Obama was born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, HI. He is 55 years old. Barack Obama was the 44th president of the United States, and the first African-American president.

He spent four years in Jakarta, Indonesia as a child where he learned to speak Indonesian and was introduced to dog meat, snake meat, and roasted grasshopper. He later taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago from 1992 until 2004. He ran for the United States House of Representatives in 2000, but got defeated.

His mother was born in Kansas and his father was born in Kenya. They got married in Hawaii in 1991 and got a divorce later on that year. He married Michelle Obama in October 1992 and had two daughters, Malia and Sasha.

His 2008 presidential bid was supported by Oprah Winfrey.