Saad Jumaa

• Name — Saad Jumaa • Birth Name — Saad Mohammad Juma • Office — 17th Prime Minister of Jordan • Monarch — Hussein • Term Start — 23 April 1967 • Term End — 7 October 1967 • Predecessor — Hussein ibn Nasser • Successor — Bahjat Talhouni • Birthplace — Tafilah, Jordan • Died — 19 August 1979 • Place of death — London, United Kingdom • Party — Independent • Alma Mater — Damascus University • Occupation — Writer, Thinker

Saad Jumaa was born in Tafilah, Ottoman Empire, in 1916 to the family of Alayoubi of Damascene origin. Jumaa was a writer and intellectual. He completed his secondary education in Salt before pursuing a degree in law at Damascus University, from which he graduated in 1947. Jumaa died on 19 August 1979 in London, United Kingdom.

Section Jumaa held the following positions and offices: • Director General of Press and Publications (1948–1949) • Head of the Political Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1949–1950) • Secretary to the Prime Minister (1950–1954) • Vice-Minister of Interior (1954) • Mayor of Amman (1954–1958) • Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs (1958–1959) • Ambassador to Iran, then Syria (1959–1962) • Ambassador to the United States of America (1962–1965) • Chief of the Royal Hashemite Court (1965) • Prime Minister and Defence Minister (1967) • Member of the Senate (1967–1969) • Ambassador at Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1969) • Ambassador to the United Kingdom (1969–1970)