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Biographies of Famous U.S. Immigrants
- Chinua Achebe (Nigeria) writer
- Madeleine Albright (Czech Republic) politician
- Christiane Amanpour (Britain/Iran) TV news correspondent
- Anousheh Ansari (Iran) astronaut
- Desi Arnaz (Cuba) actor, producer
- Isaac Asimov (Russia) writer
- John James Audubon (Haiti) ornithologist
- Antonio Banderas (Spain) actor
- Mikhail Baryshnikov (Russia) dancer
- Irving Berlin (Russia) composer
- Victor Borge (Denmark) pianist, comedian
- Fernando Botero (Colombia) painter, sculptor
- Charles Boyer ( France) actor
- Sergey Brin (Russia) business personality, computer scientist
- Joseph Brodsky (Russia) poet
- Yul Brynner (Russia) actor
- Jose Canseco (Cuba) baseball player
- Stokely Carmichael (Trinidad) activist
- Andrew Carnegie (Scotland) industrialist, philanthropist
- Jackie Chan (Hong Kong) actor, filmmaker
- Steve Chen (Taiwan) You Tube founder
- Liz Claiborne (Belgium) designer
- Nadia Comaneci (Romania) gymnast
- Celia Cruz (Cuba) singer
- Willem de Kooning (Netherlands) artist
- Oscar de La Renta (Dominican Republic) fashion designer
- Kiran Desai (India) author
- Theodosius Dobzhansky (Ukraine) geneticist
- Eleuthere Irenee Du Pont (France) chemist, entrepreneur
- Albert Einstein (Germany) physicist
- Erik Erikson (Germany) psychoanalyst
- Gloria Estefan (Cuba) singer
- Enrico Fermi (Italy) physicist
- Eva Gabor and Zsa-Zsa Gabor (Hungary) actor
- Andy Garcia (Cuba) actor
- Khalil Gibran (Lebanon) poet and novelist
- Salma Hayek (Mexico) actress, producer
- Audrey Hepburn (Belgium) actor
- Vladimir Horowitz (Russia) pianist
- Khaled Hosseini (Afghanistan) physician, author
- Arianna Huffington (Greece) author, media mogul
- Iman (Somalia) model
- Wyclef Jean (Haiti) musician, political figure
- Jawed Kari (Germany) co-founder of You Tube
- Elia Kazan (Turkey) director
- Teresan Heinz Kerry (Mozambique) philanthropist, public figure
- Henry Kissinger (Germany) U.S. Secretary of State
- Jan Koum (Ukraine) WhatsApp creator
- Anna Kournikova (Russia) tennis player
- Mila Kunis (Ukraine) actor
- Padma Lakshmi (India) chef
- Ang Lee (Taiwan) director, producer
- Wen Ho Lee (Taiwan) scientist
- John Leguizamo (Colombia) actor, comedian
- John Lennon (England) rock musician, songwriter
- Yo-Yo Ma (France) musician
- Louis Malle (France) director
- Thomas Mann Germany) novelist, essayist
- Bob Marley (Jamaica) singer, songwriter
- Melquiades Martinez (Cuba) politician
- Yao Ming (China) basketball player
- Mario Molina (Mexico) chemist, Nobel laureate
- Ricardo Montalban (Mexico) actor
- Van Morrison (Ireland) singer, songwriter
- Masaharu Morimoto (Japan) chef
- John Muir ( England) writer, naturalist
- Elon Musk (South Africa) inventor, entrepreuneur
- Vladimir Nabokov (Russia) writer
- Thomas Nast (Germany) illustrator, journalist
- Martina Navratilova ( Czechoslovak) tennis player
- John George Nicolay (Germany) writer, lawyer, government official
- Maureen O'Hara (Ireland) actor
- Ann-Margaret (Olsson) (Sweden) actor
- Yoko Ono (Japan) artist
- William Paterson (Ireland) lawyer, Supreme Court Justice, U.S. Governor, U.S. Senator
- I. M. Pei (Hong Kong) architect
- Sundar Pichai (India) Google executive
- Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff (Russia) pianist, composer, conductor
- Ayn Rand (Russia) writer, philosopher
- Rihanna (Barbados) singer
- Helena Rubinstein (Poland) business, beauty products
- Carlos Santana (Mexico) musician
- Arnold Schwarzenegger (Austria) U.S. Governor, actor, bodybuilder
- Monica Seles (Serbia) tennis player
- Sammy Sosa (Dominican Republic) baseball player
- Isaac Stern (Ukraine) violinist
- Lee Strasberg (Ukraine) theatrical teacher, director, actor
- Levi Straus (Germany) creator of Levis pants
- Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (Russia) composer, pianist
- Nicola Tesla (Croatia) inventor
- Charlize Theron (South Africa) actor
- Melania Trump (Yugoslavia) First lady
- Rudolph Valentino (Italy) actor
- Sofia Vergara (Colombia) actress
- Elie Weisel (Romania) writer
- Dr. Ruth Westheimer (Germany) sex advisor, TV personality
- Jason W (Taiwan) designer
- Jerry Yang (Taiwan) Yahoo creator
- Fareed Zakaria (India) journalist
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