List of Filipino Americans

This is a list of Filipino Americans who have made significant contributions to the American culture, politics, or society. It also includes those with notable mentions in the American media.

To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Filipino American or must have references showing they are Filipino American and are notable.

List

Arts and letters

Dance

Education

  • Jeremy Castro Baguyos, M.Mus. – Professor of Music at the University of Nebraska Omaha and Principal Bass of the Des Moines Metro Opera Summer Music Festival Orchestra[2]
  • Jose B. Cruz, Jr., Ph.D. – Distinguished Professor of Engineering, Ohio State University
  • Conrado Gempesaw, Ph.D. – 17th President, St. John's University, New York City[3]
  • Ruth Elynia S. Mabanglo, Ph.D. – Professor of Philippine Literature, University of Hawaii at Manoa; Presidential Citation for Meritorious Teaching, 1996[4]
  • Kevin Nadal, Ph.D. – Professor of Psychology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice; author, Filipino American Psychology: A Handbook of Theory, Research, and Clinical Practice; former president of Asian American Psychological Association[5]
  • Baldomero Olivera, Ph.D. – Distinguished Professor of Biology, University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah; first Filipino American member of the United States National Academy of Sciences; 2007 Harvard University Scientist of the Year[6]
  • Rhacel Parrenas, Ph.D. – Professor of American Studies and Sociology at Brown University
  • Talitha Espiritu, Ph.D. – Associate Professor of English at Wheaton College
  • E. San Juan, Jr., Ph.D. – Fellow, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University
  • Craig Abaya. – Director of Digital Media & Entertainment Programs, San Francisco State University, 2000–2014
  • Trinity Ordona, Ph.D. – Professor of American Studies, City College of San Francisco, 2001–present
  • Vivian M. Vasquez, Ph.D. – Multi-award-winning Professor of Education at American University in Washington, D.C.
  • Leon O. Chua, Ph.D. – Contributor to both the nonlinear circuit theory and cellular neural network theory, and professor of electrical engineering and computer science at University of California at Berkeley and Purdue University
  • Raymundo Favila, Ph.D. – Mathematician contributing to stratifiable congruences and geometric inequalities
  • Robyn Rodriguez, Ph.D. –Professor and Chair of the Department of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Davis
  • Catherine Ceniza Choy, Ph.D. – Professor of Ethnic Studies at University of California, Berkeley
  • Vicente L. Rafael, Ph.D. – Professor of Southeast Asian history at Cornell University
  • Eleuterio F. Timbol Jr, Ph.D.- Sloan Award for Excellence in Teaching Science and Mathematics 2024, New York City.[7] Empire State Excellence in Teaching Award 2022, New York [8] Co-Founder, The International Association of Multicultural and Filipino American Educators, Inc(IAM FAME, INC.)[9] America's Finest Teacher Award-Ulirang Guro 2015 New York City[10]

Graphic arts

Visual art

History

  • Belinda Aquino – author, professor, women's and civil rights activist, founder of the Center for Philippine Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa[14]
  • Dorothy Cordova – activist, professor, co-founder of the Filipino American National Historical Society
  • Fred Cordova – author, Filipinos: Forgotten Asian Americans; co-founder, Filipino American National Historical Society
  • Dawn Mabalon – activist, author

