List of people from Honolulu

This is a list of notable past and present residents of the U.S. city of Honolulu, Hawaii, and its surrounding metropolitan area.

Arts

 * Satoru Abe, American sculptor and painter
 * Jean Charlot, internationally famous French-American painter, muralist, and illustrator
 * Tadashi Sato, known for Aquarius, a 36-foot circular mosaic on the floor of the atrium of the Hawaii State Capitol
 * Madge Tennent, British-American painter considered the most important contributor to 20th-century Hawaiian art
 * Dallas Nagata White, landscape photographer known for "lava kiss"
 * Jeff Widener, American photojournalist
 * John Chin Young, known for his Zen-like depictions of horses

Athletics

 * Robyn Ah Mow-Santos, Olympic silver medalist volleyball player and coach
 * Dennis Alexio, kickboxer
 * David Amerson, football player, North Carolina State and Washington Redskins cornerback
 * Francys Arsentiev, first U.S. woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest without the aid of bottled oxygen
 * David Aupiu, football player
 * Dino Babers, head football coach for the Syracuse Orange
 * Heather Bown, Olympic silver medalist volleyball player
 * Byron Chamberlain, NFL player
 * Bryan Clay, 2008 Olympic gold medalist for the decathlon
 * Jeff Cobb, Olympian and ROH wrestler
 * Buster Crabbe, 1932 Olympic gold medalist and actor (Tarzan, Flash Gordon, and Buck Rogers)
 * Ron Darling, MLB pitcher, broadcaster
 * Ka'imi Fairbairn, American football player
 * Sid Fernandez, MLB pitcher
 * Chris Fuamatu-Maʻafala, NFL player
 * Kurt Gouveia, NFL player
 * Charlie Hough, MLB pitcher
 * Mike Huff, MLB pitcher
 * Nia Jax, WWE wrestler
 * Duke Kahanamoku, Olympic gold medalist, surfer, actor
 * Olin Kreutz, NFL player
 * Ashley Lelie, NFL player
 * Karl Lorch, NFL player
 * Mike Lum, MLB player
 * Salvador "Dado" Marino (1915-1989), flyweight boxer who became World flyweight champion in 1950
 * Marcus Mariota, NFL player
 * Carissa Moore, professional surfer
 * Ken Niumatalolo, football coach
 * Kenso Nushida (1899–1983), baseball player
 * Ed Parker, martial artist, author
 * B.J. Penn, UFC lightweight and welterweight champion
 * Max Holloway, former UFC Featherweight Champion
 * Dominic Raiola, NFL player
 * Nick Rolovich, college football coach
 * Kyla Ross, Olympic gold medalist gymnast and member of the Fierce Five
 * Lenn Sakata, MLB player
 * Teee Sanders, Olympic bronze medalist volleyball player
 * Dave Shoji, since 2013, all-time winningest NCAA Division I head volleyball coach
 * John Simerson, football player
 * Andi Sullivan, soccer player for the United States
 * Thomas Tamas, sport shooter
 * Manti Teʻo, football player for Notre Dame and San Diego Chargers
 * Shane Victorino, MLB World Series champion (2008 Philadelphia Phillies, 2013 Boston Red Sox)
 * Michelle Wie, professional golfer
 * Milt Wilcox, MLB pitcher
 * Jerome Williams, MLB pitcher
 * Kim Willoughby, Olympic silver medalist volleyball player
 * Bobby Wood, MLS soccer player
 * Alexander Cartwright, "Father of Baseball"
 * Tua Tagovailoa, NFL player, Miami Dolphins

Business

 * Thomas O. Bales Jr., medical technology and aerospace inventor and entrepreneur
 * James Dole, developer of the pineapple industry in Hawaii, namesake of the Dole Food Company
 * Genshiro Kawamoto, billionaire real estate investor
 * Stanley Kennedy Sr. founder of Hawaiian Airlines
 * Darren Kimura, businessman, founder of Sopogy
 * Pierre Omidyar, eBay creator and founder
 * William S. Patout, III, sugar grower from Iberia Parish, Louisiana; lived in Honolulu, 1959 to 1960.
 * Charles Reed Bishop, businessman, philanthropist, founder of the Bishop Museum

Literature

 * Joseph Campbell, writer, lecturer
 * Jack London, author, journalist, and social activist
 * Jack Lord, actor
 * Lois Lowry, author
 * Herman Melville, author
 * James A. Michener, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist
 * Janet Mock, author and MSNBC talk show host
 * Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer
 * Hunter S. Thompson, journalist and author
 * Mark Twain, author
 * Kirby Wright, poet and writer

Movies/television/media

 * Jacob Batalon, actor
 * Sarah Wayne Callies, actress
 * Tia Carrere, singer, actress
 * Mark Dacascos, actor, martial artist
 * Denise Dowse, actress and director, Beverly Hills, 90210
 * David Gallaher, graphic novelist and comic book author
 * Lauren Graham, actress and producer, Gilmore Girls
 * Erin Gray, actress, Silver Spoons
 * John Halliday, actor
 * Kelly Hu, actress, Miss Hawaii Teen USA 1985, Miss Teen USA 1985
 * Carrie Ann Inaba, judge, Dancing with the Stars
 * Keahu Kahuanui, actor, plays Danny Mahealani in series Teen Wolf on MTV
 * Nicole Kidman, Academy Award-winning actress
 * Daniel Dae Kim, actor
 * Clyde Kusatsu, actor
 * Lori Matsukawa, television news anchor
 * Al Michaels, television sportscaster
 * Jason Momoa, actor, director, model
 * Jack Mower, actor
 * Tahj Mowry, actor
 * Jim Nabors, actor, singer, The Andy Griffith Show, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
 * Timothy Olyphant, actor, Deadwood, Justified
 * Maggi Parker, actress, Hawaii Five-O (1968 TV series)
 * Janel Parrish, actress, model, plays Mona in Pretty Little Liars
 * Kelly Preston, actress, model
 * Maggie Q, actress, Nikita
 * Hironobu Sakaguchi, video game director, writer and producer
 * James Shigeta, actor
 * Karen Steele, actress
 * Don Stroud, actor
 * Mageina Tovah, actress
 * Mark Fischbach, YouTuber known as "Markiplier"
 * Kam Fong Chun, actor, Hawaii Five-O (1968 TV series)
 * Katija Pevec, actress

