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{{Infobox family
| name = The Obama family
| image = Obama Family.jpg
| image_size = 250
| alt = The Obamas embracing and smiling
| image_caption = The Obama family on [[Easter Sunday]], 2015<br/>From left to right: Malia, [[Michelle Obama|Michelle]], [[Barack Obama|Barack]], and Sasha
| region = United States ([[Chicago, Illinois|Chicago]] / [[Washington, D.C.]])
| origin = [[Kenya]]<br />[[Hawaii]]<br />[[Indonesia]]<br />[[Chicago]]
| members = *[[Barack Obama]] 
*[[Michelle Obama]] 
*[[Ann Dunham]]
*[[Barack Obama Sr.]]
*[[Marian Robinson]]
| otherfamilies = Robinson, Dunham, Soetoro, Ng
}}
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The family of [[Barack Obama]], the 44th [[president of the United States]], is a prominent American family active in law, education, activism and politics. Obama's immediate family circle was the [[first family of the United States]] from 2009 to 2017 during [[Presidency of Barack Obama|Obama's presidency]], and are the first such family of African-American descent.<ref>{{cite news|last=Haygood|first=Wil|date=December 12, 2016|title=The Obamas came from a place we all came from|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/obama-legacy/historical-meaning-black-first-family.html}}</ref> His immediate family includes his wife [[Michelle Obama]] and daughters Malia and Sasha. Obama's wider ancestry is made up of people of [[Luo people|Kenyan (Luo)]], [[African-American]], and [[Old Stock American]] (including originally English, Scots-Irish, Welsh, German, and Swiss) ancestry.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-06-04-obama-roots_N.htm |title=Researchers: Obama has German roots |work=USA Today |date=June 4, 2009 |access-date=August 11, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=ITgEAAAAMBAJ&q=obama+irish+smolenyak&pg=PA46|date=December 2008|title=The Quest for Obama's Irish Roots|author=Megan Smolenyak|publisher=ancestry.com}}</ref><ref name="Reitwiesner"><!--Reitwiesner: "The following material on the immediate ancestry of Barack Obama should not be considered either exhaustive or authoritative, but rather as a first draft."-->{{Cite web|url=http://www.wargs.com/political/obama.html |title=Ancestry of Barack Obama |access-date=October 9, 2008 |last=Reitwiesner |first=William Addams |author-link=William Addams Reitwiesner}}</ref><ref name="soil">{{Cite news|first=Shailagh |last=Murray |title=A Family Tree Rooted In American Soil: Michelle Obama Learns About Her Slave Ancestors, Herself and Her Country |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/01/AR2008100103169.html |newspaper=The Washington Post |page=C01 |date=October 2, 2008 |access-date=October 10, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|title=Secrets of Obama Family Unlocked |last=Sheridan |first=Michael |work=[[Muslim Observer]] |url=http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=ae5895fc29971b172938790be94ab107 |date=February 5, 2007 |access-date=November 21, 2008 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081029202509/http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=ae5895fc29971b172938790be94ab107 |archive-date=October 29, 2008}}</ref>
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==Immediate family==
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===Michelle Obama===
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Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama (born January 17, 1964) is an American lawyer, university administrator, and writer who served as the [[first lady of the United States]] from 2009 to 2017.<ref name="TheObamas">{{cite web|title=The Obamas|url=https://www.obamalibrary.gov/obamas|access-date=September 8, 2018|website=[[Obama Library]]|date=October 20, 2016}}</ref> She is Barack Obama's wife, and was the [[first African-American]] first lady. Raised on the [[South Side of Chicago]],<ref name=tn>{{cite news|url=http://www.style.com/vogue/feature/2007_Sept_Michelle_Obama|title=The natural|access-date=January 8, 2009|date=September 2007|work=[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]]|author=Johnson, Rebecca|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090116125432/http://style.com/vogue/feature/2007_Sept_Michelle_Obama|archive-date=January 16, 2009}}</ref> Michelle Obama is a graduate of [[Princeton University]] and [[Harvard Law School]],<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/03/michelle-obama-princeton-harvard-116390/|title=Michelle Obama, Race and the Ivy League|date=March 26, 2015|work=[[Politico]]| first=Peter| last=Slevin}}</ref> and spent her early legal career working at the law firm [[Sidley Austin]], where she met her husband.<ref name="WMMB">{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/26/AR2008092602856.html|title=When Michelle Met Barack|last=Mundy|first=Liza|date= October 5, 2008|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=October 25, 2008}}</ref> She subsequently worked as the associate dean of Student Services at the [[University of Chicago]]<ref name=UCChron96>{{cite journal|journal=University of Chicago Chronicle|url=http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/960606/obama.shtml|title=Obama named first Associate Dean of Student Services|date=June 6, 1996|volume=15|issue=19|access-date=April 4, 2009}}</ref> and the vice president for Community and External Affairs of the [[University of Chicago Medical Center]].<ref name=UChicago2005>{{cite press release|url=http://www.uchospitals.edu/news/2005/20050509-obama.html|publisher=University of Chicago Medical Center|title=Michelle Obama appointed vice president for community and external affairs at the University of Chicago Hospitals|date=May 9, 2005|access-date=April 4, 2009}}</ref> Barack and Michelle married in 1992.<ref name=MOHSMOMF>{{cite news|first=Scott |last=Fornek |title=Michelle Obama: 'He Swept Me Off My Feet' |work=[[Chicago Sun-Times]] |date=October 3, 2007 |url=http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/585261,CST-NWS-wedding03.stng |access-date=December 2, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071214054327/http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/585261%2CCST-NWS-wedding03.stng |archive-date=December 14, 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Michelle campaigned for her [[Barack Obama 2008 presidential campaign|husband's presidential bid]] throughout 2007 and 2008, delivering a keynote address at the [[2008 Democratic National Convention]].<ref>{{cite news|author=Suellentrop, Chris|url=http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/25/michelle-obamas-high-note/?scp=7&sq=Michelle%20Obama&st=cse|title=Michelle Obama's high note|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=August 25, 2008|access-date=August 27, 2008}}</ref> She returned to speak at the [[2012 Democratic National Convention]],<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/michelle-obama-ann-romney-get-positive-ratings-after-conventions|date=December 14, 2012|work=CBS News|title=Michelle Obama, Ann Romney get positive ratings after conventions}}</ref> and again during the [[2016 Democratic National Convention]] in [[Philadelphia]], where she delivered a speech in support of the Democratic presidential nominee, and fellow first lady, [[Hillary Clinton]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/26/michelle-obama-convention-speech-female-president |date=July 26, 2016 |last=Smith |first=David |website=[[The Guardian]] |title=Michelle Obama's stirring speech brings Democratic convention to tears}}</ref> As first lady, Michelle Obama sought to become a role model for women, an advocate for poverty awareness, education, nutrition, physical activity and healthy eating, and became a fashion icon.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/shopping/chi-michelle-obama-1112_qnov12,0,5421281.story|work=[[Chicago Tribune]]|title=Michelle Obama emerges as an American fashion icon|access-date=June 4, 2011|first=Wendy|last=Donahue}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/10/michelle-obama-settling-in-as-a-role-model/|first=Christina|last= Bellantoni |title=Michelle Obama settling in as a role model|website=[[The Washington Times]]|date=April 10, 2009|access-date=June 4, 2011}}</ref>

==={{anchor|Malia Obama and Sasha Obama|Malia Obama|Sasha Obama|Malia and Sasha Obama|Sasha and Malia Obama}} Malia Obama and Sasha Obama===
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Barack and Michelle Obama have two daughters: Malia Ann ({{IPAc-en|m|ə|ˈ|l|iː|ə}}), born July 4, 1998,<ref>[http://blackamericaweb.com/2014/05/21/first-lady-michelle-obama-says-malia-will-be-driving-this-summer/ First Lady Michelle Obama says Malia will be driving this summer], BlackAmericaWeb.com, Reach Media, Inc., May 21, 2014, Superville, D. Retrieved May 24, 2014.</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-white-house-birthday-03-jul03,0,7370155.story |title=Malia Obama's birthday: President's oldest daughter will turn 11 as thousands descend on White House lawn for 4th of July |work=Chicago Tribune |date=July 3, 2009 |access-date=August 11, 2010 |first=John |last=McCormick |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100817095400/http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-white-house-birthday-03-jul03,0,7370155.story |archive-date=August 17, 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref> and Natasha Marian (known as Sasha {{IPAc-en|ˈ|s|ɑː|ʃ|ə}}), born June 10, 2001.<ref>{{Cite web|last=O'Neill |first=Xana |url=http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/archive/NATL-Birthday-Girl-Malia-.html |title=Birthday Girl Sasha Obama Celebrates in London |publisher=NBC Washington |date=June 10, 2009 |access-date=August 11, 2010}}</ref> They were both delivered at [[University of Chicago Medical Center]] by their parents' friend and physician Anita Blanchard.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/14/us/politics/14friends.html|title=Obama's Friends Form Strategy to Stay Close|date=December 13, 2008|access-date=March 6, 2011|work=The New York Times|first=Jodi|last=Kantor}}</ref> Sasha was the youngest child to reside in the White House since [[John F. Kennedy Jr.|John&nbsp;F. Kennedy&nbsp;Jr.]] arrived as an infant in 1961.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.baltimoresun.com/topic/politics/sasha-obama-PECLB004381.topic |title=Sasha Obama |website=[[The Baltimore Sun]] |access-date=January 31, 2009}}</ref> In 2014, Malia and Sasha were named two of "The 25 Most Influential Teens of 2014" by ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://time.com/3486048/most-influential-teens-2014/ |title=Most Influential Teens 2014 |date=October 13, 2014 |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]}}</ref>{{Paragraph}}

[[File:Michelle, Malia and Sasha Obama at DNC.jpg|thumb|From left to right: Malia, Michelle, and Sasha on stage at the [[2008 Democratic National Convention]] in [[Denver]]]]
Before his inauguration, President Obama published an open letter to his daughters in ''[[Parade (magazine)|Parade]]'' magazine, describing what he wants for them and every child in America: "to grow up in a world with no limits on your dreams and no achievements beyond your reach, and to grow into compassionate, committed women who will help build that world".<ref name="daughters1">{{Cite news|title=What I Want for You—And Every Child in America |last= Obama |first= Barack |url=http://www.parade.com/news/2009/01/barack-obama-letter-to-my-daughters.html |magazine=[[Parade (magazine)|Parade]] |date=January 13, 2009}}</ref>{{Paragraph}}

While living in Chicago, the Obamas kept busy schedules, as the Associated Press reported: "soccer, dance and drama for Malia, gymnastics and tap for Sasha, piano and tennis for both".<ref>{{Cite news |title=Barack Obama Gives Daughter $1 Allowance a Week |last=Sobieraj Westfall |first=Sandra |work=[[People (magazine)|People]] |url=http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20214569_1,00.html |date=June 23, 2008 |access-date=November 21, 2008 |archive-date=November 8, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081108043450/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20214569_1,00.html |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |first=Will |last=Lester |title=Obama daughters keep hectic schedules of their own |url=http://elections.apnews.com/apelect/db_6911/contentdetail.htm;jsessionid=8314A43012AB5FF1D0697247362D8752?contentguid=H95QubFb&full=true |work=Associated Press |date=July 23, 2008 |access-date=August 4, 2008 |archive-date=September 1, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080901173454/http://elections.apnews.com/apelect/db_6911/contentdetail.htm;jsessionid=8314A43012AB5FF1D0697247362D8752?contentguid=H95QubFb&full=true |url-status=dead}}</ref> In July 2008, the family gave an interview to the television series ''[[Access Hollywood]]''. Obama later said they regretted allowing the children to be included.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Hiro |first=Anne |url=http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/07/obama_regrets_letting_access_h.html |title=Obama regrets letting 'Access Hollywood' interview daughters. Won't do it again. MSNBC's Dan Abrams gets the story behind the story. -Lynn Sweet |work=Chicago Sun-Times |access-date=January 31, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090123130733/http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/07/obama_regrets_letting_access_h.html |archive-date=January 23, 2009}}</ref> Malia and Sasha both graduated from the private [[Sidwell Friends School]] in [[Washington, D.C.|Washington,&nbsp;D.C.]], the same school that [[Chelsea Clinton]], [[Tricia Nixon Cox]], [[Archibald Roosevelt]] and the grandchildren of [[Joe Biden]] (when he was [[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]]) attended.<ref>{{Cite news|title=And the Winner Is&nbsp;... Sidwell Friends|last=Swarns |first=Rachel|work=The New York Times|url=http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/and-the-winner-is-sidwell-friends/|date=November 21, 2008| access-date=November 21, 2008}}</ref> The Obama girls began classes there on January 5, 2009;<ref name="start-sidwell09">{{Cite news| title=Obama girls start school with photographers in tow | last=Tolin|first=Lisa| url=https://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g6mv_lkODQMmQdpyIEnr8Zpm5mogD95H8KA80| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090122233148/http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g6mv_lkODQMmQdpyIEnr8Zpm5mogD95H8KA80| url-status=dead| archive-date=January 22, 2009|agency=Associated Press | date=January 5, 2009|access-date=January 6, 2009}}</ref> Malia graduated in 2016. Before the family moved to Washington in 2009, both girls attended the private [[University of Chicago Laboratory School]].<ref>Valerie Strauss, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2015/07/09/education-secretary-duncans-children-to-go-to-chicago-private-school-he-attended/ Education Secretary Duncan's children to go to Chicago private school he attended], ''The Washington Post'' (July 9, 2015).</ref>

