Birth Name: Zeid bin Ra’ad Zeid al-Hussein
Place of Birth: Amman, Jordan
Date of Birth: 26 January 1964
Ethnicity:
* Arab (paternal grandfather)
* Turkish (paternal grandmother)
* Swedish, remote French and Hungarian (mother)
Prince Zeid bin Ra’ad is a Jordanian diplomat. He has been the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, since 1 September 2014. He had served as the Permanent Representative of Jordan to the United Nations, from 7 August 2000 to 2 January 2007, and from September 2010 to 22 July 2014; and as the 18th Ambassador of Jordan to the United States, from 22 January 2007 to 27 February 2010.
Prince Zeid’s father, Prince Ra’ad bin Zeid, is the current Pretender of Iraq and Syria. Prince Zeid’s mother, Majda Raad (born Margaretha Inga Elisabeth Lind), is Swedish, from Arboga, Västmanland.
Prince Zeid is married to American-born Sarah Antonia Butler, of Houston, Texas.
Through the line of Hasan bin Ali, Prince Zeid’s patrilineal ancestry can be traced back to his 40th great-grandfather, Hashim ibn Abd Manaf. But traditionally, Hashim’s patrilineal ancestry can be further traced back to Ibrahim.
Prince Zeid’s paternal grandfather was Prince Zeid bin Hussein (the son of Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca, and of Adila Khanum). Hussein was the son of Ali Pasha bin Muhammad and Sheikha Salha bint Gharam al-Shahar. Adila was the daughter of Salah Bey.
Prince Zeid’s paternal grandmother was Fahrelnissa Şakir (the daughter of Muhammad Shakir Pasha Kaba’aj and Sara Izmat Khanum). Fahrelnissa was a Turkish artist best known for her large-scale abstract paintings.
Prince Zeid’s maternal grandfather was Sven Gustav Lind (the son of Karl Gustaf Lind and Jenny Maria Scherqvist). Karl was the son of Carl Axel Lind and Anna Stina Rosengren. Jenny was the daughter of Adolf Wilhelm Scherqvist and Johanna Kjellén.
Prince Zeid’s maternal grandmother was Karin Gunlög Inga Birgitta Grönwall (the daughter of Eugen Assar Alexius Grönwall and Signe Maria Svensson). Assar was the son of Johan Henric Wilhelm Grönwall and Anna Laurentia Ahlström. Signe was the daughter of Per Svensson and Hilma Martina Hallbeck.
Prince Zeid’s matrilineal ancestry can be traced back to her fourth great-grandmother, Anna Maria Nilsson.
Source: Genealogy of Prince Zeid bin Ra’ad – https://en.wikipedia.org