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Abdulaziz ibn Saud was the founder and first King of Saudi Arabia, who unified the Arabian Peninsula under a single stat…

Abdullah Al-Baradouni was a Yemeni poet and critic, blind from childhood, whose work is widely read across the Arabian P…

Abdullah Al-Tariki was a Saudi geologist and the first Saudi director of petroleum affairs, a central figure in the deve…

Abdulrahman Munif was a Saudi novelist and economist, best known for the Cities of Salt quintet, a landmark of modern Ar…

Abdulrahman Munif was a Saudi novelist, economist and journalist, best known for the Cities of Salt quintet.

Ghazi Al-Gosaibi was a Saudi poet, novelist, technocrat and diplomat, one of the most influential literary and public fi…

Ghazi Al-Gosaibi was a Saudi poet, novelist, minister and diplomat, one of the most prominent literary and public figure…

Hatim al-Tai was a pre-Islamic Arab poet and tribal chief of the Tayy tribe, proverbial for his extreme generosity.

Hayat Sindi is a Saudi biotechnologist known for her work on point-of-care diagnostic devices and for promoting science…

Ibn Battuta was a fourteenth-century traveller whose journeys across the Islamic world and beyond are recorded in the Ri…

Khaled Al-Faisal is a Saudi prince, poet and painter who served as governor of Makkah and as minister of education.

King Abdullah was King of Saudi Arabia from 2005 to 2015, known for economic reform, scholarship programmes and a cautio…

King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz was King of Saudi Arabia from 2005 to 2015, known for educational reform, scholarship progra…

King Fahd bin Abdulaziz was King of Saudi Arabia from 1982 to 2005 and adopted the title Custodian of the Two Holy Mosqu…

King Faisal was King of Saudi Arabia from 1964 to 1975, a modernising ruler who expanded education and played a leading…

King Salman has been King of Saudi Arabia since 2015, and is the custodian of the Two Holy Mosques.

Mohammed Abdo Yamani was a Saudi minister of information and of pilgrimage affairs, and a writer on the history of the H…

Mohammed bin Salman is Crown Prince and Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia and the principal architect of the Vision 2030 re…

Muhammad al-Idrisi was a twelfth-century Arab geographer and cartographer who produced the Tabula Rogeriana, one of the…

Nora bint Abdulrahman was a sister of King Abdulaziz and an influential figure in the early Saudi state, known for her r…

Raja Alem is a Saudi novelist who won the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2011 for her novel The Dove's Neckla…

Raja Alem is a Saudi novelist whose novel The Dove's Necklace won the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2011.

Samira Islam is a Saudi pharmacologist and academic, one of the first Saudi women to hold a professorship in the science…

Turki Al-Hamad is a Saudi novelist and columnist known for the Atyaf trilogy, which explores youth, religion and politic…