Abdullah I bin al-Hussein; King of Jordan [鈥楢bd Allah ibn al-Husayn; ??? ???? ????? ?? ??????]; February 1882 - 20 July 1951; born in Mecca; Second Saudi State; (in modern-day Saudi Arabia) was the second of three sons of Sherif Hussein bin Ali; Sharif and Emir of Mecca and his first wife Abdiyya bint Abdullah (d. 1886).

Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence; CB; DSO (16 August 1888 - 19 May 1935); known professionally as T. E. Lawrence; was a British Army officer renowned especially for his liaison role during the Arab Revolt against Ottoman Turkish rule of 1916-18. The extraordinary 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'.