List of Ethiopian Americans

• Abdul "Duke" Fakir - founding member of popular Motown act the Four Tops
• Abdus Ibrahim - soccer player
• Amsale Aberra - fashion designer
• Aster Aweke - singer
• Dinaw Mengestu - author
• Fershgenet Melaku - model & rapper
• Fesum Ogbazion- founder & CEO of Instant Tax Service
• Gabriel Teodros - hip hop artist
• Gebisa Ejeta - geneticist and recipient of the 2009 World Food Prize
• Gelila Bekele - model
• Gigi - singer
• Gonjasufi - musician
• Haile Gerima - film director
• Julie Mehretu - painter
• Kenna Zemedkun - rock singer
• Kitaw Ejigu -aerospace scientist at NASA
• Lemma W. Senbet - professor
• Liben Eabisa - founder & Publisher of Tadias Magazine
• Liya Kebede - international supermodel
• Michael D. Ellison - hip-hop recording artist, actor and activist
• Mulatu Astatke - musician and arranger, father of Ethio-Jazz
• Nina Ashenafi Richardson - judge
• Nipsey Hussle - rapper
• Nnegest Likké - film director/screenwriter
• Noah Samara - founder and CEO of Worldspace
• Robel Teklemariam - cross country skier
• Saaphyri Windsor - reality tv star
• Selamawi Asgedom - author
• Shabba Doo - actor, dancer & founding member of The Original Lockers
• Sossina M. Haile - scientist
• Ted M. Alemayhu - founder & Executive Chairman of U.S. Doctors for Africa (USDFA)
• Tessema Dosho Shifferaw - inventor of the Bowflex Machine and founder of Dosho Designs
• Teshome Gabriel - cinema scholar and professor
• Tilahun Yilma - veterinary virologist
• Wayna - r&b singer
• Yosef Ben-Jochannan - historian