Khalifa bin Zayed bin Khalifa Al Nahyan

Khalifa bin Zayed bin Khalifa Al Nahyan was the eldest son of Abu Dhabi ruler Zayed bin Khalifa Al Nahyan. He was brother of four Abu Dhabi rulers, Tahnoun, Hamdan, Saqr and Sultan. Khalifa refused to ascend the throne when his father died in 1909,

Khalifa's grandsons, Hamdan, Mubarak, Tahnoun and Saif, were the major supporters of Zayed bin Sultan when he became the ruler of Abu Dhabi in 1966. They assumed various major public roles. He is the great-grandfather of Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan.