Business
- Michael Marks - one of the founders of Marks and Spencer. He was a Russian refugee.
- Sir Montague Burton - A refugee from Lithuania, he founded Burton retail.
- Manubhai Madhvani - expelled from Uganda by Idi Amin
- Sieng van Tran - founder of the educational website www.iLearn.to. He is a Vietnamese refugee
- Sir John Houblon - grandson of refugees. He was the first Governor of the Bank of England
- Aristotle Onassis - Richest Man in the World, Greek Refugee from Asia Minor
- Ismail Kadare - He fled Albania in 1990 for political reasons.
- George Weidenfeld, publisher - Jew who fled the Nazis.
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“After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.”
—Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)
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