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A Few of Our FAVORITE Asian Pacific Americans

The number of notable APAs is growing every day. This year, we offer short lists of some of the APAs we think you should keep an eye on. Hyperlinked names lead to profiles of those individuals.

Athletes:

• Benny Agbayani — baseball, New York Mets
• Corrie Mizusawa — basketball, St. Mary’s College Gaels
• Chan Ho Park — baseball, Los Angeles Dodgers
• Ichiro Suzuki — baseball Seattle Mariners
• Logan Tom — volleyball, Stanford University, member of U.S. women’s Olympic team

Humanities

• Garrett Hongo — creative writing, University of Oregon
• Pi-ching Hsu — history, San Francisco State University
• Elaine Kim — Asian American studies, U.C. Berkeley
• Antoinette Charfauros McDaniel — sociology, Oberlin College

Business/Tech

• Richard Ling — AlterEgo
• John Tu and David Sun — Kingston Technology

Media:

• Julie Chen — CBS The Early Show
• Ann Curry — NBC Today Show
• Sheryl WuDunn —The New York Times, China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power; Thunder from the East: Portrait of a Rising Asia

Entertainers:

• Dante Bosco — actor, The Debut
• Margaret Cho — comedian, I’m the One I Want
• Deepa Purohit — actor, The Sopranos

Science/Math

• Sung-Hou Kim — physical biosciences, structural biology, U.C. Berkeley
• Robert Tijian — molecular and cell biology, gene regulation, U.C. Berkeley
• Shing-Tung Yau — mathematics, Harvard University

Writers

• Peter Ho Davies — Equal Love
• Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni — Mistress of Spices, The Unknown Errors of Our Lives
• David Mura — The Colors of Desire, Turning Japanese: Memories of a Sansei