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Hishammuddin Tun Hussein

Yang Berhormat Datuk Seri
Hishammuddin Hussein
MP
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Malaysian Minister in the Prime Minister's Department (Special Functions)
Assumed office
12 April 2017
Prime Minister Najib Razak
Malaysian Minister of Defence
Assumed office
16 May 2013
Prime Minister Najib Razak
Deputy Mohd Johari Baharum
Preceded by Ahmad Zahid Hamidi
Malaysian Minister of Transport (Acting)
In office
16 May 2013 – 25 June 2014
Prime Minister Najib Razak
Preceded by Kong Cho Ha
Succeeded by Liow Tiong Lai
Vice-President of United Malays National Organisation
Assumed office
26 March 2009
President Najib Razak
Preceded by Mohd Ali Rustam
Malaysian Minister of Home Affairs
In office
10 April 2009 – 5 May 2013
Prime Minister Najib Razak
Preceded by Syed Hamid Albar
Succeeded by Ahmad Zahid Hamidi
Malaysian Minister of Education
In office
31 March 2004 – 9 April 2009
Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi
Preceded by Musa Mohamad
Succeeded by Muhyiddin Yassin
Chairman of UMNO's Youth Wing
In office
1998–2009
Preceded by Ahmad Zahid Hamidi
Succeeded by Khairy Jamaluddin
Malaysian Minister of Youth and Sports
In office
1999 – 30 March 2004
Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad (1999–2003), Abdullah Badawi (2003–2004)
Preceded by Muhyiddin Yassin
Succeeded by Azalina Othman Said
Personal details
Born (1961-08-05) 5 August 1961 (age 55)
Selangor, Federation of Malaya (now Malaysia)
Political party UMNO
Other political
affiliations
Barisan Nasional
Spouse(s) Tengku Marsilla Tengku Abdullah
Children 4
Parents Hussein Onn (father)
Suhaila Noah (mother)
Residence Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Alma mater Aberystwyth University
London School of Economics
Occupation Politician, lawyer
Religion Sunni Islam

Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein (born 5 August 1961) is a Malaysian politician who has been Minister of Defence of Malaysia since 16 May 2013. He previously served as Minister of Youth and Sports (1999–2004), Minister of Education (2004–2009), and Minister of Home Affairs (2009–2013). As acting Minister of Transport (2013–2014) he came to international prominence in March 2014, as the minister responsible for investigating the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

Hishamuddin is a senior figure within the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), Malaysia's largest political party and the leading member of the Barisan Nasional coalition that governs the country. He is one of the party's three vice-presidents and was the chief of the party's youth wing from 1998 to 2009.

He is the son of Malaysia's third prime minister, Hussein Onn, and the cousin of the sixth and current prime minister, Najib Razak.

Hishammuddin was born on 5 August 1961, the fourth child and the eldest son of Hussein Onn, who became the third Prime Minister of Malaysia, and Suhaila Noah. He is the grandson of Onn Jaafar, a prominent Malay leader and the founder of UMNO, whose mother was a Circassian from Turkey.

He attended the Malay College Kuala Kangsar before his father became Deputy Prime Minister in 1973. Upon his father's appointment to the post, he attended St. John's Institution, and then the Alice Smith School, in Kuala Lumpur, before attending the English public school Cheltenham College.


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