Music

 * Anjani, singer-songwriter and pianist
 * Yvonne Elliman, popular singer
 * Don Ho, popular singer
 * Israel "Iz" Kaʻanoʻi Kamakawiwoʻole, Hawaiian musician
 * Melody Miyuki Ishikawa, singer
 * Bruno Mars, singer-songwriter
 * Glenn Medeiros, singer-songwriter
 * James Mercer, frontman of rock band The Shins
 * Bette Midler, singer and actress
 * Kid Ory, jazz musician and bandleader
 * Nicole Scherzinger, singer, dancer, model
 * Jake Shimabukuro, ukulele virtuoso
 * Hana Shimozumi, light opera singer
 * Huening Kai, Korean-American singer in boyband Tomorrow X Together
 * Donald Sur, composer and musicologist
 * Mike Starr, musician, Alice in Chains

Politics

 * Neil Abercrombie, Governor of Hawaii, 2010–2014
 * Daniel Akaka, U.S. Senator, first Native Hawaiian Senator in the United States
 * George Ariyoshi, 3rd Governor of Hawaii, the first Asian American governor in the United States
 * John A. Burns, 2nd Governor of Hawaii
 * Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States
 * Ben Cayetano, Governor of Hawaii 1994–2002
 * Nora Stewart Coleman, former First Lady of American Samoa
 * Sanford B. Dole, lawyer, jurist, the President of the Republic of Hawaii, and the 1st Territorial Governor of Hawaii
 * Tammy Duckworth, United States Senator from Illinois and former U.S. congresswoman representing the 8th Congressional district in Illinois
 * Hiram Fong, United States Senator, namesake of the Senator Fong's Plantation & Gardens in Kaneohe
 * Mazie Hirono, U.S. Senator from Hawai'i
 * Daniel Inouye, Medal of Honor recipient, U.S. Senator, President pro tempore
 * Princess Kaʻiulani, crown princess, heir to the throne of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi
 * King Kalakaua, last reigning king of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi
 * Queen Liliuokalani, last reigning Queen of the Hawaiian Islands
 * Oren E. Long, former territorial governor of Hawai'i, one of Hawai'i's first US Senators
 * King Lunalilo, King to the Kingdom of Hawaii
 * Bongbong Marcos, 17th President of the Philippines
 * Ferdinand Marcos, former President of the Philippines
 * Imee Marcos, Senator of the Philippines
 * Patsy Mink, former U.S. congresswoman who co-authored the Title IX Amendment of the Higher Education Act, first Japanese-American woman licensed to practice law in Hawaii
 * Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States
 * Sarah Palin, politician, 2008 Republican vice-presidential candidate
 * Syngman Rhee, 1st President of South Korea
 * Mark Takai, former U.S. Representative
 * Lorrin A. Thurston, lawyer, politician in Honolulu early 1900s
 * Sun Yat-sen, "Father of the Nation" of the Republic of China, and the "forerunner of democratic revolution" in the People's Republic of China

Miscellaneous

 * Judi Andersen, Miss Hawaii USA 1978, Miss USA 1978
 * Kermet Apio, comedian
 * Dorothea Bennett (1929–1990), geneticist
 * Bernice Pauahi Bishop, Hawaiian princess, philanthropist, aliʻi, and Kamehameha descendant
 * Redmond Burke, heart surgeon
 * Doris Duke, American heiress, socialite, horticulturalist, art collector, and philanthropist
 * Ann Dunham, mother of Barack Obama
 * Amelia Earhart, American aviation pioneer and author
 * Katrina Forest, American microbiologist and structural biology pioneer.
 * Charles Irving Elliott aviation pioneer
 * Marcus "Dyrus" Hill, League of Legends professional player
 * Willi Hennig, biologist
 * Brook Lee, Miss Hawaii USA 1997, Miss USA 1997, Miss Universe 1997
 * Elizabeth Peet McIntosh, OSS agent in WWII
 * Megan McClung, first female United States Marine Corps officer killed in combat during the Iraq War
 * Harry T.L. Pang, posthumous Purple Heart recipient killed during the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor while serving with the Honolulu Fire Department
 * James Mahmud Rice, sociologist
 * David C. Schutter, attorney and activist
 * Winfield W. Scott Jr., United States Army Lieutenant General
 * Charles L. Veach, American astronaut
 * Ehren Watada, United States Army Lieutenant who refused to deploy to Iraq
 * Macel Wilson, Miss Hawaii USA 1962, Miss USA 1962
 * Tanya Wilson, Miss Hawaii USA 1972, Miss USA 1972
 * Danny Yamashiro, American clergyman, researcher, and religious broadcaster