Music and Dance
- Peter Andre - Pop singer. parents from ethnically cleansed region of Cyprus
- Carlos Acosta - ballet dancer with the Royal Ballet, London and a Cuban refugee
- Norbert Brainin - Austrian-Jewish violinist and refugee
- Gloria Estefan - her father was a Cuban refugee
- Justine Frischmann - lead singer of Elastica. Her father was a Hungarian refugeeBeirut,
- Mika - singer-songwriter from Beirut, Lebanon one of five children
- Wyclef Jean Haitian refugee. Named group Fugees (short for refugee).
- M.I.A. - English-born singer. Part of a Tamil Sri Lankan refugee family
- Bob Marley - Fled Jamaica to M
- Fritzi Massary - Austrian-Jewish operetta singer and refugee
- Freddie Mercury - Fled massacre of Indians in Zanzibar with his family.
- Olivia Newton-John - singer and actress - granddaughter of refugee Max Born
- Arnold Schoenberg - composer
- Claude-Michel Schonberg - composer whose works include Les Misérables and Miss Saigon. He is the son of refugees
- Gene Simmons-Member of Kiss. His mother was a Holocaust survivor.
- Sir Georg Solti - conductor and refugee
- Oscar Straus (composer) - Austrian-Jewish composer and refugee
- Robert Stolz - Austrian composer/conductor and refugee
- Richard Tauber - Austrian-Jewish singer, composer and refugee
- Georg Ludwig von Trapp - father of the Trapp family, whose story inspired The Sound of Music after fleeing Nazi occupied Austria
- Maria von Trapp - autobiography, The Story of the Trapp Family Singers, inspired The Sound of Music
- K'Naan - Somali "The Dusty Foot Philosopher" Hip Hop Artist now living in Toronto, Canada
- Karl Marx - political theorist and German refugee
- Sitting Bull - Sioux chief. He left America for Canada
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“We may live without poetry, music and art;
We may live without conscience, and live without heart;
We may live without friends; we may live without books;
But civilized man cannot live without cooks.”
—Owen Meredith (1831–1891)
“I fear I agree with your friend in not liking all sermons. Some of them, one has to confess, are rubbish: but then I release my attention from the preacher, and go ahead in any line of thought he may have started: and his after-eloquence acts as a kind of accompaniment—like music while one is reading poetry, which often, to me, adds to the effect.”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)
“You whig emblem, you woman chaser,
why do you dance over the wide lawn tonight
clanging the garbage pail like great silver bells?”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)