Owaisi was born on 13 May 1969 to Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi and Najmunnisa Begum.[3] He comes from a political family of Hyderabad. His grandfather Abdul Wahed Owaisi relaunched the political party Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen as All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen 18 September 1957.