In his victory speech on the night of his election, President Obama repeated his promise to Sasha and Malia to get a puppy to take with them to the White House.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Move over Barney, new dog moving into White House |last= Ahmed |first= Saeed |publisher=CNN |url=http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/11/05/presidential.pets/index.html |date=November 5, 2008 |access-date=November 21, 2008}}</ref> The selection was slow because Malia is allergic to animal dander;<ref>{{Cite news|title=Obama: Getting a dog isn't easy |agency=Associated Press |url=http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_10927292 |date=November 7, 2008 |access-date=November 21, 2008}}</ref> the president subsequently said that the choice had been narrowed down to either a [[labradoodle]] or a [[Portuguese Water Dog]], and that they hoped to find a shelter animal.<ref>{{Cite news| url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-01-11-obama-dog_N.htm | title=Obamas down to Labradoodle or Portuguese water dog | author=Janice Lloyd |newspaper=USA Today | date=January 12, 2009 | access-date=January 28, 2009}}</ref> On April 12, 2009, it was reported that the Obamas had adopted a six-month-old Portuguese Water Dog given to them as a gift by Senator [[Ted Kennedy]];<ref name="splash" /> Malia and Sasha named the dog [[Bo (dog)|Bo]].<ref name="splash">{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/11/AR2009041102484.html?hpid=artslot |title=First Puppy Makes a Big Splash |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=March 24, 2013 |first=Manuel |last=Roig-Franzia |date=April 12, 2009}}</ref> The White House referred to Bo as the [[United States presidential pets|First Dog]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Meet Bo, the First Dog|url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/09/04/12/Meet-Bo-the-First-Dog| author=Jesse Lee|date=April 12, 2009 |via=[[NARA|National Archives]]|work=[[whitehouse.gov]]|access-date=June 1, 2012}}</ref> In 2013, the family adopted a second Portuguese Water Dog named [[Sunny (dog)|Sunny]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/10262977/Barack-Obama-Sunny-the-dog-fills-void-at-White-House.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/10262977/Barack-Obama-Sunny-the-dog-fills-void-at-White-House.html |archive-date=January 11, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Barack Obama: Sunny the dog 'fills void at White House' |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=December 27, 2013 |location=London |date=August 23, 2013}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

As a high school student, Malia Obama spent a portion of the summer in 2014 and 2015 working in television studios in New York and Los Angeles.<ref name="Harvard">{{cite news|author1=Julie Hirschfeld Davis |author2=Nicholas Fandos |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/02/us/politics/malia-obama-to-attend-harvard-but-not-until-2017.html|title=Malia Obama to Attend Harvard, but Not Until 2017|work=The New York Times|date=May 1, 2016|access-date=May 1, 2016}}</ref> She spent the summer of 2016 working as an intern in the U.S. Embassy in [[Madrid, Spain]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2016/06/28/malia-obama-to-spend-summer-as-intern-at-us-embassy-in-spain/|title=Malia Obama to spend summer as an intern at U.S. Embassy in Spain|date=June 28, 2016|work=Fox News Latino|access-date=November 29, 2016}}</ref>

During the week June 26, 2016, to July 3, 2016, Michelle, Sasha, Malia, and Michelle's mother Marian Robinson went to [[Liberia]] to promote the Let Girls Learn Peace initiative, for which the United States has provided $27 million in aid.<ref name="RoadTrip">{{cite web |url=https://www.yahoo.com/news/michelle-malia-sasha-obama-travel-163709228.html |title=Obama travel for let girls learn initiative |date=June 30, 2016 |publisher=Yahoo! Politics |access-date=June 30, 2016}}</ref> They met with [[Ellen Johnson Sirleaf]], the former [[president of Liberia]] and the first elected female head of state in Africa.<ref name="RoadTrip"/> Then they went to Morocco, where they had a panel with [[Freida Pinto]] and [[Meryl Streep]] moderated by CNN's [[Isha Sesay]] in Marrakesh and delivered a substantive amount of money to aid 62 million girls lacking access to formal education. They proceeded to Spain where Michelle delivered a message about the initiative.<ref name="RoadTrip"/>

