Fashion and Design
- Alek Wek - a supermodel, she fled Sudan with her family
- Tanya Sarne - fashion designer and creator of the Ghost label. Her father was a Russian refugee.
- Lewis de Teissier - founder of Tessier's jewellers, and the grandson of a refugee Jaqcues de Teissier
- Sir Alec Issigonis - designer of the Mini, he was a refugee
- Ora and Theo Coster - designers of the Guess Who game, were refugees
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