Journalism

  • Byron Acohido – 1997 Pulitzer Prize in Beat Reporting, Seattle Times[15][16]
  • Audrey Asistio - NBC Bay Area KNTV news anchor
  • Leah Borromeo – journalist and documentary filmmaker[17]
  • Natasha Brown – anchor, KYW in Philadelphia
  • Cher Calvin – anchor, KTLA Channel 5 Los Angeles
  • Katherine Creag – reporter, WNBC in New York City
  • Ernabel Demillo – TV host
  • Veronica De La Cruz – MSNBC news anchor
  • Rovilson Fernandez – TV host, model, editor
  • Emil Guillermo – journalist, writer, and broadcaster; first Filipino American to anchor a regularly scheduled national news program, NPR's All Things Considered, May 1989
  • Cassidy Hubbarth – ESPN Anchor
  • Noel Izon – documentary filmmaker
  • Kristine Johnson – anchor, WCBS-TV New York
  • Lloyd LaCuesta – television journalist, KTVU South Bay bureau chief
  • David Lat – legal commentator and author, founder of Above the Law news website
  • Pat Loika – Comic podcaster
  • Elita Loresca – former NBC4 and current KTRK-TV Los Angeles weathercaster and meteorologist
  • Michelle Malkin – commentator on FOX News, author
  • Jean Martirez – anchor for KTTV Fox 11 in Los Angeles
  • Cheryl Diaz Meyer – 2004 Pulitzer Prize winner[15][18]
  • Libertito Pelayo – publisher and editor-in-chief, Filipino Reporter
  • Maria Quiban – meteorologist and news anchor, KTTV/KCOP-TV in Los Angeles
  • Elaine Quijano – correspondent at CBS News, formerly with CNN
  • Victoria Recaño – correspondent on such programs as The Insider and Inside Edition
  • Maria RessaNobel Peace Prize laureate, journalist, author and co-founder of Rappler
  • Frances Rivera – journalist, television news anchor for WHDH Boston, WPIX New York and NBC News
  • Anne Quito – architecture and design critic for Quartz
  • Alex Tizon – 1997 Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting, Seattle Times;[19] author of Big Little Man: In Search of My Asian Self (2014)[20]
  • Corky Trinidad (1939–2009) – Honolulu Star Bulletin editorial cartoonist
  • Jia Tolentino – essayist and staff writer for The New Yorker
  • Pablo S. Torre – sportswriter and columnist for ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine
  • Jose Antonio Vargas – 2008 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Journalism for his work with the Washington Post; DREAM Act advocate; undocumented immigrant[21][22]
  • Mona Lisa Yuchengco – founder, Filipinas magazine
  • Tony Cabrera - Morning anchor for ABC7 Eyewitness News in Los Angeles
  • Irene Cruz - Weekend morning anchor and general assignment reporter for ABC7 Eyewitness News in Los Angeles
  • Melissa Mecija - 10News This Morning weekday anchor in San Diego
  • Shanna Mendiola - Emmy Award-winning meteorologist for NBC4 in Los Angeles

Law

Literature

Theatre

Business

  • Diosdado BanataoSilicon Valley engineer and businessman
  • Caterina Fake – half-Filipino co-founder of Flickr and Hunch[27]
  • Bobby Murphy – co-founder of Snapchat
  • Josie Natori – founder of The Natori Company
  • Loida Nicolas-Lewis – chairman and CEO of TLC Beatrice International Holdings, Inc.
  • Peter Valdes – co-founder of Tivoli Systems Inc.
  • Sheila Lirio Marcelo – entrepreneur and founder of Care.com
  • DJ Rose – full name Roslynn Alba Cobarrubias, founder of mydiveo, helped launch Myspace
  • Jennifer Rubio – co-founder and President of Away
  • Jeremiah Abraham – founder and CEO of Tremendous Communications,[28] advocate for Asian and Asian American visibility in Hollywood

Culinary arts

Education

  • Astrid S. Tuminez – first female president of Utah Valley University
  • Flora Arca Mata – first Filipino-American Teacher in California[32]
  • Kristoffer Toribio – first Filipino-American President of the International Association for College Admission Counseling.

Fashion and pageantry

Fashion

  • Anna Bayle - Fashion Model, First Asian woman to achieve supermodel status[33]
  • Monique Lhuillier – Hollywood fashion designer
  • Kelsey Merritt – fashion model, first Filipino woman to ever walk in the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show[34]
  • Josie Natori – Hollywood fashion designer
  • Geena Rocerotransgender fashion model and activist,[35] founder of the Gender Proud organization
  • Leeann Tweeden – model, television personality

