Hamdan Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

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House of Maktoum

Sheikh Mohammed
Sheikha Hind
- Crown Prince Hamdan
- HH Sheikha Hassa
- HH Sheikh Rashid
- HH Sheikh Maktoum
- HH Sheikh Ahmed
- HH Sheikh Saeed
- HH Sheikha Latifa
- HH Sheikha Sheikha
- HH Sheikha Maryam
- HH Sheikha Fatima
- HH Sheikha Salamah
- HH Sheikha Shamma

Princess Haya
- HH Sheikha Al Jalila

Former/current wives
- HH Sheikha Manal
- HH Sheikh Marwan
- HH Sheikha Maitha
- HH Sheikh Mansour
- HH Sheikh Majid

Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum (born November 13, 1982)^[1] is the Crown Prince of Dubai and the second eldest son of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum and Sheikha Hind bint Maktoum bin Juma Al Maktoum.

Sheikh Hamdan began his schooling in Dubai at the Rashid Private School and then continued his studies in the United Kingdom.^[2] There, he graduated from Sandhurst and later attended the London School of Economics.^[1] He was recently appointed as the Chairman of the Dubai Executive Council in September 2006.^[1] He also is the head of the Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Establishment for Young Business Leaders, and the president of the Dubai Sports Council and the Dubai Autism Centre.^[2]

He is known for both his poetry and as a horse rider. His poems are mainly romantic, patriotic and about his family. He publishes his poems under the name Fazza ^[3] (فزاع).

He won the gold medal in Equestrian at the Asian Games.^[2] Sheikh Hamdan also has a passion for cars ranging from the mercedes benz jeep;used for treading the deserts to porshes and a ferrari.

On 1 February 2008, Sheikh Mohammed appointed Sheikh Hamdan as the Crown Prince of Dubai.^[1]