To be exiled is to be barred from one's native country, typically for political or punitive reasons. The list of history's most famous exiles is long and compelling, and includes emperors, scientists, politicians, despots, poets, spies, and revolutionaries. While a few fled for their own safety and remained willingly in their adopted homelands, others died never having had the chance to be repatriated.
So, who are some of the best-known men and women that ended up on foreign soil, either willingly or under duress? Click through and join them in exile.