In August 2016, Sasha began working at Nancy's, a seafood restaurant in [[Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Allen|first=Nick|date=August 5, 2016|title=Sasha Obama has summer job serving takeout food|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/05/sasha-obama-has-summer-job-serving-takeout-food/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/05/sasha-obama-has-summer-job-serving-takeout-food/ |archive-date=January 11, 2022 |url-status=live|url-access=subscription|access-date=August 6, 2016|website=The Daily Telegraph|publisher=}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=August 5, 2016|title=US First Daughter Sasha Obama serves seafood in summer job|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36985479|access-date=January 30, 2021}}</ref> In the fall of 2016, Malia went on an 83-day trip to [[Bolivia]] and [[Peru]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Londoño |first=Ernesto |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/19/opinion/malia-obamas-secret-trip-to-bolivia-and-peru.html?_r=0 |title=Malia Obama's Secret Trip to Bolivia and Peru |work=The New York Times |date=January 19, 2017 |access-date=January 20, 2017}}</ref> In February 2017, Malia started an internship for [[Harvey Weinstein]] at [[The Weinstein Company]] film studio in New York City.<ref>{{cite web |last=Rahman |first=Abid |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/malia-obama-intern-harvey-weinstein-966403 |title=Malia Obama to Intern for Harvey Weinstein |date=January 20, 2017 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |access-date=January 20, 2017}}</ref> In August 2017, Malia started attending [[Harvard University]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Bitette |first=Nicole |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/malia-obama-kicks-college-career-harvard-article-1.3433735 |title=Malia Obama kicks off her college career at Harvard |website=New York Daily News |date=August 22, 2017 |access-date=October 7, 2017}}</ref> Sasha graduated from Sidwell Friends in 2019 and began attending the [[University of Michigan]] in the fall.<ref>[https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2019/06/11/sasha-obama-graduates-high-school-presidential-parents-watch/1426252001/ Sasha Obama graduates from high school with presidential parents looking on]. ''[[USA Today]]''. June 12, 2019.</ref><ref>[https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-sasha-obama-university-of-michigan-20190829-gbgmtsstyncwblpxbf2uve5keu-story.html Sasha Obama will begin college classes at the University of Michigan next week]. ''[[Chicago Tribune]]''. August 29, 2019.</ref> Sasha transferred to the [[University of Southern California]] and graduated in 2023.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-05-12/obama-family-attends-sasha-usc-graduation | title=Barack and Michelle Obama stir buzz at daughter Sasha's USC graduation | website=[[Los Angeles Times]] | date=May 12, 2023}}</ref> 

Malia graduated from Harvard in 2021 and began working as a writer on the [[Amazon Prime Video]] television series ''[[Swarm (TV series)|Swarm]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=January 31 |first1=Lester Fabian Brathwaite |last2=EST |first2=2023 at 08:26 PM |title=Donald Glover's 'Swarm' is like 'a sister' to 'Atlanta', says co-creator |url=https://ew.com/tv/donald-glover-swarm-sister-to-atlanta-inspirations/ |access-date=2023-02-11 |website=EW.com |language=en}}</ref> In spring 2023, [[Donald Glover]] confirmed that Malia was working on a short film for his production company;<ref>Zack Scharf, [https://variety.com/2023/film/news/malia-obama-directing-short-film-donald-glover-1235573150/ "Malia Obama Developing Short Film at Donald Glover’s Company; He Told Her: ‘If You Make a Bad Film, It Will Follow You Around’"]. ''Variety'', April 4, 2023.</ref> ''The Heart'', starring [[Tunde Adebimpe]], was announced as part of the Short Cuts program at the [[2023 Toronto International Film Festival]].<ref>Anthony D'Alessandro, [https://deadline.com/2023/08/tiff-2023-short-films-announced-1235458326/ "TIFF Shorts Lineup Includes ‘Dammi’ Starring Riz Ahmed; Works By Mackenzie Davis, Yann Demange & More"]. ''[[Deadline Hollywood]]'', August 9, 2023.</ref> Written and directed by "Malia Ann" (her credited name), the film screened at the [[2024 Sundance Film Festival]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/malia-obama-short-film-the-heart-sundance-1235792560/|title=Malia Obama Short Film 'The Heart' Screening at Sundance|website=Hollywood Reporter|date=January 18, 2024|author=Aaron Couch|access-date=January 19, 2023}}</ref>

===Marian Robinson===
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[[Marian Shields Robinson|Marian Robinson]], Michelle Obama's mother, resided in the White House during the Obama presidency.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Swarns |first=Rachel L. |date=2009-01-09 |title=Obama's Mother-in-Law to Move Into the White House |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/09/obamas-mother-in-law-to-move-into-the-white-house/ |access-date=2025-02-01 |website=The Caucus |language=en}}</ref>

==Maternal relations==
Barack Obama was raised by his mother, [[Ann Dunham|Stanley Ann Dunham]], and maternal grandparents [[Madelyn Dunham|Madelyn]] and [[Stanley Armour Dunham|Stanley Dunham]].<ref name=freespirit>{{Cite news|author=Scott, Janny |date=March 14, 2008 |title=A free-spirited wanderer who set Obama's path |work=The New York Times |page=A1 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/14/us/politics/14obama.html?pagewanted=all |access-date=February 13, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news| url= https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna17003563 |title= Obama had multiethnic existence in Hawaii: Sections of potential 2008 candidate's life drawing greater scrutiny| date= February 6, 2007 | access-date=February 9, 2008}}</ref> He often referred to his family during his candidacy and two terms as president.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/04/world/americas/04iht-obama.1.17505156.html |title=Madelyn Dunham, Obama's grandmother, dies at 86 |date=November 4, 2008|last=Zeleny |first=Jeff |access-date=November 4, 2008 |work=The New York Times}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news | url= http://www.sanfranciscosentinel.com/?p=17269 | title= Madelyn Dunham, Obama's Grandmother, Dies | date= November 3, 2008 | access-date= September 9, 2009 | archive-date= September 28, 2011 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110928084915/http://www.sanfranciscosentinel.com/?p=17269 | url-status= dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.starbulletin.com/news/Madelyn_Dunham_blazed_a_trail_for_women_in_banking.html |title=Madelyn Dunham blazed a trail for women in banking |date=November 3, 2008 |last=Essoyan |first=Susan |access-date=November 3, 2008 |archive-date=December 4, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081204211928/http://www.starbulletin.com/news/Madelyn_Dunham_blazed_a_trail_for_women_in_banking.html |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Obama's maternal heritage consists mostly of English ancestry, with smaller amounts of [[German American|German]], Scotch-Irish, Welsh, and Swiss ancestry.<ref name="Reitwiesner"/> Research by a genealogy team at [[Ancestry.com]], published in 2012, stated that Obama is likely descended from the African slave [[John Punch (slave)|John Punch]] through his mother's Bunch line, with generations of African Americans who gradually "married white" and became landowners in colonial Virginia. The Bunches later moved to Tennessee; in 1834 a daughter moved to Kansas, where Obama's mother was born four generations later.<ref name="ancestry"/><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/30/us/obamas-mother-had-african-forebear-study-suggests.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0|title=Obama Has Ties to Slavery Not by His Father but His Mother, Research Suggests|last=Stolberg|first=Sheryl Gay|date=July 30, 2012|work=The New York Times|access-date=October 28, 2021}}</ref>

