INDIVIDUALS

Highlighted names go to official homepages.

Amuro, Namie (Japanese-Italian) singer (Love Enhanced)

Aoki, Brenda Wong (Japanese-Chinese-Spanish-Scots) performance artist (First Voice)

Aoki, Devon Edwenna (Japanese-German-English) model (also daughter of Rocky Aoki, former Olympic wrestler and owner of Benihana)

Anaida (Greek-Persian) singer (Chori chori, Nazuk nazuk)

Anderson, Erika Surat (Indian-Danish) filmmaker (None of the Above, Turbans)

Anwar, Joni (Scottish-Indonesian) singer, actor

Arai, Lucy (Japanese-American) artist

Asano, Tadanobu (Japanese-American) actor

Baker, Brandon (English-German-Spanish-Filipino) actor (One World)

Bald, Vivek Renjen (Indian-Australian) filmmaker (Taxi-Vala/Auto-biography)

Beaumont, Beverly (Filipina/Irish-Spanish) model

Becker, Samantha Marie (Filipina-Native American-Spanish) actress (A Pig's Tail)

Beckinsale, Kate (English-Burmese) actress

Behrman, Liz (Chinese-?) model

Berenyi, Miki (Hungarian-Japanese) musician (Lush)

Berssenbrugge, Mei-mei (Chinese-?) poet (Empathy)

Bhakta, Raj (Irish-Indian) contestant on original The Apprentice, Republican candidate for Congress in Pennsylvania in 2006

Birney, Alfred (Dutch-Eurasian) writer (Vogels rond een vrouw/Lalu Ada Burung)

Bosch, Johnny Yong (Korean-American) actor, martial artist (Power Ranger)

Branch, Michelle (Indonesian-Dutch-French-Irish) musician

Brosh, Nina (Russian-Chinese) model, actress

Brynner, Yul* (Swiss-Mongolian/Russian) actor (The King and I)

Burbridge, Cindy [Sirinya Winsiri] (Thai/Indian-American) model, TV personality, Miss Thailand 1996

Byler, Eric (Chinese-German/English/Dutch) film director (Kenji's Faith, Charlotte Sometimes)

Cain, Dean [Dean Tanaka] (Japanese/Welsh-French Canadian-Irish) actor (Superman)

Carrere, Tia (Chinese-Filipina-Hawaiian-Spanish) actress (Wayne's World)

Cates, Phoebe (Filipina-Spanish-Chinese-Russian-American) actress (Fast Times at Ridgemont High)

Chand, Meira (Swiss-Indian) writer (The Gossamer Fly)

Chang, Diana (Chinese-?) writer (The Frontiers of Love)

Charteris, Leslie (English-Chinese) writer (The Saint series)

Chaudhury, Sarita (Indian-English) actress (Mississippi Masala)

Chen, Odessa (Chinese-American) singer-songwriter (Port, Troia)

Chinen, Rina (Japanese Okinawan/Caucasian?) singer, model

Ching, Brian (Chinese-Hawaiian/Caucasian?) professional soccer player (San Jose Earthquakes)

Cho, Liz (Lizabeth) (Korean-Austro-Hungarian) newscaster (ABC)

Choi, Susan (Korean-?) writer (The Foreign Student: A Novel)

Chong, Tommy (Chinese/Scottish-Irish Canadian) actor, comedian (Cheech & Chong)

Chopra, Daniel (Swedish-Indian) golfer

Chow, China (Japanese-German-English-Chinese) model, actress (The Big Hit)

Chow, Tina (Japanese-German) model, designer

Chung-Hoon, Edwin K. (Chinese-Hawaiian-Caucasian) doctor

Clausnitzer, Rolf (Japanese-German) Wing Chun-style martial artist

Clive-Lowe, Mark de (Japanese-New Zealander) pianist

Cooper, Patience (Anglo-Indian) actress

Corwin, Lola (Korean-German/Swiss American) model

Corwin, Morena (Korean-German/Swiss American) model

Crowe, Mia (Swedish-Native American-Japanese-Korean) TV personality, musician, model

Cunanan, Andrew (Filipino-Italian-American) serial killer

Curry, Ann (Japanese-American) newscaster (NBC News)

d'Alexandry d'Orengiani, Lee Ann (French-Chinese) actress, model (Love Generation Hong Kong)

Dacascos, Mark (Filipino-Spanish-Chinese-Irish-Japanese) actor, martial artist (Double Dragon, The Crow: Stairway to Heaven)

