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Barack Hussein Obama Sr. (; born Baraka Obama, 18 June 1934 – 24 November 1982) 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 following the conception of his son, Barack. Obama and Dunham divorced three years later. Obama then 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 his son was about 10.

In late 1964, Obama Sr. married Ruth Beatrice Baker, a Jewish-American woman he had met in Massachusetts. They had two sons together before separating in 1971 and divorcing in 1973. Obama first worked for an oil company, before beginning work as an economist with the Kenyan Ministry of Transport. He was promoted to senior economic analyst in the Ministry of Finance. He was among a cadre of young Kenyan men who had been educated in the West in a program supported by Tom Mboya. Obama Sr. had conflicts with Kenyan president Jomo Kenyatta, which adversely affected his career. He was fired and blacklisted in Kenya, finding it nearly impossible to get a job. Obama Sr. was involved in three serious car accidents during his final years; he died as a result of the last one in 1982.

Ann Dunham Soetoro, født 29. november 1942 i Wichita, Kansas, USA som Stanley Ann Dunham, senere kjent som Ann Obama, S. Ann Dunham Soetoro og som voksen Ann Dunham Sutoro', død 7. november 1995 i Honolulu på Hawaiʻi, var en amerikansk antropolog som spesialiserte seg på utviklingen av landsbygden. Hun ble født i Kansas, tilbragte tenårene i Mercer Island ved Seattle, Washington og største delen av sitt voksne liv på Hawaii. Hun var gift med kenyaneren Barack Hussein Obama 1961-1964 (skilt) og med indonesiske Lolo Soetoro 1965-1980 (skilt). Dunhams og Obamas sønn, Barack Hussein Obama II, var USAs 44. president fra 2009 til 2017.