==={{anchor|Ann Dunham}}Ann Dunham (1942–1995)===
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Obama's mother was born Stanley Ann Dunham. She became an anthropologist, specializing in economic anthropology and rural development. She earned her [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]] degree from the [[University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa]] and worked with the [[United States Agency for International Development]], the [[Ford Foundation]], and Women's World Banking, to promote the use of [[microcredit]] in order to combat global poverty.<ref name="freespirit"/><ref name="duke">{{Cite news |url=http://dukechronicle.com/article/2009/05/duke-publish-paper-obamas-mother |title=Duke to publish paper by Obama's mother |date=May 14, 2009 |work=Duke Chronicle |access-date=February 6, 2012}}</ref> The Ann Dunham Soetoro Endowment in the Anthropology Department at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and the Ann Dunham Soetoro Graduate Fellowships at the [[East–West Center]] (EWC) in [[Honolulu, Hawaii]], are named in her honor.<ref name="The Ann Dunham Soetoro Endowed Fund">{{Cite web |title= The Ann Dunham Soetoro Endowed Fund|url= http://www.uhfoundation.org/donor_resources/giving_opportunities/dunhamsoetoro_endowed_fund.aspx |access-date=January 2, 2012}}</ref> Obama has said that his mother was the dominant figure of his formative years. "The values she taught me continue to be my touchstone when it comes to how I go about the world of politics."<ref name=notjustagirl>{{Cite news |author=Jones, Tim |date=March 27, 2007 |title=Barack Obama: Mother not just a girl from Kansas; Stanley Ann Dunham shaped a future senator |work=Chicago Tribune |page=1 (Tempo) |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/obama/chi-0703270151mar27-archive,0,5853572,full.story |access-date=February 16, 2009 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121205103533/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2009-03-27/entertainment/0903260412_1_south-pole-ernest-shackleton-robson |archive-date=December 5, 2012 |url-status=dead}}<br />{{Cite news |date=March 27, 2007 |title=Video: Reflections on Obama's mother (02:34) |work=Chicago Tribune |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/video/?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=1323174 |access-date=February 16, 2009}}</ref>

==={{anchor|Stanley Armour Dunham}}Stanley Armour Dunham (1918–1992)===
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Stanley Armour Dunham is the maternal grandfather of Barack Obama. He served as a [[sergeant]] in the [[U.S. Army]] during World War II, enlisting just after the attacks on [[Pearl Harbor]]. He and his wife Madelyn Dunham raised Obama in Honolulu, Hawaii. In addition to Obama, Stanley is related to six US presidents: [[James Madison]], [[Harry S. Truman]], [[Lyndon B. Johnson]], [[Jimmy Carter]], [[George H. W. Bush]], and [[George W. Bush]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newenglandancestors.org/about/7320.asp|title=President Barack Obama's Ancestors and Kinships|access-date=June 6, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100106152615/http://www.newenglandancestors.org/about/7320.asp|archive-date=January 6, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |first=Scott |last=Fornek |title=Mareen Duvall: No More Striking Figure |date=September 9, 2007 |url=http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/familytree/545456,BSX-News-wotreej09.stng |work=Chicago Sun-Times |access-date=June 16, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080725023051/http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/familytree/545456,BSX-News-wotreej09.stng |archive-date=July 25, 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref> He died in Honolulu, Hawaii, and is buried at the [[Punchbowl National Cemetery]].

==={{anchor|Madelyn Lee Payne Dunham}}Madelyn Lee Payne Dunham (1922–2008)===
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Madelyn Dunham (née Madelyn Lee Payne) was Obama's maternal grandmother who worked in banking and became vice president of a bank in Hawaii. Obama grew up with her and remembered that when he was a child, his grandmother "read me the opening lines of the [[United States Declaration of Independence|Declaration of Independence]] and told me about the men and women who marched for equality because they believed those words put to paper two centuries ago should mean something."<ref name="daughters1" />

==={{anchor|Charles T. Payne}}Charles Thomas Payne (1925–2014)===
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[[File:Barack Obama embraces his great uncle Charles Payne.jpg|thumb|Barack Obama embraces his great-uncle Charles Payne, June 6, 2009.]]
Charles Thomas Payne is Madelyn Dunham's younger brother and Obama's great-uncle. He was born in 1925. Payne served during World War II in the U.S. Army [[89th Division (United States)|89th Infantry Division]].<ref>[http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10006140 The 89th Infantry Division], United States Holocaust Memorial Museum</ref> Obama has often described Payne's role in liberating the [[Ohrdruf forced labor camp]].<ref name="bostonobamauncle">{{Cite news |first=Carla K. |last=Johnson |author-link=<!-- Carla K. Johnson (no Wikipedia bio yet)--> |url=https://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/07/22/obamas_great_uncle_recalls_liberating_nazi_camp |title=Obama's great-uncle recalls liberating Nazi camp |agency=Associated Press |work=The Boston Globe |location=Boston, Massachusetts |date=July 22, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090210202940/http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/07/22/obamas_great_uncle_recalls_liberating_nazi_camp |archive-date=February 10, 2009 |access-date=April 21, 2018 |url-status=dead}}</ref> There was brief media attention when Obama mistakenly identified the camp as [[Auschwitz concentration camp|Auschwitz]] during the campaign.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/05/27/recollection-of-obama-familys-service-missing-key-details |title=Obama Campaign Scrambles to Correct the Record on Uncle's War Service |author=Major Garrett |date=May 27, 2008 |access-date=January 31, 2009 |publisher=Fox News Channel |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080528040619/http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/05/27/recollection-of-obama-familys-service-missing-key-details |archive-date=May 28, 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2009, Payne spoke about his war experience: <blockquote>Ohrdruf was in that string of towns going across, south of [[Gotha]] and [[Erfurt]]. Our division was the first one in there. When we arrived there were no German soldiers anywhere around that I knew about. There was no fighting against the Germans, no camp guards. The whole area was overrun by people from the camp dressed in the most pitiful rags, and most of them were in a bad state of starvation.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,626703,00.html |title=Spiegel Interview With Obama's Great-Uncle : 'I Was Horrified by Lengths Men Will Go to Mistreat Other Men' |date=May 26, 2009 |magazine=[[Der Spiegel]]|access-date=October 19, 2009}}</ref></blockquote>