Damon, Johnny (Thai-Caucasian) professional baseball player

Dariotis, Wei Ming — Professor

Davenport, Kiana (formerly Diana) writer (Shark Dialogues)

Davies, Peter Ho (Welsh-Chinese) writer (The Ugliest House in the World)

Davis, Rocio G. (Belgian, German, Spanish, Chinese, Filipino, English, American) professor, writer (University of Navarre)

Derozio, Henry Louis Vivian (Anglo-Indian) poet (first major English-language poet from India) (The Fakeer of Jungheera)

D'Esterno, Louis (French-Chinese) TV personality (The Tube)

Devlin, Dean (American-Filipino) movie producer (The Patriot, Independence Day)

Dhiri, Amita (Indian-French) actress (24 Hours in London)

Doig, Lexa (Scottish-Filipina) actress (Friday the 13th Part 10)

Donohue, Maura Nguyen (Vietnamese/Irish-American) dancer, performance artist

Dover, Cedric (Anglo-Indian?) writer

Dyrendal, Peter Corp (Thai-Danish-German) actor, singer

Eaton, Edith Maude [Sui Sin Far] (Chinese-English Canadian) writer (Mrs. Spring Fragrance and Other Writings)

Eaton, Winnifred [Onoto Watanna] (Chinese-English-Canadian) writer (Me: A Book of Remembrance)

Eng, Dhabih (Chinese-Scottish-Persian) graphics designer

Ferre, Michelle (Japanese-French) actress (Who Am I?)

Fenkl, Heinz Insu (Korean-Aerican) writer, professor

Field, Norma (Japanese-American) writer (In the Realm of a Dying Emperor)

Foster, Sesshu (Japanese-Chicano) poet (Angry Days, City Terrace Field Manual)

Fulbeck, Kip (Cantonese-English-Irish-Welsh) performance artist (Banana Split), professor (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Gaskins, Pearl Fuyo (Japanese-European-American) journalist, writer

Ghauri, Yasmin (Pakistani-German) model (Victoria's Secret, Sports Illustrated)

Gilbert, Ed (German/Filipina-Italian-Chinese) museum director (Gallery Paule Anglim)

Gill, Asha (Punjabi-English-French) VJ (Channel V)

Gitanjali (German-Indian) filmmaker (New Views, New Eyes)

Godenzi, Joyce Mina (?) actress, model, Miss Hong Kong (She Shoots Straight, Eastern Condors)

Goh, Su-Ling (Chinese-Caucasian Canadian?) TV hostess (inside entertainment)

Goh, Tara (Chinese-Australian-Malaysian) model

Gomyo, Karen (Japanese-Canadian?) violinist

Gosselaar, Mark-Paul (Dutch-Indonesian) actor (Saved by the Bell, NYPD Blue)

Grace, Hiroko (Japanese-?) model

Graves, Danny (Vietnamese-American) professional baseball player (Cincinnati Reds)

Green, Debbie (Anglo-American-Korean) U.S. Olympic volleyballer

Haga, Kenji (Japanese-?) actor (Silver, Streetfighter 2)

Hagedorn, Jessica Tarahata (Filipina-American?) writer, performance artist (Dogeaters)

Hahn, Kimiko (Japanese-?) writer (The Unbearable Heart)

Hall, Gordon Nagayama (Japanese-?) professor (University of Oregon)

Hall, Mina (Japanese-American?) writer (The Big Book of Sumo, Ohana)

Hampe, Nanda (Thai-German) model

Harrison, Gabriel (English-Chinese) actor

Harry, Angela (Korean-American) model

Hartmann, Sadakichi (Japanese-German) poet, art critic, disciple of Walt Whitman

Hill, Amy (Japanese-Finnish) actress, comedian (All American Girl, Rising Sun)

Ho, Don (Hawaiian-Chinese-Portuguese-Dutch-German) lounge singer

Ho, Hoku (Hawaiian-Chinese-Portuguese-Dutch-German) singer (daughter of Don)

Holt, Sandrine (Chinese-French) actress (Once A Thief)

Horan, Celina (Chinese-American) model/singer ("Good News, Bad News")

Hotung, Robert (Chinese-?) businessman/compradore in early colonial Hong Kong

Hu, Kelly (English-Chinese-Hawaiian) actress (Melrose Place, Martial Law, Nash Bridges)

Humperdinck, Engelbert (Arnold George Dorsey) (Anglo-Indian) singer

Hussain, Nasser (Indian-English) cricketeer (captain of English national team)

