Notable People
The following are notable people born in Honolulu, and current and former residents of Honolulu.
- Barack Obama, 44th and current President of the United States
- Neil Abercrombie, 7th and current Governor of Hawaii
- Daniel Akaka, United States Senator
- George Ariyoshi, 3rd Governor of Hawaii, the first Asian American governor in the United States
- Bernice Pauahi Bishop, Hawaiian princess, philanthropist, aliʻi, and Kamehameha descendant
- Charles Reed Bishop businessman, philanthropist, founder of the Bishop Museum
- John A. Burns, second Governor of Hawaii
- Tia Carrere, singer, actress
- Alexander Cartwright, "father of baseball"
- Joseph Campbell, writer, lecturer
- Byron Chamberlain, former football player in the National Football League
- Mark Dacascos, actor, martial artist
- James Dole, developer of the Pineapple industry in Hawaii, namesake of the Dole Food Company.
- Sanford B. Dole, lawyer, jurist, politician in Honolulu early 1900s
- Amelia Earhart, American aviation pioneer and author
- Hiram Fong, United States Senator, namesake of the Senator Fong's Plantation & Gardens in Kaneohe.
- Lauren Graham, American actress and producer
- Willi Hennig, biologist
- Daniel Inouye, senior United States Senator
- Dwayne Johnson, actor
- King Kalakaua last reigning king of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi
- Duke Kahanamoku, Olympic athlete, surfer, actor
- Israel Kamakawiwoʻole, American musician
- Nicole Kidman, actress
- Daniel Dae Kim, actor
- Princess Kaʻiulani, crown princess, heir to the throne of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi
- Lloyd LaCuesta, San Francisco Bay Area television journalist
- Queen Liliuokalani, last Queen of the Hawaiian Islands
- Lois Lowry, author
- King Lunalilo, King to the Kingdom of Hawaii
- Ferdinand Marcos, Filipino president
- Bruno Mars, singer and songwriter
- Bette Midler, singer, actress, and comedian
- Timothy Olyphant, actor
- Pierre Omidyar, eBay, creator and founder
- Ed Parker, martial artist, author
- B.J. Penn Former UFC lightweight and welterweight champion
- Syngman Rhee, first president of South Korea
- Hironobu Sakaguchi, video game director, writer and producer
- Nicole Scherzinger, singer, dancer, model
- Jake Shimabukuro, ukulele virtuoso
- Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer
- Donald Sur, composer and musicologist
- Thomas Tamas, sport shooter
- Lorrin A. Thurston lawyer, politician in Honolulu early 1900s
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