Survivors, not refugees

Short List of Change Makers who once were refugees

There are several similar lists available on the Internet. Some are limited, other very extensive, and almost every list misses some key individuals. I've tried to compile a shorter list, of high impact individuals the general public can identify, relate to and recognize their achievement and work, based on common sense, current trends, general and  popular culture.

Music Frederic Chopin Gilberto Gil M.I.A. Miriam Makeba Freddie Mercury. Béla Bartók. Gloria Estefan. Wyclef Jean. Von Trapp family (Sound of Music) Writers Thomas Mann. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Isabel Allende. Victor Hugo. Khalil Gibran. Film Milos Forman. Marlene Dietrich. Andy García. Rachel Weiz.

Art Marc Chagall. Camille Pissarro. Politics Michaelle Jean. Henry Kissinger. Karl Marx. Madeleine Albright. Clara Zetkin. Rigoberta Menchú. Business Lord Maurice Saatchi and Charles Saatchi. Aristotle Onassis. Henry Portal. Science Albert Einstein. Karl Popper. Sigmund Freud. Enrico Fermi.

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Some sources:

• www.pinterest.com/refugees/made-by-refugees
• www.unhcr-centraleurope.org/en/about-us/unhcr-people/prominent-refugees.html
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_refugees