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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: غلوب باشا) and Abu Hunaik (Arabic: أبو حنيك) by the Jordanians, was a British soldier, scholar, and author, who led and trained Transjordan's Arab Legion between 1939 and 1956 as its commanding general. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Bagot Glubb has received more than 489,288 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. John Bagot Glubb is the 159th most popular engineer (down from 136th in 2019), the 1,994th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,750th in 2019) and the 17th most popular British Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, John Bagot Glubb ranks 159 out of 323Before her are Alexander Mozhaysky, Georges Leclanché, Ivan Yarkovsky, Alec Issigonis, Giuseppe Colombo, and Marc Seguin. After her are Léon Charles Thévenin, Gérard Larrousse, Pierre-Émile Martin, Antoine de Chézy, Anton Flettner, and Louis Charles Breguet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, John Bagot Glubb ranks 139Before her are Marian Anderson, Xu Zhimo, Horace McCoy, Traicho Kostov, Lazare Ponticelli, and Gottfried, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg. After her are Natacha Rambova, Lepke Buchalter, Prince Andrei Alexandrovich of Russia, Husni al-Za'im, Manlio Brosio, and Paul Gallico. Among people deceased in 1986, John Bagot Glubb ranks 108Before her are Dick Scobee, Raúl Prebisch, Elisabeth Bergner, Artur London, Liu Bocheng, and Desi Arnaz. After her are Gregory Jarvis, Géza von Radványi, Harold Arlen, Oscar Zariski, Mika Antić, and Sandro Puppo.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Bagot Glubb ranks 1,994 out of 7,765Before her are John Stevens Henslow (1796), Madge Syers (1881), Rick Wakeman (1949), John Needham (1713), William Hartnell (1908), and John Michell (1724). After her are Dudley Moore (1935), John Sulston (1942), William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst (1773), Herbert Read (1893), Graham Bonnet (1947), and Jeanette (1951).

Among ENGINEERS In United Kingdom

Among engineers born in United Kingdom, John Bagot Glubb ranks 17Before her are Patrick Head (1946), Adrian Newey (1958), Alexander Cunningham (1814), Robert Stephenson (1803), Hertha Ayrton (1854), and John Loudon McAdam (1756). After her are John Smeaton (1724), William Playfair (1759), W. Ross Ashby (1903), André Waterkeyn (1917), Frederick W. Lanchester (1868), and William Froude (1810).