Ahmed Said Omar was born on February 15, 1936, in El Baliana, Egypt, to pharmacist Mohamed Zaki Omar and obstetric Matron Aisha Gomaa. He is the eldest of four children, with two sisters, Soheir and Sanaa, and one brother, Omar. He obtained his secondary school diploma in 1954 from Banbakaden secondary school in Cairo. Subsequently, he received his Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (M.B.Ch.b) from Qasr Al Eyni Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University in 1961.