Abdelhamid Sharaf

{{Short description|Prime Minister of Jordan (1939–1980)}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Abdelhamid Sharaf

| image = Abdelhamid Sharaf portrait.jpg

| imagesize = 200px

| order = Prime Minister of Jordan

| monarch = Hussein

| term_start = 19 December 1979

| term_end = 3 July 1980

| predecessor = Mudar Badran

| successor = Kassim al-Rimawi

| birth_date = 8 July 1939

|father = Sharaf bin Rajeh

| birth_place = Baghdad, Kingdom of Iraq

| death_date = 3 July 1980 (aged 40)

| death_place = Amman, Jordan

| party =

| spouse = Leila A. Sharaf

}}

Abdelhamid Sharaf ({{langx|ar|الشريف عبدالحميد شرف}};{{lrm}} 8 July 1939 – 3 July 1980), was a Jordanian politician born in Iraq who served as the 24th Prime Minister of Jordan from December 1979 until his death of a heart attack after seven months in office. King Hussein announced the death in a live radio broadcast and said that "His death could not have come at a worse time.""Jordan premier Sharaf dies of heart attack at 41", UPI report in Boston Globe, July 4, 1980, p. 8 Sharaf was ambassador to the United States (1967–1972), Canada (1969–1972) and the United Nations (1972–1976).

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