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Examples:Quentin Tarantino (1963-), American film director—Edgar Snow (1905-1972), American journalist, reported from China 1928-1941, author of Red Star Over China—George Soros or György Schwartz (1930-), Hungarian American financial speculator and millionaire philanthropist—American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)—William Faulkner (1897-1962), American novelist and poet—Yuen Ren Chao (1892-1982), Chinese-American linguist—ASCII, American Standard Code for Information Interchange—Chuck Norris (1940-), American martial artist and actor—Sir Hiram Maxim (1840-1916), American British inventor of the Maxim machine gun—Tsung-Dao Lee (1926-), Chinese American physicist, Columbia University, 1957 Nobel laureate—Donald Knuth (1938-), famous American computer scientist at Stanford University—Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), American inventor and businessman—Robert J. Van de Graaff (1901-1967), American physicist—Helen Keller (1880-1968), famous American deaf-blind author and activist (whose story is told in biopic The Miracle Worker)—Wong Yee Ching or Flossie Wong-Staal (1947-) Hong Kong American virologist, joint discoverer of the HIV AIDS virus—Jeremy Lin (1988-), Taiwanese-American professional basketball player (NBA)—Kurt Lewing (1890-1944), German American psychologist of the Gestalt school, the author of Field Theory—Stephen Collins Foster (1826-1864), American composer—Michael Jackson (1958-2009), American musician and entertainer—Pocahontas (c. 1595-1617), native American noted for her association with the colony of Jamestown, Virginia—Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968), American clergyman and civil rights activist—Noam Chomsky (American linguist and political activist)—Ken Warren (1926-1989), American adventurer and river runner—Ezra Pound (1885-1972), American poet and translator—Shing-Tung Yau (1949-), Chinese-American mathematician, Fields medalist in 1982—Eileen Chang (1920-1995), famous Chinese-American novelist—Shiing-Shen Chern (1911-2004), Chinese-American mathematician—Yo-Yo Ma (1955-), French-Chinese-American cellist—Whitney Houston (1963-2012), American singer and actress—Brandon Lee (1965-1993), American actor, son of Bruce Lee—Johns Hopkins (1795-1873), American entrepreneur, abolitionist and philanthropist—Raymond Burghard (1945-), US diplomat and ambassador Vietnam 2001-2004, chairman of American Institute in Taiwan from 2006—Christine Choy (1964-), Chinese-American film director—Iris Chang (1968-2004), Chinese American historian and author of the Rape of Nanjing—Zbigniew Brzezinski (1928-), Polish-American academic and politician, US National Security Adviser 1977-1981— |