# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fahd-of-saudi-arabia
# Generated: 2026-09-01T20:46:20.296Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/fahd-of-saudi-arabia"
name: "Fahd of Saudi Arabia"
slug: "fahd-of-saudi-arabia"
description: "He ruled Saudi Arabia for 23 years — longer than any king before or since — though for the final decade a stroke left him largely absent while his half-brother ran the country in all but name."
tagline: "King of Saudi Arabia from 1982 to 2005"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fahd_of_Saudi_Arabia_Portrait.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645"
birthDate: "1921"
deathDate: "2005-08-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             3.79502533944951
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  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born sometime between 1920 and 1923, Fahd bin Abdulaziz was the eighth son of the kingdom's founder and the eldest of the Sudairi Seven, a powerful bloc of brothers by the same mother. He climbed through the ministries — Education from 1953 to 1962 under King Saud, then Interior until 1975 — before becoming crown prince when his half-brother Khalid took the throne following King Faisal's assassination in 1975. Fahd was already the de facto leader during Khalid's reign, the ailing king a figure more than a force. When Khalid died in 1982, Fahd formally ascended and introduced the Basic Law in 1992, the closest thing to a constitution the kingdom had seen. A stroke in 1995 left him debilitated, and for the last ten years of his life Crown Prince Abdullah governed as regent. Fahd died in August 2005, his 23-year reign the longest in Saudi history, though much of it belonged to other hands.