List of Famous people born in Siaya County, Kenya

Barack Obama Sr.

Barack Hussein Obama, Sr.
First Name Barack
Last Name Sr.
Born on June 18, 1936
Died on November 24, 1982 (aged 46)
Born in Kenya, Siaya County

Barack Hussein Obama Sr. was a Kenyan senior governmental economist and the father of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States. He is a central figure of his son's memoir, Dreams from My Father (1995). Obama married in 1954 and had two children with his first wife, Kezia. He was selected for a special program to attend college in the United States and studied at the University of Hawaii where he met Stanley Ann Dunham, whom he married in 1961. They had a son, Barack II. Dunham divorced Obama three years later. The elder Obama later went to Harvard University for graduate school, where he earned an M.A. in economics, and returned to Kenya in 1964. He saw his son Barack once more, when he was about 10.

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