Pageants

Health science

Labor

Military

Politics

  • Peter Aduja – State Legislature, Hawaii; first Filipino American elected in the United States
  • Dennis Apuan – former member of the Colorado House of Representatives
  • Larry Asera – First Filipino American elected to a city council in the continental United States (1973)[55]
  • Steve Austria – Former Republican congressman from Beavercreek, Ohio[56]
  • Rob Bonta – First Filipino American California State Legislator, first Filipino American Attorney General of California
  • Thelma Buchholdt – First female Filipino American state legislator (1974); first Asian American to be elected President of the National Order of Women Legislators (1987)
  • Brian Bulatao – Former CIA Chief Operations Officer, former Under Secretary of State for Management
  • Christopher Cabaldon – Mayor of West Sacramento, California, born in 1965
  • Romeo Munoz Cachola – former member of the Hawaii House of Representatives
  • Jessica Caloza – first Filipina member of the California State Assembly
  • Benjamin J. Cayetano – First Filipino American governor in the U.S., for the state of Hawaii
  • Vicky Cayetano – Former First Lady of Hawaii
  • TJ Cox – Former U.S. House of Representatives of California, his mother is Filipino
  • John Ensign – Former U.S. Senator and U.S. Representative from Nevada; his great-grandmother is from the Philippines[57]
  • Jose Esteves – Former Mayor of Milpitas, California
  • Tony Fulton – member of Nebraska State Legislature
  • Sonny Ganaden – member of the Hawaii House of Representatives
  • Mike Guingona – Council Member and Former Mayor of Daly City, California
  • Greggor Ilagan – member of the Hawaii House of Representatives
  • Lorraine Rodero Inouye – Hawaii state senator, former Mayor of Hawaii County and the first Filipino-American woman to serve as mayor of a U.S. County
  • Ysabel Jurado – member of the Los Angeles City Council
  • Donna Mercado Kim – Hawaii state senator, former President of the Hawaii Senate
  • Trish La Chica – Filipino American State Legislator, Hawaii, 2023.[58]
  • Rolando Lavarro, Jr. – Jersey City council president, elected to city council in 2011.[59]
  • Marvin Lim, member of the Georgia House of Representatives
  • Joey Manahan – former member of the Honolulu City Council, Vice Speaker of the Hawaii House of Representatives
  • John W. Marshall, Virginia Secretary of Public Safety and Director of the U.S. Marshals Service, his mother is of Filipino descent
  • Thurgood Marshall, Jr. – White House senior staff member during the Clinton Administration, his mother is of Filipino descent
  • Rose Martinez – Filipino American State Legislator, Hawaii, 2022.[60]
  • Benjamin Menor – Filipino American State Legislator and Judge, Hawaii, 1962[61]
  • Jeff Moneda – City Manager of Foster City, California.[62]
  • Mona Pasquil – in November 2009, became the first woman to serve as acting lieutenant governor of California[63][64]
  • David Pendleton – former Minority Floor Leader, Hawaii House of Representatives
  • Sean David Reyes – Utah Attorney General and first ethnic minority elected to state office in Utah; father is Filipino, father's first cousin was 7th President of the Philippines, Ramon Magsaysay
  • Joy San Buenaventura – Member of the Hawaii Senate and former member of Hawaii House of Representatives
  • Bobby Scott – U.S. Representative from Virginia, maternal grandfather is Filipino[65]
  • Michele J. Sison – Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs
  • Peter J. Urscheler – Mayor of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, and a first-generation Filipino American honored among the Ten Outstanding Young Americans by JCI USA in 2019.[66]
  • Kris Valderrama – Member of the Maryland House of Delegates, representing the 26th District
  • Ron Villanueva – Member of the Virginia House of Delegates, representing the 21st District; former member of the Coast Guard Reserves

Apolinar Sangalang - First Filipino Mayor of a city in the United States. He was the mayor of Lathrop, CA.

Religion

  • Ruben Habito, Filipino Zen Master of the Sanbō Kyōdan lineage and founder of Maria Kannon Zen Center in Dallas, Texas
  • Oscar A. Solis – First Filipino American Catholic bishop and first to head a diocese, 10th Bishop of Salt Lake City
  • Bruce Reyes-Chow – The first Filipino American head of a major denomination in the US, as Moderator of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) (2008–2010)[67]
  • Jonathan Santos Ferriol – well-known evangelist and one of the bishops of Pentecostal Missionary Church of Christ (4th Watch) based in Los Angeles
  • Alejandro D. Aclan – Auxiliary bishop of Los Angeles
  • Anthony Celino – Auxiliary bishop of El Paso
  • Efren V. Esmilla – Auxiliary bishop of Philadelphia
  • Rey Bersabal – Auxiliary bishop of Sacramento
  • Andres Cantoria Ligot – Auxiliary bishop of San Jose

