Notable People from Hawaii

William Charles Achi, Jr.

American attorney, judge, composer (1889-1947)

William Charles Achi

Lawyer, politician (1858-1928)

Toney Afong

12 Jul 1859 - 18 Oct 1936

Emilie Widemann Macfarlane

Native Hawaiian activist

Frederick Hobbes Allen

American international lawyer and soldier (1858–1937)

Antone Rosa

politician, lawyer and judge of the Kingdom of Hawaii

Joseph Heleluhe

Hawaiian nobleman

Kapaakea

Hawaiian politician (1815–1866)

Tony Rego

baseball player (1897–1978)

Robert Alexander Anderson

American composer (1894–1995)

Levi Haʻalelea

high chief of the Hawaiian Kingdom (1822–1864)

Earl I. Anzai

American politician (1941–2023)

Chang Apana

Chinese American police officer

Charley Brewer

American football player (1873-1958)

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)

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

Charles Merton Merrill

United States federal judge

George Norton Wilcox

Hawaiian politician

Subong

American Buddhist monk (1943–1994)

Art Hoppe

Newspaper columnist (1925-2000)

Andy Iona

American musician

Charles G. Cleveland

USAF pilot and Lieutenant general

Clarence Hyde Cooke

Honolulu politician and businessman

Dick Yin Wong

American judge (1920-1978)

E. Alison Kay

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

Johnnie Williams

American baseball player (1889-1963)

George Freeth

American surfer

Abigail Kapiolani Kawānanakoa

Hawaiian princess (1903-1961)

Henry Opukahaia

Early Hawaiian christian

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

Alfred Wellington Carter

lawyer and judge in Hawaii, managed the Parker Ranch

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

John H. Wilson

American politician, Mayor of Honolulu (1871-1956)

William Hyde Rice

Hawaiian politician (1846–1924)