his is a Malay name; the name bin Mohamad is a patronymic, not a family name, and the person

should be referred to by the given name, Tun Daun. Mahathir. The Arabic word "bin" ("b.") or
"binti"/"binte" ("bt."/"bte."), if used, means "son of" or "daughter of" respectively.

Yang Amat Berbahagia Tun

Mahathir bin Mohamad
‫محمد بن محضیر‬
SMN DK

4th Prime Minister of Malaysia

In office
16 July 1981 – 31 October 2003

Monarch Ahmad Shah

Iskandar
Azlan Shah
Ja'afar
Salahuddin
Sirajuddin

Preceded Hussein Onn

by

Succeeded Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

by

Secretary General of Non-Aligned Movement

In office
20 February 2003 – 31 October 2003
Preceded Thabo Mbeki
by

Succeeded Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

by

Minister of Finance

In office
5 June 2001 – 31 October 2003

Preceded Daim Zainuddin

by

Succeeded Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

by

In office
7 September 1998 – 7 January 1999

Preceded Anwar Ibrahim

by

Succeeded Daim Zainuddin

by

Minister of Home Affairs

In office
8 May 1986 – 8 January 1999

Preceded Musa Hitam

by

Succeeded Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

by

Minister of Defence

In office
18 July 1981 – 6 May 1986

Preceded Abdul Taib Mahmud

by

Succeeded Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

by
Minister of Trade and Industry

In office
1 January 1978 – 16 July 1981

Prime Hussein Onn

Minister

Preceded Hamzah Abu Samah

by

Succeeded Ahmad Rithaudden Tengku Ismail

by

4th Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia

In office
5 March 1976 – 16 July 1981

Prime Hussein Onn

Minister

Preceded Hussein Onn

by

Succeeded Musa Hitam

by

Minister of Education

In office
5 September 1974 – 31 December 1977

Prime Abdul Razak Hussein

Minister Hussein Onn

Preceded Mohamed Yaacob

by

Succeeded Musa Hitam

by

Member of the Dewan Rakyat

for Kubang Pasu

In office
24 August 1974 – 21 March 2004
Preceded Constituency established
by

Succeeded Mohd Johari Baharum

by

Member of the Dewan Negara

for Kedah

In office
30 December 1972 – 23 August 1974

Member of the Dewan Rakyat

for Kota Setar Selatan

In office
25 April 1964 – 10 May 1969

Preceded Wan Sulaiman Wan Tam

by

Succeeded Yusof Rawa

by

Personal details

Born Mahathir bin Mohamad

10 July 1925 (age 92)
Alor Setar, Unfederated Malay
States (now Malaysia)

Political PPBM-Pakatan Harapan(2016–present)

party UMNO-Barisan Nasional(1946–2016)

Spouse(s) Siti Hasmah

Children 7 (including Marina, Mokhzaniand Mukhriz)

Relatives Ismail Mohd Ali (brother-in-law)

Alma National University of Singapore

mater

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This article is part of a series
about

