The Al Khalifa family is the ruling royal family of Bahrain.

The Al Khalifa profess Sunni Islam and belong to the Anizah tribe that migrated from Najd to Kuwait in the early 18th century.

They are also from the Utub tribe.

The current head of the family is Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, who became the Emir of Bahrain in 1999 and proclaimed himself King of Bahrain in 2002.As of 2010, roughly half of the serving cabinet ministers of Bahrain have been selected from the Al Khalifa royal family,while the country's only Prime Minister, Khalifah bin Salman al-Khalifah, (serving since independence in 1971) is also from the Al Khalifa family and is the uncle of the current King.