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Barack Obama

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Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who was the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African American president in American history. Obama previously served as a U.S. senator representing Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and as an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Obama graduated from Columbia University in 1983 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and later worked as a community organizer in Chicago. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Barack Obama is the 319th most popular politician (up from 387th in 2019), 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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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Barack Obama ranks 319 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, Lothar Matthäus, Nadia Comăneci, Stephen Hillenburg, Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Bidhya Devi Bhandari, George Clooney, and Hibatullah Akhundzada.

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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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