Sports

Television and film

Reality show

Internet

  • Christine Gambito – American Internet personality, actress, and comedian; maintains one of the most-subscribed-to channels on YouTube; also appointed Ambassador of Philippine tourism
  • Anthony Padilla – famous YouTube celebrity; he is one half of the comedy duo Smosh and is one of the most subscribed YouTubers on YouTube
  • Wil Dasovich – television personality, commercial model, celebrity endorser and famous YouTube vlogger. He won the Shorty Awards for Vlogger of the Year.
  • Bretman Rock – US-based Filipino internet personality and beauty influencer; he stars in his own reality TV show on MTV
  • Michael Reeves – A tech and comedy YouTuber currently streaming under the American media collective known as OfflineTV.
  • Valkyrae – YouTube streamer and co-owner of lifestyle and gaming org 100 Thieves. One of the most-watched female streamers.
  • Guava Juice - Filipino-American YouTuber, content creator, writer, and actor known for challenge vlogs, DIYs, experiments, and founding channel Wassabi Productions
  • Jason Lustina - Founder and creator of SoCal Filipinos. A large social media network focused on the Filipino American experience which has now branched into other areas like Northern California, Arizona, Chicago, DMV (DC, Maryland, Virginia), Tri-State (New Jersey, New York, Philadelphia) and additional communities including D*Kababayan (Filipino Disney Community), Bahaghari (LGBTQIA+ Filipino Community), Filipino Heritage Nights and AfroKababayan.
  • Alex Burriss - (known online as Alex Wassabi) Filipino-American YouTuber, content creator, writer, and actor known for challenge vlogs, DIYs, experiments, and founding channel Wassabi Productions
  • Sneako - American videographer, political commentator and social media personality.[91]

Music

Disc jockeys

  • DJ Babu (Chris Oroc) – disc jockey of the World Famous Beat Junkies and member of the hip hop group Dilated Peoples. Hails from Oxnard, California.
  • Mix Master Mike (Michael Schwartz) – Beastie Boys disc jockey, founding member of the Invisibl Skratch Piklz; winner of 1992 and 1993 DMC World DJ Championships (Rocksteady DJ's) and winner of the 1992 New Music Seminar/Supermen Inc. DJ Battle for World Supremacy. Appears in the documentary film Scratch.
  • DJ Qbert (Richard Quitevis) – San Francisco Bay Area hip-hop disc jockey and pioneering turntablist. Founding member of the Invisibl Skratch Piklz; winner of 1991 (solo) 1992 (Rocksteady DJ's), 1993, (Dreamteam) DMC World DJ Championships. Featured in the movie Hang the DJ. Appears in the documentary films Modulations and Scratch. Created animated pop film Wave Twisters
  • DJ Riddler (Rich Pangilinan) – disc jockey at WKTU in New York, Sirius Satellite Radio, record producer, remixer and member of the group MYNT
  • DJ Virman (Virman Coquia) of the group Far East Movement
  • DJ Bonics – disc jockey of rapper Wiz Khalifa

Rock music

Pop music

American Idol Contestants

Rap, hip hop

  • DJ Qbert – turntablist, composer, producer
  • Apl.de.ap - rapper, member of Black Eyed Peas
  • Danny Brown – rapper who is half African American and half Filipino.
  • Guapdad 4000 – rapper of African-American and Filipino descent[92]
  • Chad Hugo – music producer and musician; one-half of The Neptunes.
  • Ruby Ibarra – rapper, music producer, and spoken word artist
  • Allan Pineda Lindo – known as apl.de.ap. Member of the Grammy Award-winning hip-hop group The Black Eyed Peas
  • Maliibu Miitch – rapper of African-American, Vietnamese and Filipino descent
  • Travis McCoyGym Class Heroes singer; Haitian/Italian/Irish/Filipino/Native American
  • Saweetie – rapper who is half African-American and half Filipino-Chinese[93]
  • Cassie Ventura – known as Cassie (born August 26, 1986, in New London, Connecticut), R&B and pop singer, model, and actress.
  • Dominic Fike – rapper who is half African American and half Filipino.
  • Antwon – rapper of mixed African American and Filipino descent
  • Dok2 - Korean Filipino rapper

Music producers

  • Chazwick Bradley Bundick – American recording artist and producer also known as Toro y Moi
  • Illmind – hip hop producer
  • Irv Gotti - Hip-Hop Producer (of African American and Filipino descent)
  • Arian Leviste – electronic music artist, record producer and disc jockey
  • Shawn Wasabi – record producer
  • Cha Cha Malone – music producer
  • Chris "Flict" Aparri - LA-based Grammy nominated, platinum record producer, songwriter, artist DJ & musical director.

