List of refugees
This is a list of famous people who are or were refugees. It also includes the children of refugees. The people are ordered according to the field in which they made their names.
Advertising
Architecture
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Art
Josine Ianco-Starrels - Los Angeles curator whose exhibits gave attention to emerging, mid-career, and established artists
Marcel Janco - Painter and conceptual artist who fled Romania for Israel
Business
Fashion and Design
- Alek Wek - a supermodel, she fled Sudan with her family
- Tanya Sarne - fashion designer and creator of the Ghost label. Her father was a Russian refugee.
- Lewis de Teissier - founder of Tessier's jewellers, and the grandson of a refugee Jaqcues de Teissier
- Sir Alec Issigonis - designer of the Mini, he was a refugee
- Ora and Theo Coster - designers of the Guess Who game, were refugees
Manufacturing
- Lakshmibhai Pathak - founder of Patak's. He was a Kenyan refugee
- Rashmi Thakrar - a Ugandan refugee and founder of Tilda Rice
Music and Dance
Politics
Psychology and Philosophy
Religion
Science
Walter Kohn - Theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize (1998) in Chemistry for Density-Functional Theory; left Austria for England via Kindertransport
Sport
- Alexander Alekhine - Chess World Champion, who moved from Communistic Russia to France,
- Ossip Bernstein - Chess grandmaster, who escape from Communistic Ukraine to France,
- Efim Bogoljubow - Chess grandmaster, who moved from the Soviet Union to Germany,
- Fedor Bohatirchuk - Chess grandmaster, who moved from Ukraine to Canada.
- Joel Casamayor - Former Lightweight Champion in Boxing, fled from Cuba to U.S.
- Mebrahtom Keflezighi - Olympic marathon silver medallist, Eritrean refugee to U.S. (via Italy)
- Ashot Nadanian - Chess player, who moved from Azerbaijan to Armenia
- Mario Stanic - Former footballer with Chelsea. He used to play for Sarajevo F.C. who were targeted during the Bosnian War
- Christopher Wreh - Former Arsenal footballer and Liberian refugee
- Lomana Tresor LuaLua - A striker/winger who plays for Olympiakos, he migrated from Kinshansa, DR Congo to the U.K
TV and Film
Writing and Publishing
- Yasmin Alibhai-Brown - journalist and author, and a Ugandan refugee
- Isabel Allende - author of The House of Spirits. She is a Chilean refugee who fled after receiving death threats following the overthrow of her father's cousin, Salvador Allende
- Elias Canetti - a Bulgarian refugee, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981.
- Joseph Conrad - author of Heart of Darkness and a refugee.
- Anne Frank, as a child she fled from Nazi Germany to the Netherlands.
- Karen Gershon - as a child she fled from Nazi Germany to Great Britain.
- Michael Hamburger - as a child he fled from Nazi Germany to London.
- Mike Kusnik - author of "Mike Kusnik's guide to Ceramic Technology". Fled from Czech republic in 1947 and came to Australia in 1950
- Lord Paul Hamlyn CBE - a Jewish refugee from Germany. He was the founder of Octopus Publishing Group
- Victor Hugo - author of Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Due to his political beliefs, he was forced to flee France several times.
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala - novelist and film screenwriter - German-Jewish refugee
- Judith Kerr - children's writer - German-Jewish refugee
- Thomas Mann - winner of the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature. He moved from Germany to Switzerland and from there to the USA.
- Rigoberta Menchú - an author and Guatemalan refugee. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992
- Vladimir Nabokov - Russian author and lepidopterist. Escaped to Europe from the Russian Civil War and then to the United States from the advance of Nazi Germany.
- Ursula Owen - editor of Index on Censorship. She was a German refugee as a baby
- John O'Donnell-Rosales - Cuban author, poet and journalist, escaped from Cuba with the remnants of his family after years of persecution for their political and religious views.
- Reinaldo Arenas - Cuban novelist. Became a refugee in the USA after years of persecution for his sexuality and political ideas. His autobiography, Before Night Falls, was on the New York Times list of the ten best books of the year 1993 and was made into a film in 2000.
- Guillermo Cabrera Infante - Cuban writer and journalist. Became a refugee in the UK. Honoured with the Cervantes Prize in 1997.
- Felix Salten - author of Bambi - Hungarian-born Jewish refugee from Nazis
- Samuel Ullman - German-born poet
- Loung Ung - a survivor of the Killing Fields of Cambodia, is an activist and author of the books, First They Killed My Father and Lucky Child.
Miscellaneous
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