Osama Bin Laden was born on March 10, 1957, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, into a wealthy and influential family. His father, Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, was a billionaire construction magnate who founded the Saudi Binladin Group, a multinational construction conglomerate. Osama was one of many children in the Bin Laden family, and he inherited a substantial portion of his father’s wealth after his death in 1967.