R&B

  • Sugar Pie DeSanto – born as Umpeylia Marsema Balinton, Filipino-American rhythm and blues singer of the 1950s and 1960s
  • Billy Crawford – R&B, pop and soul singer
  • Asia Cruise (Filipina mother) - R&B singer
  • H.E.R. (Filipino mother) – R&B[94]
  • Adrian Marcel – R&B singer, songwriter, and rapper from Oakland, California. Who is half African American and half Filipino

Jazz

  • Bobby Enriquez – "The Wild Man", prodigious pianist
  • Bob Parlocha – saxophonist and longtime host of a syndicated nightly jazz radio program
  • Danny Barcelona – jazz drummer, part of Louis Armstrong's All-Stars from 1958 onward

International world music

  • Joe Bataan – Latin soul legend

Classical music

  • Manuel Kabajar Cabase – composer, arranger, conductor, multi-instrumentalist, movie musical director, Halad Museum Inductee
  • Evelyn Mandac – soprano opera singer and winner of the Metropolitan Opera Auditions.
  • Eugene F. Castillo – conductor, born in Hollywood, CA, is now the music director of the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra, Cultural Center of the Philippines

Composers

  • Craig Abaya – award-winning songwriter, singer, musician. Collaborator with JoAnne Lorenzana (1st cousin) and DJ Qbert. Same person as the filmmaker and photographer.
  • Nilo Alcala – the first Filipino-American composer recipient of the prestigious Copland House Residency Award.
  • Robert Lopez – composer, first Filipino American Oscar recipient;[95] recipient of a Grammy Award, Emmy Award and a Tony Award; twelfth individual to achieve an EGOT

Other / miscellaneous genres

  • Amapola Cabase – singer, actor, producer, TV Host of "Amapola Presents Show" KEMO-TV (now KOFY) San Francisco, California
  • Kriesha Chu – K-Pop singer based in South Korea
  • Frankie Cosmos – singer-songwriter
  • Kate Earl – singer-songwriter
  • Jocelyn Enriquez – techno and house singer of "Do You Miss Me?"
  • Carlo Gimenez – lead guitarist for Dia Frampton
  • Billy Hinsche – lead guitarist for Dino, Desi & Billy
  • Rachael Lampa – Christian singer
  • Gerard Damien Long – known as Hodgy Beats; member of the hip-hop collective OFWGKTA and the duo MellowHype, rapper and producer.
  • Neal McCoy – country music singer.
  • Sophia Montecarlo – singer, model, a "Born Diva", grand finalist
  • Jaya Ramsey – freestyle artist
  • Ana Roxanne – experimental musician and singer
  • Steve Lacy – American musician, singer-songwriter, and record producer. Member of music group: The Internet.
  • underscores – April Harper Grey, experimental and pop musician

Musical groups

  • One Vo1ce – All-Filipina girl R&B/OPM singing group from the San Francisco Bay Area
  • Blue Scholars – Geo aka. Prometheus Brown, MC of the duo, is Filipino-American
  • Death Angel – thrash metal band
  • Kai – San Francisco Bay Area boy band
  • Moonpools & Caterpillars – Filipino American rock band based in California in the 1990s
  • My American Heart – rock band
  • The Rocky Fellers – group was composed of four Filipino brothers and their father. Their hit song: "Killer Joe" reached No. 16 on the Billboard Hot 100 in April 1963.
  • Legaci – Filipino-American R&B band from the San Francisco Bay Area, California, formed in 1997. They were the backup singers for Canadian Pop-R&B singer Justin Bieber on the My World Tour.
  • Q-York – Filipino-American hip hop record production duo composed of Flava Matikz (DJ/producer) and Knowa Lazarus (songwriter/MC).

Other

  • Leandro Aragoncillo – former FBI intelligence analyst and retired Gunnery Sergeant in the United States Marine Corps who was charged with espionage and leaking classified information against President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
  • Thomas Beatie – Filipino father,[96] female-to-male transgender man who is legally male and married as a male. Beatie had chest reconstruction and testosterone therapy but kept his female reproductive organs intact.[97] He is notable for having had had several pregnancies since becoming physically male.
  • Helen Agcaoili Summers Brown (1915-2011), also known as Auntie Helen, a teacher, librarian, and founder of the Pilipino American Reading Room and Library.[98][99] She was born in Manila to a Filipino mother and an Anglo father, and moved to America after her graduation from Manila Central High School.[98]
  • Andrew Cunanan – half-Italian, half-Filipino American gay alleged spree killer during the mid-1990s; allegedly murdered several of his lovers, including the Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace. Father was a retired United States Navy from the Philippines.
  • Ralph Deleon – convicted of conspiracy to support terrorism.[100][101]
  • Pearlasia Gamboa – controversial business woman successfully sued by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission
  • Asia Jackson – American actress, YouTuber, and activist[102]
  • Christina Marie Williams (1985–1998) – murdered child.[103][104]
  • Wesley So – chess grandmaster, World Fischer Random Chess Champion, and 3-time and the current U.S. Chess Champion.

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