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2013 Great Immigrants

The Honorees

 
Ilesanmi Adesida
Born in Nigeria
Physicist
 
Ralph Alvarez
Born in Cuba
Businessperson
 
Kofi Appenteng
Born in Ghana
President and CEO, Africa-America Institute
 
Leonardo Balada
Born in Spain
Composer
 
Liz Balmaseda
Born in Cuba
Journalist
 
Mohamad Bazzi
Born in Lebanon
Journalist
 
Carlos Tiburcio Bea
Born in Spain
Judge
 
Safra Catz
Born in Israel
Chief Executive, Oracle
 
John Cho
Born in South Korea
Actor
 
Sheena Easton
Born in United Kingdom
Singer-songwriter
 
Milos Forman
Born in Czechia
Film director
 
Osvaldo Golijov
Born in Argentina
Composer
 
Mazie Hirono
Born in Japan
U.S. Senator
 
Melikset Khachiyan
Born in Azerbaijan
Chess master
 
Nina Khrushcheva
Born in Russia
Professor
 
Jamaica Kincaid
Born in Antigua and Barbuda
Author
 
Mila Kunis
Born in Russia
Actress
 
George Walter Landau
Born in Austria
Diplomat
 
Chong-Moon Lee
Born in South Korea
Entrepreneur, philanthropist
 
John Albert Leguizamo
Born in Colombia
Actor
 
Zhou Long
Born in China
Composer
 
Bernard Lown
Born in Lithuania
Cardiologist
 
Ranan Lurie
Born in Egypt
Cartoonist
 
Mee Moua
Born in Laos
Politician
 
Shirin Neshat
Born in Iran
Artist
 
André Previn
Born in Germany
Conductor
 
Helen Reddy
Born in Australia
Singer
 
Nouriel Roubini
Born in Turkey
Economist
 
Bapsi Sidhwa
Born in Pakistan
Novelist
 
Dimitri Simes
Born in Russia
President and CEO, The Center for the National Interest
 
Sree Sreenivasan
Born in Japan
Journalist
 
Sri Srinivasan
Born in India
Judge
 
Aso Tavitian
Born in Bulgaria
Businessperson
 
Shibley Telhami
Born in Israel
Professor
 
Sebastian Thrun
Born in Germany
Computer scientist, entrepreneur
 
Robert Tjian
Born in Hong Kong
Biochemist
 
Ham Tran
Born in Vietnam
Film director
 
Laurence Henry Tribe
Born in China
Lawyer
 
Monique Truong
Born in Vietnam
Author
 
Padmasree Warrior
Born in India
Businessperson
 
Joanna Wysocka
Born in Poland
Biochemist
 
Doualy Xaykaothao
Born in Laos
Journalist, NPR
 
Paul Tiyambe Zeleza
Born in Zimbabwe
Historian, Writer