List of former United States citizens who relinquished their nationality
List
Key of reasons To take or run for a position in a foreign government. Spouses of foreign heads of state are included in this category.

List of former United States citizens who relinquished their nationality

Section Title: List
Table Section Text: Key of reasons To take or run for a position in a foreign government. Spouses of foreign heads of state are included in this category.

Name	Occupation	U.S. citizenship	Other citizenships	Description	Year emigrated	Year relinquished	Federal Register

James Abegglen	Scholar	Jus soli	Japan	A native of Michigan and a World War II Pacific theater Marine Corps veteran, Abegglen went on to a career as a professor of management and economics.	1982	1997	Q2 1998

Ljubica Acevska	Diplomat	Naturalized	Macedonia	A native of Capari in the former Yugoslavia, Acevska came to the United States with her family in 1966. She relinquished U.S.	N/A	1995	No

Valdas Adamkus	Politician	Naturalized	Lithuania	Adamkus was born in Kaunas, Lithuania, and came to Chicago as a refugee. He renounced U.S.	1997	1998	Q3 1998

Albert II, Prince of Monaco	Royalty	Jus sanguinis	Monaco	Born in Monaco in 1958, Prince Albert inherited U.S. citizenship from his mother, actress Grace Kelly.	N/A	1979-80	Too early

Tom Alter	Actor	Jus sanguinis	India	Alter was born in Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India to American missionary parents. He lived in India all his life with the exception of a year-long stint at Yale University in the late 1960s; he withdrew without completing his degree and returned to India.	N/A	1970s	Too early

David Alward	Politician	Jus soli	Canada	Alward was born in Beverly, Massachusetts, and moved to New Brunswick with his family while he was still young. He went on to become Premier of New Brunswick.	1960s	April 2015	Q3 2015

Kevin Andrews	Writer	Jus sanguinis	Greece	Andrews was born in China to American father Roy Chapman Andrews and his English wife, and served in the U.S.' 10th Mountain Division during World War II.	1947	1975	Too early

Moshe Arens	Politician	Naturalized	Israel	Born in Lithuania in 1925, Arens came to the U.S. with his family in 1939, and naturalized as a U.S.	1948	1982	Too early

Ted Arison	Businessperson	?	Israel	Born in the British Mandate of Palestine, Arison moved to the U.S. in 1952, where he founded Carnival Cruise Lines.	1990	1990	Too early

Debito Arudou	Activist	Jus soli	Japan	Raised as David Christopher Aldwinckle in Geneva, New York, he gave up his U.S. citizenship in 2002 after becoming a citizen of Japan.	1991	2002	Q3 2002

William Ash	Writer	Jus soli	United Kingdom	Texas native Ash, angered by the U.S.' initial stance of neutrality in World War II, renounced citizenship in 1939 to join the Royal Canadian Air Force as a fighter pilot and flew numerous missions against Nazi Germany before his capture.	1939	1939	Too early

Rachel Azaria	Politician	Jus sanguinis	Israel	Azaria was born in Israel to an American mother who had made aliyah at age 18. She grew up in Israel, and never lived in the U.S.	N/A	March 2015	Q4 2015

Josephine Baker	Musician	Jus soli	France	Born Freda Josephine McDonald in St. Louis, Missouri in 1906, she moved to Paris in 1925 to pursue a career as a dancer.	1925	1937	Too early

Daphne Barak Erez	Judge	Jus soli	Israel	Barak-Erez was born to Israeli parents in the U.S. and later returned with them to Israel, where she grew up and attended Tel Aviv University.	?	January 2012	Q2 2012

Tom Bayer	Financier	?	Vanuatu	Bayer served in the United States Army during the Vietnam War, and remained in the Asia-Pacific region to pursue a career in finance, moving to Australia in 1967 and then to Singapore before coming to Vanuatu (then the New Hebrides) in 1974.	1960s	1982	Too early

Naftali Bennett	Politician	Jus sanguinis	Israel	Bennett was born in Israel to American émigré parents from California. He renounced U.S.	N/A	January 2013	Q2 2013

Adam Bilzerian	Other	Jus soli	Saint Kitts and Nevis	Bilzerian, a writer and professional poker player, is a native of Tampa, Florida and the son of corporate takeover specialist Paul Bilzerian.	2007	2008	No

Wayne Brabender	Athlete	Jus soli	Spain	Brabender was born in 1945 in Montevideo, Minnesota. He was drafted by the Philadelphia 76ers in 1967, but instead accepted an offer by Pedro Ferrándiz to join Real Madrid Baloncesto, and moved to Spain.	1967	1970s	Too early

Max Brauer	Politician	Naturalized	Germany	Brauer, a native of Germany, fled to France and then China after the Nazi rise to power, and eventually ended up in the U.S., where he worked as a university lecturer and was naturalized as a U.S.	June 1945	1946	Too early

Robert Brout	Scientist	Jus soli	Belgium	A native of New York and an expert in statistical mechanics, Brout met Belgian physicist François Englert while a professor at Cornell University in the 1950s.	1961	1960s	Too early

Bill Browder	Financier	Jus soli	United Kingdom	Born in Princeton, New Jersey in 1965, Browder emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1989. He founded Hermitage Capital Management there in Guernsey in 1996.	1989	1998	Q3 1998

Angela Brown-Burke	Politician	Naturalized	Jamaica	Born in Jamaica, Brown-Burke moved to the U.S. in 1986 and naturalized as a U.S.	1997	January 2012	Q2 2012

Yul Brynner	Actor	Naturalized	Switzerland	Russian-born film and stage actor; held dual Swiss and U.S. citizenship until 1965, when he renounced his U.S.	?	1965	Too early

Maria Callas	Musician	Jus soli	Greece	Opera singer born in New York City in 1923. She renounced U.S.	1937	April 1966	Too early

