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Great Immigrants Award, the Glossary

The Great Immigrants Award is an annual initiative by the Carnegie Corporation of New York to honor naturalized citizens of the United States who have made significant contributions to American society, democracy, and culture.^[1]

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Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im

Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im (عبد الله أحمد النعيم; born in 1946) is a Sudanese-born Islamic scholar who lives in the United States and teaches at Emory University.

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Afaf Meleis

Afaf Ibrahim Meleis (born 1942) is an Egyptian-American nurse-scientist, researcher, and medical sociologist.

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Afsaneh Mashayekhi Beschloss

Afsaneh Mashayekhi Beschloss (born July 28, 1956) is an American economist and entrepreneur.

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Ajay Banga

Ajaypal Singh "Ajay" Banga (born November 10, 1959) is an Indian-born American business executive.

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Alanis Morissette

Alanis Nadine Morissette (born June 1, 1974) is a Canadian and American singer, songwriter and musician known for her emotive mezzo-soprano voice and confessional songwriting.

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Albert Bourla

Albert Bourla (Άλμπερτ Μπουρλά; born) is a Greek-American veterinarian and businessman known for serving as the chairman and chief executive officer of the pharmaceutical company Pfizer.

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Aleksandar Hemon

Aleksandar Hemon (Александар Xeмoн; born September 9, 1964) is a Bosnian-American author, essayist, critic, television writer, and screenwriter.

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Ali Soufan

Ali H. Soufan (born 1971) is a Lebanese-American former FBI agent who was involved in a number of high-profile anti-terrorism cases both in the United States and around the world.

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Ali Zaidi (lawyer)

Ali A. Zaidi (born 1987/1988) is a Pakistani-American lawyer and political advisor serving as the second White House National Climate Advisor since 2022.

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Alon Cohen

Alon Cohen ((אלון כהן); born in Israel, 1962) is the co-founder of VocalTec Inc.

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Ana Lucia Araujo

Ana Lucia Araujo is an American historian, art historian, author, and professor of history at Howard University.

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Ana Navarro

Ana Violeta Navarro-Cárdenas (née Navarro Flores;Stated on Finding Your Roots, November 14, 2017 born December 28, 1971) is a Nicaraguan-American political strategist and commentator.

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Andrew Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie (November 25, 1835August 11, 1919) was a Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist.

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Andrew Cherng

Andrew Cherng (pronounced; born April 1948) is a Chinese-born American billionaire restaurateur.

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Angélique Kidjo

Angélique Kpasseloko Hinto Hounsinou Kandjo Manta Zogbin Kidjo (born July 14, 1960) is a Beninese-French singer-songwriter, actress and activist noted for her diverse musical influences and creative music videos.

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Angelika Amon

Angelika Amon (January 10, 1967 – October 29, 2020) was an Austrian American molecular and cell biologist, and the Kathleen and Curtis Marble Professor in Cancer Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

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Angus Deaton

Sir Angus Stewart Deaton (born 19 October 1945) is a British-American economist and academic.

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Anisa Ibrahim

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Ardem Patapoutian

Ardem Patapoutian (born 1967) is a Lebanese-American molecular biologist, neuroscientist, and Nobel Prize laureate of Armenian descent.

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Ashish Jha

Ashish Kumar Jha (born December 31, 1970) is an Indian-American general internist physician and academic who served as the White House COVID-19 response coordinator from 2022–2023.

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Asmeret Asefaw Berhe

Asmeret Asefaw Berhe is a soil biogeochemist and political ecologist who served as Director of the Office of Science at the US Department of Energy from 2022 to 2024.

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Bas (rapper)

Abbas Hamad (born May 27, 1987), known professionally as Bas, is a French-born Sudanese-American rapper.

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Bernard Lagat

Bernard Kipchirchir Lagat (born December 12, 1974) is a Kenyan-American former middle and long-distance runner.

