Hong Kong Americans (Cantonese:香港裔美國人、港裔美國人、美籍香港人、美港人), includeAmericans who are alsoHong Kong residents who identify themselves asHongkongers (who see Hong Kong as their home and are culturally associated with Hong Kong, especially through descent, growth, birth, long term residence, or other types of deep affiliations with Hong Kong), Americans ofHong Kong ancestry, and also Americans who have Hong Kong parents.
In May 2025, during thedeportation in the second presidency of Donald Trump, a legal resident of twenty years from Hong Kong, Ming Li Hui, also known as Carol Mayorga, was detained byICE. She has been living inKennett, Missouri, and her arrest created a local petition calling for her release that caught national attention.[12][13]
As of 2021, there are 248,024 people in the United States who are born in Hong Kong.[14] Among those, the San Francisco Bay Area is home to the largest Hong Kong-born population in the country at 61,953.[15] One out of every four Hong Kong Americans live in the Bay Area's nine counties. In recent years there have been Hong Kong theme carnivals in the Bay Area as gathering events for the Hong Kong diaspora in the region such as the 2022 and 2023 Hong Kong Carnival in Milpitas.[16][17] As a matter of fact, Hong Kong ranks among the top ten most common birthplace for the San Francisco Bay Area's foreign-born population. After the Bay Area, the New York metropolitan area has the 2nd largest population of people born in Hong Kong in the nation at 55,246.[15] Ranking third in the country isGreater Los Angeles with 34,323 residents born in Hong Kong.[15]
Denny Chin – judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (1994–present), first Asian American appointed as a United States district court judge
Margaret Chin – member of the New York City Council representing Chinatown
John Eng – served in Washington state's House of Representatives from 1973 to 1983
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