List of people from American Samoa

This is a list of

• Mary Jewett Pritchard was a master siapo (tapa cloth) maker and teacher.
• Sven Ortquist was a master wood carver.
• Reggie Meredith-Fitiao is an expert in siapo and professor at American Samoa Community College.

• Marion Malena is a multiple beauty pageant winner and performer.^[1] Malena resides in Seattle, Wa.

• John Kneubuhl was a Hollywood screenwriter, playwright and Polynesian historian. He wrote for American television series such as The Fugitive, Gunsmoke, The Wild Wild West, Star Trek, The Invaders and Hawaii Five-O. An annual award named in his honor is presented by the department of education to local students.
• Freddie Letuli was the pioneer of the world-famous Polynesian fire knife dance. He toured across the United States and Europe, appearing in TV shows and movies. Letuli died in 2003. The annual World Fire Knife competition is held each year in his honor.
• Al Harrington is a Hollywood character actor best known for playing Detective Ben Kokua on the original Hawaii Five-O.
• Hollywood actor Eric Stoltz lived with his family in American Samoa. His father was the principal of Leone High School in the late 1960s.^[2]
• Fast & the Furious
  film series.
• Paramount Chief Tuli Le'iato of American Samoa
  .

• Author Sia Figiel was an educator for Fa'asao-Marist and Samoana High School. Figiel was a special liaison for the congressman's office for several years.
• Fofó Iosefa Fiti Sunia founded American Samoa's first newspaper in the 1960s and was later elected as a non-voting delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives, serving from 1981 to 1988. Sunia published a series of books, among them The story of the legislature of American Samoa: 1948–1998 and Puputoa: A Host of Heroes.^{[citation needed}
  ]

• The Katinas is a famed contemporary Christian music group composed of brothers.

• Tulsi Gabbard is a member of the United States congress representing Hawaii's 2nd congressional district.
• Arieta Enesi Mulitauaopele is the first Samoan woman to run for election as Lieutenant Governor of American Samoa.
• Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen
  is a member of the United States House of Representatives representing American Samoa. Her father was the first democratically elected governor of American Samoa. Coleman Radewagen is a Republican, and she serves on the Committee on Natural Resources, the Committee on small business and the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

• soccer player to play in a FIFA World Cup qualifier. She features in the 2014 British film Next Goal Wins
  .
• Tafuna
  is named in his honor.
• Samula Anoaʻi, Roman Reigns and Eddie Fatu
  (Umaga), among others.
• High Chief
  Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, who posthumously inducted him into the WWE Hall of Fame
  in 2008.
• Jack Thompson, "The Throwin' Samoan", was a backup quarterback for the Cincinnati Bengals and the first Samoan member of a team that made it to the NFL Super Bowl, in 1982, although Thompson did not play in that game.
• San Francisco 49ers nose tackle Manu Tuiasosopo was the first Samoan to play in a Super Bowl, in 1985.
• Cocoa Samoa was a professional wrestler in the 1980s. He held several championship titles.
• Jonathan Fanene became the first NFL player to be appointed to a cabinet position in the American Samoa government in 2014.^[8]
• Olympic Diver
  Greek descent.^[9] Louganis reconnected with his biological father, Fouvale Lutu, in 1984. Through the help of DNA tests and his half-siblings, he found his biological mother in 2017.^[10]