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Betty Kwan Chinn

Betty Kwan Chinn (關惠群) is a philanthropist who lives in Eureka, California.

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Bita Daryabari

Bita Daryabari (بیتا دریاباری; born April 6, 1969, in Tehran) is an Iranian-American philanthropist, entrepreneur and computer scientist.

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Branka Arsić

Branka Arsić is the Charles and Lynn Zhang Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.

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Carlos del Rio

Carlos del Rio (born August 28, 1959 in Mexico) is a distinguished professor of medicine at Emory University School of Medicine.

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Carlos Lozada (journalist)

Carlos Eduardo Lozada (born 1971) is a Peruvian-American journalist and author.

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Carmen C. Bambach

Carmen C. Bambach (1959) is an American art historian and curator of Italian and Spanish drawings at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art who specializes in Italian Renaissance art.

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

The Carnegie Corporation of New York is a philanthropic fund established by Andrew Carnegie in 1911 to support education programs across the United States, and later the world.

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Daniel Diermeier

Daniel Diermeier (born July 16, 1965).

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Daniel Lubetzky

Daniel Lubetzky (born 1968) is an American billionaire businessman, philanthropist, author, and founder and executive chairman of snack company Kind LLC.

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Darius Adamczyk

Darius Adamczyk (born February 8, 1966) is a Polish-American businessman.

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Debbie Mucarsel-Powell

Debbie Jessika Mucarsel-Powell (born January 18, 1971) is an American politician and academic administrator who served as a U.S. representative for from 2019 to 2021.

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Dina Katabi

Dina Katabi (دينا قَتابي; born 1970) is the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and the director of the MIT Wireless Center.

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Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute

The Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (or DAIR Institute) is a research institute founded by Timnit Gebru in December 2021.

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Eboo Patel

Eboo Patel is an American Ismaili of Gujarati Indian heritage and founder and president of Interfaith America (previously known as Interfaith Youth Core), a Chicago-based international nonprofit that aims to promote interfaith cooperation.

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Eric Yuan

Eric S Yuan (born 20 February 1970) is a Chinese-American billionaire businessman, engineer, and the chief executive officer and founder of Zoom Video Communications, of which he owns 22%.

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Fadi Chehadé

Fadi Chehadé (Arabic: فادي شحادة) (born 1962) is an information technology executive, founder of RosettaNet and former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of ICANN.

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Gebisa Ejeta

Gebisa Ejeta (born 1950) is an Ethiopian American plant breeder, geneticist and Professor at Purdue University.

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Gisele Barreto Fetterman

Gisele Barreto Fetterman (Almeida; born February 27, 1982) is a Brazilian-born American activist, philanthropist and nonprofit executive.

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Gisele Ben-Dor

Gisèle Ben-Dor (Buka; born 26 April 1955) is a Uruguayan-American-Israeli orchestra conductor.

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Gita Gopinath

Gita Gopinath (born 8 December 1971) is an Indian-American economist who has served as the first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), since 21 January 2022.

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Guido Imbens

Guido Wilhelmus Imbens (born 3 September 1963) is a Dutch-American economist whose research concerns econometrics and statistics.

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Gustavo García-Siller

Gustavo Garcia-Siller, M.Sp.S. (born December 21, 1956) is a Mexican-American prelate of the Catholic Church.

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Hakki Akdeniz

Hakki Akdeniz (born February 1, 1984) is an American restaurateur.

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Hans M. Kristensen

Hans Møller Kristensen (born April 7, 1961) is director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists.

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Helen Mirren

Dame Helen Mirren (born Ilyena Lydia Vasilievna Mironov, 26 July 1945) is a British actor.

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Helen Quinn

Helen Rhoda Arnold Quinn (born 19 May 1943) is an Australian-born particle physicist and educator who has made major contributions to both fields.

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Herman Cornejo

Herman Cornejo (born 13 May 1981) is an Argentine-born ballet dancer and a principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre.

