people who worked abroad before returning home to rise to fame

I love facts like Bob Marley moving to Wilmington, Delaware to be near his mother and work at the DuPont and Chrysler plants, or Ho Chi Minh making his way to the U.S. and working at a hotel in Boston, among other places.

Doesn't just have to be people who worked in America either, those are just the first two that I thought of.

The Beatles?

John Ratzenberger.

Ratzenberger was a house framer[7] living in London when he began his career in the performing arts

michael collins

London GAA’s most famous player

Collins was born in Woodfield, County Cork, the youngest of eight children, and his family had republican connections reaching back to the 1798 rebellion. He moved to London in 1906, to become a clerk in the Post Office Savings Bank at Blythe House.He was a member of the London GAA, through which he became associated with the Irish Republican Brotherhood and the Gaelic League. He returned to Ireland in 1916 and fought in the Easter Rising.

ffs!

Luke Kelly, Christy Moore et al.

Christy Moore, also worked in a bank, btw, though in Ireland.

He was originally a bank employee who wanted to express himself using traditional music. During a bank strike in 1966, which lasted twelve weeks, he went to England, as many striking officials did, but didn't return when the strike was settled.

Yeah you’re going to have like 99% of Irish celebrities eligible.

Jeremy Corbyn:

At around the age of 19 he spent two years doing Voluntary Service Overseas in Jamaica as a youth worker and geography teacher.He subsequently travelled through Latin America in 1969 and 1970, visiting Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Chile. Whilst in Brazil he participated in a student demonstration in São Paulo against the Brazilian military government. He also attended a May Day march in Santiago, where the atmosphere around Salvador Allende's Popular Unity alliance which swept to power in the Chilean elections of 1970 made an impression on him: