First woman of Indian descent to go to space and posthumously awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor
Chinese-American architect who designed the East Building of the National Gallery of Art
The first woman and Black and South Asian Vice President of the United States
This beloved tile game of Chinese origin is played the world over and popularized in the US in the mid-1920s
This Asian American film star will be celebrated in this year’s sequence of American Women Quarters; she is remembered as an international film star, fashion icon, television trailblazer, and a champion for greater representation of Asian Americans in film
Hong Kong and American actor, martial artist, producer, screenwriter, and filmmaker who introduced ancient martial arts to the modern world with a style that he developed called Jeet Kune Do
This former lead singer of The Pussycat Dolls was born to a Filipino father and a mother of Ukrainian, Polish and Native Hawaiian ancestry
First Asian Pacific American elected to Congress in 1899
Asian American civil rights activist who helped propose and draft the Sexual Assault Survivors' Rights Act of 2016
First Asian American music group to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2010
Hong Kong-born Chinese actor, filmmaker, martial artist, and stuntman known for his slapstick acrobatic fighting style
Chinese American who was instrumental in the landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that upheld U.S. citizenship at birth regardless of the race/ethnicity and parental citizenship status
Indian-born American computer architect Ajay Bhatt invented this widely-used standard plug in 1994
These Filipino fishermen built the first Asian-American settlement in the United States
Native Hawaiian and Polynesian actor who plays Aquaman, a member of the Justice League
Japanese American political and civil rights activist who advocated for pan-ethnic social change, including reparations for Japanese American internees and the black empowerment movement
The first Japanese American and first woman elected to Congress from the state of Hawaii in 1964