Iasha, Ida (Dutch-Indonesian) actress

Iglesias, Enrique (Spanish-Filipino?) singer/musician, son of Julio Iglesias

Imazaki, Seijo (Japanese-Swedish/American) model

Inoue, Alice (Chinese/German-Irish) newscaster, actress

Irabu, Hideki (Japanese-American) professional baseball player (New York Yankees)

Ishimaru, Heather (Japanese/Scottish-French-English) newscaster (KGO-ABC Channel 7)

Ishizuka, Nathalie (Japanese/French) author (Nat Says)

Israel, Maya (English-Indian) model, actress

Jen, Gish (Chinese-?) writer (Who's Irish?)

Jones, Malia (Filipina-Hawaiian-Spanish/English-German) actress, surfer

Kaif, Katrina (Indian-English) model, actress

Kamano, Stacy (Japanese-German-Russian-Polish) actress, model (Baywatch)

Kamiya, Gary (Japanese-Scottish) magazine editor (Salon)

Kariya, Paul Tetsuhiko (Japanese-Canadian) professional ice hockey player (Colorado Avalanche)

Kariya, Steve (Japanese-Canadian) professional ice hockey player (Vancouver Canucks)

Kawabori, Paul (Welsh-Japanese) singer

Kay, Lori (Filipina-?) sculptor

Kay Williams, Teresa (see Williams-Leon, Teresa)

Keller, Nora Okja (American-Korean?) writer (Comfort Woman)

Kelley, Matt (Norwegian-Korean) founder and editor of MAVIN magazine

Kennard, Joyce Luther (Dutch-Indonesian-Chinese) judge (California State Supreme Court justice)

Khan, Carla (English-Pakistani) professional squash player

Kiang, Lara (Chinese-Jewish American) musician (6X)

Kilmer, Val (Mongolian-Irish-Scottish-Cherokee-German-Sephardic-Swedish) actor (The Doors)

Kim, Nelli (Korean-Russian) gymnast

Kingsley, Ben (Indian-English) actor (Gandhi)

Kodaira, Keiko-Annette (Japanese-?) sportscaster

Kohara, Sydnie (Japanese-?) television journalist (KGO-ABC Channel 7)

Korf, Mia (American-Japanese) actress (One Life to Live)

Kozlowski, Mike (Japanese-?) professional football player (member of undefeated 1983 Miami Dolphins)

Kreuk, Kristin (Dutch-Chinese) actress (Edgemont, Smallville)

Kusama, Karyn (Japanese/Irish-Amerian) filmmaker (Girlfight)

Kwan, Michael David (Chinese-Swiss) author (Things That Must Not be Forgotten)

Kwan, Nancy (English/Scottish-Chinese) actress (The World of Suzy Wong)

Lam, Wi(l)fredo (African/Spanish-Chinese Cuban?) painter

Larasati (German-Indonesian) model

Lau, Ankie (Chinese-German) producer, director, actress, model (Last Chance Love)

Lazaroo, Simone (Australian-Eurasian) writer (The World Waiting to be Made)

Lê, Linda (French-Vietnamese) writer (Slander)

Lear, Amanda (French-English-Russian-Vietnamese-Indonesian?) model, singer

Lee, Brandon (Chinese-German American) actor (The Crow), martial artist (son of Bruce Lee)

Lee, Brook Antoinette Mahealani (Chinese-Korean-Dutch-French-Portuguese) Miss Universe 1997

Lee (Keasler), Shannon (Chinese-German American) actress (High Voltage), martial artist (daughter of Bruce Lee)

Lee, Mabel (Chinese-American?)

Leka, Claire (Filipina-German-Irish) business reporter (CNN)

Lennon, Sean (Japanese-English) singer, son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono

Leung, Brian (Chinese-American) writer

Lewis, Katherine Reynolds (Chinese/Irish-German-American) journalist (Newhouse News)

Liebert, Ottmar (Chinese-German-Hungarian) guitarist

Lincou, Thierry (French-Chinese) professional squash player

Liu, Aimee E. (Chinese-?) writer (Face, Cloud Mountain)

Loh, Sandra Tsing (German-Chinese) writer, actress, performance artist (Aliens in America, Depth Takes a Holiday)

Louganis, Greg (Samoan-American) famous Olympic diver

Lukfin, Olivia (American-Japanese) singer (Yahoo group)

Lum, Mike (Japanese-American) professional baseball player (member of 1976 World Series-winning Cincinnati Reds, first player to ever pinch-hit for Hank Aaron)