Orlan Calayag	Politician	Naturalized	Philippines	Calayag was born in San Pablo, Laguna, Philippines in 1974, and moved to Washington State after completing university. He naturalized as a U.S.	2012	January 2013	Q2 2013

James Carney	Activist	Jus soli	Honduras	Carney, a native of Chicago and a World War II veteran, first went abroad as a missionary to British Honduras (today Belize) in 1955.	1961	1974	Too early

Vince Cate	Other	?	Mozambique	Cate, an encryption expert, moved to Anguilla in 1994 after completing a master's degree in computer science at Carnegie Mellon University.	1994	September 1998	Q1 1999

Elizabeth Catlett	Artist	Jus soli	Mexico	Born in Washington, D.C. in 1915, Catlett first came to Mexico in 1946 to study the country's popular arts movements; there, she met the man who would become her husband, Francisco Mora.	1946	1962	Too early

Alan Peter Cayetano	Politician	Jus sanguinis	Philippines	Cayetano was born in the Philippines in 1970 to Philippine Senator Renato Cayetano and his American wife, Sandra Schramm-Cayetano (a native of Michigan).	N/A	1998	Q1 1999

Laura Cha	Politician	?	People's Republic of China (Hong Kong)	Cha renounced U.S. citizenship in 2001 to take up a position as Vice Chair of the China Securities Regulatory Commission.	?	February 2001	Q1 2001

Albert Chan	Scientist	Naturalized	People's Republic of China (Hong Kong)	A native of Taishan, Guangdong, Chan moved to Hong Kong at age 14 before going on to university in Japan and then the U.S., where he naturalized as a U.S.	1992	2001	Q1 2002

Bernard Charnwut Chan	Politician	?	People's Republic of China (Hong Kong)	Chan was elected to the Legislative Council of Hong Kong in the 1998 elections to represent the insurance constituency. The Legislative Council Ordinance allows legislators in this and certain other functional constituencies to hold foreign citizenship; nevertheless, in the runup to the 2004 elections there was public discussion about amending the Ordinance to abolish this, and Chan renounced his U.S.	?	July 2004	Q2 2005

Bernard Chan Pak-li	Politician	?	People's Republic of China (Hong Kong)	Chan moved back to Hong Kong after receiving a Ph.D. from Duke University in 2003.	2003	February 2013	Q2 2013

Jaycee Chan	Actor	Jus soli	People's Republic of China (Hong Kong)	Born in Los Angeles, California, in 1982 to Jackie Chan and Joan Lin, Chan spent most of his childhood in Hong Kong.	N/A	February 2009	No

Victoria Chan-Palay	Scientist	?	Singapore	A native of Singapore, Chan-Palay studied at Smith College in Massachusetts, graduating in 1965. She and her then-husband Sanford Palay did seminal research in neuroscience in the 1970s; however, they later divorced.	1989	2012	Q3 2012

Robert Chandran	Businessperson	Naturalized	India Singapore	Born in India in 1950, Chandran attended university there and in the Philippines before moving to the U.S. in 1976 with his Filipina American wife Vivian.	2005	2007	No

Patrece Charles-Freeman	Politician	?	Jamaica	Charles-Freeman is the daughter of Jamaican politician Pearnel Charles. She lived in the U.S.	2000s	August 2011	No

Pearnel Patroe Charles Jr.	Politician	Jus soli	Jamaica	Charles is a Jamaican politician who currently serves as a Government Senator in the Parliament of Jamaica and as a Minister of State.	2000s	2016	Q2 2017

Chen Be-yue	Judge	Naturalized	Republic of China	Chen left behind a career as a judge in Taiwan to emigrate to the U.S. in 1983, and naturalized as a citizen there in 1992.	1990s	1996	Q4 1996

Chen Pi-Chao	Politician	Naturalized	Republic of China	Chen left Taiwan in 1961 to attend Wayne State University and Princeton University, and then returned to WSU to become an instructor.	1990s	1995	Q2 1997

Fernando Cheung Chiu-hung	Politician	Naturalized	People's Republic of China (Macau and Hong Kong)	A native of Macau, Cheung grew up in Hong Kong, and moved to the U.S. for graduate school.	1996	2004	Q2 2005

Chi Cheng	Athlete Politician	Naturalized	Republic of China	A native of Hsinchu, Taiwan, she won a bronze medal for the ROC team at the 1968 Summer Olympics. She naturalized as a U.S.	1970s	2009	Q4 2009

David Chu	Politician	Naturalized	People's Republic of China (Hong Kong)	Chu was born in Shanghai in 1944, and moved to Bedford, Massachusetts with his parents in 1958. He relocated to Hong Kong in 1977 for career reasons, and became involved in local and mainland politics.	1977	June 1994	JCT 1995, p. H17

Bruce Conde	Other	Jus soli	Yemen	A native of San Juan Capistrano, California, Conde went to Lebanon to study Arabic at the American University of Beirut in 1950, and eventually ended up in the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen, where in 1956 he renounced his U.S.	1950	1956	Too early

Winston Dang	Politician	?	Republic of China	Dang, a Democratic Progressive Party member in Taiwan, was named head of the Environmental Protection Administration by Chen Shui-bian after the 2004 elections, and renounced his U.S.	?	2005	Q1 2005

Kenneth and Robert Dart	Businessman	Jus soli	Belize, Cayman Islands, Ireland	In the mid-1990s Kenneth Dart and his brother, Robert, both renounced their American citizenship. Kenneth took Caymanian, Belizean and, later, Irish, citizenship.	?	1990s

Garry Davis	Activist	Jus soli	None	Davis was born in Bar Harbor, Maine. After serving in the U.S.	?	1948	Too early

Quincy Davis	Athlete	Jus soli	Republic of China	Davis was born in Los Angeles, California. After graduating from Tulane University in 2006, he went on to play professional basketball in Europe and South America before coming to Taiwan in 2011 to join the Super Basketball League.	2006	June 2013	Q4 2013

Ron Dermer	Diplomat	Jus soli	Israel	Dermer was born in Miami Beach, Florida in 1971. He moved to Israel in 1996, and began the process of becoming a citizen there in 1997.	1996	2005	Q2 2005

Michael D. Dingman	Businessperson	Jus soli	The Bahamas	Dingman was born in Connecticut in 1931. He moved to the Bahamas in 1964, and renounced U.S.	1964	June 20, 1994	JCT 1995, p. H15

W. E. B. Du Bois	Scholar	Jus soli	Ghana	Du Bois, a native of Massachusetts, moved to Ghana in 1961 at age 93 to manage the Encyclopedia Africana project. The U.S.	1961	1963	Too early

Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann	Politician	Jus soli	Nicaragua	D'Escoto, born in Los Angeles in 1933, went into politics in Nicaragua in the 1970s and renounced his U.S. citizenship.	?	1970s or earlier	Too early

T. S. Eliot	Writer	Jus soli	United Kingdom	Born in 1888 in St. Louis, Missouri, Eliot moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 to attend Merton College, Oxford.	1914	1927	Too early

Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia	Royalty	Naturalized	Serbia	A native of Belgrade, Princess Elizabeth lived in the U.S. during her marriage to American clothier Howard Oxenberg, with whom she had a daughter, American actress Catherine Oxenberg.	1960s	2012	Q2 2012

Max Ernst	Artist	Naturalized	France	Born in Germany in 1891, Ernst lived in France for most of his life. He fled the Nazi occupation in 1941 and came to the U.S., where he married Peggy Guggenheim and naturalized as a U.S.	1950	1958	Too early

Friedhelm Eronat	Businessperson	?	United Kingdom	German-born oil businessman	?	2003	Q3 2004

Eru	Musician	Jus soli	South Korea	Eru is the stage name of Cho Sung-hyun, a singer born in New York City to Korean immigrant parents. He dropped out of the Berklee College of Music in 2003 to move to South Korea and pursue his career as a singer there.	2003	2008	No

Fredrik Herman Gade	Diplomat	Jus sanguinis	Norway	Gade was born at Frogner Manor in Norway in 1870 to American diplomat parents. At age 18 he moved to the United States, where he went on to marry an American woman and serve four terms as mayor of Lake Forest, Illinois.	1910	1910	Too early

Ashraf Ghani	Politician	Naturalized	Afghanistan	Ghani, a native of Logar Province, moved to the United States in 1977 to attend Columbia University, and pursued a career as an anthropoligist there.	2002	2009	Q3 2009

Terry Gilliam	Director	Jus soli	United Kingdom	Gilliam was born in Minneapolis. In 1968, he obtained British citizenship, then held dual U.S.	1960s	January 2006	Q1 2006

Mike Gogulski	Activist	Jus soli	None	Gogulski, a political activist born in Phoenix, Arizona, moved to Eastern Europe in 2004 and then renounced his U.S. citizenship in 2008 in Slovakia without obtaining any other.	2004	December 2008	Q4 2010

Camillo Gonsalves	Diplomat Politician	Jus soli	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Gonsalves was born in Philadelphia to Ralph Gonsalves and his Jamaican wife Sonia Gonsalves in 1971. He attended university and worked as a journalist and corporate lawyer in the U.S.	1990s or 2000s	September 2013	Q2 2015

René González	Spy	Jus soli	Cuba	González was born in Chicago in 1956, but moved to Cuba as an infant. He returned to the U.S.	2013	May 6, 2013	No

Mr. and Mrs. William Gorham	Engineer	Jus soli	Japan	Gorham, a native of San Francisco, moved to Japan with his wife and children in 1918, where he worked as an engineer for various predecessors of Nissan before transferring to Hitachi.	1918	May 1941	Too early

Lindsay Grant	Politician	?	Saint Kitts and Nevis	Grant renounced U.S. citizenship in 2009, during the debate on the National Assembly Elections (Amendment) bill which would bar dual citizens from standing for election.	?	July 2009	Q4 2009

Ronald Green	Politician	?	Dominica	Green, a United Workers' Party politician, has been involved in Dominican politics since the 1990s. He renounced his U.S.	?	2009	Q3 2010

Eklil Ahmad Hakimi	Diplomat	Naturalized	Afghanistan	Hakimi was born in Kabul in 1968, and joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs after graduating from the Polytechnical University of Kabul.	2002	2005	No

Yaser Esam Hamdi	Other	Jus soli	Saudi Arabia	Hamdi was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana to Saudi parents, and moved to Saudi Arabia with them as a child. He was captured in Afghanistan in 2001 and detained as a purported "illegal enemy combatant".	1980s	October 2004	Q4 2004

Han Ye-seul	Actor	Jus soli	South Korea	Han Ye-seul is the stage name of Leslie Kim, an actress born to Korean immigrant parents in southern California in 1981.	2001	March 2004	No

George Hatem	Medicine	Jus soli	People's Republic of China	Born in Buffalo, New York to Lebanese American parents in 1910, Hatem came to Shanghai in the 1930s to set up a medical practice.	1930s	1949	Too early

Ian Hayles	Politician	Naturalized	Jamaica	Born in Westmoreland Parish, Jamaica, Hayles emigrated to the U.S. in the 1980s at age 13 with his family, and returned to Jamaica in 2000.	2000	October 2007	Q4 2007

William Heinecke	Businessperson	Jus sanguinis	Thailand	Heinecke was born in 1949 to a U.S. Foreign Service Officer and grew up in Japan, Hong Kong, and Malaysia.	N/A	1991	Too early

Stefan Heym	Writer	Naturalized	East Germany	A native of Chemnitz in eastern Germany, Heym fled in the Nazis in 1933 to Czechoslovakia before coming to the U.S.	1951	1953	Too early

