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List of Chinese Canadians

This is a list of Chinese Canadians including both original immigrants who obtained Canadian citizenship and their Canadian-born descendants who are , have made significant contributions to the Canadian or international culture or society politically, artistically or scientifically, or have prominently appeared in the news.

Politics and public service

Law and judiciary

  • Jim Chu (朱小荪), first Chinese Chief Constable of the Vancouver Police Service
  • Susan Eng (伍素屏), former chair of the Metro Toronto Police Services Board
  • Avvy Go (吳瑤瑤), prominent social justice lawyer and member of the Order of Ontario
  • Guo Guoting (郭国汀), prominent lawyer who defended dissidents and Falun Gong practitioners
  • Linda Ann Loo, Judge of the Supreme Court of British Columbia
  • Won Alexander Cumyow (溫金有), first person of Chinese origin born in Canada; as a court interpreter, was also the first ethnic-Chinese government official in Canada
  • Kew Dock Yip (葉求鐸), first Chinese-Canadian lawyer
  • Peter Yuen (源植勉), first Chinese-Canadian Deputy Chief of the Toronto Police Service

Military

At the start of World War II Chinese Canadians could not serve in the Royal Canadian Navy or RCAF as they were deemed aliens but could serve in the Canadian Army.

  • Douglas Jung, later as federal MP
  • William Lore, RCN Lieutenant Commander, later lawyer and insurance agent in Hong Kong

Business

Athletics

Visual arts

  • Raymond Chow, martial arts film producer
  • Richard Fung, video artist, writer, public intellectual and theorist
  • Terence Koh, diverse work sometimes involving queer, punk, and pornographic sensibilities
  • Ken Lum, public art champion, award-winning educator
  • Bruce Mau, design, architecture, art, museums, film, eco-environmental design, and conceptual philosophy
  • Fiona Staples, multi-award winning comic book artist
  • Paul Wong, award-winning artist, curator, and organizer of public interventions
  • Tobi Wong, artist
  • Xiaojing Yan (闫晓静), sculptor, installation artist
  • Matthew Wong (王俊傑), painter

