Colonel Sir Mark Sykes; 6th Baronet (born Tatton Benvenuto Mark Sykes; 16 March 1879 - 16 February 1919) was an English traveller; Conservative Party politician and diplomatic adviser; particularly about matters respecting the Middle East at the time of the First World War.

He is associated with the Sykes-Picot Agreement; drawn up while the war was in progress; regarding the apportionment of postwar spheres of interest in the Ottoman Empire to Britain; France and Russia.

Fran鏾is Marie Denis Georges-Picot (Paris; 21 December 1870 - Paris; 20 June 1951); son of historian Georges Picot and grand-uncle of Val閞y Giscard d'Estaing; was a French diplomat who signed the Sykes-Picot Agreement during World War I; with the Englishman; Sir Mark Sykes; dividing up the Ottoman Empire into British; French and; later; Russian and Italian spheres of influence.

He was responsible along with Sykes for the annexation of Arab lands and their incorporation into British and French empires. Pictures From History