Osama bin Laden Age, Wiki and Bio

Osama bin Laden

Quick Info

ProfessionTerrorist
NationalitySaudi Arabian
Date of Birth10/03/1957
Age54 years (died on 02, May, 2011)
BirthplaceRiyadh, Riyadh Mintaqah, Saudi Arabia
Date of Death02/05/2011

Bio/Wiki

Full NameUsama ibn Mohammed ibn Awad ibn Ladin
Nickname(s)The Emir, Laden, The Prince, The Sheik, The Jihadist Sheik, Sheik al-Mujahid, Hajj, Lion Sheik
Known ForBeing the mastermind of the 9/11 attack in September 2001 on the World Trade Center in New York, USA

Physical Stats & More

Height195 cm
Eye ColorBlack
Hair ColorBlack

Educational Qualification(s)

School
  • Brummana High School, Lebanon
  • Al-Thager Model School, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
College/UniversityKing Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Degrees
  • Economics and Business Administration
  • Civil Engineering
  • Public Administration

Personal Life

Date of Death02/05/2011
Place of DeathAbbottabad, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
HometownRiyadh, Saudi Arabia
Zodiac signPisces
ReligionIslam
Caste/SectSunni
Food HabitNon-Vegetarian
Hobbies
  • Writing Poetry
  • Reading
  • Playing Football
  • Horse-riding

Relationships & More

Marital StatusMarried

Family

FatherMohammed bin Awad bin Laden (Yemini Business Tycoon)
MotherHamida al-Attas
Siblings51 siblings
Wives/Spouses
  • Najwa Ghanem (1974-2001)
  • Khadijah Sharif (1983-1990s)
  • Khairiah Sabar (married 1985)
  • Siham Sabar (married 1987)
  • Amal al-Sadah (married 2000)
Children
With Najwa Ghanem (First Wife)
  • Abdallah
  • Abdul Rahman
  • Saad (1979–2009)
  • Omar
  • Osman
  • Mohammed
  • Fatima
  • Zulki
  • Laden
  • Zakaria
  • Nour
With Khadijah Sharif (Second Wife)
  • Ali
  • Amer
  • Aisha
With Khairiah Sabar (Third Wife)
  • Hamza
With Siham Sabar (Fourth Wife)
  • Khalid (1988–2011)
  • Kadhija
  • Miriam
  • Sumaiya

Career

Controversies
  • Masterminding the 9/11 attack
  • Several other attacks orchestrated by Al-Qaeda

Favourites

Favourite Army Personnels
  • Bernard Montgomery
  • Charles de Gaulle
Favourite Football ClubArsenal

Style Quotient

Assets/PropertiesInherited $29 million of his father's business

Some Lesser Known Facts

His father's tenth wife was his mother.
He was brought up as a devout Sunni Muslim.
She offered assistance to the jihadist movement during the conflict with the Soviet Union.
Hostility was evident in her feelings towards the United States.
Her beliefs were marked by anti-Semitic and anti-Western ideologies.