# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sultan-bin-salman-al-saud
# Generated: 2026-09-01T18:04:29.201Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sultan-bin-salman-al-saud"
name: "Sultan bin Salman Al Saud"
slug: "sultan-bin-salman-al-saud"
description: "Sultan bin Salman Al Saud is a Saudi prince and former Royal Saudi Air Force pilot who flew aboard the American STS-51-G Space Shuttle mission as a payload specialist. He is the first member of a royal family to fly in space, the first Arab and the first Muslim to fly in space, as well as the youngest person ever to fly on a space shuttle. On 27 December 2018, he was appointed as chairman of the Board of Directors of the Saudi Space Commission with the rank of minister. He is the eldest surviving son of King Salman and one of the grandsons of Saudi's founder King Abdulaziz."
tagline: "Saudi Arabian astronaut and politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sultan_Salman_Al-Saud.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1956-06-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           56.16
  momentum:             1.157658919070288
  historical:           22.117192
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Szultán bin Szalman asz-Szaúd"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "സുൽത്താൻ ബിൻ സൽമാൻ ബിൻ അൽ സൗദ്"
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  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultan_bin_Salman_bin_Abdulaziz_bin_Abdurahman_al-Saud"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sultan bin Salman al-Saoed"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sultan Salman Al-Saud"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sultan ibn Salman Al Su’ud"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump