T. E. Lawrence

T. E. Lawrence

Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence (16 August 1888 – 19 May 1935) was a British archaeologist, army officer, diplomat, and writer, who became renowned for his role in the Arab Revolt (1916–1918) and the Sinai and Palestine Campaign (1915–1918) against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. The breadth and variety of his activities and associations, and his ability to describe them vividly in writing, earned him international fame as Lawrence of Arabia, a title used for the 1962 film based on his wartime activities. He was born out of wedlock in August 1888 to Sarah Junner (1861–1959), a governess, and Sir Thomas Chapman, 7th Baronet (1846–1919), an Anglo-Irish nobleman. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of T. E. Lawrence has received more than 7,366,440 page views. His biography is available in 73 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 69 in 2019). T. E. Lawrence is the 34th most popular military personnel (up from 49th in 2019), the 102nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 136th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular British Military Personnel.

Lawrence is most famous for his novel "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom." He was a British writer, archaeologist, and military officer.