Notable People from Hawaii

William Charles Achi

Lawyer, politician (1858-1928)

Emilie Widemann Macfarlane

Native Hawaiian activist

Frederick Hobbes Allen

American international lawyer and soldier (1858–1937)

William Charles Achi, Jr.

American attorney, judge, composer (1889-1947)

Toney Afong

12 Jul 1859 - 18 Oct 1936

Tony Rego

baseball player (1897–1978)

Antone Rosa

politician, lawyer and judge of the Kingdom of Hawaii

Earl I. Anzai

American politician (1941–2023)

Robert Alexander Anderson

American composer (1894–1995)

Chang Apana

Chinese American police officer

Peter Moon

Ukulele and slack-key guitar player from Hawaii (1944-2018)

Richard Bustillo

Martial Arts Instructor (1942-2017)

Rocky Freitas

American football player and administrator (1945–2022)

Subong

American Buddhist monk (1943–1994)

Joseph Heleluhe

Hawaiian nobleman

Johnnie Williams

American baseball player (1889-1963)

John Adams Cummins

Member of the nobility of the Kingdom of Hawaii who became a wealthy businessman, and was involved in politics as the kingdom was overthrown

James Smith

American seaman, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1838)

Peter Kaeo

Hawaiian noble and politician of the Kingdom of Hawaii (1836–1880)

Samuel Thomas Alexander

Businessman in the agricultural and transportation sectors in the Kingdom of Hawaii

John Chin Young

Hawaiian-born American painter (1909–1997)

David Kalākaua Kawānanakoa

Head of the deposed Royal House of Kawānanakoa 1917–54

Cyrus Nils Tavares

American judge

George Norton Wilcox

Hawaiian politician

George Freeth

American surfer

Art Hoppe

Newspaper columnist (1925-2000)

Charles Merton Merrill

United States federal judge

Charles G. Cleveland

USAF pilot and Lieutenant general

Levi Haʻalelea

high chief of the Hawaiian Kingdom (1822–1864)

Dick Yin Wong

American judge (1920-1978)

Henry Opukahaia

Early Hawaiian christian

E. Alison Kay

Malacologist, environmentalist, and professor at the University of Hawaiʻi (1928–2008)

Charley Brewer

American football player (1873-1958)

Clarence Hyde Cooke

Honolulu politician and businessman

Andy Iona

American musician

Abigail Kapiolani Kawānanakoa

Hawaiian princess (1903-1961)

Charles Montague Cooke

businessman in the Kingdom of Hawaii, Republic of Hawaii and Territory of Hawaii (1849-1909)

Jim Clark

American football guard born 1929

George F. Wright

American politician

Leland Isaacs, Sr.

American musician

Mahi Beamer

tenor falsetto singer, composer and hula dancer of Hawaiian ancestry

Rabbit Kekai

American Professional surfer and surfing innovator from Honolulu, Hawaii

Frederick S. Lyman

a surveyor, rancher, judge, and politician on Hawaiʻi Island

Thomas H. Makiyama

American martial artist (1928–2005)

Herb Flemming

American musician (1900–1976)

John Edward Bush

politician and newspaper publisher in the Kingdom of Hawaii (1842-1906)

Samuel Mills Damon

businessman and politician in the Kingdom, Republic, and Territory of Hawaii

Alfred Wellington Carter

lawyer and judge in Hawaii, managed the Parker Ranch

William Hyde Rice

Hawaiian politician (1846–1924)

Milton Murayama

American Nisei novelist and playwright (1923-2016)