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 (1926–2025), sculptor and painter
• Bernice Akamine (1949–2024), American Native Hawaiian traditional artist, glass artist, visual artist, and Hawaiian rights activist
• Marguerite Blasingame (1906–1947), sculptor and painter; born in Honolulu^[1][2]
• Jean Charlot (1898–1979), French-American painter, muralist, and illustrator
• Isami Doi (1903–1965), printmaker and painter; lived in Honolulu in the 1920s and 1930s^[3]
• Johanna Drew Cluney (1895–1978), American Hawaiian feather lei maker, featherworker, collector, conservator^[4][5]
• Mary Louise Kekuewa (1926–2008), American Hawaiian feather lei maker, featherworker^[6][7]
• Arman Manookian (1904–1931) Ottoman Empire-born Armenian and American painter^[8]

• Shirley Russell (1886–1985), painter, known for paintings of Hawaii and flowers^[9]
• Tadashi Sato (1923–2005), painter, known for Aquarius, a 36-foot circular mosaic on the floor of the atrium of the Hawaii State Capitol
• Madge Tennent (1889–1972), British-American painter considered the most important contributor to 20th-century Hawaiian art^[10]
• Dallas Nagata White (born 1987), landscape photographer known for "lava kiss"^[11]
• Jeff Widener (born 1956), American photojournalist^[12]
• John Chin Young (1909–1997), painter known for his Zen-like depictions of horses

Athletics

• Robyn Ah Mow-Santos, Olympic silver medalist volleyball player and coach^[13]
• Dennis Alexio, kickboxer
• Tyler Allen, soccer player
• 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^[14]
• David Aupiu, football player
• Dino Babers, head football coach for the Syracuse Orange
• Noahkai Banks, soccer player^[15]
• Tim Bartro, indoor/outdoor soccer player^[16]
• Heather Bown, Olympic silver medalist volleyball player^[17]
• Byron Chamberlain, NFL player^[18]
• 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^[19]
• Kaʻimi 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^[20]
• 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^[21]
• Marcus Mariota, NFL player^[22]
• Carissa Moore, professional surfer^[23]
• Ken Niumatalolo, football coach^[24]
• Kenso Nushida (1899–1983), baseball player^[25]
• Ed Parker, martial artist, author^[26]
• B.J. Penn, UFC lightweight and welterweight champion
• Max Holloway, former UFC Featherweight Champion
• Dominic Raiola, NFL player
• Nick Rolovich, college football coach^[27]
• Kyla Ross, Olympic gold medalist gymnast and member of the Fierce Five^[28]
• Lenn Sakata, MLB player
• Teee Sanders, Olympic bronze medalist volleyball player^[29]
• Dave Shoji, since 2013, all-time winningest NCAA Division I head volleyball coach^[30]
• John Simerson, football player
• Andi Sullivan, soccer player for the United States
• Thomas Tamas, sport shooter^[31]
• Manti Teʻo, football player for Notre Dame and San Diego Chargers^[32]
• Shane Victorino, MLB World Series champion (2008 Philadelphia Phillies, 2013 Boston Red Sox)
• Michelle Wie, professional golfer^[33]
• Milt Wilcox, MLB pitcher
• Jerome Williams, MLB pitcher
• Kim Willoughby, Olympic silver medalist volleyball player^[34]
• Bobby Wood, MLS soccer player
• Alexander Cartwright, "Father of Baseball"^[35]
• 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^[36]
• Maria J. Forbes, manager, Lunalilo Home
• Genshiro Kawamoto, billionaire real estate investor^[37][38]
• Stanley Kennedy Sr. founder of Hawaiian Airlines
• Darren Kimura, businessman, founder of Sopogy
• Pierre Omidyar, eBay creator and founder^[39]
• 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^[40]

Literature

• Joseph Campbell, writer, lecturer^[41]
• Jack London, author, journalist, and social activist^[42]
• Jack Lord, actor^[43]
• Lois Lowry, author^[44]
• Herman Melville, author^[45]
• James A. Michener, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist^[46]
• Janet Mock, author and MSNBC talk show host ^[47]
• Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer^[48]
• Hunter S. Thompson, journalist and author^[49]
• Mark Twain, author^[50]
• Kirby Wright, poet and writer

Entertainers, actors, models

• Judi Andersen, Miss Hawaii USA 1978, Miss USA 1978
• Kermet Apio, comedian
• Jacob Batalon, actor
• Angelique Cabral, actress
• Sarah Wayne Callies, actress^[51]
• Tia Carrere, singer, actress^[52]
• Mark Dacascos, actor, martial artist^[53]
• Denise Dowse, actress and director, Beverly Hills, 90210
• David Gallaher, graphic novelist and comic book author
• Lauren Graham, actress and producer, Gilmore Girls^[54]
• Erin Gray, actress, Silver Spoons
• John Halliday, actor^[55]
• Kelly Hu, actress, Miss Hawaii Teen USA 1985, Miss Teen USA 1985
• Carrie Ann Inaba, television judge, Dancing with the Stars
• Keahu Kahuanui, actor, plays Danny Mahealani in series Teen Wolf on MTV
• Nicole Kidman, Academy Award-winning actress^[56]
• Daniel Dae Kim, actor^[57]
• Clyde Kusatsu, actor
• Brook Lee, Miss Hawaii USA 1997, Miss USA 1997, Miss Universe 1997
• Lori Matsukawa, television news anchor
• Al Michaels, television sportscaster^[58]
• Jason Momoa, actor, director, model^[59]
• Dwayne Johnson, actor, wrestler, alumni of President William McKinley High School
• Titus Makin Jr., actor, singer, dancer^[60]
• Jack Mower, actor
• Tahj Mowry, actor
• Jim Nabors, actor, singer, The Andy Griffith Show, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.^[61]
• Timothy Olyphant, actor, Deadwood, Justified^[62]
• Maggi Parker, actress, Hawaii Five-O
• Janel Parrish, actress, model, plays Mona in Pretty Little Liars^[63]
• Kelly Preston, actress, model
• Maggie Q, actress, model, Nikita
• Amanda Schull, actress
• Hironobu Sakaguchi, video game director, writer and producer^[64]
• James Shigeta, actor
• Karen Steele, actress
• Don Stroud, actor
• Mageina Tovah, actress
• Macel Wilson, Miss Hawaii USA 1962, Miss USA 1962
• Tanya Wilson, Miss Hawaii USA 1972, Miss USA 1972
• Keone Young, voice and actor
• Mark Fischbach, YouTuber known as "Markiplier"
• Kam Fong Chun, actor, Hawaii Five-O
• Katija Pevec, actress

