Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti ruler (born 1895)

Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah

Ruler of Sheikhdom of Kuwait from 1950 to 1965

Sheikh Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah was the eleventh ruler of the Sheikhdom of Kuwait from 1950 to 1961 and the first Emir of the State of Kuwait after the country gained its independence from Great Britain on 19 June 1961.