List of Famous people born in Hawaii, United States of America
Tanoai Reed
Tanoai Reed is a Hollywood stunt man and actor.
Rob Letterman
Robert Thomas Letterman is an American film director and screenwriter.
Tadashi Wakabayashi
Tadashi Henry Wakabayashi was a professional baseball player from Oahu, Hawaii. He was a second generation Japanese American.
Tyson Nam
Tyson Ka'eo Nam is an American professional mixed martial artist who competes in the Bantamweight division. A professional MMA competitor since 2006, Nam has formerly competed for the UFC, World Series of Fighting, Elite XC, and King of the Cage. As of January 25, 2021, he is #15 in the UFC flyweight rankings.
Keiko Agena
Christine Keiko Agena is an American actress. She is mostly known for playing Lane Kim in Gilmore Girls. She currently plays NYPD medical examiner Dr. Edrisa Tanaka on FOX's crime drama Prodigal Son.
Samuel Kahanamoku
Samuel Alapai Kahanamoku was an American competition swimmer who represented the United States at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, where he won a bronze medal in the men's 100-meter freestyle event. He was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, and was the younger brother of the surfer and Olympic gold medalist Duke Kahanamoku and elder brother of Sargent Kahanamoku.
John John Florence
John "John John" Alexander Florence is an American professional surfer. He is known as "one of the most dominant pipe surfers of his era" and won back-to-back world titles on the 2016 World Surf League and 2017 World Surf League Men's Championship Tour. He is the first Hawaii-born surfer to win back-to-back world titles since the late Andy Irons and one of five to ever achieve the feat.
Konishiki Yasokichi
Konishiki Yasokichi is an American former sumo wrestler of Samoan descent. He was the first non-Japanese-born wrestler to reach ōzeki, the second-highest rank in the sport. During his career he won the top division championship on three occasions and came close to becoming the first foreign-born grand champion, or yokozuna, prompting a debate as to whether a foreigner could have the necessary cultural understanding to be acceptable in sumo's ultimate rank. At a peak weight of 287 kg (633 lb) he was also at the time the heaviest wrestler ever in sumo, earning him the nicknames "Meat Bomb" and "Dump Truck".
Brook Lee
Brook Antoinette Mahealani Lee, known as Brook Lee, is an American actress, television host, model and beauty queen who was crowned Miss Hawaii USA 1997, Miss USA 1997, and Miss Universe 1997.
Alana Blanchard
Alana Rene Blanchard is an American professional surfer and model. Blanchard has surfed on the ASP World Tour.