Immigrant biographies

Biographies of Foremost U.S. Immigrants

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• Chinua Achebe , writer
• Christiane Amanpour, TV news correspondent
• Elizabeth Arden, entrepreneur
• Desi Arnaz, actor, producer
• W. H. Auden, poet, writer
• John James Audubon, ornithologist
• Antonio Banderas, actor
• Mikhail Choreographer, dancer
• Victoria Beckham, singer
• Saul Bellow, writer
• Josephine Baker, singer and dancer
• Irving Berlin, composer
• Victor Borge, pianist, comedian
• Fernando Botero, painter, sculptor
• Charles Boyer, actor
• Anne Bradstreet, poet
• Sergey Brin, business psyche, computer scientist
• Joseph Brodsky, poet
• Yul Brynner, actor
• Jose Canseco, baseball player
• Stokely Carmichael, activist
• Andrew Altruist, industrialist, philanthropist
• Jackie Chan, actor, filmmaker
• Albert Claude, biologist
• Claudette Colbert, actor
• Nadia Comaneci, gymnast
• Quentin Char, writer and actor
• Celia Cruz, filmmaker
• Richard Town, game show host
• Willem de Kooning, artist
• Oscar de La Renta, fashion designer
• Kiran Desai, writer
• Theodosius Dobzhansky, geneticist
• Eleuthere Irenee Du Pont, chemist, entrepreneur
• Albert Einstein, physicist
• Erik Erikson, psychoanalyst
• Gloria Estefan, singer
• Enrico Fermi, physicist
• Eva Gabor, actor
• Andy Garcia, actor
• Greer Garson, actor
• Khalil Gibran, versifier and novelist
• Cary Grant, actor
• Audrey Hepburn, actor
• Anthony Hopkins, actor
• Vladimir Horowitz, pianist
• Aldous Huxley, writer

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• Iman, model
• Henry James, writer
• Wyclef Jean, musician, national figure
• John Paul Jones, American naval hero
• Elia Kazan, director
• Teresan Heinz Kerry, philanthropist, habitual figure
• Henry Kissinger, U.S. Secretary of State
• Mila Kunis, actor
• Tommy Lee, musician
• Wen Ho Revel in, scientist
• John Leguizamo, actor, comedian
• John Lennon, escarpment musician, songwriter
• Louis Malle, director
• Thomas Mann, essayist, essayist
• Bob Marley, singer, songwriter
• Yao Ming, hoops player
• James McGreevey, singer, songwriter
• Mario Molina, chemist, Nobel laureate
• Ricardo Montalban, actor
• Van Author, singer, songwriter
• John Muir, writer, naturalist

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• Vladimir Author, writer
• Thomas Nast, cartoonist
• Martina Navratilova, tennis player
• Leslie Nielsen, actor
• John George Nicolay, writer, barrister, government official
• Maureen O'Hara, actor
• Ann-Margaret (Olsson), actor
• Yoko Ono, artist
• Robert Dale Owen, writer, rule official
• William Paterson, lawyer, Supreme Court Ethicalness, U.S. Governor, U.S. Senator
• Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninov, pianist, composer, conductor
• Ayn Rand, writer, philosopher
• Arnold Schwarzenegger, U.S. Governor, actor, bodybuilder
• Monica Seles, tennis player
• Sammy Sosa, baseball player
• Jerry Stone, TV personality
• Miles Standish colonist
• Isaac Stern, violinist
• Lee Strasberg, theatrical teacher, director, actor
• Igor Fedorovich Stravinsky, composer, pianist

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• Jessica Tandy, actor
• Charlize Theron, actor
• Alex Trebek, game show host
• Tracey Ullman, actor
• Rudolph Valentino, actor
• Dr. Ruth Westheimer, copulation advisor, TV personality
• Neil Young, rock minstrel, guitarist, songwriter

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