- Barack Obama enjoys playing basketball and poker.
- His first name means “blessed by God” in Arabic. And he his surname is similar to the name of a small city in western Japan.
- On first date with Michelle Robinson, the movie he saw was Do the Right Thing (1989).
- He is a die-hard Chicago White Sox fan.
Has one half-sister, Maya Maya Soetoro Ng born.
- President George W. Bush had even nicknamed him “Bama” and “Rock”.
- He even quit smoking before his campaign at his wife’s suggestion.
- He had even used alcohol, marijuana and cocaine during his teenage years.
- Celebrities Halle Berry, George Clooney, Sheryl Crow, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Oprah Winfrey Tom Hanks, Scarlett Johansson, Hayden Panettiere, Eddie Murphy etc. supported his 2008 presidential campaign.
- Barack Obama’s grandmother, Madelyn Payne Dunham (86 years old) died Sunday November 2, 2008 in Honolulu from cancer.
- His paternal relatives still live in Kenya.
Won a Grammy for Best Spoken Word for the CD version of his autobiography “Dreams From My Father” (2006).
- On June 3, 2008 he won the Montana primary election giving him enough delegates to become the first Black American presidential candidate to win a major political party’s presumptive nomination for the office of President of the United States.
- His look-alike puppet in the French show “Guignols de l’info, Les” (1988).
- Around 215,000 people attended his speech in Berlin on 24 July 2008.
- Is the first African-American man to be elected President of the United States and also the 1st American President elect to be born in Hawaii
