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Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is the President of the United States and a former junior United States Senator from Illinois. Obama is the first African American to be elected President of the United States. He is a graduate of...

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Francis B. Wai

Francis Brown Wai (April 14, 1917 - October 20, 1944) was a captain in the United States Army who received the Medal of Honor for actions during the recapture of the Philippines from Japan in 1944. He was initially awarded the Distinguished Service...

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Charlie Wedemeyer

Charlie Wedemeyer is a former high school teacher and football coach, famous for continuing to teach and coach after contracting Lou Gehrig’s disease. Wedemeyer was the last of nine children born to Bill and Ruth Wedemeyer. He was born in Honolulu,...

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Charley Ane

Charles "Charley" Teetai Ane, Jr. (January 25, 1931 – May 9, 2007) was an American football offensive lineman. Ane excelled in baseball, basketball and track as well as football at the Punahou School in Honolulu, Hawaii. Ane was a key two-way...

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Sarah Wayne Callies

Sarah Wayne Callies (born Sarah Anne Callies on June 1, 1977 in La Grange, Illinois) is an American actress who is best known for her role as Sara Tancredi in the American television series Prison Break. Callies moved to Honolulu, Hawaii with her...

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Norm Chow

Norman Chow (Chinese: 周友賢; pinyin: Zhōu Yǒuxián, born May 3, 1946(1946-05-03) in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi) is the offensive coordinator for the UCLA Bruins. He has also been an offensive coordinator for the NFL's Tennessee Titans, the University of...

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Mark Tuinei

Mark Pulemau Tuinei (March 31, 1960 – May 6, 1999) was an American football offensive tackle in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys. Known as a "gentle giant", his career lasted for 15 years (1983–1997) and his ability to protect...

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Carrie Ann Inaba

Carrie Ann Inaba (born January 5, 1968) is an American dancer, choreographer, actress, television host, and singer. She has appeared as one of three judges on the ABC television series Dancing with the Stars (DWTS), a show that pairs celebrities...

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Amanda Schull

Amanda Schull (born August 26, 1978 in Honolulu, Hawaii) is an American professional ballet dancer and actress. She attended Punahou School, the oldest private school in Hawaii, and trained at Hawaii State Ballet under the instruction of John...

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Samuel C. Armstrong

Samuel Chapman Armstrong (January 30, 1839 – May 11, 1893) was an American educator and a commissioned officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He is best remembered for his work after the war as the founder and first principal of...

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Lawrence M. Judd

Lawrence McCully Judd (March 20, 1887–October 4, 1968) was the seventh Territorial Governor of Hawaii. He was devoted to the Hansen's Disease-afflicted residents of Kalaupapa on Molokai. Judd made several fact-finding tours during his tenure in the...

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Charles L. Veach

Charles Lacy Veach was a NASA astronaut. Veach was born on September 18, 1944, in Chicago, Illinois, but considered Honolulu, Hawaii, to be his hometown. Married to Alice Meigs Scott of Waycross, Georgia, he had two children. He enjoyed surfing,...

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Jonah Kūhiō Kalaniana'ole

Prince Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole of Hawaiʻi (26 March 1871 – 7 January 1922) was a prince of the reigning House of Kalākaua when the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi was overthrown by international businessmen in 1893. He later went on to become a politician and...

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Hiram Bingham III

Hiram Bingham, formally Hiram Bingham III, (November 19, 1875 – June 6, 1956) was an American academic, explorer and politician. He rediscovered the Inca settlement of Machu Picchu in 1911. Later, Bingham served as a member of the United States...

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Michelle Wie

Michelle Sung Wie (pronounced /ˈwiː/) (Korean: Wie Seong-mi Hangul: 위성미 Hanja: 魏聖美, born October 11, 1989) is an American professional golfer who plays on the LPGA Tour. In 2006, she was named in a Time magazine article: "one of 100 people who shape...

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Steve Case

Steve Case (born August 21, 1958) is a businessman best known as the co-founder and former chief executive officer and chairman of America Online (AOL). He reached his highest profile when he played an instrumental role in AOL's merger with Time...

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Kelly Preston

Kelly Preston Travolta (born October 13, 1962) is an American actress and former model. Preston was born as Kelly Kamalelehua Smith in Honolulu, Hawaii. Her mother, Linda, was an administrator of a mental health center, and her father, who worked...

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Buster Crabbe

Clarence Linden "Buster" Crabbe (February 7, 1908 – April 23, 1983) was an American athlete and actor, who starred in a number of popular serials in the 1930s and 1940s. He was born as Clarence Linden Crabbe II to Lucy Agnes McNamara (1885-1959) and...

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Sun Yat-sen

Sun Yat-sen (pinyin Sūn Yìxiān) (12 November 1866 – 12 March 1925) was a Chinese revolutionary and political leader. As the foremost pioneer of Republican China, Sun is frequently referred to as the Father of the Nation. Sun played an instrumental...

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Abigail Kinoiki Kekaulike Kawānanakoa

Princess Abigail Kinoiki Kekaulike III Kawānanakoa (born (April 20, 1926)) was the only child of Princess Liliuokalani Kawananakoa born during her marriage with William Jeremiah Ellerbrock. According to some she became the head of the House of...

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Duccio Kaumualii Marignoli

Duccio Kaumualiʻi Marignoli born (January 21, 1962 is the eldest son and third child of Kapiʻolani Kawānanakoa Marignoli born at New York City, New York during her marriage with Marchese Filippo Marignoli. He is a member of the House of Kawananakoa....

