Mohan Bhagwat was born on September 11, 1950 in Chandrapur, Maharashtra.
Mohan Bhagwat comes from a family of RSS Activists; his father was the Karyavah for Chandrapur zone and then Prant Pracharak for Gujarat and his mother a member of RSS Women's Wing.
Mohan Bhagwat completed his schooling from Lokmanya Tilak Vidyalaya.
After school edcation, he did his first year of BSc from the Janata College in Chandrapur.
The current RSS Chief graduated in Veterinary Sciences and Animal Husbandry from Government Veterinary College, Nagpur.
He was pursuing his post graduation in Veterinary Sciences but dropped out to become a Pracharak of RSS.
It was in 2009 that Mohan Bhagwat was selected to be the Sarsanghchalak (Chief Executive) Of RSS: he is the youngest RSS Chief after K Hegdewar and MS Golwalkar.