Lutz, Bettina (Bonnie) (German-?) model

Machado, Mario (Chinese-Portuguese) sports commentator (CBS)

Malhotra, Manny (Indian-French Canadian) professional ice hockey player (New York Rangers)

Mamoa, Jason (Hawaiian-?) actor (Baywatch Hawaii)

Manley, Alexandra Christina (English-Chinese-Austrian) princess of Denmark (has two sons, Nikolai and Felix, who are princes of Denmark)

March, Jane (Vietnamese/Chinese-Spanish/English) actress (The Lover)

Mazzara, Alicia (Italian-Chinese) writer, web designer

McCunn, Ruthanne Lum (Scottish-Chinese) writer (Thousand Pieces of Gold)

McIntosh, Kathaleeya (Scottish-Thai) model, television hostess

Mills, Ami Chen (Chinese-Anglo-Irish American) consultant, author, journalist

Mingus, Charles (Chinese-West Indian-black-Caucasian) jazz musician

Minnillo, Vanessa (Filipina-Irish-Italian) Miss Teen USA 1998

Misajon, Maile (Hawaiian/Filipina-Irish) musician (Eden's Crush)

Midori, Mistress (German-Japanese) professional dominatrix

Miyazawa, Rie (Dutch-Japanese) actress (Erotikkuna kankei, Kyosokyoku)

Mohr, Todd Park (German-English/Korean) singer/songwriter (Big Head Todd and the Monsters)

Mok, Karen (Welsh-Chinese-Arabic-German) actress, singer (Fallen Angels)

Molinari, Susan (Chinese-?) Congressional Represenative from New York

Moriya, Elina (Finnish-Japanese) photographer

Mundy, Kate (German-Filipina) newscaster

Narita, Darling (Japanese-) actress (Bang, Pups, Tweeked)

Naz (Michael McGuinness) (Pakistani-Irish) musician (Mr. Sheen)

Needa, Veronica (Chinese-English-Japanese-Syrian) performance artist (Face)

Nguyen, Mary (Vietnamese-?) model

Nickson, Julia (Chinese-English) actress (Rambo: First Blood Part II)

Nishii, Brian (Japanese-American?) sound and video designer/editor (Westwell Productions)

Nishimoto, Keri (Japanese-American?) All-American volleyballer (Long Beach State)

Noguchi, Isamu (Japanese/Irish-American) architect, designer, sculptor (Rockefeller Skating Rink Atlas motif, Yale Beinecke Library courtyard sculpture)

Nuyen, France (French-Vietnamese) actress (South Pacific, The World of Suzie Wong, Hawaii Five-O, St. Elsewhere)

O'Brien, Jane (Irish-?) model

O'ana, Hank (Hawaiian-Portuguese) professional baseball player in the 1930's

Oberon, Merle (Irish-English-Indian) actress (The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Dark Angel, Wuthering Heights)

Ohno, Apolo Anton (Japanese-American) short track speed skater

Ondaatje, Michael (Dutch-Sri Lankan?) writer (The English Patient)

Ong, Jaymee (Australian-Chinese) actress, model

Osman, Nuraliza (Indian/Chinese-Indonesian/Dutch) Miss Singapore 2002

Ozeki, Ruth (Japanese-American) author (My Year of Meats, All Over Creation)

Pacificar, Greg (German-Filipina) filmmaker (Girl)

Pak, Greg (Korean-American) filmmaker (Fighting Grandpa, Robot Stories)

Paramsothy, Sunita (Indian-Irish) Miss New York 1995

Park, Richard (Korean-American?) professional ice hockey player (Minnesota Wild)

Parker, Jon Kimura (Japanese-Canadian) classical pianist

Patterson, Jodi Ann (Indonesian/Swiss-English) model

Peeples, Nia (French/German/Filipino/Spanish-Caucasian) dancer, actress (Fame)

Pelaud, Isabelle Thuy (French-Vietnamese) professor, writer (San Francisco State University)

Phau, Björn (Indonesian-German) professional tennis player

Phillips, Lou Diamond (Filipino-Native American-American) actor (Young Guns)

Polunin, Olga (Russian-Chinese) painter

Pressler, Kimberly (Japanese-?) Miss USA 1999

Price, Lindsay (German/Irish-Korean) actress (Beverly Hills, 90120)

Q, Maggie (American-Vietnamese) model

Quidachay, Ronald (Irish-Filipino) judge (California State Superior Court)

