Sam Wu is an American photographer of the 1950s and 1960s. He was born Samuel Wu on February 19, 1919, in Boston, Massachusetts, and was raised in Canton, China. Three months before Pearl Harbor, he returned to the United States and settled in Southern California, where he went to work for Lockheed Aircraft as a photographer.
Later, Wu worked for adult magazines such as Playboy and Modern Man.
Some of the actresses and models Wu photographed include: Debbie Reynolds, Natalie Wood, Anita Ekberg, Barbara Parkins, Jayne Mansfield, Marla English, Doris Gohlke, Nobu McCarthy, June Wilkinson, Pat O'Connell, Vivian Maledy, Dolores Greer, Jeanne Carmen, Joan Webb, Vikki Dougan, Marilyn Hanold, Quinn O'Hara, Gloria Dawn, Rusty Fisher, Pat Sheehan and Christa Speck. He also filmed Pat Sheehan's centerfold and Tania Velia movie pictures.
The Glamor Photography Magazine, #5 of 1968 was devoted as Sam Wu Special Issue.