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My family come from Cyprus. Both my father and my grandfather worked on the British bases there, and as the British government granted independence…

— Theo Paphitis

I was born in Cyprus, but my family moved to England when I was about six.

— Theo Paphitis

During my childhood in Cyprus, the British talked about the Cypriots as if the Cypriots were outsiders in their own country. And even though…

— Angela Bowie

Now the idea about taking people abroad is that if they come over to Cyprus, which we have in mind, and bring their families…

— Hans Blix

My father's father fought to free Crete from the Turks, who expelled my mother from her ancestral home in Asia Minor in 1922. So…

— Mikis Theodorakis

With a diplomat father, for whom foreign postings were a fact of life, my siblings and I were expected to attend boarding schools in…

— Arabella Weir

When we were in Egypt, we were refugees. My family and I were homeless. For five years, out of all of the countries in…

— Luol Deng

In the 1960s, my first-generation immigrant parents were gifted the olive branch of a blue British passport when working for the British Army in…

— Theo Paphitis

My parents were immigrants from Pakistan. My father has passed away now, but my father and mother were very proud of Britain, and they…

— Sajid Javid

I arrived in this country as a refugee child with my sister and my mother.

— Noma Dumezweni

It's probably worth noting that although I'm ethnically Greek, my grandfather was actually born in Turkey and came through Greece on his way to…

— James G. Stavridis

My parents came from northern Cyprus in 1959 to the U.K. and they started a restaurant. I saw how hard they worked.

— Touker Suleyman