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John Bagot Glubb

1897 - 1986

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Lieutenant-General Sir John Bagot Glubb, KCB, CMG, DSO, OBE, MC, KStJ, KPM (16 April 1897 – 17 March 1986), known as Glubb Pasha (Arabic: كلوب باشا; and known as Abu Hunaik by the Jordanians), was a British military officer, scholar and author 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 different languages on Wikipedia. John Bagot Glubb is the 158th most popular engineer (down from 111th in 2019), the 2,309th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,494th in 2019) and the 19th most popular British Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, John Bagot Glubb ranks 158 out of 389Before 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 143Before 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 115Before 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 2,309 out of 8,785Before 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).

Among ENGINEERS In United Kingdom

Among engineers born in United Kingdom, John Bagot Glubb ranks 19Before 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).