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- Harry St. John Bridger Philby CIE (3 April 1885 – 30 September 1960), also known as Jack Philby or Sheikh Abdullah (الشيخ عبدالله), his Arabic name, was an Arabist, explorer, writer, and British colonial office intelligence officer. He was born at St. John's, Badulla, Ceylon, and educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied oriental languages under E.G. Browne, and was a friend and classmate of Jawaharlal Nehru, later prime Minister of India. Philby's son Kim Philby became famous for being a British intelligence agent who was a double agent for the Soviet Union. In his travels he also took great interest in birdlife and he gave a scientific name to the Arabian Woodpecker (Desertipicus dorae), as well as a subspecies (no longer valid) of an owl (Otus scops pamelae). Most of his birds were named after women whom he admired. He contributed numerous specimens to the British Museum. He also contributed to the draft of a book on the birds of Arabia by George Latimer Bates. However, it was never published, but was made use of in a work on the same subject by Richard Meinertzhagen. Philby is remembered in ornithology by the name of Philby's Partridge. As he states in his autobiography, he "became something of a fanatic" and "the first Socialist to join the Indian Civil Service" in 1907, and was posted to Lahore in the Punjab in 1908. He acquired fluency in Urdu, Punjabi, Baluchi, Persian, and eventually Arabic languages. Philby married his first wife in September 1910, with his distant cousin Bernard Law Montgomery as best man. He also later married an Arab woman from Saudi Arabia.
- Harry St. John Bridger Philby – znany również jako Sinjin Philby, Jack Philby oraz jako Sheikh Abdullah (jego arabskie imię), był arabistą, podróżnikiem, pisarzem, oraz oficerem brytyjskiego wywiadu. Ojciec radzieckiego szpiega Kima Phiby'ego
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- Harry St. John Bridger Philby CIE (3 April 1885 – 30 September 1960), also known as Jack Philby or Sheikh Abdullah (الشيخ عبدالله), his Arabic name, was an Arabist, explorer, writer, and British colonial office intelligence officer. He was born at St. John's, Badulla, Ceylon, and educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied oriental languages under E.G. Browne, and was a friend and classmate of Jawaharlal Nehru, later prime Minister of India.
- Harry St. John Bridger Philby – znany również jako Sinjin Philby, Jack Philby oraz jako Sheikh Abdullah (jego arabskie imię), był arabistą, podróżnikiem, pisarzem, oraz oficerem brytyjskiego wywiadu. Ojciec radzieckiego szpiega Kima Phiby'ego
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