Payne appeared in the visitor's gallery at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado, when his great-nephew was nominated for President.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Democrats salute Obama's great uncle |url=http://jta.org/news/article/2008/08/28/110123/obamapayne |work=[[Jewish Telegraphic Agency]] |date=August 28, 2008 |access-date=January 31, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090202180111/http://jta.org/news/article/2008/08/28/110123/obamapayne |archive-date=February 2, 2009}}</ref> He was the assistant director of the [[University of Chicago]]'s Library.<ref name="bostonobamauncle"/>

==={{anchor|Ralph Dunham}}Ralph Dunham (1916–2012)===
Ralph Dunham was Stanley Dunham's older brother and Obama's great-uncle, who served in the U.S. Army as an assignment and personnel officer during World War II. He landed at Normandy's Omaha Easy Red Beach on D-Day plus four, and moved with troops in the fighting through France, Italy and Germany.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna31016975|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090814081121/http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/31016975/|url-status=live|archive-date=August 14, 2009|title= Obama's Gramps: Gazing skyward on D-Day |website=[[NBC News]] |access-date=June 6, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|first=Nancy |last=Benac |title=Obama's Gramps: Backing Patton's army after D-Day |date=May 31, 2009 |url=https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2009/06/01/obamas-gramps-backing-pattons-army-after-d-day/ |agency=Associated Press |access-date=18 January 2025 |work=San Diego Union-Tribune}}</ref>

==={{anchor|Ralph Dunham}}Eleanor Belle Dunham Berkebile (1932–2003)===
Eleanor Dunham, Obama's great-aunt, was the younger sister of Stanley Armour Dunham and Ralph Dunham. Married to Ralph Lee Berkebile. She was the youngest daughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson Dunham Sr. and his second wife, Martha Mae Stonehouse. She retired from civil service as an executive secretary.{{citation needed|date=May 2017}}

==={{anchor|Margaret Arlene Payne}}Margaret Arlene Payne (1927–2014)===
Margaret Arlene Payne, Obama's great-aunt, was the younger sister of Madelyn Dunham and Charles Payne. She was a professor of nutrition who taught at the [[University of Missouri]], Kansas City, and at the [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]] (1980–1990). She wrote numerous research articles and two books.<ref name="June242014">{{Cite news |last=Kenney |first=Andrew |title=UNC researcher, a pioneering academic, kept kinship to Obama to herself |newspaper=[[The Charlotte Observer]] |date=June 24, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/newsobserver/obituary.aspx?n=margaret-a-payne&pid=171433976|publisher=Legacy.com|title=Margaret A. Payne: Obituary|date=June 22, 2014|access-date=June 24, 2014}}</ref>

==={{anchor|Leona McCurry}}Leona McCurry (1897–1968)===
Obama's family said that his maternal great-grandmother, Leona McCurry, was part Native American.<ref name="dreams">{{Cite book|last=Obama|first=Barack |title=Dreams from My Father:A Story of Race and Inheritance|publisher=Three Rivers Press (First ed. 1995, Times Books) |year=2004|isbn=978-1-4000-8277-3|title-link=Dreams from My Father}}</ref> She reportedly held that as a "source of considerable shame" and "blanched whenever someone mentioned the subject and hoped to carry the secret to her grave".<ref name="dreams"/> But her daughter Madelyn Dunham (Obama's maternal grandmother) "would turn her head in profile to show off her beaked nose, which along with a pair of jet-black eyes, was offered as proof of [[Cherokee]] blood".<ref name="gma">{{Cite news|url=http://www.thekansan.com/news/x1311851415/-Toot-Obama-grandmother-a-force-that-shaped-him |title='Toot': Obama grandmother a force that shaped him |date=August 25, 2008 |agency=Associated Press |access-date=August 29, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080829102741/http://www.thekansan.com/news/x1311851415/-Toot-Obama-grandmother-a-force-that-shaped-him |archive-date=August 29, 2008}}</ref> To date, no concrete evidence has surfaced of Cherokee heritage in the McCurry line.

==={{anchor|Leona McCurry}}Ruth Lucille Armour (1900–1926)===
Obama's family said that his paternal great-grandmother, Ruth Dunham, died November 26, 1926, from [[ptomaine]] poisoning. She resided in Topeka, Kansas.