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Herro Mustafa

Herro Kader Mustafa Garg (Hêro Mistefa; born 1973) is an Kurdish-American diplomat who has served as the United States ambassador to Egypt since November 2023.

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Ibrahim Cissé (academic)

Ibrahim I. Cissé is a Nigerien-American biophysicist.

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Ilia Calderón

Ilia Calderón Chamat (born 1972) is a Colombian journalist.

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Ilya Kaminsky

Ilya Kaminsky (born April 18, 1977) is a USSR-born, Ukrainian-Jewish-American poet, critic, translator and professor.

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Independence Day (United States)

Independence Day, known colloquially as the Fourth of July, is a federal holiday in the United States which commemorates the ratification of the Declaration of Independence by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, establishing the United States of America.

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Inge Thulin

Inge Thulin, (born November 9, 1953) is the executive chairman of the board at 3M.

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Jean-Claude Brizard

Jean-Claude Brizard (born January 12, 1963) is an American former school superintendent.

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Jill Ellis

Jillian Anne Ellis (born 6 September 1966) is an English-American football manager and executive who is currently the president of San Diego Wave FC.

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Jim Lee

Jim Lee (이용철; born August 11, 1964) is a Korean-born American comic book artist, writer, editor, and publisher.

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Jim Peebles

Phillip James Edwin Peebles (born April 25, 1935) is a Canadian-American astrophysicist, astronomer, and theoretical cosmologist who is currently the Albert Einstein Professor in Science, emeritus, at Princeton University.

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John Oliver

John William Oliver (born 23 April 1977) is a British and American comedian who hosts Last Week Tonight with John Oliver on HBO.

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Jony Ive

Sir Jonathan "Jony" Paul Ive; born 27 February 1967) is a British and American designer. Ive is best known for his work at Apple Inc., where he served as senior vice president of industrial design and chief design officer. He has been serving as chancellor of the Royal College of Art in London since 2017.

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Jorge Labarga

Jorge Labarga (born October 21, 1952) is a justice of the Florida Supreme Court, taking office on January 6, 2009.

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Julie Delpy

Julie Delpy (born 21 December 1969) is a French and American actress, screenwriter and film director.

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Julissa Arce

Julissa Natzely Arce Raya is a Mexican-American writer, speaker, businesswoman, and advocate for immigration rights.

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Julissa Reynoso Pantaleón

Julissa Reynoso Pantaleón (born January 2, 1975) is a Dominican born American attorney and diplomat who is the United States Ambassador to Spain and Andorra.

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Karen Lozano

Karen Lozano is a Mexican American researcher who is the Julia Beecherl Endowed Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Nanotechnology Center at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.

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Karen Nakamura

Karen Nakamura (born October 23, 1970) is an American academic, author, filmmaker, photographer and the Robert and Colleen Haas Distinguished Chair of Disability Studies and Professor of Anthropology at University of California, Berkeley.

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Karen Zacarias

Karen Zacarías is an American playwright.

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Karine Jean-Pierre

Karine Jean-Pierre (born August 13, 1974) is an American political advisor who has been serving as the White House press secretary since May 13, 2022.

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Karl Racine

Karl Anthony Racine (born December 14, 1962) is a Haitian-American lawyer and politician.

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Katalin Karikó

Katalin "Kati" Karikó (Karikó Katalin,; born 17 January 1955) is a Hungarian-American biochemist who specializes in ribonucleic acid (RNA)-mediated mechanisms, particularly in vitro-transcribed messenger RNA (mRNA) for protein replacement therapy.

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Ke Huy Quan

Ke Huy Quan (born 1970 or 1971), also known as Jonathan Ke Quan, is an American actor.

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Kyriacos A. Athanasiou

Kyriacos A. Athanasiou (Κυριάκος Αθανασίου; born 1960) is a Greek Cypriot-American bioengineer who has contributed significantly to both academic advancements as well as high-technology industries.

