ESL II ~ Famous U.S. Immigrants

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