Osama Khaled Khalifa (Arabic: أسامة خليفة) (born March 19, 1995, in Cairo, Egypt) is a professional squash player who competed for Columbia University.

[2] Born in Cairo, Khalifa first became a regional swimming champion, before turning his full attention to squash at age 10.

He has four siblings, including older brother Amr Khaled Khalifa, who won the individual and team World Junior Squash Championships in 2010.

[3] Khalifa trained with the Egyptian national team from age 11, and participated in all of the major international junior tournaments.

[6][7] In the summer of 2012, at age 17, Khalifa competed in the PSA Barossa Valley Open in Australia, where he beat the then world number 6 Paul Coll to reach the finals of his first professional squash tournament.

In February 2013, Khalifa represented the winning Egyptian national team in the World Junior Squash Championships in Wroclaw, Poland.

[21][22] He was named the William V. Campbell Performer of the Year (male), Columbia University's top annual athletic award.

[24][25] At the College Team Nationals, Khalifa went 3–0 with wins over Rochester's Ashley Davies, Harvard's Saadeldin Abouaish and St. Lawrence's Ahmed Bayoumy.