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Laila Lalami

Laila Lalami (ليلى العلمي, born 1968) is a Moroccan-American novelist, essayist, and professor.

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Leana Wen

Leana Sheryle Wen (born Wen Linyan; January 27, 1983) is an American physician, author, professor, speaker, consultant, newspaper columnist and television commentator.

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Lina Hidalgo

Lina Maria Hidalgo (born February 19, 1991) is an American politician in the state of Texas.

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Linus Torvalds

Linus Benedict Torvalds (born 28 December 1969) is a Finnish-American software engineer who is the creator and lead developer of the Linux kernel.

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Lisa Su

Lisa Tzwu-Fang Su (born November 7, 1969) is an American billionaire business executive and electrical engineer who is president, chief executive officer (CEO), and the chair of the semiconductor company Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).

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Lorena Garcia

Lorena Garcia is a Venezuelan chef who has opened multiple restaurants and became famous through appearances on multiple television shows.

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Luchita Hurtado

Luchita Hurtado (born Luisa Amelia García Rodriguez Hurtado; November 28, 1920August 13, 2020) was a Venezuelan-born American painter based in Santa Monica, California, and Arroyo Seco, New Mexico.

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Luis von Ahn

Luis von Ahn (born 19 August 1978) is a Guatemalan entrepreneur, software developer, and consulting professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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M. Rosaria Piomelli

Maria Rosaria Piomelli (born Angrisano on October 24, 1937) is an Italian architect.

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Malinda Lo

Malinda Lo is an American writer of young adult novels including Ash, Huntress, Adaptation, Inheritance, A Line in the Dark, and Last Night at the Telegraph Club.

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Marc Tessier-Lavigne

Marc Trevor Tessier-Lavigne (born December 18, 1959) is a Canadian-American neuroscientist who was the eleventh president of Stanford University.

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Maria Cornejo

Maria Cornejo is a Chilean-born fashion designer based in New York and known for her Zero + Maria Cornejo collection.

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Maria Elena Bottazzi

Maria Elena Bottazzi is an American microbiologist.

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Maria Freire

Maria C. Freire is a Peruvian-American biophysicist who was the president and executive director of the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) from 2012-2021.

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Mariano Rivera

Mariano Rivera (born November 29, 1969) is a Panamanian-American former professional baseball pitcher who played 19 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees, from 1995 to 2013.

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Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar

Mariano-Florentino "Tino" Cuéllar (born July 27, 1972) is an American scholar, academic leader, public official, jurist, and nonprofit executive currently serving as the 10th president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

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Mónica Ponce de León

Mónica Ponce de León is a Latina architect, educator, and dean of the Princeton University School of Architecture.

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Michael Amiridis

Michael Amiridis is a Greek-American academic who serves as the 30th president of the University of South Carolina.

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Michael Hinojosa

Eliu Misael "Michael" Hinojosa (born 1956) was the superintendent for the Dallas Independent School District (DISD) and formerly superintendent of the Cobb County School District.

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Michael Mina

Michael Mina (مايكل مينا.; born 1969) is an American celebrity chef, restaurateur, and cookbook author.

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Midori (violinist)

, who performs under the mononym Midori, is a Japanese-born American violinist.

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Millicent A. Comrie

Millicent A. Comrie, born on August 6, 1948, and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, is a medical doctor specializing in obstetrics and gynecology. Over the time of her career, she has worked in Red Hook (Brooklyn, New York) and Jamaica.

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Min Jin Lee

Min Jin Lee (born November 11, 1968) is a Korean American author and journalist based in Harlem, New York City; her work frequently deals with the Korean diaspora.

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Min Kao

Min H. Kao is a Taiwanese-American electrical engineer, billionaire businessman, and philanthropist.

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MJ Lee

Min Jung "MJ" Lee (born March 5, 1987) is a South Korean-born American political correspondent for CNN and is currently a White House correspondent for the network.