Music

• Anjani, singer-songwriter and pianist
• Yvonne Elliman, popular singer
• Don Ho, popular singer
• Israel "Iz" Kaʻanoʻi Kamakawiwoʻole, Hawaiian musician^[65]
• Melody Miyuki Ishikawa, singer^[66]
• Titus Makin Jr., actor, singer, dancer^[60]
• Bruno Mars, singer-songwriter^[67]
• Glenn Medeiros, singer-songwriter
• James Mercer, frontman of rock band The Shins
• Bette Midler, singer and actress^[68]
• Kid Ory, jazz musician and bandleader
• Nicole Scherzinger, singer, dancer, model^[69]
• Jake Shimabukuro, ukulele virtuoso^[70]
• Hana Shimozumi, light opera singer
• Huening Kai, Korean-American singer in boy band Tomorrow X Together
• Donald Sur, composer and musicologist
• Mike Starr, musician, Alice in Chains

Politics

• Neil Abercrombie, Governor of Hawaii, 2010–2014^[71]
• Daniel Akaka, U.S. Senator, first Native Hawaiian Senator in the United States^[72]
• George Ariyoshi, 3rd Governor of Hawaii, the first Asian American governor in the United States^[73]
• John A. Burns, 2nd Governor of Hawaii^[74]
• Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States^[75]
• Ben Cayetano, Governor of Hawaii 1994–2002
• Nora Stewart Coleman, former First Lady of American Samoa^[76]
• Sanford B. Dole, lawyer, jurist, the President of the Republic of Hawaii, and the 1st Territorial Governor of Hawaii^[77]
• Tammy Duckworth, United States Senator from Illinois and former U.S. congresswoman representing the 8th Congressional district in Illinois^[78]
• Hiram Fong, United States Senator, namesake of the Senator Fong's Plantation & Gardens in Kaneohe^[79]
• Mazie Hirono, U.S. Senator from Hawai'i^[80]
• Daniel Inouye, Medal of Honor recipient, U.S. Senator, President pro tempore^[81]
• Princess Kaʻiulani, crown princess, heir to the throne of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi^[82]
• King Kalakaua, last reigning king of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi^[83]
• Queen Liliuokalani, last reigning Queen of the Hawaiian Islands^[84]
• Oren E. Long, former territorial governor of Hawai'i, one of Hawai'i's first US Senators^[85]
• King Lunalilo, King to the Kingdom of Hawaii^[86]
• Bongbong Marcos, 17th President of the Philippines
• Ferdinand Marcos, 10th President of the Philippines^[87]
• 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^[88]
• Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States^[89]
• Sarah Palin, politician, 2008 Republican vice-presidential candidate^[90]
• Syngman Rhee, 1st President of South Korea^[91]
• Brian Schatz, U.S. Senator from Hawai'i^[92]
• Mark Takai, former U.S. Representative
• Lorrin A. Thurston, lawyer, politician in Honolulu early 1900s^[93]
• 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^[94]

Missionaries

• Angeles Mangaser Avecilla (1902–1975), Filipino social worker, missionary, and educator in the Territory of Hawaii
• Abigail Willis Tenney Smith, American missionary; teacher; President of the Woman's Board of Missions for the Pacific Islands

Miscellaneous

• Dorothea Bennett (1929–1990), geneticist
• Bernice Pauahi Bishop, Hawaiian princess, philanthropist, aliʻi, and Kamehameha descendant^[95]
• Elizabeth Carter Bogardus (1895–1928), socialite, community leader, and the founder of the Junior League of Honolulu^[96]
• Redmond Burke, heart surgeon
• Mary Catton, American social worker
• Louise Olga Gaylord Dillingham (1885–1964) American socialite, civic leader
• Doris Duke, American heiress, socialite, horticulturalist, art collector, and philanthropist^[97]
• Ann Dunham, mother of Barack Obama
• Amelia Earhart, American aviation pioneer and author^[98]
• Katrina Forest, American microbiologist and structural biology pioneer.
• Charles Irving Elliott, aviation pioneer
• Willowdean Chatterson Handy, anthropologist of Hawaiian studies, writer
• Marcus "Dyrus" Hill, League of Legends professional player
• Willi Hennig, biologist
• Elizabeth Peet McIntosh, OSS agent in WWII^[99]
• Stella Maude Jones, archivist, historian, and librarian
• Megan McClung, first female United States Marine Corps officer killed in combat during the Iraq War^[100]
• 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 Schutter, attorney and activist
• Winfield W. Scott Jr., United States Army Lieutenant General
• Charles L. Veach, American astronaut^[101]
• Ehren Watada, United States Army Lieutenant who refused to deploy to Iraq
• Danny Yamashiro, American clergyman, researcher, and religious broadcaster
• Dora Chung Zane, social worker