His mother was a tribeswoman, a relative of the later grand vizier Melek Ahmed Pasha.

He married Valide Sultan Handan Sultan, an ethnic Greek originally named Helena and the mother of Ahmed I and Mustafa I.

In 1987, his father died and he was then cared for by his older brother, Ahmed, and his mother.

His first wife who was the mother of his eldest son Prince Abdullah was Sultana bint Ahmed al Sudairi.

She was from the Sudairi family and a sister of Hassa bint Ahmed who was the mother of Sudairi brothers.

He was married to Turhan Hatice ( Khadija ) Valide Sultan, a Ukrainian ( the mother of Mehmed IV ), to Saliha Dilâşub Valide Sultan ( the mother of Suleiman II ), and to Hatice ( Khadija ) Muazzez Sultan ( the mother of Ahmed II ).

He was the 12th son of King Abdulaziz and his mother was Hassa bint Ahmed Al Sudairi ( 1900 – 1969 ).

His mother Zuhrah Abdu Ahmed still resides in Florida, while his father died following a career as an Imam.

The pair retreated north with Hekmatyar's forces, and then Ahmad went to Tehran to visit their mother and sister, while Amer traveled to Peshawar where he began working for the NGO Health and Education Projects International, created by Ahmed Khadr.

Her father died when she was nine and her mother married Ahmed Mirza, who died in 2004.

His father Ahmed and mother Šefika gave him the nickname " Braco " meaning " little brother " in Bosnian since Hasan has an older sister, hence his current nickname " Brazzo ".

His father, Faizur Rahman Ahmed, a police officer and writer, was killed by Pakistani military during the liberation war of Bangladesh in 1971, and his mother is Ayesha Foyez.

Her father, Ahmed Hamama, worked as a clerk in the Egyptian Ministry of Education and her mother was a housewife.

– 1732 ), French second spouse of Ottoman sultan Ahmed III and the mother of sultan Mustafa III

She is the mother of Sheikh Mohamed's sons and daughters, including the Crown Prince of Dubai, Sheikh Hamdan Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum and the deputy ruler of Dubai Maktoum bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Sheikh Rashid Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Sheikh Ahmed, Sheikh Saeed, Sheikha Hessa, Sheikha Latifa, Sheikha Maryam, Sheikha Shaikha Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Sheikha Futteim, Sheikha Salama and Sheikha Shamma.

Ahmed er-Rifai's family comes from Husayn ibn Ali, the son of Ali, at the side of his mother.

Ahmed Shah inherited a much weakened Mughal state and after ruling unsuccessfully for 6 years, he was deposed by the Vizier Imad-ul-Mulk in 1754 and later blinded along with his mother.

Following the 1992 injury that left Ahmed disabled, Zaynab became a " second mother " to the younger children.

* Ahmed I-( 1590 – 1617 ), Ottoman sultan, Greek mother Handan Sultan ( originally named Helena ( Eleni ))-wife of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed III

* Ahmed III-( 1673 – 1736 ), Ottoman sultan, Greek mother ( Emetullah Rabia Gülnûş Sultan ), originally named Evemia, who was the daughter of a Greek Cretan priest

* Mahfiruze Hatice Sultan-( d 1621 ), maiden name Maria, was the wife of the Ottoman Sultan Ahmed I and mother of Osman II.

Other senior royals, such as Prince Sultan, Prince Fahd, Prince Ahmed and their mother Princess Sultana bint Turki bin Ahmad Al Sudairi, wife of Prince Salman, were also buried there.

Ahmed I ( Ottoman Turkish: احمد اول Aḥmed-i evvel, ) or Ahmed Bakhti ( April 18, 1590 – November 22, 1617 ) was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1603 until his death in 1617.

Ahmed was a poet who wrote a number of political and lyrical works under the name Bahti.

Ahmed II Khan Ghazi ( Ottoman Turkish: احمد ثانى Aḥmed-i < u > s </ u > ānī ) < span dir =" ltr ">( February 25, 1643 – February 6, 1695 )</ span > was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1691 to 1695.

Ahmed II was born at Topkapı Palace, Constantinople, the son of Sultan Ibrahim I ( 1640 – 48 ) by Valide Sultan Khadija Muazzez, and succeeded his brother Suleiman II ( 1687 – 91 ) in 1691.

Ahmed II's best known act was to confirm Mustafa Köprülü as grand vizier.

Ahmed III ( Ottoman Turkish: احمد ثالث Aḥmed-i < u > s </ u > āli < u > s </ u >) < span dir =" ltr ">( December 30 / 31, 1673 – July 1, 1736 )</ span > was Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and a son of Sultan Mehmed IV ( 1648 – 87 ).

Sultan Ahmed III had become unpopular by reason of the excessive pomp and costly luxury in which he and his principal officers indulged ; on September 20, 1730, a mutinous riot of seventeen janissaries, led by the Albanian Patrona Halil, was aided by the citizens as well as the military until it swelled into an insurrection in front of which the Sultan was forced to give up the throne.

The reign of Ahmed III, which had lasted for twenty-seven years, although marked by the disasters of the Great Turkish War, was not unsuccessful.

His name at birth was Ahmed Shah ; he took the name " Massoud " as a nom de guerre when he went into the resistance movement in 1974.

He was the son of sultan Ahmed III ( 1703 – 30 ) and succeeded his brother Mustafa III ( 1757 – 74 ) on January 21, 1774.

A former law student and muezzin, Ahmed bin Abdullah al-Nami ( Arabic: أحمد بن عبد الله النامي, ; also transliterated as Alnami ) < span dir =" ltr ">( December 7, 1977 – September 11, 2001 )</ span > was one of four hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93 as part of the September 11 attacks.

Ahmed Ibrahim al-Haznawi (, ) ( October 11, 1980 – September 11, 2001 ) was one of four hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93 as part of the September 11 attacks.

Ahmed al-Haznawi was the son of a Saudi imam from the Al-Bahah province, which is located in an isolated and underdeveloped part of Saudi Arabia.

Haznawi belonged to a family that was part of the larger, al-Ghamdi tribe, sharing the same tribal affiliation with fellow hijackers Saeed al-Ghamdi, Hamza al-Ghamdi, and Ahmed al-Ghamdi.

Following Lisette's fall in February 1959 the opposition leaders Gontchome Sahoulba and Ahmed Koulamallah could not form a stable government, so the PPT was again asked to form an administration-which it did under the leadership of François Tombalbaye on 26 March 1959.

In 1978, president Ali Soilih, who had a firm anti-French line, was killed and Ahmed Abdallah came to power.

In May 2006, Ahmed Abdallah Sambi was elected from the island of Anjouan to be the president of the Union of Comoros.

On 15 May 2006, Ahmed Abdallah Sambi, a cleric and successful businessman educated in Iran, Saudi Arabia and Sudan, was declared the winner of elections for President of the Republic.

Dr Ahmed Djoghlaf, was the previous executive secretary.

The DCT that is widely used in this regard was introduced by N. Ahmed, T. Natarajan and K. R. Rao in 1974 ; see Reference 1 in discrete cosine transform.

Prime Minister Ahmed Shafik was sworn in as Prime Minister on January 29, 2011, in response to the 2011 Egyptian revolution ; he was succeeded on 5 March by Essam Sharaf, in response to continued protests.