Prominent Personalities Who Were Once Refugees

7. M.I.A.:

M.I.A., a British recording artist, songwriter, painter and director, was born in London to Tamil parents. Her family returned to their native Sri Lanka when she was an infant. But after sometimes, because of her father's political activism in favor of a Tamil homeland, forced the family into hiding. M.I.A.’s early years were marked by the violence of the Sri Lankan civil war. The rise of the conflict in her own native forced her mother to bring the family back to London when she was 11.

8. Sigmund Freud:

Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis is best known for his work on the unconscious, terming it as "Freudian slip," which is a short-lived belief about the healing powers of cocaine. The rise of the Third Reich in Germany forced the founder of psychoanalysis to leave his own country. His works such as "The Interpretations of Dreams" (1953) revolutionized psychiatry and psychology. Freud who spent most of his life in Vienna left his country in 1938 for London. During Hitler's attacked, four sisters lost their lives in the concentration camps.

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