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John Bagot Glubb

1897 - 1986

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Sir John Bagot Glubb (16 April 1897 – 17 March 1986), also known as Glubb Pasha (Arabic: كلوب باشا) and Abu Hunaik (by the Jordanians), was a British military officer who led and trained Transjordan's Arab Legion between 1939 and 1956 as its commanding general. He served in World War I, the Ikhwan revolt, World War II and the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2024). John Bagot Glubb is the 158th most popular engineer (down from 111th in 2024), the 2,308th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,493rd in 2019) and the 19th most popular British Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, John Bagot Glubb ranks 158 out of 389. Before her are Walter Hohmann, Gabriel Voisin, Giuseppe Colombo, Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu, Mstislav Keldysh, and Anton Flettner. After her are Alec Issigonis, Ivan Yarkovsky, Pierre Berthier, Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, Yaakov Ziv, and Essam Sharaf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, John Bagot Glubb ranks 143. Before her are Edith Head, Zhang Guotao, Paul Ben-Haim, Valentin Kataev, Tan Malaka, and Nikolaus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Oldenburg. After her are Xu Zhimo, August Heissmeyer, Traicho Kostov, Louis Réard, Gaspar Cassadó, and Emil Leon Post. Among people deceased in 1986, John Bagot Glubb ranks 115. Before her are Thierry Sabine, Scatman Crothers, Vitaly Abalakov, Raúl Prebisch, Valentin Kataev, and Ruth Teitelbaum. After her are Artur London, James H. Wilkinson, Nicholas Kaldor, Gregory Jarvis, Princess Anne of Orléans, and Ivan Papanin.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Bagot Glubb ranks 2,308 out of 8,785. Before her are Abhisit Vejjajiva (1964), John Morley (1838), Bob Wilson (1941), Roger Hunt (1938), Richard Long (1945), and John Major (1467). After her are W. V. D. Hodge (1903), Hubert Cecil Booth (1871), Bobby Collins (1931), H. J. R. Murray (1868), Edward Low (1690), and Jim Carter (1948).

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Among ENGINEERS In United Kingdom

Among engineers born in United Kingdom, John Bagot Glubb ranks 19. Before her are Robert Stephenson (1803), George Cayley (1773), Alexander Cunningham (1814), W. Ross Ashby (1903), John Loudon McAdam (1756), and John Scott Russell (1808). After her are John Hughes (1814), John Smeaton (1724), William Playfair (1759), André Waterkeyn (1917), Harvey Postlethwaite (1944), and James B. Francis (1815).

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