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Barack Obama Sr.

1936 - 1982

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Barack Hussein Obama Sr. (; born Baraka Obama, 18 June 1934 – 24 November 1982) was a Kenyan senior governmental economist and the father of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States. He is a central figure of his son's memoir, Dreams from My Father (1995). Obama married in 1954 and had two children with his first wife, Kezia. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Barack Obama Sr. is the 40th most popular economist (down from 31st in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from Kenya and the most popular Kenyan Economist.

Barack Obama Sr. is most famous for being the father of the 44th president of the United States, Barack Obama Jr.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Barack Obama Sr. ranks 40 out of 414. Before him are Charles Cooley, Maurice Allais, Eugen Böhm von Bawerk, Simon Kuznets, Carl Menger, and Michael Porter. After him are Léon Walras, Wassily Leontief, Leonid Hurwicz, John Hicks, Jacques Delors, and Walt Whitman Rostow.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Barack Obama Sr. ranks 27. Before him are Andrei Chikatilo, Robert Woodrow Wilson, Aga Khan IV, Zubin Mehta, Glen Campbell, and David Carradine. After him are Virna Lisi, Ursula Andress, Richard Bach, Dennis Hopper, Günter Blobel, and Uwe Seeler. Among people deceased in 1982, Barack Obama Sr. ranks 26. Before him are Erving Goffman, Stanford Moore, Louis Aragon, Gilles Villeneuve, Glenn Gould, and Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr. After him are Hugo Theorell, Gala Dalí, Georges Perec, Hugh Everett III, Mikhail Suslov, and Władysław Gomułka.

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In Kenya

Among people born in Kenya, Barack Obama Sr. ranks 3 out of 150. Before him are Wangari Maathai (1940), and Richard Dawkins (1941). After him are Jomo Kenyatta (1893), Louis Leakey (1903), Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (1938), Daniel arap Moi (1924), Roger Whittaker (1936), Mwai Kibaki (1931), Richard Leakey (1944), John Njue (1944), and Kipchoge Keino (1940).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Kenya

Among economists born in Kenya, Barack Obama Sr. ranks 1. After him are Urjit Patel (1963).

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