Entertainment

  • Allison Au, Chinese-Jewish Canadian jazz saxophonist
  • Aarif Rahman (李治廷), Hong Kong born Chinese Canadian singer/actor
  • Aimee Chan (陳茵媺), Canadian actress based in Hong Kong
  • Albert M. Chan, actor and filmmaker
  • Yung Chang, film director
  • Peter Chao, Youtube personality
  • Joyce Cheng (鄭欣宜), Hong Kong based Canadian singer/actress
  • Ken Chinn, punk rock
  • Ping Chong (張家平), contemporary theater director
  • Mark Chao (趙又廷), Taiwanese-Canadian actor, model
  • Caleb Chan, Canadian composer
  • Shannon Chan-Kent, Canadian voice actress, singer and actress
  • Angela Chang (張韶涵), Taiwanese singer and actress
  • Brandon Chang, Taiwanese actor and entertainer
  • Desiree Lim, filmmaker
  • Osric Chau, Canadian actor
  • Edison Chen (陳冠希), Hong Kong Canadian film actor, musician, producer, entrepreneur, and fashion designer
  • Terry Chen, Canadian film and television actor
  • Fred Cheng (鄭俊弘), Canadian-born Hong Kong actor and singer
  • Olivia Cheng (鄭啟蕙), Canadian actress, broadcast journalist, and former correspondent for Entertainment Tonight Canada
  • Kayi Cheung, Miss Hong Kong 2007
  • Leslie Cheung (張國榮), Hong Kong singer, actor and film producer, Cantopop pioneer
  • Charlene Choi (蔡卓妍), Hong Kong actress and singer, Cantopop group Twins
  • Rae Dawn Chong, Canadian-American actress
  • Robbi Chong, Canadian actress and former model
  • Tommy Chong, Canadian-American comedian, actor, writer, director, activist, and musician, part of comedy duo Cheech & Chong
  • Nikki Chooi, Chinese-Canadian classical violinist
  • Timothy Chooi, Chinese-Canadian violinist and professor
  • Lawrence Chou (周俊偉), Hong Kong-based Canadian singer and actor
  • Jacky Chu, Taiwanese actor; former member of Taiwanese group 183 Club
  • Christy Chung (鍾麗緹), Canadian actress and restaurateur
  • Linda Chung (鍾嘉欣), Chinese-Canadian actress and singer
  • Shawn Dou (窦骁), Chinese-Canadian actor
  • Liu Fang, musician, plays pipa (Chinese lute)
  • Evan Fong, Canadian video game commentator
  • Patrick Gallagher, Canadian actor
  • Godfrey Gao (高以翔), Taiwanese-Canadian actor, brand model
  • Chan-hon Goh, ballet dancer, past principal dancer with the National Ballet of Canada
  • Anna Guo, musician, plays yangqin (Chinese hammered dulcimer)
  • Han Mei, musician and scholar of ethnomusicology, plays guzheng (Chinese plucked zither) and liuqin (Chinese lute)
  • He Qiuxia, musician, plays pipa (Chinese lute)
  • Xiaodan He, filmmaker
  • Anne Heung (向海嵐), Hong Kong Canadian actress and model
  • Denise Ho (何韻詩), Hong Kong-based Cantopop singer and social activist
  • Sandrine Holt, English-Canadian model and actress
  • Samantha Jo, Canadian actress
  • Matthew Ko (高鈞賢), Hong Kong actor, 2005 Mr. Hong Kong
  • Kristin Kreuk, Canadian actress
  • Krew, a Canadian YouTube gaming group, consists of Kat La (Funneh), Betty La (Rainbow), Kim La (Gold), Wenny La (Lunar), and Allen La (Draco), all of whom are siblings
  • Grace Lynn Kung, Canadian actress
  • Jade Kwan (關心妍), Hong Kong Cantopop singer
  • Julia Kwan, Vancouver-based filmmaker, resident at Canadian Film Centre
  • Kelvin Kwan (關楚耀), Cantopop singer
  • Miranda Kwok, screenwriter, actress, and film producer
  • Sonija Kwok (郭羨妮), Hong Kong actress, currently works for TVB, 1999 Miss Hong Kong
  • Patrick Kwok-Choon, Canadian actor
  • Karena Lam (林嘉欣), Taiwanese actress and singer based in Hong Kong
  • Henry Lau, singer-songwriter, producer, and actor working in Korean pop music; member of Super Junior-M
  • Byron Lawson, Canadian actor
  • Cory Lee, Canadian singer-songwriter and actress
  • Lee Kum-Sing, pianist
  • Quentin Lee (李孟熙) – Canadian / American director, known for gay Asian stories
  • Sook-Yin Lee, Canadian broadcaster, musician, filmmaker, and actress; host of CBC Radio's Definitely Not the Opera
  • Selena Li(李施嬅), Hong Kong-based Canadian actress
  • Shin Lim (林良尋), America's Got Talent (season 13) winner 2018 (America).
  • Anastasia Lin (林耶凡), actress, Miss World Canada 2015, human rights activist, denied opportunity to enter Miss World due to activism
  • Bernice Liu (廖碧兒), Canadian actress, singer, and commercial model based in Hong Kong
  • Simu Liu, Canadian actor, writer and stuntman
  • Ellen Joyce Loo (盧凱彤), singer, Cantopop group at17
  • Alexina Louie, Canadian composer
  • Crystal Lowe, Canadian actress and model, best known for her scream queen roles
  • Yvette Lu, Canadian independent film and stage actress, filmmaker, singer, composer, writer and producer
  • Linlyn Lue, Canadian actress
  • David Y.H. Lui, Vancouver arts impresario and producer
  • Nicole Lyn, actress known for her role in TV series Student Bodies
  • Kenneth Ma (馬國明), Canadian actor working in Hong Kong
  • Melissa O'Neil, Canadian singer and musical theatre actress
  • Daniel Ong, actor and radio-TV personality in Singapore
  • Eddie Peng (彭于晏), also known as Peng Yu-yen), a Taiwanese Canadian actor
  • Keanu Reeves, Canadian movie actor
  • Steph Song, actress
  • Domee Shi, animator/writer/director, Academy Award winner
  • Lydia Shum (沈殿霞), Hong Kong and Canadian comedian and actor
  • Mina Shum, Canadian independent film director
  • Hayden Szeto, Canadian actor
  • Meg Tilly, actress and novelist
  • Angela Tong (湯盈盈), Hong Kong based Canadian actress
  • Nicholas Tse (謝霆鋒), Hong Kong based Canadian actor, martial artist, TV chef, entertainer
  • Yee Jee Tso, Canadian actor
  • Cissy Wang (汪詩詩), fashion model, wife of Donnie Yen
  • Jeremy Wang, better known as Disguised Toast, YouTube personality
  • Byron Wong, music and TV producer; founder of several entertainment and new media production and design companies
  • Ellen Wong, Canadian actress of Cambodian and Chinese descent
  • Jadyn Wong, Canadian actress
  • Kris Wu (吴亦凡), also known as Wu Yifan, Canadian rapper and former member of band EXO
  • Stephen Yan, celebrity chef
  • Benny Yau, Canadian television presenter, actor, and singer
  • Sally Yeh (葉蒨文), Taiwanese-Canadian Cantopop singer and actress
  • Françoise Yip (葉芳華), Canadian actress
  • Raugi Yu, actor
  • Catalina Yue, singer, songwriter, actress
  • Tony Yu (余景天), Chinese-Canadian singer, dancer, former Youth With You (season 3) and Produce X 101 contestant
  • Rui Shi Zhuo (卓汭仕), Canadian composer
  • Song Yiren (宋伊人), Chinese-Canadian actress.
  • Xuan Liu (刘璇), Chinese-Canadian top 20 female poker player

