The Andrew Carnegie Foundation on Tuesday unveiled its annual “Great Immigrants, Great Americans” roster for 2026, celebrating 25 individuals who made their way to the United States from nations across the globe.
This year’s honorees represent a broad spectrum of achievement, from corporate boardrooms and university lecture halls to concert stages and athletic competitions. Here is the complete 2026 class:
Iman Abuzeid, co-founder and CEO of Incredible Health, originally from Sudan
Sunil Amrith, the Renu and Anand Dhawan Professor of History at Yale University, originally from Kenya
Nikesh Arora, Chair and CEO of Palo Alto Networks, originally from India
Mahzarin Banaji, the Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics at Harvard University, originally from India
Sanjiv Chopra, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, originally from India
Ingrid Daubechies, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Duke University, originally from Belgium
Hernan Diaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, originally from Argentina
Jane Fraser, Chair and CEO of Citi, originally from Scotland
Johannes Fruehauf, president and CEO of Biolabs and founder and chairman of LabCentral, originally from Germany
Gabriela Hearst, co-founder and creative director of fashion brand Gabriela Hearst, originally from Uruguay
Abbas Karimi, Paralympic swimmer, originally from Afghanistan
Reshma Kewalramani, President and CEO of Vertex, originally from India
Jeong Kim, Chair and Founder of Kiswe, originally from South Korea
Ling Ma, novelist and associate professor at the University of Chicago, originally from China
Cristian Măcelaru, conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, originally from Romania
Guadalupe Maravilla, visual artist, originally from El Salvador
Joel Mokyr, Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts & Sciences at Northwestern University, originally from the Netherlands
Hiroshi Motomura, Susan Westerberg Prager Professor of Law and Faculty Co-Director of the Center for Immigration Law and Policy at UCLA School of Law, originally from Japan
Gregory Nagy, Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University, originally from Hungary
Antonio Neri, President and CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, originally from Argentina
Cristina Rivera Garza, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, M.D. Anderson Professor in Hispanic Studies, and Director of the Creative Writing Program in Hispanic Studies at the University of Houston, originally from Mexico
James Robinson, professor in the Harris School of Public Policy and Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago, originally from England
Hock E. Tan, President and CEO of Broadcom Inc., originally from Malaysia
Omar Yaghi, Nobel Prize winner and James and Neeltje Tretter Chair Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, originally from Jordan
Michelle Zatlyn, co-founder, President and CEO of Cloudflare, originally from Canada
