Mee Moua

Mee Moua

female, 40 years old
Asian American, senator, war, attorney, child, undergraduate…Refugee
Mee Moua (born June 30, 1969) is a Hmong American politician and member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. She currently serves in the...
Hans Bethe

Hans Bethe

male, deceased (2005)
physicist, 1906-2005, From Strasbourg, nuclear weapon design, From Ithaca, New York, University of Munich alumni…Refugee
Hans Albrecht Bethe (pronounced "BAY-tuh"); (July 2 1906--March 6, 2005), was a German-American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in...
Michael Marks

Michael Marks

male, deceased (1907)
Isaac Dewhurst, Thomas Spencer, Polish Briton, British business person in retailing, Business person in retailing, immigrant to the United Kingdom…Refugee
Michael Marks, was one of the two co-founders of the retail chain Marks and Spencer. Marks, who was born in Slonim, Belarus (then part of Russian...
Liviu Librescu

Liviu Librescu

male, deceased (2007)
Jewish, professor, virginia tech, engineer, Israeli, romanian…Refugee
Liviu Librescu (August 18, 1930 - April 16, 2007;) was a Romanian born and educated Israeli-American scientist and academic whose major research...
M.I.A.

M.I.A.

female, 32 years old
rapper, singer, artist, Visual Artist, sri lankan, Refugee
Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam (born on July 17, 1977 in Hounslow, London, England) is a rapper, singer and visual artist of Sri Lankan Tamil origin....
Norbert Elias

Norbert Elias

male, deceased (1990)
Refugee, habitus, Sociologist, British, Academic of the London School of Economics, etiquette
Norbert Elias (June 22, 1897 - August 1, 1990) was a German sociologist of Jewish descent, who later became a British citizen. His work focused on...

Robert L. Bernstein

male
Harvard University alumni, children’s rights, international justice, Association of American Publisher, Vaclav Havel, women’s rights…Refugee
Robert L. Bernstein is an US publisher and human rights activist. He has devoted his life to the active defense of freedom of expression and to the...
Greg Egan

Greg Egan

male, 48 years old
computer programmer, novelist, Interzone, Science Fiction Author, Horror fiction, Hugo Award…Refugee
Greg Egan (August 20, 1961, Perth, Western Australia) is an Australian computer programmer and science fiction author. Egan specialises in hard...
Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti

female, deceased (1894)
Christian hymnwriter, Sonneteers, Victorian poetry, buried at Highgate Cemetery, English women writer, Women poet…Refugee
Christina Georgina Rossetti (December 5, 1830 - December 29, 1894) was an English poet. Her siblings were the artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti,...
Sorious Samura

Sorious Samura

male, 45 years old
Cry Freetown, Living with Hunger, Exodus from Africa, Living with Refugee, sudan, mali…Refugee
Sorious Samura (born 1964) is an award-winning Sierra Leonean journalist. He is best known for two CNN documentary films: "Cry Freetown" (2000) and...