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- Won the Nobel Peace Prize in October 2009.
- Won his second Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for "The Audacity of Hope" (2008).
- Several celebrities including Oprah Winfrey, George Clooney, Halle Berry and Macy Gray support his 2008 presidential campaign.
- Plays basketball.
- Has two daughters, Malia (born in 1999) and Natasha (born in 2001).
- Holds both American and Kenyan (since 1963) citizenship.
- Was elected to be the 44th president of the Unites States of America on 5 November, 2008.
- Was the 27th lawyer to be elected American president.
- Is the first American president to be born in Hawaii.
- Was the first African-American man to be elected President of the United States (November 2008).
- Barack Obama's grandmother, Madelyn Payne Dunham died Sunday November 2, 2008 in the early evening in Honolulu from cancer. She was 86.
- Is very distantly related to Lon Chaney.
- Has his look-alike puppet in the French show "Guignols de l'info, Les" (1988).
- Has one half-sister, Maya, born to his mother and stepfather in 1970.
- More than 215,000 people attended his speech in Berlin on 24 July 2008.
- Is a die-hard Chicago White Sox fan.
- Chosen as one of "10 people would change the world" by New Statesman magazine (2005).
- Named one of Time magazine's "100 most influential people in the world" list in 2005 and 2007.
- Born to Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. (1936-1982) and Ann Dunham (1942-1995), married from 1960 to 1965.
- Shares his surname with a small city in western Japan, which means "small shore" in Japanese.
- One of his ancestors was Mareen Duvall, also an ancestor of actor Robert Duvall.
- Confessed teenage drug experiences in his memoirs "Dreams from My Father".
- His paternal relatives still live in Kenya.
- At his wife's suggestion, he quit smoking before his campaign to win the Democratic nomination began.
