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This is a list of prominent people who fled their native country, went into exile and found refuge in another country. The list follows the current legal concept of refugee only loosely. It also includes children of people who have fled. The people are ordered according to the field in which they made their names.

Lord Maurice Saatchi and Charles Saatchi – British citizens and founders of Saatchi & Saatchi advertising agency. Their family fled persecution in Iraq for Britain in 1947.

Eva Jiřičná – British artist and architect, designed the Faith Zone in the Millennium Dome. Born in Czechoslovakia and took refuge in the UK after the Prague Spring in 1968. Daniel Marot – British architect best known for Hampton Court Palace. Born in France, he sought refuge in the UK in 1685 after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Richard Rogers – British Italian architect best known for the Centre Pompidou and the Millennium Dome. Fled Trieste in 1939 and took refuge in the UK.

Sir Montague Burton – British citizen, founded the British clothing business Burton retail in 1903. Jewish refugee from Lithuania. Sir John Houblon – British citizen, first Governor of the Bank of England. Child of Huguenot refugees. Manubhai Madhvani – Ugandan businessman, son of Muljibhai Madhvani and head of the Madhvani Group. Expelled from Uganda by Idi Amin in 1972, returned in 1982. Michael Marks – British citizen, one of the founders of Marks & Spencer. He was a Polish Jewish refugee from Belarus (then part of the Russian Empire) who fled to the UK in 1882. Aristotle Onassis – Greek billionaire shipping tycoon. Left Smyrna, Turkey for Greece after the Great Fire of Smyrna in the aftermath of the Greco Turkish war. Thomas Peterffy Developed electronic trading of securities. Hungarian refugee who arrived in the U. S. in 1965.
de Portal – founder of British paper firm Portal, which for 270 years (until 1995) held the only license to print British money. Huguenot refugee who arrived in the UK in 1685. (see also Vietnamese Boat People)
George Weidenfeld – British citizen; publisher, philanthropist and newspaper columnist. Jewish Austrian refugee, fled Nazi annexation of Austria (see Anschluss) in 1938 and found refuge in the UK.

Sir Alec Issigonis – British car designer, best known for designing the Mini. His family was evacuated from Smyrna following the end of the Greco Turkish war. Tanya Sarne British fashion designer and creator of the Ghost label. Her parents were refugees (her mother was Romanian, her father French Jewish who met in London at the end of WWII. Alek Wek – British supermodel. She fled Wau for Khartoum, Sudan to escape the Second Sudanese Civil War, then made her way to the UK with her family. Rashmi Thakrar – British citizen and founder of Tilda Rice Company Fled Uganda for the UK during the Expulsion of Asians from Uganda in 1972. Norbert Brainin – British citizen, Austrian Jewish violinist, first violinist of the Amadeus Quartet. Driven out of Vienna after the 1938 Anschluss, fled to the UK where he eventually began playing with fellow violinists and refugees Siegmund Nissel and Peter Schidlof. Gloria Estefan – American Cuban pop star. Fled Cuba for the US in 1960 after her father became a political prisoner. Justine Frischmann – British lead singer of Elastica. Her father was a Hungarian refugee and Holocaust survivor who was liberated from Auschwitz. Wyclef Jean – Haitian American, best known as member of the Fugees. Left Haiti during the Duvalier regime and re settled in New York City. K'naan (Keinan Abdi Warsame) – Somali Canadian songwriter, rapper and hip hop artist, best known for his song Wavin' Flag. Fled Mogadishu during the Somali Civil War at age 13, settled in Toronto. Erich Wolfgang Korngold – Czech born Jewish composer, working in U. S. when Nazis came to power in Austria and could not return
Fritzi Massary – US citizen. Austrian Jewish operetta singer and actress. Despite her conversion to Protestantism in 1903, she was persecuted in Germany for her Jewish heritage, and fled the country in 1933, ultimately settling in the US. Freddie Mercury British pop singer, songwriter and producer, best known as the lead singer/songwriter for the rock band Queen. Born a British citizen in the British Protectorate of the Sultanate of Zanzibar (now Tanzania), he and his family fled during the 1964 Zanzibar Revolution. He and his family resettled in the UK. Mika – Lebanese born British singer songwriter. Born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1983 to a Lebanese mother and American father; his family relocated to Paris in 1984 after attacks on the American Embassy during the Lebanese civil war. M. I. A (Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam) – British born Tamil rapper, singer. Six months after her birth, her family relocated from the UK to Sri Lanka at the beginning of the Sri Lankan Civil War. As a result of her father's political activism, she and her family fled the war for London in 1987. Siegmund Nissel – British citizen, Austrian Jewish violinist, member of Amadeus Quartet. Driven out of Vienna after the 1938 Anschluss, sent to the UK via Kindertransport, where he met fellow violinists and refugees Norbert Brainin and Peter Schidlof. Laleh Pourkarim – Swedish Iranian singer. Fled persecution in Iran in 1982 (her father was a prominent opponent of the regime after the Iranian Revolution), eventually found refuge in Sweden. Peter Schidlof – British citizen, Austrian Jewish violinist, member of Amadeus Quartet. Driven out of Vienna after the 1938 Anschluss, fled to the UK. The Amadeus Quartet was formed with fellow refugees Norbert Brainin and Siegmund Nissel. Arnold Schoenberg – US citizen, Jewish Austrian composer and painter, associated with Expressionism. Persecuted as a "degenerate" artist, in 1933 he fled the Nazi occupation and resettled in the US. Claude Michel Schönberg French composer whose works include the musicals Les Misérables and Miss Saigon. He is the son of Hungarian Jewish refugees. Chaim Witz (Gene Simmons) – Israeli American rock bass guitarist, best known as co lead singer of the rock band Kiss. His mother was a Hungarian Jewish Holocaust survivor. Regina Spektor – American singer songwriter and pianist. Came to the U. S. with her parents at the age of 9 from Soviet Russia. György Stern (Sir Georg Solti) – British citizen, Hungarian Jewish conductor. Fled anti semitic laws in Hungary to work in Germany, left Germany in 1938 after the Anschluss. Oscar Straus (composer) – Austrian Jewish composer of operettas and film scores. He fled Austria in 1938 after the Anschluss, first for Paris, then Hollywood. Robert Stolz – Austrian composer/conductor. Prior to the Anschluss he aided the escape of Jewish and political refugees across the Austro German border, before escaping to the US himself in 1940. Richard Tauber – Austrian Jewish singer, composer. He began his career in Germany, but in 1933 he was assaulted by Nazi Brownshirts, and left Germany for Austria. Nazis revoked his passport and right of abode while he was on tour in London in 1938, forcing him to apply for British citizenship. Felipe Andres Coronel (Immortal Technique) – African Peruvian rapper and activist. Fled to the United States with his family in 1980, due to outbreak of internal conflict in Peru. Georg Ludwig von Trapp and Maria von Trapp – Austrian singers. Maria's autobiography, The Story of the Trapp Family Singers, inspired the musical The Sound of Music. They fled Austria through the Italian Alps after the Anschluss, ultimately settling in the US.