Randall, Sabrina (Korean-Irish) model

Reeves, Keanu (Chinese Hawaiian-English Canadian) actor (The Matrix)

Rehman, Aqeel (Pakistani-Austrian) professional squash player

Rekdal, Paisley (Chinese-Norwegian) writer, poet (The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee: Observations On Not Fitting In, A Crash of Rhinos)

Renee (Chinese-Swiss) model (2001 Darknights Nationals and Innovative Race Series)

Renninger, Kate (German-Filipina) model

Reis (Lee [Kar-yan]), Michelle (Chinese-Portuguese) actress (Fallen Angels), Miss Hong Kong 1988

Rigg, Kate (Indonesian-Australian) playwright, actress ('Chink-O-Rama')

Robb, Doug (Japanese-Scottish) musician (Hoobastank)

Robinson, Tjalie [Jan Boon, Vincent Mahieu] writer (The Hunt for the Heart and Other Selected Stories)

Robinson, Zuleikha (Burmese-Indian-Iranian-Scottish-English) actress (Time Code)

Roh-Spaulding, Carol (Korean-Caucasian American) professor, writer ("White Fate", "Waiting for Mr. Kim")

Root, Maria P.P. (Filipina-Caucasian) professor, author (Racially Mixed People in America)

Rosa, John P. (Chinese-Portuguese) professor (Arizona State University)

Rose, Donita (Filipina-American) VJ (MTV Asia)

Saffron (Chinese-Portguese) singer (Republica)

Sapp, Carolyn Suzanne (Spanish-Filipina-?) Miss America 1991

Sarma, Ursula Rani (Indian-Irish) playwright (Touched, Blue)

Sasaki, John (Japanese-?) newscaster (KTVU-Fox)

Scherzinger, Nicole (Hawaiian-Russian-Filipina) musician (Eden's Crush)

Schneider, Rob (Filipino-American) actor (Deuce Bigolo, Male Gigolo), comedian (Saturday Night Live)

Scott, Lisa Marie (Japanese/Scottish-Swiss) ballet dancer, model (February 1995 Playmate of the Month), actress (Baywatch, High Tide)

Shanley, Mai (Chinese-Irish) Miss USA 1984

Shepard, Karen (Chinese-American) professor, writer (An Empire of Women) (granddaughter of Han Suyin )

Shinoda, Mike (Japanese-Caucasian American?) singer (Linkin Park)

Shu-Cleaves, Kay (Chinese/Scots-Irish) stage manager (Pegasus Players, SMNetwork.org)

Soong, Kristin (Chinese-?) poet

Speier, Michael Tora (Japanese-Canadian) artist

Spyder (Dan) (Chinese/English-Irish-Scots-Welsh-German-French-Danish-Dutch) infamous computer hacker

St. John, Austin (German-Native American-Irish-Japanese-Italian-Spanish) actor, martial artist (Power Ranger)

Stanley-Baker, Joan [Hsu Hsiao-hu] (Chinese-?) art historian, professor, author (Japanese Art)

Stanoff, Miya Ando (Japanese-Russian) artist

Strong, Adrian (English-Japanese) mythologist

Storr, Jamie (Japanese/Hungarian-English-Canadian) ice-hockey player (Los Angeles Kings goalie)

Suleri (Goodyear), Sara (Welsh-Pakistani) writer, professor (Meatless Days, The Rhetoric of English India)

Sumida, Yumi (Japanese-Irish) actress

Sunaida, Mari (Japanese-Scots/English) writer ("Playing Samurai and the Princess")

Sunohara, Vicky (Ukrainian-Japanese American) ice-hockey player (star for American Olympic team)

Suyin, Han [Elizabeth Kuanghu Chou] (Chinese-English) writer (My House Has Two Doors, Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing)

Tai Tai, Princess Nai (English-Chinese) vaudeville star (sometimes referred to as "the Oriental Nightingale")

Takesue, Kimi (Japanese-American) film director (Bound)

Takako, Uehara (Japanese Okinawan-Caucasian?) singer, model

Tan, Cecilia (Chinese-Filipino/Irish/Welsh) writer, editor, "sexuality activist"

Tanabe, David (Japanese-American?) professional ice hockey player (Carolina Hurricanes)

Thanh Ha (Truong Thi Minh Ha)(Vietnamese-American) singer (Paris by Night)

Tilly, Jennifer (Chinese-Canadian?) actress (The Doors)

Tilly, Meg (Chinese-Canadian?) actress (The Big Chill, Agnes of God)

Tobin, Jason actor (Nash Bridges, Better Luck Tomorrow)

Todd, Mia Doi (Japanese-American/Irish-American) singer (The Golden State)

Tom, Kiana (Chinese Hawaiian-Irish) fitness trainer ("Kiana's Flex Appeal")

Triplett, Pimone (?) poet (Ruining the Picture)

Truong, Jean-Michel (French-Vietnamese) author, scientist

Ts'ao, Aimee (Chinese-American) dance writer and critic ("The Dance Insider On-Line")

Turko, Rose-Marie (French-Chinese) painter, director (Scarred)

Umemiya, Anna (Japanese-American) model

Ungpakorn, Giles (Thai-British) professor (Chulalongkorn University)

Usher, David (Thai-Caucasian Canadian?) singer (Moist)

Valverde, Caroline (Kieu Linh) (Vietnamese-American) professor (UCDavis)

Van Halen, Alex (Dutch-Indonesian) rock musician (Van Halen)

Van Halen, Eddie (Dutch-Indonesian) rock musician (Van Halen)

van Kerckhove, Carmen (Chinese-Belgian) journalist (South China Morning Post)

Vanity (D.D. Winters, Denise Matthews) (Eurasian-Scottish) model, actress, evangelist

Verghese, Kevyn (Spanish/Dutch-Chinese) actor, vocalist, model

Wah, Fred (Chinese-Scandinavian Canadian) poet, professor (Diamond Grill)

Walters, Rex (Japanese-American) basketball player (Miami Heat)

Wattanapanich, Marsha (Thai-German) singer/musician

Wedemeyer, Herman (German-Hawaiian-Irish-English-Chinese-Tahitian) football star

Westerhoff, Gay-Yee (English-Chinese) cellist (The Bond)

Westmore, Matthew (Indonesian-English) actor (Pensacola Wings of Gold, Invisible Man)

Williams-León, Teresa (Japanese-Welsh-Irish-Iberian) professor (California State University, Northridge)

Wilson, Don "The Dragon" (Japanese-American) actor, kickboxer (Terminal Rush)

Wilson, Macel (Hawaiian-Chinese-Portuguese-British) Miss USA 1962

Winsiri, Sirinya [Cynthia "Cindy" Carmen Burbridge] (Anglo-Thai-American) actress, model, Miss Thailand 1996

Wong, Adrienne (?) playwright, actress (Other Women, Foreign Bodies)

Wong, Declan (Chinese-Dutch American) actor, producer, magician

Wong, Diana (Asian-Finnish) actress, radio/voiceover artist

Wong, Michael "Fitzgerald" (Chinese-Dutch American) actor (The Case of the Cold Fish)

Wong, Russell (Chinese-Dutch American) actor (Romeo Must Die)

Wood, Forrest G. (?) author, actor (The Arrogance of Faith, dot-com The Movie)

Yamasaki, Lindsey (Japanese-?) basketball player (New York Liberty)

Yau, John (Chinese-?) critic, poet, essayist (Forbidden Entries, The United States of Jasper Johns)

Yip, Françoise (French-Chinese) actress (Rumble in the Bronx)

Young, Tata (Thai-American) singer, model, actress (Plai Tien)

Zetterlund, Yoko Karin (Japanese-American) Olympic volleyballer

Fictional characters:

Dr. (Julius) No of the eponymous James Bond film (German-Chinese)

Caine on Kung Fu (played by David Carradine)

Shang-chi (comic book hero in Marvel's "The Hands of Shang-chi, Master of Kung Fu")

Patrick Shade (Japanese-Irish) (computer character in Intense Championship Wrestling Federation)

Johnny Depp's character in Platoon? (played unit's translator)

Asuka Soryu Langley (Japanese-German) anime character

 

There was some difficulty for me in deciding how to list people's ethnicities because some cultures define belonging by blood ("jus sanguinis") and others by place of birth ("jus soli"); also, at what point does of someone of say Scottish heritage become simply "American", or Scottish-American, rather than "Scottish"? When someone is described as "Japanese-American" this means that their American heritage is of mixed Anglo or Caucasian makeup; I do not mean to imply that the term "American" refers exclusively to white people. When a parent is mixed (say German-English, with the other one say Chinese) I wrote it "Chinese/German-English", with the slash (/) representing the parental "combination".

*people with an asterisk after their name have been questioned by some as to whether they have actually claimed Asian ancestry only in order to create a more exotic professional persona