Mahathir Mohamad

Bio

About Mahathir Mohamad

Mahathir bin Mohamad is a Malaysian politician, physician and author who served as the fourth and seventh prime minister of Malaysia from 1981 to 2003 and again from 2018 to 2020. He was the country's longest-serving prime minister, serving for a cumulative total of 24 years. His political career has spanned more than 75 years, from joining protests opposing citizenship policies for non-Malays in the Malayan Union in the 1940s to forming the Gerakan Tanah Air coalition in 2022. During his premiership, Mahathir was granted the title "Father of Modernisation" for his pivotal role in transforming the country's economy and infrastructure. At 101 years old, he is the second-oldest living former state leader in the world and the first Malaysian prime minister to reach that age. Birthdays.fyi indexes this profile with birthday, age, profession cluster, source links, and nearby people born on July 10.

Before fame

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Trivia

Malaysian physician and politician, 4th and 7th Prime Minister of Malaysia. This page is tagged with Science, Historical, Global.

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Source note

This profile is part of the July 10 birthday archive. It was last updated on July 10, 2026 and is prepared for source-level database review.