Alan Heyman	Scholar	Jus soli	South Korea	A native of New York City, Heyman first came to South Korea in 1953 during the Korean War, and developed an interest in Korean traditional music; he returned to the country in 1960 and devoted the rest of his life to musical research and composition, and received awards from UNESCO and the South Korean government in recognition of his work.	1960	1995	Q1 1997

Shere Hite	Scholar	Jus soli	Germany	Hite was born in Missouri. She went on to become a sex educator and feminist studies scholar.	1987	1995	Q1 2001

Robert Holley	Other	Jus soli	South Korea	A native of California, Holley first came to South Korea in 1978 as a Mormon missionary, and then returned in 1987 to pursue a legal career.	1987	1997	Q4 1997

Raffi Hovannisian	Politician	Jus soli	Armenia	Hovannisyan was born in Brentwood, California to Armenian American parents. He moved to Armenia in 1989, and applied for citizenship there in 1991, which would require him to give up all foreign citizenships upon approval.	1989	2001	Q3 2002

Hsiao Bi-khim	Politician	Jus sanguinis	Republic of China	Born in Japan in 1971 to a Taiwanese father and an American mother, she did her secondary and tertiary education in the U.S., where she became involved with the Democratic Progressive Party.	1996	2000s	Q2 2002

John Huston	Director	Jus soli	Ireland	Nevada, Missouri-born film director, screenwriter, and actor. He emigrated to Ireland in 1952 in disgust over the activities of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, and renounced U.S.	1952	January 1964	Too early

Barbara Hutton	Other	Jus soli	Denmark Dominican Republic	Hutton, a native of New York City, moved to Denmark in 1935 upon her marriage to Count Kurt von Haugwitz-Reventlow, and two years later renounced U.S.	1935	January 1937	Too early

Toomas Hendrik Ilves	Politician	Naturalized	Estonia	Born in Sweden to Estonian émigré parents, Ilves grew up in New Jersey and naturalized as a U.S. citizen.[when?] He emigrated to Estonia and renounced his U.S.	1990s	1990s	Too early

Frederic B. Ingram	Businessman	Jus soli	Ireland	Ingram renounced his US citizenship after his bribery jail sentence was commuted by President Jimmy Carter. He became an Irish citizen.	?	1981	Too early

Janet Jagan	Politician	Jus soli	Guyana	Born Janet Rosenberg, a native of Chicago, she emigrated to Guyana in 1943 with her husband, Indo-Guyanese politician Cheddi Jagan. She renounced U.S.	1947	1950	Too early

Henry James	Writer	Jus soli	United Kingdom	A native of New York City, James traveled frequently between Europe and the U.S. before settling in England in 1876, where he became famous for novels about Americans living abroad such as Daisy Miller and The Portrait of a Lady.	1876	July 1915	Too early

Said Tayeb Jawad	Diplomat	Naturalized	Afghanistan	Jawad, a native of Afghanistan, fled the country in 1980 after the Soviet invasion, eventually ending up in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he naturalized as a U.S.	2002	2003	Q4 2003

Jang Young-sik	Scholar	Naturalized	South Korea	Born in Gwangju in 1935, Jang moved to the U.S. in the 1950s and naturalized as a U.S.	1980s	May 1998	Q3 1998

Alexis Jeffers	Politician	?	Saint Kitts and Nevis	Jeffers grew up on Nevis before coming to the U.S. to attend Broward College and Florida Atlantic University in Florida.	?	2009	Q4 2009

Jin Li	Scientist	Naturalized	People's Republic of China	Jin was born in Shanghai, and moved to the U.S. to earn his doctorate in genetics at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, graduating in 1994.	2005	2006	No

Boris Johnson	Politician	Jus soli	United Kingdom	Johnson was born in New York City in 1964 to British parents, and the family returned to the United Kingdom in 1969.	1969	2016	Q4 2016

Thomas Jolley	Activist	Jus soli	None	Born in Greensboro, North Carolina, Jolley moved to Canada in 1967 to avoid being after receiving a drafted to serve in the Vietnam War and renounced U.S.	1967	1967	Too early

Meir Kahane	Politician	Jus soli	Israel	A native of Brooklyn, New York, Kahane emigrated to Israel in 1971, where he founded the political party Kach. He became a member of the Knesset on the Kach party list in the 1984 election.	1971	September 1988	Too early

Ojars Kalnins Latvian: Ojārs Ēriks Kalniņš	Diplomat	Naturalized	Latvia	A Latvian American and raised in the United States, after Latvia regained its independence in 1991, Kalniņš renounced his U.S. citizenship to become Latvia's ambassador in Washington in 1993.	1999	1993	Too early

Mahmud Karzai	Politician Businessperson	Naturalized	Afghanistan	The brother of Afghan president Hamid Karzai, he naturalized as a U.S. citizen but then moved back to Afghanistan in 2001 to pursue business opportunities.	2001	January 2013	Q1 2013

Fauzia Kasuri	Politician	?	Pakistan	A member of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, she renounced U.S. citizenship in March 2013 to run in the Pakistani general election that year.	?	March 2013	No

Donald Keene	Scholar	Jus soli	Japan	Born in 1922 in New York City, Keene served as a professor at Columbia University for over five decades. After his retirement, he moved to Japan in 2011 as a demonstration of his support for the country in the aftermath of the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.	2011	March 2012	No

Kristina Keneally	Politician	Jus soli	Australia	Born in 1968 in Las Vegas, Nevada and raised in Whitehouse, Ohio, Keneally emigrated to Australia with her husband in 1994, and became a citizen there in 1999.	1994	2002	Q4 2002

Kuan Chung-ming	Politician	Naturalized	Republic of China	Kuan, a native of Taipei, studied in California in the 1980s, and obtained a green card and then U.S. citizenship.	1994	2011	Q1 2012

Pedro Pablo Kuczynski	Politician	Naturalized	Peru	Born in Peru in 1938, Kuczynski continued his higher education in the United Kingdom and the United States, where he later went into exile in 1969 due to political persecution.	June 2001	November 10, 2015	Q1 2017