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Mohammed Amer

Mohammed Mustafa Amer (محمد عامر; born 1981) is a Palestinian American stand-up comedian.

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Nari Ward

Nari Ward (born 1963 in St. Andrew, Jamaica) is an American artist based in New York City.

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Neil Young

Neil Percival Young (born November 12, 1945) is a Canadian and American singer and songwriter.

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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (born 13 June 1954) is a Nigerian economist, who has been serving as the Director-General of the World Trade Organization since March 2021.

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Nicole Hernandez Hammer

Nicole Hernandez Hammer (Hernández Estrada) is an American climate scientist and activist studying sea level rise and the disproportionate impacts of climate change on communities of color.

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Nina García

Ninotchka "Nina" García (born May 3, 1965) is a Colombian-American fashion journalist, the editor-in-chief of Elle, author, and a judge on the Bravo/Lifetime reality television program Project Runway since its first season.

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Nite Yun

Nite Yun (ណែត យុន; born 1982) is a Cambodian American chef and restaurateur.

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Njideka Akunyili Crosby

Njideka Akunyili Crosby (born 1983) is a Nigerian-born visual artist working in Los Angeles, California.

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Nsé Ufot

Nsé Ufot is an activist, community organizer, and the former chief executive officer of the New Georgia Project, a voter support and legal action nonprofit organization founded by Stacey Abrams in 2013.

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Olga Korbut

Olga Valentinovna Korbut (born 16 May 1955) is a retired Belarusian gymnast who competed for the Soviet Union.

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Oscar Solis

Oscar Azarcón Solís (born October 13, 1953) is a Filipino-American prelate of the Catholic Church who has served as Bishop of Salt Lake City since 2017.

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Padma Lakshmi

Padma Parvati Lakshmi (born September 1, 1970) is an Indian-American author, model, activist, and television host.

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Pedro A. Sanchez

Pedro Sanchez (born October 7, 1940) is the director of the Agriculture & Food Security Center, senior research scholar, and director of the Millennium Villages Project at the Earth Institute at Columbia University.

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Pedro Pascal

José Pedro Balmaceda Pascal (born April 2, 1975) is a Chilean and American actor.

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Peter Carey (novelist)

Peter Philip Carey AO (born 7 May 1943) is an Australian novelist.

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Polina V. Lishko

Polina V. Lishko (born 1974) is an American cellular and developmental biologist.

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Prabal Gurung

Prabal Gurung (प्रवल गुरुङ) (born 1979) is a Nepalese–American fashion designer based in New York City.

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Punit Renjen

Punit Renjen (born 1961) is an Indian-American businessman who has been chief executive officer of the multinational professional services firm Deloitte since June 1, 2015.

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Rahul M. Jindal

Rahul M. Jindal (born June 16, 1955) is an American transplant surgeon, professor, humanitarian and author.

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Richard Blanco

Richard Blanco (born February 15, 1968) is an American poet, public speaker, author, playwright, and civil engineer.

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Roald Hoffmann

Roald Hoffmann (born Roald Safran; July 18, 1937) is a Polish-American theoretical chemist who won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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Rukmini Callimachi

Rukmini Maria Callimachi (born Sichitiu on 25 June 1973) is a Romanian-born American journalist.

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Ruth Lehmann

Ruth Lehmann is a developmental and cell biologist.

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Scottish Americans

Scottish Americans or Scots Americans (Ameireaganaich Albannach; Scots-American) are Americans whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in Scotland.

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Shireen Hunter

Shireen Tahmaaseb Hunter is an independent scholar.

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Siegfried S. Hecker

Siegfried S. Hecker (born October 2, 1943) is an American metallurgist and nuclear scientist.

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Steffi Graf

Stefanie Maria Graf (born 14 June 1969) is a German former professional tennis player.

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Susan Polgar

Susan Polgar (born April 19, 1969, as Polgár Zsuzsanna and often known as Zsuzsa Polgár) is a Hungarian-American chess grandmaster.

