- Source of Wealth: Politics
- Age: 63
- Birth Place: Aradan, Iran
- Height: 1.57 m (5′ 1″)
- Marital Status: Married (Azam Farahi)
- Full Name: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
- Nationality: Iranian
- Date of Birth: 28 October 1956
- Ethnicity: Iranian
- Occupation: Politician
- Education: Iran University of Science and Technology
- Children: 3 (Alireza, Fatehmeh and Mehdi)
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has an estimated net worth of $5 million. Trained as an engineer, Ahmadinejad entered the political arena after the Islamic Revolution of 1979. He joined the Revolutionary Guard and, according to some reports, worked covert operations in the 1980s during Iran’s war with Iraq. After four years as a provincial governor (1993-97), Ahmadinejad became a lecturer at Tehran’s University of Science and Technology. He kept his hand in politics and was elected mayor of Tehran in 2003. He was not well known internationally until June of 2005 when he won Iran’s presidential election. Became the sixth and current President of the Islamic Republic of Iran.