I whanau a Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed i te 13 o Mei 1905 i te rohe o Hauz Qazi o Old Delhi, India. Ko tona papa, Col. Zalnur Ali Ahmed, te tangata taketake tuatahi o Assamese me te tangata taketake tuatahi mai i te raki-rawhiti o Inia ki te whai tohu MD (Doctor of Medicine). Ko tona whaea, Sahibzadi Ruqaiyya Sultan, he tamahine na Nawab o Loharu. Ko te tupuna o Ahmed, a Khaliluddin Ali Ahmed, no Kachariighat tata ki Golaghat, Assam, no tetahi whanau rongonui o Assamese Muslim. I marenatia ia ki tetahi kotiro Assamese Muslim taketake ko Begamida o Assam. I haere a Ahmed ki te St. Stephen's College, Delhi, me te St. Catharine's College, Cambridge. I karangahia ia ki te Temepara o Lahore mai i te Inner Temple o Ranana me te tiimata ki te mahi ture i te Kooti Nui o Assam i te 1928.
Ko Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed