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Barack Obama

44th president of the United States

1961 - today

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His biography is available in 250 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 246 in 2024). Barack Obama is the 317th most popular politician (up from 385th in 2024), the 97th most popular biography from United States (up from 121st in 2019) and the 27th most popular American Politician.

Barack Obama is most famous for being the first African-American president of the United States. He was elected in 2008 and served two terms.

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Barack Obama is the most memorable of the 72 notable people born in Honolulu, United States.

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Of the 1,103 people in Pantheon born in 1961, Barack Obama is the most memorable.

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Barack Obama's biography appears in 250 language editions of Wikipedia — more than 99% of all Politicians.

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Barack Obama shares a August 4 birthday with Pope Urban VII, Knut Hamsun, and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.

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Among Politicians

Among politicians, Barack Obama ranks 317 out of 19,576. Before him are Konstantin Chernenko, Batu Khan, Alp Arslan, Christian X of Denmark, Gaiseric, and Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor. After him are Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Syngman Rhee, Leo I the Thracian, Theodoric the Great, Salvador Allende, and Sukarno.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Barack Obama ranks 1. After him are Diana, Princess of Wales, Ilham Aliyev, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Michael J. Fox, Sanae Takaichi, Lothar Matthäus, Nadia Comăneci, Stephen Hillenburg, Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Bidhya Devi Bhandari, and George Clooney.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Barack Obama ranks 97 out of 20,380. Before him are Al Capone (1899), Stephen King (1947), Caitlyn Jenner (1949), John D. Rockefeller (1839), Gene Hackman (1930), and Jeff Bezos (1964). After him are Morgan Freeman (1937), Jack Nicholson (1937), Abraham Maslow (1908), Anthony Fauci (1940), Dustin Hoffman (1937), and Theodore Roosevelt (1858).

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Among Politicians In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Barack Obama ranks 27. Before him are Bill Clinton (1946), Richard Nixon (1913), Bhumibol Adulyadej (1927), George H. W. Bush (1924), Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890), and Barbara Bush (1925). After him are Theodore Roosevelt (1858), Woodrow Wilson (1856), Gerald Ford (1913), Lyndon B. Johnson (1908), John Adams (1735), and Daniel D. Tompkins (1774).

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