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Tun Hussein Onn

Yang Amat Berbahagia Tun
Hussein Onn
S.M.N. S.P.M J.
حسین اُون
Tun Hussein Onn portrait.jpg
3rd Prime Minister of Malaysia
In office
15 January 1976 – 16 July 1981
Monarch Yahya Petra
Ahmad Shah
Deputy Mahathir Mohamad
Preceded by Abdul Razak
Succeeded by Mahathir Mohamad
3rd Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia
In office
13 August 1973 – 15 January 1976
Monarch Abdul Halim
Yahya Petra
Prime Minister Abdul Razak
Preceded by Ismail Abdul Rahman
Succeeded by Mahathir Mohamad
1st President of International Islamic University of Malaysia
In office
1983–1987
Chancellor Sultan Ahmad Shah
Preceded by Position established
Succeeded by Anwar Ibrahim
Personal details
Born Hussein bin Onn
(1922-02-12)12 February 1922
Johor Bahru, British Malaya (now Malaysia)
Died 28 May 1990(1990-05-28) (aged 68)
South San Francisco, United States
Resting place Makam Pahlawan, Masjid Negara, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Citizenship Malaysian
Political party Independent (1987–1990)
Other political
affiliations
United Malays National Organisation (Before 1951; 1968–1988)
Independence of Malaya Party (1951–1963)
National Party (1963–1968)
Spouse(s) Suhaila Noah
Children 6 (including Hishammuddin Hussein)
Education Indian Military Academy
Lincoln's Inn
English College Johore Bahru
Profession Lawyer
Religion Sunni Islam
Military service
Allegiance  British Raj
Service/branch British Indian Army
Years of service 1940–1945
Rank Captain

Hussein bin Dato' Onn (Jawi: حسین اُون ; b.12 February 1922 – d.29 May 1990) was the third Prime Minister of Malaysia, serving in this role from 1976 to 1981. He was born in Johor Bahru, Johor, on 12 February 1922 to Dato Onn Jaafar and Datin Halimah Hussein, and is of 3/4 Malay and 1/4 Circassian ancestry. He was granted the soubriquet "Bapa Perpaduan" (Father of Unity).

He was the son of Dato' Onn Jaafar, the founder of UMNO and a Malayan freedom fighter. His grandfather Dato Jaafar Haji Muhammad was the first Menteri Besar of Johore while his grandmother, Hanim Rogayah was from Scarcia, Turkey. He was the brother in law of Tun Abdul Razak, his predecessor as Prime Minister, who also married another Tan Sri Haji Mohamad Noah Omar's daughter, Tun Rahah Mohamad Noah.

Tun Hussein married Tun Suhaila Noah in 1948. Suhaila Noah was the daughter of Tan Sri Haji Mohamad Noah Omar, former Minister of Home Affairs and first Speaker of the Dewan Rakyat. Hussein Onn and Suhaila Noah had six children, including their fourth child, Hishammuddin Hussein, the Minister of Defence since 2013. Their eldest daughter, Datin Roquaiya Hanim, died on 17 September 2005, at the age of 56 from breast cancer in Kuala Lumpur.


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