Yousif bin Abdulrahman Fakhro
Male, Deceased Person
1871 – 1952
Who was Yousif bin Abdulrahman Fakhro?
Yousif bin Abdulrahman Fakhro, also known as Yusuf Al Oud, was one of the most prominent and wealthiest businessmen in Bahrain.
He owned more than fifty ships/dhows that roamed the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean, with offices in Bahrain, Basra, India, Kuwait and Dubai, and established what is known today as the Fakhro Group, a diversified family business based in Bahrain.
He had five sons – Ahmed, Mohamed, Abdulla, Ibrahim and Ali – and eight daughters.
He was known to finance the government of Bahrain at the time and the Ottoman army.
He was one of the few businessmen that filled in to establish the first school in Bahrain in 1919, Al-Hidaya Al-Khalifiya.
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