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Friedrich Max Müller
German-born British philologist, orientalist and indologist (1823–1900)
George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
Viceroy of India and British Foreign Secretary (1859–1925)
William Jones
Anglo-Welsh philologist and scholar of ancient India (1746-1794)
Bernard Lewis
British-American historian (1916–2018)
Edward William Lane
British orientalist, translator, lexicographer and peace maker (1801–1876)
John Bagot Glubb
British military officer, scholar and author (1897–1986)
St John Philby
English Arabist, explorer, writer, and British colonial office intelligence officer (1885–1960)
Ernest Mason Satow
British diplomat (1843-1929)
Stanley Lane-Poole
British orientalist and archaeologist (1854–1931)
Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner
Anglo-Hungarian orientalist
Thomas William Rhys Davids
British scholar of the Pāli language (1843–1922)
Robert Caldwell
British orientalist and dravidologist (1814–1891)
William Wright
British orientalist and professor (1830–1889)
Arthur John Arberry
British scholar of Middle East Studies (1905–1969)
Géza Vermes
British scholar (1924–2013)
George FitzClarence, 1st Earl of Munster
British Army general (1794–1842)
Edward Ullendorff
British scholar and historian
Edward Denison Ross
British linguist and orientalist (1871-1940)
Alphonse Mingana
British academic (1878-1937)
Robert Irwin
British historian, novelist, and writer on Arabic literature (1946–2024)
Alice Albinia
English journalist and author
Edward Eastwick
British orientalist, diplomat and MP (1814-1883)
Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare
British orientalist (1856-1924)
Aubrey Herbert
British politician
Alfred Guillaume
British Hebrew and Islamic scholar (1888–1965)
Samuel Miklos Stern
Hungarian linguist, Islamicist (1920–1969)
Henry George Farmer
British musicologist and Arabist (1882–1965)
Douglas Morton Dunlop
British orientalist (1909-1987)
Carl Gottfried Woide
Polish orientalist and biblical scholar
Narisa Chakrabongse
princess
Robert Caesar Childers
British Orientalist scholar (1838–1876)
Solomon Caesar Malan
British orientalist (1812-1894)
Lawrence Conrad
British historian
Nathaniel Bland
British orientalist (1803-1865)
James Atkinson
English surgeon, artist and Persian scholar (1780–1852)
Gustav Haloun
Czech orientalist and sinologist (1898–1951)
Charles Ambrose Storey
British academician (1888-1967)
James Long
British priest (1814–1887)
William Crooke
British orientalist (1848–1923)
Francis Joseph Steingass
British linguist (1825–1903)
Mona Abul-Fadl
Egyptian scholar and researcher
K. R. Norman
British philologist (1925–2020)
Richard Rudolf Walzer
Anglo-German philologist and philosopher (1900-1975)
Kanan Makiya
Iraqi-American academic and orientalist (born 1949)
Arthur Stanley Tritton
British historian
Colin Imber
lecturer in Turkish studies at Manchester University, UK
Eric Teichman
British diplomat
A. K. Warder
British Indologist (1924–2013)
Robert Kennaway Douglas
British museum curator
John Burton-Page
British orientalist and linguist (1921—2005)
Frederick Eden Pargiter
British civil servant and orientalist
John Zephaniah Holwell
English surgeon and temporary Governor of Bengal (1711-1798)
Alan Millard
British archaeologist and semitist (1937-)
Arthur Lindsay Sadler
British translator (1882–1970)
William Kirkpatrick
British army officer in the East India Company and diplomat (1754 or 1756-1812)
Andrew Archibald Paton
British diplomat (1811–1874)
Frederick Victor Dickins
British surgeon and orientalist