Al-Qaeda founders

Osama bin Muhammad bin 'Awad bin Laden was the founder and first general emir of al-Qaeda from 1988 until his death in 2011. A pan-Islamist, bin Laden organized and funded numerous jihadist or anti-Western militants and terrorist attacks worldwide. Al-Qaeda's attacks against the United States on 11 September 2001 (9/11) directly killed 2,977 victims, causing the global war on terror.

Palestinian Sunni Islamic scholar and Salafi jihadist (1941–1989)

Egyptian al-Qaeda member (1944–2001)

Egyptian al-Qaeda member

Egyptian al-Qaeda member

Saudi-born ex-member of al-Qaeda

Sudanese terrorist