* 1970 – Qaboos bin Said al Said becomes Sultan of Oman after overthrowing his father, Said bin Taimur initiating massive reforms ; modernization programs and end to a decade long civil war.

* Said bin Taimur ( February 10, 1932 – July 23, 1970 )

** Said bin Taimur, Sultan of Muscat and Oman, is deposed in a palace coup by his son, Qaboos.

In the Middle East, faced by the 1958 collapse of the Baghdad Pact and the spread of Soviet influence, Macmillan acted decisively to restore the confidence of Persian Gulf allies, using the Royal Air Force and special forces to defeat a revolt backed by Saudi Arabia and Egypt against the Sultan of Oman, Said bin Taimur, in July 1957, deploying airborne battalions to defend Jordan against Syrian subversion in July 1958, and deterring a threatened Iraqi invasion of Kuwait by landing a brigade group in July 1960.

Said bin Taimur ( 13 August 1910 – 19 October 1972 ) () was the sultan of Muscat and Oman ( the country later renamed to Oman ) from 10 February 1932 until his overthrow on 23 July 1970.

The son of Taimur bin Feisal, he inherited the remains of an Omani Empire, which included the neighboring provinces of Oman and Dhofar, as well as the last remnants of an overseas empire, including Gwadar on the Pakistani coast — the latter was ceded to Pakistan in 1958.

As sultan, oil wealth would have allowed Sultan Said bin Taimur to modernize his country, and, in fact, he secured British recognition of its independence in 1951.

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* Prince Sayyid Taimur bin Hamud Al-Busaid

He rose to power after overthrowing his father, Said bin Taimur, in a palace coup in 1970.

He is the only son of Sultan Said bin Taimur and princess Mazoon al-Mashani.

His son, Taimur bin Faisal, received the KCIE in 1926 and his grandson, Said bin Taimur, received the GCIE in 1945.

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Twelve years later, however, when geologists began intensively searching for oil in neighbouring Saudi Arabia, Oman's Sultan Said bin Taimur granted a 75-year concession to the Iraq Petroleum Company ( IPC ).

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Upon his death in 1913, he was succeeded by his eldest son Taimur bin Faisal.

The school has educated two Sultans of Oman, one of which is the current Sultan's father-Sayyid Said bin Taimur and the Late Princess Shruti of Nepal.

In 1932-1970 Salalah was the capital of the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman, under Said bin Taimur.

al-Wasik Billah al-Majid Sayyid Taimur bin Faisal bin Turki, KCIE, CSI ( 1886 – 1965 ) () was the sultan of Muscat and Oman from 15 October 1913 to 10 February 1932.

Taimur ibn Faisal succeeded his father as sultan in October 1913.

When Sultan Taimur ibn Faisal abdicated for financial reasons in 1932, the twenty-two-year-old Said ibn Taimur inherited an administration that was in debt.

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In 1920, Sheik Ali Banu Bu Ali, a relative of Sultan Taimur bin Faisal, rebelled in the northern town of Sohar and proclaimed himself Sultan but was deposed by the British in 1932.

* Said Bin Taimur ( 1910 – 1972 ), Sultan of Muscat and Oman 1932 – 1970

A United States Department of State bulletin on the sultan of Muscat and Oman in February 1938 describes the situation in which Sultan Said ibn Taimur found himself after assuming power: " The young Sultan found the country practically bankrupt and his troubles were further complicated by tribal unrest and conspiracy by certain of his uncles, one of whom immediately profited by the occasion to set up an independent regime.

In 1932 he abdicated in favour of his eldest son Said bin Taimur.

* 1921 – The British install the son of Sharif Hussein bin Ali ( leader of the Arab Revolt of 1916 against the Ottoman Empire ) as King Faisal I of Iraq.

* Faisal bin Turki ( June 4, 1888 – October 15, 1913 )

* 1963 – Prince Faisal bin Al Hussein of Jordan

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In the September 2006 presidential elections Saleh was challenged by a coalition of five leading opposition parties, the Joint Meeting Parties ( JMP ), which fronted the candidate Faisal bin Shamlan.

January 18: Faisal-Weizmann Agreement between Emir Faisal ( son of the King of Hejaz, Sharif of Mecca Sayyid Hussein bin Ali ), and Chaim Weizmann ( later President of the World Zionist Organization ).

*** His Royal Highness Prince Faisal bin Al Hussein of Jordan ( born 1963 ).

* HRH Prince Faisal bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud

* Prince Turki bin Faisal Al Saud, former Saudi Ambassador to the United States

# 1975 Faisal of Saudi Arabia by his nephew Faisal bin Musa ' id ( Assassin publicly beheaded )

Among the Young Global Leaders are: Shai Agassi, Bandar bin Khalid al Faisal, Anousheh Ansari, Maria Consuelo Araujo, Lera Auerbach, Fatmir Besimi, Ian Bremmer, Sergey Brin, Tyler Brûlé, Patrick Chappatte, Olafur Eliasson, Roger Federer, Jens Martin Skibsted, Rahul Gandhi, Kenneth Griffin, Kelly Chen, Scott J. Freidheim, Crown Prince Haakon of Norway, Abdulsalam Haykal, Drue Kataoka, Silvana Koch-Mehrin, Irshad Manji, Princess Mathilde of Belgium, Greg McKeown ( author ), Aditya Mittal, Euvin Naidoo, Gavin Newsom, Mohnish Pabrai, Larry Page, Lewis Gordon Pugh, Senator Mar Roxas of the Philippines, Christopher Schläffer, Anoushka Shankar, Aaron McCormack, Premal Shah, Peter Thiel, John Mihaljevic, Jimmy Wales, Adrian David Cheok, Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum, Stephan Morais, Kimmie Weeks and Niklas Zennström.

In March 1920, the Hashemite Kingdom of Syria was declared by Faisal bin Hussein in Damascus which encompassed most of what later became Transjordan.

Faisal bin Hussein bin Ali al-Hashemi, ( Fayṣal ibn Ḥusayn ; 20 May 1885 – 8 September 1933 ) was for a short time King of the Arab Kingdom of Syria or Greater Syria in 1920, and was King of the Kingdom of Iraq ( today Iraq ) from 23 August 1921 to 1933.

Faisal was born in Ta ' if ( in present-day Saudi Arabia ) in 1883, the third son of Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca, the Grand Sharif of Mecca.

Ghazi bin Faisal ( Ġāzī bin Fayṣal ) ( 21 March 1912 – 4 April 1939 ) was the King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq from 1933 to 1939 having been briefly Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Syria in 1920.

As Ghazi was the only son of Faisal I, he was left to take care of his grandfather, Hussein bin Ali, the Grand Sharif of Mecca, while his father was busy in his campaigns and travels.

As a Sherifian officer, al-Husseini recruited men to serve in Faisal bin Al Hussein Bin Ali El-Hashemi's army during the Arab Revolt, a task he undertook while employed as a recruiter by the British military administration in Jerusalem and Damascus.

Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud ( ) ( April 1906 – 25 March 1975 ) was King of Saudi Arabia from 1964 to 1975.

In 1975, he was assassinated by his nephew Faisal bin Musaid.