Joseph Kurihara	Other	Jus soli	Japan	Kurihara was born in Kauai, Hawaii in 1895 to Japanese immigrant parents. He was interned due to his ethnicity at Manzanar and then Tule Lake during World War II, and renounced U.S.	1945	1944	Too early

Margaret Wade Labarge	Writer	Jus soli	Canada	Labarge was born in New York City in 1916. She married a Canadian whom she met while studying at St Anne's College, Oxford and moved to Canada with him in 1940.	1940	1940s or later	Too early

Oskar R. Lange	Diplomat Economist	Naturalized	Poland	Naturalized U.S. citizen born in Poland; renounced his citizenship in 1945 to take up a position as Poland's ambassador to the U.S., in a case believed to be the first of its kind in diplomatic history.	?	August 1945	Too early

John-Paul Langbroek	Politician	Jus sanguinis	Australia	Langbroek was born in Belgium to a Dutch father and American mother, and grew up in Australia. He gave up U.S.	N/A	2001	Q2 2002

Lawrence Lau	Scholar Politician	Naturalized	People's Republic of China (Hong Kong)	Lau, a native of Guizhou, attended secondary school in Hong Kong before moving to the U.S. in 1960 for further studies, and pursued his academic career there for four decades before returning to Hong Kong in 2004 to become Vice-Chancellor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.	2004	January 2009	Q2 2010

Christina Lee	Politician	?	People's Republic of China (Hong Kong)	Lee was born and raised in Hong Kong. She lived in the U.S.	1997	2010	Q3 2010

Diane Lee Ching-an	Politician	Naturalized	Republic of China	Lee was born in Taiwan and naturalized as a U.S. citizen in 1991.	1990s	1994 or later	Q4 2009

Jennifer Lee	Athlete	Jus soli	People's Republic of China (Hong Kong)	Born Jennifer Snow in Virginia, she moved to Hong Kong in 1994 with her husband, a Hong Kong native. She renounced U.S.	1994	July 2008	Q4 2009

Lee Kai-fu	Businessperson	Naturalized	Republic of China	A native of Taiwan, Lee moved to Tennessee at age 11, following his elder brother who already lived there, and later naturalized as a U.S.	2005	2011	Q3 2011

Robert Lee	Medicine	Jus soli	Ghana	A native of South Carolina, Lee and his wife Sara emigrated to Ghana in 1956 and set up a dental practice, at the head of a wave of African Americans moving to the country to participate in nation-building as its independence neared.	1956	1963	Too early

Yuan T. Lee	Scientist	Naturalized	Republic of China	Born in Taiwan, he naturalized as a U.S. citizen, and won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1986.	1994	1994	JCT 1995, p. H12

Jet Li	Actor	Naturalized	Singapore	Beijing-born film actor and martial artist. He moved to Singapore in 2007 for his children's schooling.	?	2009	Q1 2009

Lin Ruey-shiung	Politician	Naturalized	Republic of China	A native of Tainan, Taiwan, Lin received a Doctorate of Public Health from Johns Hopkins University in the 1970s and remained in the U.S.	1985	November 2011	Q1 2012

TC Lin	Filmmaker Photographer Writer	Jus soli	Republic of China	Born Thomas Christopher Locke, he is a native of the southern United States. He first came to Taiwan in 1988 to study at Tunghai University, and in 1994 renounced his U.S.	1988	September 12, 1994	JCT 1995, p. H17

Dov Lipman	Politician	Jus soli	Israel	A former resident of Silver Spring, Maryland, Lipman emigrated to Israel in 2005, and renounced his U.S. citizenship to be eligible to serve in the Israeli Knesset.	2005	January 2013	Q2 2013

Lo Ta-yu	Musician	Naturalized	Republic of China	Lo is a native of Miaoli, Taiwan and a formerly naturalized U.S. citizen.	?	May 2004	Q4 2004

Ivan Lozowy	Activist	Jus soli	Ukraine	Born in New York City in 1961, Lozowy moved to Ukraine in 1991 to work for the People's Movement of Ukraine, and later founded the Institute for Statehood and Democracy.	1991	1997	Q4 1997

Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece	Royalty	Jus sanguinis	Greece	Born 1968 in London, Marie-Chantal inherited U.S. citizenship from her father, DFS co-founder Robert Warren Miller.	2002	2011	Q2 2011

Corine Mauch	Politician	Jus soli	Switzerland	Mauch was born in Iowa City, Iowa to Swiss parents, and returned to Switzerland with them in her early youth. She has lived in Zurich for over thirty years, and became a member of the City Council in the 1990s before being elected mayor in 2009.	1950s or 1960s	2012 or 2013	Q4 2013

Hiram Maxim	Engineer	Jus soli	United Kingdom	A native of Sangerville, Maine, Maxim began his career as an inventor in Massachusetts before emigrating to the United Kingdom in 1881 to pursue the development of what would eventually come to be known as the Maxim gun.	1881	1901	Too early

Jeremy Menuhin	Musician	Jus soli	United Kingdom	The son of violinist Yehudi Menuhin, Jeremy Menuhin was born in San Francisco, California, but followed his parents to Europe, where he studied at Eton College and made his debut as a pianist with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.	?	2003	Q2 2003

Yehudi Menuhin	Musician	Jus soli	Switzerland United Kingdom	Menuhin, a world-famous violinist, was born in New York City in 1916, but lived and worked in Europe for most of his life.	?	April 7, 1994	JCT 1995, p. H10

Carl Ferris Miller	Other	Jus soli	South Korea	Miller, a native of Pittston, Pennsylvania, first came to Korea in 1945 with the United States Navy, and naturalized as a South Korean citizen in 1979.	1945	1979	Too early

