List of Famous people born in Hawaii, United States of America
Ryan Higa
Ryan Higa, also known as nigahiga, is an American comedian, internet personality, musician, and actor. He is known for his comedy videos on YouTube. His YouTube channel, nigahiga, was the most subscribed channel on YouTube for 677 consecutive days from 2009–2011.
Enson Inoue
Enson Inoue is a Japanese-American retired mixed martial artist. A professional competitor from 1995 until 2010, he fought for the PRIDE Fighting Championships, the UFC, Shooto, and Vale Tudo Japan. He is a former Shooto Heavyweight Champion. Inoue was featured in the documentary film Rites of Passage: The Rebirth of Combat Sports. He also appeared in the martial arts movie Redbelt.
Norm Chow
Norman Yew Heen Chow is an American football coach and former player. He was most recently the offensive coordinator for the Los Angeles Wildcats of the XFL. He was the head football coach at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, a position he held from December 2011 until November 2015 and previously held the offensive coordinator position for the Utah Utes, UCLA Bruins, the NFL's Tennessee Titans, USC Trojans, NC State Wolfpack, and BYU Cougars.
Sandy Pflueger
Helen Sandy Pflueger is an American and Kama'aina equestrienne. She has competed successfully in both eventing and dressage, finishing second at the prestigious Badminton Horse Trials in 1981 and competing on the United States Dressage Team at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. She competed under the British flag at the World Equestrian Games in Rome 1998 and Aachen 2006 and the European Championships in Arnheim 1998.
Maile Flanagan
Maile Flanagan is an American film, television and voice actress. She is best known for her roles as Naruto Uzumaki in the English dub of Naruto and Terry Perry on Lab Rats. She has also had recurring roles on Shameless, Bad Teacher, The Class, Grey's Anatomy and many cartoons.
MadeinTYO
Malcolm Jamaal Davis, better known by his stage name MadeinTYO, is an American rapper, singer and songwriter born in Honululu, Hawaii. He rose to prominence in 2016 after the release of his single "Uber Everywhere"; its official remix was later included on his mixtape You Are Forgiven. His debut studio album, Sincerely, Tokyo, was released in October 2018.
Brian Viloria
Brian Viloria is an American retired professional boxer of Filipino descent. He is a former unified WBA and WBO flyweight champion, as well as a former WBC and IBF light flyweight champion. His nickname of "The Hawaiian Punch" was first given to him by Jesus Salud, a fellow Hawaiian of Filipino descent and himself a former world champion in boxing.
Kaiali‘i Kahele
Kaialiʻi Kahele is an American politician, educator, and commercial pilot serving as the U.S. Representative for Hawaii's 2nd congressional district since 2021. From 2016 to 2020, he served in the Hawaii Senate from the 1st district. Kahele is a member of the Democratic Party, and the son of Hawaii Senate member Gil Kahele.
Leilani Jones
Leilani Jones is an American actress.
Robert Kiyosaki
Robert Toru Kiyosaki is an American businessman and author. Kiyosaki is the founder of Rich Global LLC and the Rich Dad Company, a private financial education company that provides personal finance and business education to people through books and videos. The company's main revenues come from franchisees of the Rich Dad seminars that are conducted by independent individuals using Kiyosaki's brand name for a fee. He is also the creator of the Cashflow board and software games to educate adults and children about business and financial concepts.