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Syukuro Manabe

is a Japanese–American physicist, meteorologist, and climatologist, who pioneered the use of computers to simulate global climate change and natural climate variations.

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Ted Lieu

Ted W. Lieu (Chinese: 劉雲平;; born March 29, 1969) is an American lawyer and politician who has represented California's 36th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives since 2023.

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Terence Tao

Terence Chi-Shen Tao (born 17 July 1975) is an Australian and American mathematician who is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he holds the James and Carol Collins Chair in the College of Letters and Sciences.

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Theresia Gouw

Theresia Gouw is an entrepreneur and venture capital investor in the technology sector.

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Timnit Gebru

Timnit Gebru (Amharic and ትምኒት ገብሩ; 1982/1983) is an Eritrean Ethiopian-born computer scientist who works in the fields of artificial intelligence (AI), algorithmic bias and data mining.

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Tomás Regalado (American politician)

Tomás Pedro Regalado y Valdez (born May 24, 1947) is a Cuban American politician and former broadcast journalist who served as the 42nd mayor of Miami, Florida, from 2009 to 2017.

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Toyin Ojih Odutola

Toyin Ojih Odutola (born 1985) is a Nigerian-American contemporary visual artist known for her vivid multimedia drawings and works on paper.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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Vija Celmins

Vija Celmins (pronounced VEE-ya SELL-muns;Hilarie M. Sheets and Randy Kennedy (September 24, 2015); New York Times. Vija Celmiņa, pronounced TSEL-meen-ya; born October 25, 1938) is a Latvian American visual artist best known for photo-realistic paintings and drawings of natural environments and phenomena such as the ocean, spider webs, star fields, and rocks.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Immigrants_Award

Also known as Great Immigrants.

, Herro Mustafa, Ibrahim Cissé (academic), Ilia Calderón, Ilya Kaminsky, Independence Day (United States), Inge Thulin, Jean-Claude Brizard, Jill Ellis, Jim Lee, Jim Peebles, John Oliver, Jony Ive, Jorge Labarga, Julie Delpy, Julissa Arce, Julissa Reynoso Pantaleón, Karen Lozano, Karen Nakamura, Karen Zacarias, Karine Jean-Pierre, Karl Racine, Katalin Karikó, Ke Huy Quan, Kyriacos A. Athanasiou, Laila Lalami, Leana Wen, Lina Hidalgo, Linus Torvalds, Lisa Su, Lorena Garcia, Luchita Hurtado, Luis von Ahn, M. Rosaria Piomelli, Malinda Lo, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, Maria Cornejo, Maria Elena Bottazzi, Maria Freire, Mariano Rivera, Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, Mónica Ponce de León, Michael Amiridis, Michael Hinojosa, Michael Mina, Midori (violinist), Millicent A. Comrie, Min Jin Lee, Min Kao, MJ Lee, Mohammed Amer, Nari Ward, Neil Young, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nicole Hernandez Hammer, Nina García, Nite Yun, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Nsé Ufot, Olga Korbut, Oscar Solis, Padma Lakshmi, Pedro A. Sanchez, Pedro Pascal, Peter Carey (novelist), Polina V. Lishko, Prabal Gurung, Punit Renjen, Rahul M. Jindal, Richard Blanco, Roald Hoffmann, Rukmini Callimachi, Ruth Lehmann, Scottish Americans, Shireen Hunter, Siegfried S. Hecker, Steffi Graf, Susan Polgar, Syukuro Manabe, Ted Lieu, Terence Tao, Theresia Gouw, Timnit Gebru, Tomás Regalado (American politician), Toyin Ojih Odutola, United States, Vija Celmins, Vincent Stewart, Wayne A. I. Frederick, Wilmot Collins, Wolf Blitzer, Xiaowei Zhuang, Yann LeCun, Young Jean Lee, Young Kim.

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