Akierra Missick	Politician	Jus soli	British Overseas Territories (Turks and Caicos Islands)	Missick was born in the U.S.; she did her primary education in the Turks and Caicos Islands before returning to the U.S.	1990s	October 17, 2012	Q3 2013

Keith Mitchell	Politician	Naturalized	Grenada	Mitchell was born in Grenada, West Indies. He naturalized as a U.S.	?	1995	Q4 2001

J. Mark Mobius	Financier	Jus soli	Germany	Mobius was born in Hempstead, New York to German and Puerto Rican parents. He went on to a career as an investor and emerging markets fund manager, moving to Hong Kong in 1969 to establish Mobius Incorporated.	1969	1995 or earlier	Q1 2001

Luis Alberto Moreno	Diplomat	Jus soli	Colombia	Moreno was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to a Colombian father attending medical school at the University of Pennsylvania. He did his early education in Colombia before coming to the U.S.	1980s	1998	Q3 1998

Chris Nam	Politician Businessperson	Naturalized	South Korea	Nam was born in Uiseong, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea in 1954. He moved to Southern California in 1982, where he worked in real estate and also served in Korean American community organizations.	2011	September 2011	Q2 2012

Claire Negrini	Other	Jus soli	Italy	Negrini, a native of Chicago, fell in love with a Roman Catholic priest and moved to his native Italy to be with him in 1951.	1951	1951	Too early

Marshall Nicholson	Financier	Jus soli	People's Republic of China (Hong Kong)	Nicholson migrated from New York City to Hong Kong in 2002, where in 2007 he would go on to become vice-chairman of BOC International's investment banking division, the first senior foreign executive in any Chinese bank.	2002	April 2013	Q4 2013

Henry Martyn Noel	Activist	Jus soli	None	Princeton, New Jersey native who served as an ambulance driver in World War II. Concerned by a "climax of nationalism" in the U.S., he renounced his citizenship while working in France in 1948 and moved to Allied-occupied Germany, where he took a job as a construction worker and lived on German rations.	1940s	February 1948	Too early

Queen Noor of Jordan	Royalty	Jus soli	Jordan	Born Lisa Halaby in Washington, D.C. in 1951, she became a Jordanian citizen upon her marriage to King Hussein of Jordan in 1978.	1978	1978	Too early

Lobo Nocho	Musician	Jus soli	France	A native of Philadelphia, Nocho moved to Canada in 1941, where he enlisted in the Canadian Army. He returned to the United States briefly when he transferred to the U.S.	1944	1950	Too early

Victor Okaikoi	Politician	?	Ghana	Okaikoi, a former Ghana Army captain, renounced his U.S. citizenship in August 2012 in order to run in the Ghanaian parliamentary election, 2012 as a candidate for the Odododiodoo constituency of the Accra Metropolis District.	?	August 2012	No

Christina Onassis	Other	Jus soli	Greece Argentina	Onassis was born in New York City in 1950 to businessman Aristotle Onassis, a Greek and Argentine citizen. She grew up in France and Greece.	1950s	June 1975	Too early

Oona O'Neill	Other	Jus soli	United Kingdom	Daughter of American playwright Eugene O'Neill. Emigrated from the U.S.	1952	1954	Too early

Michael Oren	Diplomat Historian	Jus soli	Israel	Oren was born in New York City in 1955 and raised in New Jersey. He emigrated to Israel in 1979, where he went on to become a historian, military officer and diplomat.	1979	May 2009	Q3 2009

Vartan Oskanian	Politician	Naturalized	Armenia	Oskanian was born in Syria in 1955, and graduated from the Yerevan Polytechnic Institute in 1979 before moving to Massachusetts to study at Tufts University.	1992 or earlier	1998	Q4 2002

Andreas Papandreou	Politician	Naturalized	Greece	A naturalized U.S. citizen, he renounced in 1964 to run in the Greek legislative election, 1964, and went on to become the Prime Minister of Greece.	?	1964	Too early

Park Jong-sei	Scientist	Naturalized	South Korea	Park came to the U.S. in 1966 to pursue graduate studies at the University of Rochester.	1986	1996	Q2 1997

Ion Perdicaris	Other	Jus soli	Greece	The son of a Greek immigrant, Perdicaris was born and raised in South Carolina. With the onset of the American Civil War, he moved to Athens, Greece and registered himself as a Greek subject so that he would not have to serve in the Confederate States Army.	1862	1862	Too early

Ryan Pinder	Politician	Jus sanguinis	The Bahamas	Bahamian politician; renounced U.S. citizenship derived at birth from his American mother in February 2010.	?	February 2012	Q1 2010

Georgi Pirinski, Jr.	Politician	Jus soli	Bulgaria	Born in New York City to immigrant parents in 1948, but left the country with them for Bulgaria when they were expelled in 1953; renounced U.S.	1953	1974	Too early

Sam Pitroda	Politician	Naturalized	India	Pitroda moved to the U.S. in 1964 for graduate studies at the Illinois Institute of Technology.	1981	1984	Too early

Mary Grace Poe Llamanzares	Politician	Naturalized	Philippines	The adopted daughter of actors Fernando Poe, Jr. and Susan Roces, Poe moved to the U.S.	2004	2010	Q4 2011

Kitty Poon	Politician	Naturalized	People's Republic of China (Hong Kong)	Poon, a native of Hangzhou, immigrated to Hong Kong after her middle school graduation. She moved to the U.S.	1997	June 2008	No

Rao Yi	Scientist	Naturalized	People's Republic of China	Born in 1962 in Jiangxi, Rao came to the U.S. in 1985 for graduate studies at the UC San Francisco, and later naturalized as a U.S.	2007	2009	Q2 2012

Cathy Reed	Athlete	Jus soli	Japan	Reed was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan to an American father and Japanese mother, a dual national at birth. Japanese nationality law requires those born dual citizens to renounce one citizenship or the other by age 22; Reed chose Japanese citizenship to continue representing Japan in ice dancing.	?	2009	No