Madeleine Albright – Former U. S. Secretary of State. She and her family fled Czechoslovakia in 1948 and came to the US as refugees. Hannah Arendt – Jewish American author and political theorist. Born in Germany, in 1933 she fled persecution by the Nazis for Czechoslovakia and then Geneva, eventually becoming a naturalized citizen of the US in 1950. Adrienne Clarkson – Canadian journalist and 26th Governor General of Canada. Her parents fled Hong Kong with her in 1941 and found refuge in Canada. Alexander Gerschenkron – Russian born American economist. Fled Russia during Russian civil war and settled in Austria, fleeing again to the United States after the rise of fascism. He is best known for his book of essay, Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective, which became one of the foundational texts of development economics. Albert O. Hirschman – German development economist and political economist. He was an active resistance fighter during the Second War World and Spanish Civil War, helping to rescue many of Europe's leading artists and intellectuals. He is best known for his work on unbalanced development and his book in political science: Exit, Voice and Loyalty. Michaëlle Jean – Canadian journalist and 27th Governor General of Canada. Her father fled Haiti's Duvalier regime in 1967, she and the rest of their family arrived in Canada in 1968. Henry Kissinger – American diplomat and political scientist who fled Germany with his family in 1938. Karl Marx – German philosopher, writer and journalist best known for "inventing" the political concept of Communism. He spent much of his adult life in exile as a result of his political views, but became truly stateless in 1848 when he gave up his Prussian citizenship, and was expelled from France. He remained stateless till the end of his life. Thandika Mkandawire – Malawian Swedish economist, best known for his work on 'transformative social policy'. He was targeted by the regime of Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda and found asylum in Sweden. Maryam Monsef – Canadian politician. In 2015 she became Minister For Democratic Institutions. She and her family fled the Afghan Civil War in 1996, resettling in Canada. Ilhan Omar – Somali American politician. Born in Somalia, her family fled the civil war there, and spent four years in a refugee camp. They immigrated to the United States. She was elected to the U. S. House of Representative in 2018. Karl Polanyi – Hungarian economic historian and political economist and a refugee from fascist persecution in the Vienna of 1934. He is known for his book The Great Transformation, which argued that the emergence of market based societies in modern Europe was not inevitable but historically contingent. Edward Snowden – American computer security specialist, leaked information about U. S. National Security data collection, fled U. S. and received asylum in Russia. Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake (Sitting Bull) – Hunkpapa Lakota holy man who led his people as a tribal chief during years of resistance to United States government policies. Took refuge with his followers in Canada in 1877 for four years, where they petitioned the Canadian government for land and food. The Canadian government refused their request, and ultimately Sitting Bull and his people were forced to return to the United States. Deborah Carlos Valencia Filipino refugee who founded four migrant support organisations in Greece. Clara Zetkin – key leader in German Communist movement, chiefly remembered for establishing March 8 as International Women's Day; fled Nazi Germany in 1932 and took refuge in the Soviet Union. Sigmund Freud – Jewish Austrian neurologist, best known as the founder of psychoanalysis. Fled persecution by the Nazis in Austria in June 1938, took refuge in the UK. Anna Freud – daughter of Sigmund, also a psychoanalyst. Fled persecution by the Nazis in Austria in June 1938, took refuge in the UK. Stephan Korner – British citizen, Czech Jewish philosopher. Came to England in 1939 after German occupation of Czechoslovakia. Claude Lévi Strauss – French Jewish anthropologist and ethnologist. Stripped of his citizenship in 1940 under the Vichy anti semitic laws for his Jewish ancestry, Levi Strauss took refuge in the United States until 1948, when he returned to France. Karl Popper – Austrian Jewish philosopher; fled from rise of Nazism in Austria to New Zealand in 1937. Dr. Ruth Westheimer (Dr. Ruth) – Jewish German American sex therapist, talk show host, author, professor, and former Haganah sniper who fled Nazi Germany for Switzerland as a 10 year old in January 1939, as part of the Kindertransport. Both her parents were killed at Auschwitz.