Here's my list, by my count 27 women of partial or total Asian descent posed
as Playmates between 1964 and 2019.
Playboy didn't officially record the women's ethnicities and if she doesn't mention it in her interviews, it's not talked about in her presentation, so there may be more that we don't know about and sometimes Filipinas are confused for Latinas.
There are tons of more Asians who posed as online only Cybergirls, Muses, Amateurs and guest models.
Also, Hef seemed to love Hapas, the number of full blooded Asians is quite small.
- China Lee - August 1964 (Chinese)
- Gwen Wong - April 1967 (Filipina, Chinese)
- Leiko English - June 1971 (Japanese, White)
- Denise Michele - April 1976 (she never clarified her ethnicity)
- Lourdes Estores - June 1982 (Filipina, Spanish, and Hawaiian)
- Lonny Chin - January 1983 (Chinese, Jamaican)
- Alana Soares - March 1983 (Hawaiian, Japanese)
- Venice Kong - September 1985 (Chinese, Jamaican)
- Diana Lee - May 1988 (Chinese)
- Pia Reyes - November 1988 (Filipina)
- Cristy Thom - February 1991 (she never clarified her ethnicity)
- Angela Melini - June 1992 (Vietnamese, Italian)
- Morena Corwin - September 1992 (South Korean, White)
- Lisa Marie Scott - February 1995 (Japanese, White)
- Karin Taylor - June 1996 (Chinese, Jamaican)
- Kimber West - February 1997 (Polynesian)
- Lynn Thomas - May 1997 (Vietnamese, White)
- Jodi Ann Paterson - October 1999 (Indonesian, White)
- Michele Rogers - June 2002 (Hawaiian, White)
- Hiromi Oshima - June 2004 (Japanese)
- Grace Kim - November 2008 (Korean)
- Mei-Ling Lam - June 2011 (Chinese, French)
- Bryiana Noelle - September 2013 (Filipina, Chinese)
- Cassandra Dawn - June 2018 (she has never clarified exactly, only saying Asian and East Indian)
- Miki Hamano - March 2019 (Japanese)
- Gillian Chan - November 2019 (Chinese, Jamaican)
- Anita Pathammavong - March 2020 (Thai)