Denise Eisenberg Rich	Other	Jus soli	Austria	Born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1944 to an Austrian immigrant father, Rich rose to fame in the U.S. as a songwriter and socialite.	?	November 2011	Q1 2012

Glen L Roberts	Activist	Jus soli	None	Roberts, a privacy activist was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He moved to Latin America in 2002.	2002	June 2013	Q4 2014

Shawn Richards	Politician	?	Saint Kitts and Nevis	Richards renounced U.S. citizenship in 2009, during the debate on the National Assembly Elections (Amendment) bill which would bar dual citizens from standing for election.	?	July 2009	Q4 2009

Shahine Robinson	Politician	Naturalized	Jamaica	Born in Jamaica, Robinson lived in the U.S. intermittently from 1978 to 2001.	2001	December 2010	Q3 2011

Viphandh Roengpithya	Engineer Businessperson	?	Thailand	Roengpithya was born in Bangkok, and studied there and in London before coming to the U.S. in the late 1960s, where he worked in integrated circuit design.	?	December 14, 1994	JCT 1995, p. H37

Daniel Sandrin	Athlete	Jus soli	South Korea	Born to a Korean American mother and Italian American father, he graduated from Seattle Pacific University in 2003 and played basketball professionally in Luxembourg and Germany before coming to South Korea in 2006.	2003	June 2006	No

Eric Lee Sandrin	Athlete	Jus soli	South Korea	Born Eric Lee Sandrin in 1978 to a Korean American mother, he grew up in the Pacific Northwest. His basketball career took him all over the world, including to teams in Luxembourg, Brazil, and Singapore.	2000s	2009	Q3 2009

Eduardo Saverin	Businessperson	Naturalized	Brazil	A native of Brazil, Saverin moved to the U.S. as a child in 1992 and became a U.S.	2009	September 2011	Q1 2012

Yolanda Schakron	Politician	Naturalized	Belize	Born in Guatemala, Schakron became a naturalized U.S. citizen at age 15 along with her parents, thus holding dual citizenship, but later returned to her parents' native Belize.	?	February 2012	No

Edward Seaga	Politician	Jus soli	Jamaica	Seaga was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1930 to Jamaican parents of Lebanese background, but grew up in Kingston. He renounced his U.S.	1930s	1950s	Too early

Ishaq Shahryar	Diplomat	Naturalized	Afghanistan	A native of Afghanistan, Shahryar received a scholarship to study chemistry in the U.S. in 1956, and remained in the U.S.	2002	June 2002	Q3 2002

Sidney Shapiro	Writer	Jus soli	People's Republic of China	Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1915, Shapiro moved to China in 1947, where he worked for the Foreign Languages Press as a translator of Chinese literature.	1947	1963	Too early

Sam Shepherd	Athlete	Jus soli	Venezuela	Shepherd was born in La Grange, North Carolina, and played basketball for Delaware State. After graduating, he moved to Venezuela to continue his sports career in the Liga Profesional de Baloncesto.	1970s	1986	Too early

Yigong Shi	Scientist	Naturalized	People's Republic of China	Shi, a graduate of Tsinghua University in Beijing, went to U.S. for his Ph.D studies at Johns Hopkins University in the 1990s, and naturalized as a U.S.	2008	2011	Q3 2011

Robert Sikol	Politician	Jus soli	Vanuatu	Born Robert Bohn in California, he moved to Vanuatu in 1978, and gave up U.S. citizenship in 1997 to naturalize as a citizen of Vanuatu.	1978	1997	Q2 1999

Song Ja	Scholar	Naturalized	South Korea	Song was born in Daejeon in 1936, and came to the U.S. in 1960 to study at Washington University in St.	1970s	1984	Too early

Barbara Stcherbatcheff	Writer	Jus soli	United Kingdom	Stcherbatcheff is a Chicago-born writer and best-selling author. She moved to London after graduating from university and naturalized as a British citizen.	2004	2014	Q2 2015

Michael Stern	Politician	?	Jamaica	Stern was elected to the Parliament of Jamaica in 2007. In 2009 it came to light that he was a dual citizen of the U.S.	?	2009	No

Takamiyama Daigorō	Athlete	Jus soli	Japan	Born Jesse James Wailani Kuhaulua in Hawaii, he moved to Japan in 1964 to pursue a career in sumo. He naturalized as a Japanese citizen and then relinquished his U.S.	1964	1976	Too early

Sir John Marks Templeton	Financier	Jus soli	United Kingdom The Bahamas	Templeton was born in Winchester, Tennessee. He renounced his U.S.	1968	1968	Too early

Tien Hung-mao	Diplomat Scholar	Naturalized	Republic of China	Tien came to the U.S. in the 1960s to attend the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and thereafter was a university professor for more than 20 years.	1990s	2000	No

Tsay Ting-kuei	Politician Activist	Naturalized	Republic of China	Tsay, a native of Kaohsiung, came to the United States in 1978 to pursue a Ph.D. at Cornell University.	1990	2002	Q3 2002

Earl Tupper	Businessperson	Jus soli	Costa Rica	Tupper was born in Berlin, New Hampshire, and founded the Tupperware company in 1938. In 1958, shortly after selling his company and divorcing his wife, he bought an island off Costa Rica and renounced his U.S.	?	1958	Too early

Tina Turner	Musician	Jus soli	Switzerland	Turner was born in 1939 in Nutbush, Tennessee, and rose to international fame as a singer. She began dating German music executive Erwin Bach in 1985, and moved to Zürich with him in 1994.	1994	October 24, 2013	Q1 2014

Bernard Utchenik	Engineer Restaurateur	Jus soli	Singapore	Born in Detroit, Utchenik's work in petroleum engineering brought him to Asia in 1991. He settled in Singapore five years later, where he founded the American-style food chain Botak Jones in 2003.	1991	August 28, 2009	Q4 2009

