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{{Short description|Saudi royal, government official, diplomat, and businessman (1923–2006)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2022}}
{{Family name hatnote|lang=Arabic|[[Al Saud]]}}
{{Infobox royalty
| full name    = Fahd bin Saud bin Abdulaziz
| image        =
| succession   = [[Ministry of Defense (Saudi Arabia)|Minister of Defense]]
| reign        = 1956 – 1960
| predecessor  = [[Mishaal bin Abdulaziz]]
| successor    = [[Muhammed bin Saud]]
| regent       = [[Saud of Saudi Arabia|Saud]]
| reg-type     = Monarch
| regent1      = [[Faisal bin Abdulaziz]]
| reg-type1    = Prime{{nbsp}}Minister
| spouse       = Al Anoud bint Faisal Al Saud
| issue        = Princess Amal
| house        = [[House of Saud|Al Saud]]
| father       = [[Saud of Saudi Arabia]]
| mother       = Munira bint Saad Al Saud
| birth_date   = 1923
| birth_place  = [[Riyadh]]
| death_date   = {{death date and age|2006|10|30|1923|df=yes}}
| burial_place = [[Al Adl cemetery]], [[Mecca]]
}}
'''Fahd bin Saud Al Saud''' ({{langx|ar|فهد بن سعود آل سعود}} ''Fahd bin Su'ūd Āl Su'ūd''; 1923 – 30 October 2006) was a Saudi Arabian businessman, government official, and the eldest son of [[King Saud]]. He served as the [[Saudi Arabian minister of defense]] from 1956 to 1960 during the reign of his father.<ref name=jep>{{cite book|author=J. E. Peterson|title=Historical Dictionary of Saudi Arabia|year=2003|page=52
|url=https://archive.org/details/historicaldictio0000pete/page/52/mode/2up?q=king+khalid+bin+abdulaziz|publisher=Scarecrow Press
|isbn=9780810827806|edition=2nd|location=Metuchen, NJ}}</ref>
==Early life==
[[File:King Saud.jpg|thumb|[[King Saud]], father of Prince Fahd]]
Prince Fahd was born in 1923 as the first son of the future King Saud.<ref name=KingSaud/><ref name=app>{{cite web|title=Appendix 7. Leading Grandsons of Abdul Aziz|url=https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/bbm%3A978-0-312-29962-0%2F1.pdf|work=Springer|access-date=13 August 2020}}</ref> His mother was Munirah bint Saad bin Saud Al Saud, granddaughter of [[Saud bin Faisal bin Turki]], who was the brother of [[Abdul Rahman bin Faisal]], grandfather of King Saud.<ref name=KingSaud/> Thus, Prince Fahd's parents were [[Cousin marriage in the Middle East|second cousins]].<ref name=KingSaud/>
==Career==
During the reign of his father, Prince Fahd was first made the head of the royal court which he held between 1953 and 1956.<ref name=jep/><ref name=nadsa>{{cite book|author=Nadav Safran|title=Saudi Arabia: The Ceaseless Quest for Security|year=2018|publisher=Cornell University Press
|pages=89–105|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zSkIi_1T1FsC|location=Ithaca, NY; London|isbn=978-0801494840 |author-link=Nadav Safran}}</ref> Next he was appointed the minister of defense and inspector general in 1956 replacing [[Mishaal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud]] in the post.<ref name=nadsa/><ref>{{cite web|title=عين الابن فهد بن سعود وزيرا للدفاع والطيران ومفتشاً عاما للأمور العسكرية|publisher=King Saud official site
|url=http://www.kingsaud.net/art/insidelib/statement/index101.html|access-date=21 October 2013|archive-date=24 August 2016|url-status=live
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160824160731/http://www.kingsaud.net/art/insidelib/statement/index101.html}}</ref> He left the office, but reassumed the post on 26 September 1958<ref>{{cite journal|issue=1|title=Chronology 1958|journal=[[The Middle East Journal]]
|date=Winter 1959|volume=13|pages=77–96 |jstor=4323086}}</ref> and remained in office until 1960.<ref name=jep/><ref name="app"/> He was the Saudi ambassador to Greece from 1964 to 1968.
After retiring from government Prince Fahd involved in business.<ref name=gss/>
==Personal life==
Prince Fahd had two wives. One of his spouses was [[Al Anoud bint Faisal Al Saud|Princess Al Anoud]], a daughter of [[Faisal of Saudi Arabia|King Faisal]].<ref name=gss>{{cite thesis|author=Gary Samuel Samore|title=Royal Family Politics in Saudi Arabia (1953-1982)|location=[[Harvard University]]|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/303295482|pages=58,81,533|year=1984|id={{ProQuest|303295482}}|degree=PhD}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=File 11/44 Leading Personalities in Iraq, Iran & Saudi Arabia|date=13 January 1948|publisher=[[Qatar Digital Library]]
|access-date=18 August 2023|url=https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100061134244.0x00004d|quote=Citing from the British India Office Records and Private Papers}}</ref> King Abdulaziz arranged their marriage to reduce the tension between their fathers.<ref name=gss/><ref name=abb>{{cite thesis|author=Alexander Blay Bligh|title=Succession to the throne in Saudi Arabia. Court Politics in the Twentieth Century|location=[[Columbia University]]|page=120|degree=PhD|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/303101806|year=1981|id={{ProQuest|303101806}}}}</ref> They married in May 1943,<ref name=gss/><ref name=abb/> but separated after years of marriage. His second wife was of [[Syrian people|Syrian]] origin. He had one daughter: Amal bint Fahd.<ref name=KingSaud>{{cite web|url=http://www.kingsaud.org/family/fahad-bin-saud-bin-abdulaziz-al-saud/103|title=Family. Fahd bin Saud Al Saud|work=King Saud Website|access-date=21 June 2017|archive-date=7 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170707184156/http://www.kingsaud.org/family/fahad-bin-saud-bin-abdulaziz-al-saud/103|url-status=live}}</ref>
==Death and burial==
On 30 October 2006, Prince Fahd died at his house and was buried at [[Al Adl cemetery]] in [[Mecca]].
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