Eric Shipton

Eric Shipton

male, deceased (1977)
Eric Shipton (1 August 1907 - 28 March 1977) was an English Himalayan mountaineering legend. Born in Ceylon and educated in England, Shipton began...
Yaqub Beg

Yaqub Beg

male, deceased (1877)
Muhammad Yaqub Beg (:Муҳаммад Яъқуб Бег/محمَد یعقوب بیگ) was an Uzbek adventurer who became head of the kingdom of Kashgaria....
Timur

Timur

male, deceased (1405)
Tīmūr bin Tara<u>gh</u>ay Barlas, known in the West as Tamburlaine, was a 14th century warlord of Turco-Mongol descent, conqueror of much of We...

George McCartney

male, deceased (1945)
Sir George McCartney, KCIE, (19 January 1867-19 May 1945), was the British consul-general in Kashgar at the end of the nineteenth century. In...
Mahmud Al-Kashgari

Mahmud Al-Kashgari

male, 1001 years old
Mahmud ibn Hussayn ibn Muhammad al-Kashgari, born in 1008, was an early Turkic linguist of Turkic languages from the Kara-Khanid Khanate, born in...
Rabban Bar Sauma

Rabban Bar Sauma

male, 809 years old
Rabban Bar Sauma (fl. 1280 - 1288), was a Nestorian traveller and diplomat, who was born at Beijing about the middle of the 13th century....
Huseyincan Celil

Huseyincan Celil

male, 40 years old
Huseyincan Celil is an Uyghur imam of Chinese and Canadian citizenship. He became the subject of a controversial court case in 2006 when he was...
Turghun Almas

Turghun Almas

male, deceased (2001)
Turghun Almas (30 October 1924 - 11 September 2001) was an Uyghur historian and poet born in Kashgar. He was criticized for his "support for ethnic...
Nikolai Petrovsky

Nikolai Petrovsky

male
Nikolai Petrovsky was the Russian consul-general in Kashgar from 1882 until 1902. Petrovsky's main adversary during his time in Central Asia was...
Yunus Khan

Yunus Khan

male, deceased (1487)
Yunus Khan (c. 1416-1487) was Khan of Moghulistan from 1462 until his death. He was the eldest son of Uwais Khan. When Uwais Khan was killed in...