date=August 6, 2014 |title=New one-star is U.S. military's first general born in Vietnam |url=http://www.armytimes.com/article/20140806/CAREERS03/308060058/New-one-star-U-S-military-s-first-general-born-Vietnam?sf29464178=1 |newspaper=Army Times |access-date=August 6, 2014 }}
  • Eleanor Mariano – rear admiral (lower half), U.S. Navy, retired. First Filipino American to be promoted to a flag officer rank. Former White House physician
  • Susan K. Mashiko – major general, U.S. Air Force
  • Roy Matsumoto – master sergeant, U.S. Army. Member of Merrill's Marauders, and an inductee of the U.S. Army Rangers Hall Of Fame and the Military Intelligence Corps Hall of Fame
  • Spark Matsunaga – captain, U.S. Army. Senator from Hawaii, 1977–1990
  • Hiroshi Miyamura – staff sergeant, U.S. Army. Medal of Honor recipient in Korean War
  • Kenneth P. Moritsugu – rear admiral (upper half), U.S. Public Health Service. Former acting Surgeon General of the United States
  • Kaoru Moto – private first class, U.S. Army. Medal of Honor recipient in World War II
  • Sadao Munemori – private first class, U.S. Army. Posthumous Medal of Honor recipient in World War II
  • Kiyoshi K. Muranaga – private first class, U.S. Army. Posthumous Medal of Honor recipient in World War II
  • Michael K. Nagata – lieutenant general, U.S. Army
  • Masato Nakae – private first class, U.S. Army. Medal of Honor recipient in World War II
  • Shinyei Nakamine – private, U.S. Army. Posthumous Medal of Honor recipient in World War II
  • William K. Nakamura – private first class, U.S. Army. Posthumous Medal of Honor recipient in World War II
  • Paul M. Nakasone – U.S. Army four-star general, 3rd commander of the United States Cyber Command and 18th director of the National Security Agency
  • Huan Nguyen – rear admiral, U.S. Navy. First Vietnamese American naval flag officer.
  • Joe M. Nishimoto – private first class, U.S. Army. Posthumous Medal of Honor recipient in World War II
  • José B. Nísperos – private, U.S. Army. First Asian American Medal of Honor recipient
  • Allan M. Ohata – captain, U.S. Army. Medal of Honor recipient in World War II
  • Fred Ohr – captain, U.S. Army Air Corps. To date, only Korean American fighter ace
  • James K. Okubo – technician fifth grade, U.S. Army. Posthumous Medal of Honor recipient in World War II
  • Yukio Okutsu – technical sergeant, U.S. Army. Medal of Honor recipient in World War II
  • Allen K. Ono – lieutenant general, U.S. Army, retired. First Japanese American lieutenant general;{{cite news |title=An Inspiration for a Generation |author=Gregg K. Kakesako |url=http://archives.starbulletin.com/2004/03/31/news/story3.html |newspaper=Honolulu Star Bulletin |date=March 31, 2004 |access-date=February 6, 2012}}{{cite news |title=An Asian Pacific American Timeline |last=Williams |first=Rudi |url=http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=43031 |newspaper=American Forces Press Service |date=May 19, 1999 |access-date=February 6, 2012}}{{cite news |title=AG Hall of Fame inducts Hawaii's Ono |last=Ortiz |first=Bob |url=http://hawaiiarmyweekly.squarespace.com/news/2010/6/25/ag-hall-of-fame-inducts-hawaiis-ono.html |newspaper=Hawaii Army Weekly |date=June 25, 2010 |access-date=February 6, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140106040415/http://hawaiiarmyweekly.squarespace.com/news/2010/6/25/ag-hall-of-fame-inducts-hawaiis-ono.html |archive-date=January 6, 2014 }} first Asian American lieutenant general{{cite journal |year=2006 |title=Meet the General |journal=JAVA Advocate |volume=XIV |issue=4 |page=5 |publisher=Japanese american Veterans Association |url=http://www.javadc.org/images/2006%2010%20-%20December%20Newsletter%20(final).pdf |access-date=February 6, 2012 }}
  • Frank H. Ono – private first class, U.S. Army. Posthumous Medal of Honor recipient in World War II
  • Kazuo Otani – staff sergeant, U.S. Army. Posthumous Medal of Honor recipient in World War II
  • Quang X. Pham – major, U.S. Marine Corps; first Vietnamese American naval aviator
  • Joseph Pierce – corporal, 14th Connecticut Infantry Regiment. Served during the American Civil War
  • Coral Wong Pietsch – brigadier general, U.S. Army Reserve, retired. First female Asian American general officer in the US Army.
  • Eldon Regua – major general, U.S. Army Reserve. Commanding General, 75th Division (BCTD). Only {{as of|2009|alt=non-retired}} Filipino American general officer.{{cite web