==={{anchor|Fulmoth Kearney}}Fulmoth Kearney ({{circa|1829}}–1878)===
A maternal 3rd great-grandfather of Barack Obama, nicknamed "Fully".<ref name="photo"/> Born {{circa|1829}} in [[Moneygall]], [[County Offaly|King's County]], Ireland, he emigrated to Ohio via New York in 1850, making him the most recent immigrant on the maternal side of Barack Obama's family tree. Fulmoth married Charlotte Holloway and raised a family which included three daughters (including Mary Ann). She and two of her sisters married three Dunham brothers. Kearney and his wife are buried in Fairview Cemetery in [[Labette County, Kansas]]. Descendants placed a headstone there in 2014.<ref>Smolenyak, Megan. {{cite news|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/megan-smolenyak-smolenyak/fulmoth-kearney-gets-a-tombstone_b_6351734.html |title=Fulmoth Kearney, President Obama's Irish Immigrant Ancestor, Gets a Tombstone |work=The Huffington Post |access-date=April 13, 2015 |date=December 18, 2014}}</ref> Around the same time, a photo of him was discovered.<ref>Smolenyak, Megan. {{cite news|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/megan-smolenyak-smolenyak/photo-of-barack-obamas-ir_b_6358220.html |title=Photo of Barack Obama's Irish Immigrant 3rd Great-Grandfather, Fulmoth Kearney, Discovered |work=The Huffington Post |access-date=April 13, 2015 |date=December 19, 2014}}</ref><ref name="photo">Smolenyak, Megan. {{cite news|url=https://issuu.com/irishamerica/docs/ia.april_may_2015 |title=Rare Photograph of "Fully" Kearney, President Obama's Irish Ancestor, Discovered |work=Irish America |access-date=April 13, 2015}}</ref> Barack Obama visited Moneygall in 2011.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0523/obamab.html |title=Barack Obama draws huge crowd in Dublin |date=May 23, 2011 |publisher=[[RTÉ News and Current Affairs]] |access-date=May 23, 2011}}</ref> In 2014, "[[Barack Obama Plaza]]", a [[Motorway service area|service station]] and visitor center, was opened in Moneygall.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=http://www.dailyedge.ie/barack-obama-plaza-moneygall-3173044-Jan2017/|title=10 reasons why Barack Obama Plaza is the best place on earth|first=Valerie|last=Loftus|website=The Daily Edge |date=Jan 6, 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230415103741/https://www.dailyedge.ie/barack-obama-plaza-moneygall-3173044-Jan2017/ |archive-date= April 15, 2023 }}</ref> In 2015, a photograph of Kearney was discovered and made publicly available. In 2018, statues of Michelle and Barack were erected in Moneygall.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://www.rte.ie/news/leinster/2018/0820/986324-barack-obama-plaza-moneygall-offaly/|title=Barack Obama statue unveiled in Moneygall, Co Offaly|first=Ciaran|last=Mullooly|date=August 20, 2018|website=RTÉ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240204105638/https://www.rte.ie/news/leinster/2018/0820/986324-barack-obama-plaza-moneygall-offaly/ |archive-date= February 4, 2024 }}</ref>

==={{anchor|Lolo Soetoro}}Lolo Soetoro (1936–1987)===
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Lolo Soetoro, Javanese given name: ''Martodihardjo'',<ref>Dan Nakaso, ''The Inauguration of our 44th President, Barack Obama'', Honolulu Advertiser, January 18, 2009.</ref><ref name="JawaPos2" /> was the second husband of Ann Dunham (married on March 15, 1965)<ref>Date of married acc. to application by Stanley Ann to amend her US passport, June 29, 1967.</ref> and stepfather to Barack Obama. He is Maya Soetoro-Ng's father. After his divorce from Dunham, Soetoro married Erna Kustina. They had two children, Yusuf Aji Soetoro (b. 1981) and Rahayu Nurmaida Soetoro (b. 1984).<ref name="JawaPos2">[http://www.jawapos.com/halaman/index.php?act=detail&nid=34068 Habib, Ridlwan. "Keluarga Besar Lolo Soetoro, Kerabat Dekat Calon Presiden Amerika/Lolo Soetoro's Extended Family, Close Relatives to American Presidential Nominee"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090225113156/http://jawapos.com/halaman/index.php?act=detail&nid=34068 |date=February 25, 2009}}, ''[[Jawa Pos]] Daily'', Edition of November 5, 2008.</ref>

==={{anchor| Maya Soetoro-Ng}}Maya Soetoro-Ng (b. 1970)===
{{Main|Maya Soetoro-Ng}}
Maya Soetoro-Ng, Obama's half-sister, was born in [[Jakarta, Indonesia]].<ref>{{Cite web|author=Diana Gale Matthiesen |url=http://dgmweb.net/genealogy/FGS/O/ObamaBarackHussein-StanleyAnnDunham.shtml |title=Obama Family Tree |publisher=Dgmweb.net |access-date=March 24, 2013}}</ref> She has a half-brother and half-sister, Yusuf and Aya Soetoro, from her father's second marriage. She is married to Canadian-American Konrad Ng, with whom she has two daughters, Suhaila and Savita. Maya Soetoro-Ng is a teacher in Hawaii.<ref name="SisterWash">{{Cite news|first1=Stephanie |last1=Green |first2=Elizabeth |last2=Glover |title=Sister and niece act |url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/aug/10/green-glover-sister-and-niece-act/ |newspaper=The Washington Times |date=August 10, 2009 |access-date=September 23, 2009}}</ref>