Daryl Vaz	Politician	Jus sanguinis	Jamaica	Born in Jamaica to a Puerto Rican mother, Vaz was elected to the Parliament of Jamaica while still holding U.S. citizenship, which he formally renounced in 2008 after a challenge to his eligibility.	?	April 2008	No

Roger Ver	Businessperson	Jus soli	Saint Kitts and Nevis	Ver moved to Tokyo, Japan in 2005. He used money he earned from Bitcoin investments to purchase property in Saint Kitts and Nevis and become a citizen of the country through its economic citizenship program, and then gave up U.S.	2005	March 2014	No

Danville Walker	Politician	?	Jamaica	Walker grew up in Kingston, Jamaica, and served as Jamaica's Director of Elections and Commissioner of Customs. He renounced his U.S.	?	November 2011	No

Oliver Wallop, 8th Earl of Portsmouth	Politician	Naturalized	United Kingdom	A native of England, Wallop moved to Sheridan, Wyoming, became a rancher, and naturalized as a U.S. citizen in 1891.	1925	1933	Too early

Everald Warmington	Politician	?	Jamaica	Warmington was born and raised in Browns Hall, Saint Catherine Parish, Jamaica. He joined the Jamaica Labour Party and was first elected to the Parliament of Jamaica in the 2002 elections.	?	2011	Q3 2011

Sharon Hay Webster	Politician	Jus soli	Jamaica	Webster was born in 1969 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, but raised in Jamaica, and naturalized there in 1988. She was elected to Parliament in 1997.	1969	2011	No

Myron W. Wentz[why?]	Businessperson	?	Saint Kitts and Nevis	Founder of USANA Health Sciences.	?	2007 or earlier	No

Dorothy Payne Whitney	Activist	Jus soli	United Kingdom	New York City-born social activist; moved to the United Kingdom and then renounced U.S. citizenship in 1935.	?	April 25, 1935	Too early

Harmon Wilfred	Activist Businessperson	Jus soli	None	A Denver-area real estate businessman frustrated by fruitless efforts to draw attention to alleged corruption and malfeasance by the Resolution Trust Corporation in the aftermath of the 1980s savings and loan crisis, Wilfred emigrated to Canada and then New Zealand, where he renounced his U.S.	1990s	2005	Q3 2005

Edward Wilson	Writer	Jus soli	United Kingdom	A native of Maryland, Wilson served in the Vietnam War and then moved to Europe, eventually settling in Suffolk, England in 1974.	1970s	1983	Too early

Robin Winkler	Activist	Jus soli	Republic of China	Born in the U.S. in 1954, Winkler emigrated to Taiwan in 1977.	1977	2003	Q4 2003

Flora Wovschin	Spy	Jus soli	Soviet Union	Born in New York City, Wovschin worked for the U.S. government in the Office of War Information and later the Department of State, and began spying for the Soviet Union.	1945 or later	1945 or later	Too early

Gary Wright	Activist Politician	Jus soli	Canada	A native of Lacey, Washington, Wright became involved with opposition to the Vietnam War in the mid-1960s; his activities with Students for a Democratic Society caused the U.S.	1968	1974	Too early

Nicholas Yang	Businessperson	?	Republic of China People's Republic of China (Hong Kong)	Yang was born in Taiwan. He graduated from the California Institute of Technology in 1977 and worked for a few years in the U.S.	1983	May 2012	No

Yang Sung-chul	Scholar Diplomat	Naturalized	South Korea	Yang was born in Gokseong County, Jeollanam-do in 1939. He came to the U.S.	1986	1989	Too early

Donnie Yen Chi-tan	Actor	Naturalized	People's Republic of China (Hong Kong)	Yen was born in Taishan, Guangdong in 1963, migrated to Hong Kong with his family at age 2, and then moved to Boston, Massachusetts at age 10, where he spent his teenage years.	1983	2009	Q3 2010

Yoo Gun	Actor	Jus soli	South Korea	Born Jo Jeong-ik in Arizona in 1983 to Korean American parents, he moved to South Korea in the early 1990s, made his debut as a singer there in 1997, and went on to an acting career in the mid-2000s, playing roles in television series such as Prosecutor Princess.	1990s	March 2011	No

Jae Yoon	Musician	Naturalized	South Korea	Yoon, a native of South Korea, followed his family to the U.S. when they emigrated there in the 1980s.	1990s	September 2009	No

Erica Yuen	Actor Politician	?	People's Republic of China (Hong Kong)	Yuen was born in Hong Kong. She renounced U.S.	?	June 2012	Q2 2013

Kateryna Yushchenko	Politician	Jus soli	Ukraine	Born Catherine Claire Chumachenko in Chicago in a Ukrainian immigrant family. The wife of the former President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko, she became a Ukrainian citizen in March 2005.	1998	August 2007	No

Kelly Zong	Businessperson Politician	Naturalized	People's Republic of China	A native of Hangzhou, Zong is the daughter of Hangzhou Wahaha Group founder Zong Qinghou. She attended high school and university in the United States.	2007	2007	Q2 2010

Rita Zucca	Other	Jus soli	Italy	Born in New York City, she emigrated to her parents' native Italy in 1938, and renounced her U.S. citizenship in 1941 to save her family's property from expropriation by Mussolini's government.	1938	1941	Too early

Roman Zvarych	Politician	Jus soli	Ukraine	Born in Yonkers, New York to Ukrainian immigrant parents, Zvarych moved to Ukraine in 1991. He co-founded the Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists there in 1992.	1991	1995	Q2 1997

Péter Zwack	Diplomat	Naturalized	Hungary	Born in Hungary in 1927, Zwack came to the U.S. with his family in 1948.	1988	1990	Too early

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Roman Zvarych was the former United States citizen to relinquish that citizenship in order to take up Ukrainian citizenship.

final_sentence: Roman Zvarych was the former United States citizen to relinquish that citizenship in order to take up Ukrainian citizenship.