Media

Literature

Science and technology

  • Thomas Chang, physician, medical scientist, and inventor credited with co-inventing the world's first artificial cell
  • James K. M. Cheng, architect
  • Kin-Yip Chun, geophysicist
  • Anming Hu, mechanical engineer, target of controversial US prosecution
  • Roger Hui, computer scientist and co-developer of the J programming language
  • Yuet Wai Kan, medical scientist and physician; pioneer of applying molecular biology and genetics into clinical medicine
  • Victor Ling, medical researcher whose research focuses on drug resistance in cancer; known for his discovery of P-glycoprotein
  • Tak Wah Mak, medical researcher, geneticist, oncologist, and biochemist; known for his discovery of the T-cell receptor and pioneering work in the genetics of immunology
  • Bing Thom, architect
  • Paul Tseng, applied mathematician who went missing while kayaking in the Yangtze River in the Yunnan province of China and is presumed dead
  • Tsui, Lap-chee (徐立之), geneticist
  • Joseph Yu Kai Wong, physician and philanthropist
  • William Kwong Yu Yeung, astronomer; discoverer of asteroids and the comet 172P/Yeung
  • Ban Chi-ho Tsui (徐志豪), anesthesiologist

Education and academia

Other

  • Huseyincan Celil (赛因江·贾里力), Uyghur extradited to China from Uzbekistan
  • Simon Chang, fashion designer
  • Bill Chong (鄭根), spy for Britain during WW-II, awarded British Empire Medal.
  • Eric Chong, professional chef and winner of MasterChef Canada (season 1)
  • Sunny Fong, fashion designer
  • Kevin He, ice hockey player
  • Dan Liu (廖建明), fashion designer
  • Susur Lee, chef and international restaurateur based in Toronto
  • Alvin Leung (梁經倫), chef and TV personality
  • Vincent Li (李偉光), committed infamous murder
  • Moy Lin-shin (梅連羨), Taoist monk and founder of International Taoist Tai Chi Society (國際道家太極拳社)
  • Cody Sun (孙立宇), professional League of Legends player
  • Christopher Siu, professional chef and winner of MasterChef Canada (season 7)
  • Riza Santos, beauty queen
  • xChocoBars, a.k.a Janet Rose Xu. Internet personality and Twitch streamer
  • Sunny Tang, founder of Wushu Canada and Sunny Tang Martial Arts Centre chain of martial arts centres
  • Joseph Tsai, businessman
  • Tse Chi Lop (謝志樂), alleged kingpin of the Sam Gor crime syndicate
  • Adrian Wu, fashion designer
  • Jason Wu, fashion designer
  • Joe Zee – creative director of Elle magazine; host of fashion TV series All on the Line

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