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2007 Great Immigrants

The Honorees

 
Freddy Adu
Born in Ghana
Professional soccer player
 
Dan Aykroyd
Born in Canada
Actor
 
Ishmael Beah
Born in Sierra Leone
Author
 
Tina Brown
Born in United Kingdom
Editor and Media Entrepreneur
 
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Born in Poland
Former national security advisor
 
Gerhard Casper
Born in Germany
Former president, Stanford University
 
Liz Claiborne
Born in Belgium
Fashion designer
 
Freeman Dyson
Born in United Kingdom
Physicist
 
Victor Dzau
Born in China
Doctor
 
Max Frankel
Born in Germany
Journalist
 
Emilio Gonzalez
Born in Cuba
Former director, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
 
Jennifer Granholm
Born in Canada
Former governor of Michigan
 
Carlos Gutierrez
Born in Cuba
Former secretary, U.S. Department of Commerce
 
Salma Hayek
Born in Mexico
Actress, Director, and Producer
 
Albert Hirschman
Born in Germany
Economist
 
Christopher Hitchens
Born in United Kingdom
Journalist
 
David Ho
Born in Taiwan
Doctor
 
Arianna Huffington
Born in Greece
Author, businessperson
 
Farooq Kathwari
Born in India
CEO, Ethan Allen
 
Meb Keflezighi
Born in Eritrea
Olympic marathoner
 
Sergei Khrushchev
Born in Russia
Academic
 
Ted Koppel
Born in United Kingdom
Broadcast journalist
 
Bai Ling
Born in China
Actor
 
Robert Macneil
Born in Canada
Journalist
 
Melquiades Martinez
Born in Cuba
Former U.S. Senator
 
Rupert Murdoch
Born in Australia
Media mogul
 
Dikembe Mutombo
Born in Congo (the Democratic Republic of the)
Professional basketball player
 
Indra Nooyi
Born in India
Chair and CEO, PepsiCo
 
Constantine Papadakis
Born in Greece
Businessperson
 
Carlos Santana
Born in Mexico
Guitarist
 
Charles Simonyi
Born in Hungary
Businessperson
 
Melanie Stiassny
Born in Germany
Researcher, curator
 
Sidney Taurel
Born in Morocco
Businessperson
 
Dianne Von Furstenberg
Born in Belgium
Fashion designer
 
Elie Wiesel
Born in Romania
Author
 
Martin Yan
Born in China
Chef
 
Jerry Yang
Born in Taiwan
Co-founder, Yahoo!
 
Fareed Zakaria
Born in India
Journalist
 
Mortimer Zuckerman
Born in Canada
Media Proprietor and Business Executive