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Immigrants who have made a significant impact on American society

The daily hardships of adjusting to a new society and the memories of the world left behind form a duality in the lives of most immigrants. Immigrants face many difficulties and have still proven their worth in America over time.
Authors, inventors, designers. US history is full of immigrant contributions. Some of the recent ones to have gained popularity are:
Brin developed Google with co-founder Larry Page while they were both Ph.D. students at Stanford, where they filled their dorm with inexpensive computers and work.
Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google (From Russia)
He played for six different
NBA teams, but retired in 2009.
Dikembe Mutombo (From the Democratic Republic of Congo)
Multi-billionaire and media mogul, Murdoch revolutionized the journalism game and was the founder, CEO, and chairman of News Corporation, the second-largest media conglomerate in the world.
Rupert Murdoch (From Australia)
Jan Koum (From Ukrainian Soviet Union)
Before founding WhatsApp with Brian Acton, the
two worked at Yahoo.
Steve Chen (From Taiwan) & Jawed Karim (From East Germany)
These guys co-founded
YouTube!
Huffington, a co-founder and former editor-in-chief of the ground-breaking news website The Huffington Post; is one of the 100 most powerful women in the world, according to Forbes.
Arianna Huffington (From Greece)
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