Mahathir Mohamad

Prime Minister of Malaysia

 Penang Bridge

 Putrajaya

 Cyberjaya

 KL Tower

 Petronas Towers

 KLIA

 North–South Expressway

 IIUM

 Guthrie's acquisition

 MEASAT

 Sepang Circuit

 Proton

 Saga

 Langkawi

 NDP

 1993 Constitution amendments

 Wawasan 2020

 IBFC

 KL Sentral

 PTP
  Southern Integrated Gateway

 DRB-HICOM

 MSC

 ANGKASA

 PPSMI

 SMART Tunnel

Cabinets

 Mahathir I

 Mahathir II

 Mahathir III

 Mahathir IV

 Mahathir V

 Mahathir VI

President of UMNO

 UMNO leadership election, 1987

 UMNO Baru

Incidents and controversies

 Vietnam War

 Vietnamese refugees

 Moro conflict

 Filipino refugees

 Project IC

 Memali Incident

 1991 Sabah political arrests

 Sabah's Islamisation

 Operation Lalang

 Lahad Datu ambush

  1986 Sabah riots

 1987 Ming Court Affair

 Operation Lalang

 1988 constitutional crisis

 1989 Taufiqiah Al-Khairiah madrasa fire

 Sultan Abdul Halim bridge collapse

 Highland Towers collapse

 1996 Greg Tropical Storm

 1997 Asian financial crisis

 1997 Southeast Asian Haze

 Sipadan kidnappings

 Rising of Bumiputera policy

 Anwar Ibrahim sodomy trials

 Al-Ma'unah

General Elections

 1982

 1986

 1990

 1995

 1999

In opposition

 1MDB scandal

 Bersih 4 rally

 Malaysian Citizens' Declaration

 Sungai Besar by-election, 2016

 Kuala Kangsar by-election, 2016

 Bersih 5 rally

 Malaysian United Indigenous Party

  Pakatan Harapan

Family

 Siti Hasmah Mohamad Ali (wife)

 Marina Mahathir (daughter)

 Mokhzani Mahathir (son)

 Mukhriz Mahathir(son)

Books

 The Malay Dilemma

 Electoral history

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Mahathir bin Mohamad, SMN DK (Jawi:‫ ;محمد بن محضیر‬IPA: [maˈhaðɪr bɪn moˈhamad]; born 10 July
1925)[1] is a Malaysian politician who was the fourth Prime Minister of Malaysia from 1981 to 2003,
making him longest-serving holder of that office. His political career has spanned more than 70 years
since he first joined a newly formed UMNO in 1946.

Born and raised in Alor Setar, Kedah, Mahathir excelled at school and became a medical doctor. He
became active in the United Malays National Organisation(UMNO), Malaysia's largest political party,
before entering Parliament in 1964. He served one term before losing his seat, subsequently falling
out with Prime Minister[2] Tunku Abdul Rahman and being expelled from UMNO. When Abdul
Rahman resigned, Mahathir re-entered UMNO and Parliament, and was promoted to the Cabinet. By
1976 he had risen to Deputy Prime Minister, and in 1981 was sworn in as Prime Minister after the
resignation of his predecessor, Hussein Onn.

During Mahathir's tenure as Prime Minister, Malaysia experienced a period of rapid modernisation
and economic growth, and his government initiated a series of bold infrastructure projects.
Mahathir was a dominant political figure, winning five consecutive general elections and fending off
a series of rivals for the leadership of UMNO. However, his accumulation of power came at the
expense of the independence of the judiciary and the traditional powers and privileges of Malaysia's
royalty. He deployed the controversial Internal Security Act to detain activists, non-mainstream
religious figures, and political opponents including the Deputy Prime Minister he fired in
1998, Anwar Ibrahim. Mahathir's record of curbing civil liberties and his antagonism towards
western interests and economic policy made his relationships with the United States, United
Kingdom and Australia, among others, difficult. As Prime Minister, he was an advocate of third-world
development and a prominent international activist.
Mahathir remained an active political figure after his retirement. He became a strident critic of his
hand-picked successor Abdullah Badawi in 2006 and later, Najib Razak in 2015.[3] His son Mukhriz
Mahathir was the Chief Minister of Kedah until early 2016. On 29 February 2016, Mahathir quit
UMNO in light of UMNO's support for the actions of Prime Minister Najib Razak. Among other
reasons are the RM2.6bil and 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) issues.[4] On 9 September
2016, the Registrar of Societies (RoS) gave his final stamp of approval for Mahathir Mohamad’s
new Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (PPBM) (English: Malaysian United Indigenous Party), making it
an official political party. Mahathir became the chairman of the party.[5] On 8 January 2018,
Mahathir was announced as the Pakatan Harapan candidate for Prime Minister for the upcoming
2018 election, in a plan to pardon Anwar Ibrahim and hand the role to him if successful. At 92, he is
currently the oldest living former Prime Minister of Malaysia, and were he to win the election, he
would become the world's oldest head of state or government.