Notable People from Hawaii

Clarence Hyde Cooke

Honolulu politician and businessman

Charley Brewer

American football player (1873-1958)

Paul Nahaolelua

Hawaiian high chief

Kūali'i

18th-century ali'i of O'ahu, Hawaii

Chang Apana

Chinese American police officer

Earl I. Anzai

American politician (1941–2023)

Henry Opukahaia

Early Hawaiian christian

Robert Grimes Davis

American judge (1819-1872)

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)

Toney Afong

12 Jul 1859 - 18 Oct 1936

William Charles Achi

Lawyer, politician (1858-1928)

Samuel Parker

Landowner and businessman on Hawaii

Louise Morgan Sill

American poet

Rose C. Davison

Hawaiian teacher (1868–1913)

Alfred Wellington Carter

lawyer and judge in Hawaii, managed the Parker Ranch

Edward C. Macfarlane

American politician (1848-1902)

Kapaakea

Hawaiian politician (1815–1866)

Frederick William Kahapula Beckley Sr.

Governor of Kauaʻi from 1880 to 1881

Billy Kenoi

American politician (1968-2021)

Keo Woolford

American actor, director (1967-2016)

William Pitt Kīnau

Prince of the Kingdom of Hawaii

William Hyde Rice

Hawaiian politician (1846–1924)

Samuel Mills Damon

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

John Edward Bush

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

Megan McClung

Recipient of the Purple Heart medal

Devah Pager

American sociologist

Douglas A. Zembiec

United States Marine Corps officer (1973–2007)

Charles Montague Cooke

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

George Freeth

American surfer

Samuel Thomas Alexander

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

Walter Fisher

American psychologist (1931–2018)

Piliwale

ancient Hawaiian nobleman, the High Chief of the island of Oahu

E. Alison Kay

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

Jim Clark

American football guard born 1929

Peter Kaeo

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

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

Dick Yin Wong

American judge (1920-1978)

Thomas H. Makiyama

American martial artist (1928–2005)

Charles G. Cleveland

USAF pilot and Lieutenant general

Art Hoppe

Newspaper columnist (1925-2000)

John Chin Young

Hawaiian-born American painter (1909–1997)

Janet Liang

Health advocate and minorities rights activist

David Kalākaua Kawānanakoa

Head of the deposed Royal House of Kawānanakoa 1917–54

Milton Murayama

American Nisei novelist and playwright (1923-2016)

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