Choy (December 17, 1926 – March 16, 2017) was an architect and historian of Chinese American studies.
He is the author of San Francisco Chinatown: A Guide to Its History & Architecture (2012), Canton Footprints: Sacramento’s Chinese Legacy (2007), and The Coming Man: 19th Century American Perceptions of the Chinese (1994).
Choy has been a community activist known for landmark preservation in San Francisco.