Exile or Persecution (Religious, Political or Social)
- Amo, Anton Wilhelm
- Apess, William
- Bálint, Lea
- Bokassa I
- Bradford, William
- Brady, John Green
- Christy, Hirini Whaanga
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Church, John
- Cohn, Leopold
- Conrad, Joseph
- Crazy Horse
- Cullen, Eric Robertson
- Dahlberg, Edward
- Dalai Lamas
- Damodar Rao (under India - Princely States: 7)
- Dante Alighieri
- Dreyer, Carl-Theodor
- Duleep Singh (under India - Princely States: 5)
- Finn Mac Cumhal
- Forman, Milo
- Fyodorova, Victoria
- Hannibal, Abram Petrovich
- Heracles
- Hyde, Orson
- Ivan VI
- Jehoash
- Jesus Christ
- Jones, David Ivon
- Juárez, Benito Pablo
- Juliana of Ličge
- Jumping Bull
- Kinder der Landstraße
- Kindertransport
- Kul Kul Stu Hah
- Langston, John Mercer
- Lee, George Patrick
- Lee, John Doyle
- Li Lu
- Little Sun, Roy
- Lone Wolf II
- Mabo, Edward Koiki
- Mabon Mab Modron
- Magnus of Orkney (under Norwegian Ruling Families)
- Magnus the Good (under Norwegian Ruling Families)
- Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla
- Mbeki, Thabo Mvuyelwa
- Michael V Kalaphates
- Minik
- Montezuma, Carlos
- Moses
- Muhammad
- Nana Saheb (under India - Princely States: 6)
- Native American and Alaskan Native Children
- Nazi Germany
- Nguyen, Martine (see under Bokassa I)
- Oedipus
- Olaf the Tree-Feller (under Norwegian Ruling Families)
- Pu Chun (under Chinese Qing Dynasty)
- Pu Yi (under Chinese Qing Dynasty)
- Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji (under India Princely States: 3)
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
- Rua Kenana Hepetipa
- Sainte-Marie, Buffy
- Schramm, Leo Paul
- Schünemann-Pott, Friedrich
- Shabbona
- Shahu Shivaji Raje Bhonsle (under India - Princely States: 1)
- Shoah
- Smith, Joseph Fielding
- Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki
- Tecumseh
- Tenskwatawa
- Trapp Family
- Tu Tapu
- Vanunu, Mordechai
- Venkuiraje Bhonsle (under India - Princely States: 1)
- von Lipp, Joseph
- Wiesel, Eliezer
- Wilkomirski, Binjamin
- William the Conqueror
- Wright, Richard Nathaniel
- X, Malcolm
- Zai Yi (under Chinese Qing Dynasty)
- Zvi, Sarah
- Zweig, Stefan Jerzy
Conrad, Joseph
He spent 20 years at sea, which provided the background for some of his best writing. He settled in England in 1895 and wrote in English. His famous novels include The Heart of Darkness, Ni... [more]
Crazy Horse
Crazy Horse was named Curly when he was born, to a Brule Sioux mother and a Lakota Sioux father. He was adopted as an adolescent by High Back Bone (or Hump), a great Oglala Sioux warrior, w... [more]
Cullen, Eric Robertson
Cullen was adopted and had achondroplasia, a type of dwarfism. (He was adopted at birth because his mother was unmarried and unable to care for him; his achondroplasia was not diagnosed unt... [more]
Dahlberg, Edward
Dahlberg was the son of a married hairdresser who had been kicked out of the house before he was born by her husband for being unfaithful. He and his older brother were sent to a Jewish orp... [more]
Dalai Lamas
The Dalai Lamas - supreme heads of Tibetan Buddhism and also the secular rulers of Tibet before the Chinese invasion - as well as some other important leaders of the religion (such as the P... [more]
Damodar Rao (under India - Princely States: 7)
Until the 19th century what is now India (like Europe) was a patchwork of over 650 princely states, like kingdoms, ranging from the small and relatively unimportant, to the large, immensely... [more]
Dante Alighieri
Dante was from a noble family, orphaned as a boy and educated by the Dominicans. (According to the Encarta Encyclopedia his father did not die until he was 18, which would put him beyond th... [more]
Dreyer, Carl-Theodor
Dreyer was born in Copenhagen and went immediately into foster care, but he was adopted in 1891. He first became a journalist but by 1913 he was a caption writer for silent films. His fi... [more]
Duleep Singh (under India - Princely States: 5)
Until the 19th century what is now India (like Europe) was a patchwork of over 650 princely states, like kingdoms, ranging from the small and relatively unimportant, to the large, immensely... [more]
Finn Mac Cumhal
Finn was the last and greatest leader of the Fianna. He was born named Demna, the son of Cumhal Mac Baiscne, who was killed by the Sons of Morna. His mother, Muirne, sent him away to the ca... [more]
