Sabah Al-Ahmad was born in Jahra, northwest of Kuwait, the capital, on June 16, 1929. Jahra was at that time a farming village. He lived his childhood in the confinement of his uncles, the Al-Ayyar family, who were considered one of the largest Kuwaiti families in that region, which became a city and a province after that. Hamad al-Ayyar and Talal al-Ayyar were two brothers. Sabah al-Ahmad's mother is the daughter of their cousin, and his mother was raised in the house of their father, Mubarak al-Hamad al-Ayyar. Al-Hamad Al-Ayyar, "who married her to Ahmed Al-Jaber, in order to give birth to him, Sabah. He moved from Jahra to Seif Palace at the age of four, where he grew up with his brother Jaber in the confinement of Sheikha Bibi Al-Salem Al-Sabah, Jaber's mother who considered him one of her sons and loved him more than her love for Jaber, according to Sabah's description. Sabah received his education at the Mubarakiya School with his brother Jaber, Saad Al-Abdullah, Jaber Al-Ali and Salem Al-Ali. Then his father, Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, sent him to some countries to study and gain political experience and skills, and to become familiar with the nature of systems, work and administration in a number of European and Asian countries. The period between his inception and the independence of Kuwait in 1961 also contributed to providing him with experiences, methods of governance and the conditions of administration, because he was the son of a ruler who lasted for three decades at the helm (1921-1950). Thus, Sabah kept abreast of the management and dealings of his father, Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, with internal events and changes, and the world at that time was full of great political and military events, most notably the Second World War, whose events reflected on all countries and inhabitants of the earth. The events that accelerated in the Arab region, such as the Nakba, the July 23 coup in Egypt, the July 14 coup in Iraq and the military coups that followed in the Arab region, helped him to better understand politics and international changes. This upbringing (in the Palace of Government) created social and political awareness in Sabah and enabled him to gain familiarity with public affairs, whether in Kuwait, the Arab and international surroundings, which clearly contributed to being one of the main pillars of government in the State of Kuwait. he died in Rochester Hills in 2020.