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  • George T. Sakato – private, U.S. Army. Medal of Honor recipient in World War II
  • Eric Shinseki – general, U.S. Army, retired. Chief of Staff of the United States Army, 1999–2003; Secretary of Veterans Affairs, 2009–present ({{as of|October 2009}}). Highest-ranked Asian American, {{as of|October 2009}}, to have served in the United States military
  • Elmelindo Rodrigues Smith – sergeant first class, U.S. Army. Posthumous Medal of Honor recipient in Vietnam War
  • Edward Soriano – lieutenant general, U.S. Army, retired. Former Commanding General of I Corps. Highest ranked Filipino American, {{as of|October 2009}}, to have served in the United States military
  • Ramon S. Subejano – private first class, U.S. Army. Silver Star recipient in World War II
  • Benigno G. Tabora – sergeant major, U.S. Army. Purple Heart recipient, World War II
  • Antonio Taguba – major general, U.S. Army, retired. Author of the Taguba Report
  • Ted T. Tanouye – technical sergeant, U.S. Army. Posthumous Medal of Honor recipient in World War II
  • Sue Mi Terry – CIA intelligence analyst specializing in East Asia
  • Bhagat Singh Thind – private, U.S. Army. Enlisted in Army during World War I, was an acting Sergeant during training, honorably discharged at the end of the war.{{cite web |url=http://www.bhagatsinghthind.com/military_thind.php |title=Military: First Sikh to be inducted into the United States Army at Fort Lewis, Wa |year=2008 |work=Spiritual Science Foundation |publisher=Dr. Bhagat Singh Thind |access-date=October 27, 2009 }}
  • Telesforo Trinidad – fireman second class, U.S. Navy. 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{{cite news |title=Support Command welcomes new commander |author=Naval Medicine Support Command |newspaper=dcmilitary.com |publisher=Comprint Military Publications |date=September 24, 2009 |url=http://www.dcmilitary.com/stories/092409/journal_28181.shtml |access-date=October 6, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120724164017/http://www.dcmilitary.com/stories/092409/journal_28181.shtml |archive-date=July 24, 2012 }}
  • 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. First officer Operation Iraqi Freedom objector
  • Mun Charn Wong – lieutenant colonel, U.S. Air Force. Pilot, World War II
  • Ted Wong – major general, U.S. Army. 26th chief of the U.S. Army Dental Corps
  • Bruce Yamashita – captain, U.S. Marine Corps Reserves, retired. Worked to expose racial discrimination
  • Xiong Yan – captain, U.S. Army. Chaplain, former Chinese dissident
  • Rodney James Takashi Yano – sergeant first class, U.S. Army. Posthumous Medal of Honor recipient in Vietnam War
  • James Yee – captain, U.S. Army. Muslim Chaplain previously charged with Sedition
  • John C. Young – colonel, U.S. Army, combat liaison officer, CBI, WWII

== Foreign military service ==

News/media/journalism

Politics

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Religion

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Space

This section is a list of astronauts of Asian ancestry who are, by birth or naturalization, American citizens. Sorted by first space flight, then by NASA Astronaut Group (if applicable).

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|Ellison Onizuka
June 24, 1946

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|Selected in 1978 to NASA Astronaut Group 8. First Asian American and first Japanese American in space. Died on the Challenger.

|STS-51-C (January 24, 1985)
STS-51-L (January 28, 1986)

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|Taylor Gun-Jin Wang
June 16, 1940

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|First person of Chinese ancestry and first Chinese American in space.

|STS-51-B (April 29, 1985)

3

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|Franklin Chang-Diaz
April 5, 1950

| {{flagicon|Qing dynasty}} Qing dynasty {{CRI}}

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|Selected in 1980 to NASA Astronaut Group 9. Joint record holder, since 2002 (with Jerry L. Ross, set two months earlier that year), for most spaceflights by a human.

|STS-61-C (January 12, 1986)
STS-34 (October 18, 1989)
STS-46 (July 31, 1992)
STS-60 (February 3, 1994)
STS-75 (February 22, 1996)
STS-91 (June 2, 1998)
STS-111 (June 5, 2002)

4

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|Eugene Trinh
September 14, 1950

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|First Vietnamese American in space.

|STS-50 (June 25, 1992)

5

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|Leroy Chiao
August 28, 1960

|{{flagicon|Taiwan}} Taiwan

|{{USA}}

|Selected in 1990 to NASA Astronaut Group 13. Served on ISS Expedition 10.

|STS-65 (July 8, 1994)
STS-72 (January 11, 1996)
STS-92 (October 11, 2000)
Soyuz TMA-5 (October 14, 2004)

6

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|Ed Lu
July 1, 1963

| {{flagicon|Taiwan}} Republic of China

|{{USA}}

|Selected in 1994 to NASA Astronaut Group 15. Served on ISS Expedition 7.

|STS-84 (May 15, 1997)
STS-106 (September 8, 2000)
Soyuz TMA-2 (April 6, 2003)

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|Kalpana Chawla
March 17, 1962

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|Selected in 1994 to NASA Astronaut Group 15. First Indian American in space. Died on the Columbia.

|STS-87 (November 19, 1997)
STS-107 (January 16, 2003)

8

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|Mark L. Polansky
June 2, 1956

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|{{USA}}

|Selected in 1996 to NASA Astronaut Group 16. First Korean American in space.

|STS-98 (February 7, 2001)
STS-116 (December 9, 2006)
STS-127 (July 15, 2009)

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|Daniel M. Tani
February 1, 1961

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|{{USA}}

| Selected in 1996 to NASA Astronaut Group 16. Served on ISS Expedition 16.

|STS-108 (December 5, 2001)
STS-120 (October 23, 2007)
STS-122 (February 7, 2008)

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|Sunita Williams
September 19, 1965

|{{IND}}

|{{USA}}

| Selected in 1998 to NASA Astronaut Group 17. Served on ISS Expedition 14/15, Expedition 32/33 and Expedition 71/72. Second female commander of ISS. First female astronaut to fly on an orbital spacecraft's maiden flight, i.e., Boeing Starliner.

|STS-116/117 (December 9, 2006)
Soyuz TMA-05M (July 15, 2012)
Starliner Crewed Flight Test/SpaceX Crew-9 (June 5, 2024)

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|Kjell N. Lindgren
January 23, 1973

|{{flagicon|Taiwan}} Taiwan
{{USA}}

|{{flagicon|Taiwan}} Taiwan

|Selected in 2009 to NASA Astronaut Group 20. Served on ISS Expedition 44.

|Soyuz TMA-17M (July 22, 2015)
SpaceX Crew-4 (April 27, 2022)

12

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|Sirisha Bandla
1988

|colspan="2"|{{IND}}

|Indian American sub-orbital, sub-Kármán line, space tourist.

|Virgin Galactic Unity 22 (July 11, 2021)

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|Raja Chari
June 24, 1977

|{{IND}}

|{{USA}}

|Selected in 2017 to NASA Astronaut Group 22.

|SpaceX Crew-3 (November 11, 2021)

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| Andy Sadhwani
1988

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|style="text-align:center;" | {{USA}}

| Principal Propulsion Engineer at SpaceX

| {{flagicon|USA}} Galactic 07 (June 8, 2024){{cite tweet |author=Jonathan McDowell |user=planet4589 |number=1799468227447476573 |title=Galactic 07 was dropped and fired its rocket engine at about 1526:30 UTC and landed at around 1541 UTC. Apogee not yet known. |date=8 June 2024}}{{cite press release |url=https://www.virgingalactic.com/news/galactic-07-mission-launch-window-opens-june-8 |title='Galactic 07' mission launch window opens June 8 |date=1 May 2024 |access-date=4 May 2024 |work=Virgin Galactic}}

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| Ephraim Rabin
?

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|style="text-align:center;" | {{USA}}

| Businessman

| {{flagicon|USA}} Blue Origin NS-26 (August 29, 2024)

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| Eiman Jahangir
August 5, 1980

|style="text-align:center;" | {{IRN}}

|style="text-align:center;" | {{USA}}

| Associate professor

| {{flagicon|USA}} Blue Origin NS-26 (August 29, 2024)

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| Tushar Shah

|style="text-align:center;" | {{IND}}

|style="text-align:center;" | {{USA}}

| a MIT graduate and Particle Physicist

| {{flagicon|USA}} Blue Origin NS-30
(February 25, 2025){{cite web |date=25 February 2025 |orig-date=18 February 2025 |title=Blue Origin's New Shepard Completes 30th Mission to Space |url=https://www.blueorigin.com/news/new-shepard-ns-30-mission |access-date=21 February 2025 |website=Blue Origin}}

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|Jonny Kim
February 5, 1984

|{{ROK}}

|{{USA}}

|Selected in 2017 to NASA Astronaut Group 22.

|{{flagicon|RUS}} Soyuz MS-27 (April 8, 2025)

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|Amanda Nguyễn
October 10, 1991

|{{VNM}}

|{{USA}}

|First Vietnamese American and southeast Asian American woman astronaut.

|Blue Origin NS-31 (April 14, 2025)

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