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Maya Soetoro-Ng

Maya Kassandra Soetoro-Ng (pronounced /ˈmaɪ.ə suːˈtɔəroʊ ˈɪŋ/; born August 15, 1970 in Jakarta, Indonesia) is the maternal half-sister of Barack Obama, the President of the United States. She previously was a high school history teacher and...

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Don King

Don King (born 1960) is an American photographer, cinematographer, and film director. He is renowned worldwide for his photographic and cinematic images of ocean surface waves and surfing. Don King was a high school sophomore the first time he sold...

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Michael Lambert

Michael ("Mike") Allen Lambert (born April 14, 1974 in Honolulu, Hawaii) is an American volleyball player, who was a member of the United States men's national volleyball team that finished in ninth place at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta,...

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Dane Uperesa

Dane Uperesa (born January 25, 1984 in Honolulu, Hawaii) is an American football offensive tackle who is currently a free agent. He was signed by the Cincinnati Bengals as an undrafted free agent in 2008. He played college football at Hawaii....

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Evan Leong

Evan Leong is the co-founder and CEO of two Hawaii-based companies: Greater Good Inc. and Bubble Tea Supply. In 2001 Evan co-founded Bubble Tea Supply, which launched the national bubble tea drink craze. Run by Evan and his wife, the company...

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Pam Chun

Pam Chun is a writer and marketing consultant, most notable as the author of the book The Money Dragon. Pam Chun graduated with honors from Punahou School in Honolulu. She was awarded full scholarships to the University of Hawaii as a Board of...

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Robert Alexander Anderson

Robert Alexander Anderson (R. Alex Anderson) (June 6, 1894 – May 29 or 30, 1995) was an American composer who wrote many popular Hawaiian songs within the Hapa haole genre including the Christmas songs Lovely Hula Hands (1940) and Mele Kalikimaka ...

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Kirby Wright

Kirby Wright is an American writer best known for his coming of age island novel Punahou Blues and the epic novel "Moloka'i Nui Ahina", which is based on the life and times of Wright's paniolo grandmother. Both novels deal with the racial tensions...

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Allegra Goodman

Allegra Goodman (born 1967) is an American author based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her most recent novel, Intuition, was published in 2006. Goodman wrote and illustrated her first novel at the age of seven. Goodman was raised a Conservative Jew ...

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Brian E. Schatz

Brian E. Schatz (born October 20, 1972), is Chairman of the Democratic Party of Hawaii. He formerly served in the Hawaii House of Representatives from 1999 to 2006, where he represented the 25th legislative district. Brian Schatz grew up in Hawaii,...

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Sean Kern

Sean Kern (born July 11, 1978 in Honolulu, Hawaii) is an American water polo player. His position is center forward (two-meter offense). During his water polo career, Kern was a four-time All-American, two-time National Player of the Year, two-time...

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Jennifer Fairbank

Jennifer Fairbank (born June 3, 1979) is a beauty queen who has held the title Miss Hawaii USA and competed at Miss USA. Fairbank was crowned Miss Hawaii USA by outgoing queen Justine Michioka, in May 2004. This was the first time that Fairbank had...

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Ann Harada

Ann Harada (born February 3, 1964 in Honolulu, Hawaii) is a New York-based actress who is best-known for the musical Avenue Q in which she originated the role of Christmas Eve, the heavily-accented Japanese therapist. Harada was raised in Hawaii and...

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Lindy Vivas

Lindy Vivas was a former volleyball coach. Vivas served as the head coach of the Fresno State women's volleyball team from 1991 to 2004, becoming the school's all-time winningest coach in that sport in the process. Vivas today remains the winningest...

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Nainoa Thompson

Charles Nainoa Thompson (born 1953) is a Native Hawaiian navigator and the executive director of the Polynesian Voyaging Society. He is best known as the first Hawaiian to practice the ancient Polynesian art of navigation since the 14th century,...

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Fred Hemmings

Fred Hemmings (born January 6, 1946) is a Republican member of the Hawaii Senate representing the 25th District. Elected in 2000, he has served as Senate Minority Leader since 2002. Previously he was a member of the Hawaii House of Representatives...

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Justin Wayne

Justin Morgan Wayne (born April 16, 1979, in Honolulu, Hawaii) is a former American professional baseball pitcher. Wayne is from Honolulu, Hawaii, and an alumnus of Punahou School (the high school that Barack Obama attended). Wayne was named an All...

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Al Harrington

Al Harrington (born Tausau Ta'a on December 12, 1935 in Pago Pago, American Samoa) is an American television actor. He is best known as his role as "Det. Ben Kokua" on the CBS television series Hawaii Five-O. Al Harrington was raised by his maternal...

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Thurston Twigg-Smith

Thurston Twigg-Smith (1921-) is a well-known businessman and philanthropist from Hawaii. Twigg-Smith is a fifth generation Hawaiʻi resident. He was born in 1921 in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. He is the son of William and Margaret Thurston Twigg-Smith (1895...

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Mosi Tatupu

Mosiula Faasuka Tatupu (born April 26, 1955 in Pago Pago, American Samoa) is a former National Football League running back who played for the New England Patriots and the Los Angeles Rams, in a fifteen-year career. His engagement with the Patriots...

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Quentin Kawananakoa

Quentin Kawananakoa, formally Quentin Kūhiō Kawānanakoa (born September 28, 1961), is the current head of the House of Kawananakoa. His theoretical status as claimant to the throne of the lapsed Kingdom of Hawaii has been affirmed by historians and...

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Joseph Rider Farrington

Joseph Rider Farrington (October 15, 1897 – June 19, 1954) was an American statesman who served in the United States Congress as delegate for the Territory of Hawai'i. Farrington was born in Washington, D.C. to Wallace Rider Farrington, the future...

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