In the manga yes, the Sage of Six Paths was the first to wield it then Madara Uchiha then Nagato and then Tobi who stole one of Nagato's eyes. In real life however no it is not real.
He gathered a bunch of corpses, placed chakra receivers in them and channelled the six paths techniques through them
Pein or Nagato himself was much stronger than Tobi himself, Nagato had the rinnegan, and tobi had only the mangekyou sharingan, now that Nagato is dead, and tobi has stolen his eye and he has made every jinchuuriki a path of pain he is stronger, but not himself, his paths, so Nagato(Pain).
Nagato is the first user of the Rinnegan in naruto
Pein possesses the rinnegan and the founder of the ninja world also possessed the rinnegan. No one..at the moment right now in the manga..506..there is no living person with it..only two ppl known to have had it..nagato (pain) and rikudo sennin (sage of six paths) [and founder of ninja world]....both DEAD...the way the manga is leading btw...naruto might possibly have rinnegan eyes waiting to be unlocked.. After Madara kills Konan, he takes the Rinnegan from nagato and does something with it. It is unknown what he is going to do with it, but it can't be good. I am sure that Nagato is not the last we see of the rinnegan.
The rinnegan only goes to somebody with bloodline of both the uzumaki clan and the uchiha clan. Because Itachi gave some of his power to naruto he now has part of uchiha power, making it so that Naruto may be able to receive the rinnegan. You may be wondering how nagato got his rinnegan, but if you remember Tobi (Obito uchiha) said he gave the rinnegan to nagato, which in other words could be that Tobi gave nagato some of his uchiha power.
ARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD!The official leader is Pain, or Nagato who possess the rinnegan. The real leader however, is Tobi.
In the manga yes, the Sage of Six Paths was the first to wield it then Madara Uchiha then Nagato and then Tobi who stole one of Nagato's eyes. In real life however no it is not real.
He gathered a bunch of corpses, placed chakra receivers in them and channelled the six paths techniques through them
Pein or Nagato himself was much stronger than Tobi himself, Nagato had the rinnegan, and tobi had only the mangekyou sharingan, now that Nagato is dead, and tobi has stolen his eye and he has made every jinchuuriki a path of pain he is stronger, but not himself, his paths, so Nagato(Pain).
Nagato give pein the rinnegan
You really think Konan has the Rinnegan!? Just for a simple saying , no , Konan does not have the Rinnegan as only Pain(Nagato)has the Rinnegan ever in the Ninja World.
He doesn't even have the Rinnegan
Tobi is not Madara Uchiha. He is Obito Uchiha, whose right eye is his original Mangekyo Sharingan eye. His other eye is the eternal one, considering he can evolve it to the Rinnegan form, it's most likely to be one of Madara's.
Tobi is MADARA UCHIHA. OBITO IS DEAD!!! HE WAS CRUSHED UNDER A ROCK!!! HE IS GONE FOREVER!!!!!Different person: I think Tobi is Madara and Obito. . .he is three in one! Why else would Tobi only have one eye! He gave his other sharingan to Kakashi. They wouldn't just bring up some random Uchiha and then just kill him off in his second episode. He has a perpose other than giving Kakashi his eye. . .right!Tobi in mandara ,obito is dead, the reason Tobi clothes is half armor is because he has deep wounds from the battle with Hashirama Senju and he still has is eyes but lost one by using inzagi to much from the battle with konan after konan got defeated but not killed Tobi went to yahiko and nagito grave to get the rinnegan and now his left eye is the rinnegan and right is sharingan. :) the first answers got pwned.
Nagato is the first user of the Rinnegan in naruto
Nagato was the owner of the rinnegan. He used corpses to mure the rinnegan with dead bodies to fight for him. The body of Yahiko was one of them.