Title: 14 People You Didn't Know Were Refugees | SELF
Headings: 14 People You Didn't Know Were Refugees
14 People You Didn't Know Were Refugees
Mila Kunis
Albert Einstein
Rita Ora
Alek Wek
Freddie Mercury
Iman
Gloria Estefan
Henry Kissinger
Marlene Dietrich
Madeleine Albright
M.I.A.
Sigmund Freud
Regina Spektor
Dr. Ruth Westheimer

Content: She left the country in 1930 for Hollywood as the Nazis gained power. She became an American citizen and performed for Allied troops during World War II. Later in her life, she famously said, "America took me into her bosom when I no longer had a native country worthy of the name." Pinterest
David Hume Kennerly
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Madeleine Albright
The first female U.S. Secretary of State and her family left their native Czechoslovakia twice—once to flee the Nazis during World War II, and again in 1948 during the Communist takeover. Albright spoke out against Trump's immigration ban on Facebook, writing, "As a refugee myself who fled the communist takeover of Czechoslovakia, I personally benefited from this country’s generosity and its tradition of openness. This order would end that tradition, and discriminate against those fleeing a brutal civil war in Syria." Pinterest
Joseph Okpako
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M.I.A.
Singer M.I.A. grew up in Sri Lanka until the age of nine, when her family fled to London to escape an ethnic civil war. Pinterest
Keystone
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Sigmund Freud
The famous psychoanalyst left Austria for London with his wife after the Nazi invasion. Pinterest
Matt Winkelmeyer
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Regina Spektor
The "Fidelity" singer was born in Moscow, but her family fled the Soviet Union for New York when she was nine years old in order to escape religious persecution. Pinterest
Donna Svennevik
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Dr. Ruth Westheimer
The well-known sex therapist, who goes by Dr. Ruth, left Nazi Germany as a child and grew up a refugee in a Swiss orphanage.