==={{anchor|Konrad Ng}}Konrad Ng (b. 1974)===
Konrad Ng is Barack Obama's brother-in-law. He is of [[Overseas Chinese]] descent,<ref name=thespec/> and his parents are from [[Kudat]] and [[Sandakan]], two small towns in [[Sabah, Malaysia]]. Ng and his younger brother, Perry, were born and raised in [[Burlington, Ontario]], Canada.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/7/21/nation/21699676&sec=nation |title=Obama has links to Malaysia |website=The Star |location=Malaysia |access-date=March 24, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130420215459/http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=%2F2008%2F7%2F21%2Fnation%2F21699676&sec=nation |archive-date=April 20, 2013}}</ref> Perry Ng works for the [[University of Ottawa]].<ref name=thespec>{{Cite news |first=Daniel |last=Nolan |date=January 21, 2009 |url=http://www.thespec.com/News/CanadaWorld/article/499707 |title=Obama's Burlington kin share in the celebration swearing-in |work=Hamilton Spectator |access-date=March 31, 2009 |archive-date=July 3, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090703080159/http://www.thespec.com/News/CanadaWorld/article/499707 |url-status=dead}}</ref> He married Maya Soetoro-Ng at the end of 2003 in Hawaii.<ref name=handle>{{cite news |url=http://www.thespec.com/burlingtonlife/article/384475 |title=Relative: Obama's got 'a good handle on Canada' |date=June 11, 2008 |access-date=July 3, 2008 |newspaper=[[The Hamilton Spectator]] |last=Nolan |first=Daniel |archive-date=September 2, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080902201132/http://www.thespec.com/burlingtonlife/article/384475 |url-status=dead}}</ref> They have two daughters, Suhaila<ref>{{Cite news|first=Daniel |last=Nolan |title=Obama's Burlington connection |date=June 11, 2008 |url=http://www.thespec.com/article/384307 |work=[[The Hamilton Spectator]] |access-date=June 21, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080902201127/http://www.thespec.com/article/384307 |archive-date=September 2, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.burlingtonpost.com/printarticle/186215 |title=Barack Obama was here |date=June 20, 2008 |access-date=July 3, 2008 |website=[[Burlington Post]] |last=Misner |first=Jason}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/familytree/545473,BSX-News-wotreehh09.article |work=Chicago Sun-Times |title=He helped me find my voice |first=Scott |last=Fornek |date=September 9, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090122212443/http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/familytree/545473,BSX-News-wotreehh09.article |archive-date=January 22, 2009}}</ref> and Savita.<ref name="SisterWash" /> Konrad Ng is a U.S. citizen.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.thespec.com/Opinions/article/499161 |title=Keep watch for Obama |date=January 20, 2009 |access-date=January 28, 2009 |newspaper=[[The Hamilton Spectator]] |last=Cooper |first=Tom |archive-date=February 3, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090203192505/http://www.thespec.com/Opinions/article/499161 |url-status=dead}}</ref> He was an assistant professor at the [[University of Hawaiʻi]]'s Academy of Creative Media.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/familytree/545473,BSX-News-wotreehh09.article|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080827090409/http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/familytree/545473%2CBSX-News-wotreehh09.article|url-status=dead|title=Chicago Sun Times article with her picture|archive-date=August 27, 2008}}</ref> From 2011–2015, he was the Director of the Smithsonian's [[Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center|Asian Pacific American Program]]. Since 2016, he has been the Executive Director of The [[Shangri La (Doris Duke)|Shangri La]] Museum of Islamic Art, Culture & Design in Honolulu. He studied philosophy at [[McGill University]] and cultural studies at the [[University of Victoria]] before getting his PhD degree from [[University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/obama-in-canada-uncle-rocky-and-his-burlington-family-ties-1.771456 |title=Obama in Canada: 'Uncle Rocky' and his Burlington family ties|publisher=CBC news |last=Kemp |first=Brian |access-date=September 5, 2009 | date=June 18, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.hawaii.edu/acm/faculty/ng.shtml |title=University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Academy of Creative Media Faculty. Retrieved September 5, 2009 |publisher=Hawaii.edu |date=July 23, 2007 |access-date=March 24, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121106204703/http://www.hawaii.edu/acm/faculty/ng.shtml |archive-date=November 6, 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Ng studies "how minority and diaspora communities use cinema and digital media to engage in artistic and cultural representation and preservation, and community mobilization".<ref name="asiablog20130509"/> From 2011 to 2016, he served as director of the [[Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center]].<ref name="asiablog20130509">{{cite web |last=Swersey |first=Bill |title=Konrad Ng: The Asian Pacific American Experience is 'Quintessentially American' |url=http://asiasociety.org/blog/asia/konrad-ng-asian-pacific-american-experience-quintessentially-american |website=Asia Blog |publisher=Asia Society |date=May 9, 2013 |access-date=November 6, 2015}}</ref><ref name="edgovbio20151106">{{cite web |url=http://sites.ed.gov/aapi/konrad-ng/ |title=Konrad Ng |publisher=White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders |access-date=November 6, 2015 |archive-date=January 24, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160124042329/http://sites.ed.gov/aapi/konrad-ng/ |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/smithsonian-s-asian-pacific-american-center-names-new-director-n666681|title=Smithsonian's Asian Pacific American Center Names New Director|website=NBC News|date=October 14, 2016}}</ref>

==={{anchor|Robert Wolfley}}Robert Wolfley (1835–1895)===
Robert Wolfley, born in 1835, is one of Obama's maternal third great-grandfathers. He served as a private in Company A, [[145th Ohio Infantry]] during the [[American Civil War]]. He died July 17, 1895, and is buried in the Olathe Memorial Cemetery in [[Olathe, Kansas]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www2.nbcactionnews.com/dpp/news/region_kansas/johnson_county/president-obama-has-ties-to-metro%27s-memorial-day-celebrations |title=President Obama has ties to metro's Memorial Day celebrations |newspaper=NBC Action News|date=March 16, 2010 |access-date=August 11, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100531235157/http://www.nbcactionnews.com/dpp/news/region_kansas/johnson_county/president-obama-has-ties-to-metro%27s-memorial-day-celebrations|archive-date=May 31, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://cemetery.olatheks.org/burial-search.asp|title=Olathe Memorial Cemetery: Burial Search|publisher=City of Olathe, Kansas|year=2016|access-date=December 30, 2016|archive-date=December 31, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161231170652/http://cemetery.olatheks.org/burial-search.asp|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==={{anchor|John Punch (slave)}}John Punch===
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According to [[Ancestry.com]]'s research in 2012, using a combination of historical documents and [[yDNA]] analysis, genealogists found that [[John Punch (slave)|John Punch]], the first documented African slave in the [[Colony of Virginia]], has been documented as likely an eleventh great-grandfather of Obama through his mother, Ann Dunham, and her Bunch ancestors.<ref name="usa">{{Cite news| url=http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2012/07/obama-related-to-first-american-slave/1?csp=obnetwork | work=USA Today | date=July 30, 2012 | title=Obama related to America's first slave}}</ref><ref name="ancestry">{{Cite web |url=http://c.mfcreative.com/offer/us/obama_bunch/PDF/press_release_final.pdf |title=Press Release: Ancestry.com Discovers President Obama Related to First Documented Slave in America: Research Connects First African-American President to First African Slave in the American Colonies |access-date=March 24, 2013 |archive-date=November 20, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121120134003/http://c.mfcreative.com/offer/us/obama_bunch/PDF/press_release_final.pdf |url-status=dead}}</ref> With intermarriage, there were eventually both white and African-American lines of descent from Punch; some Bunch descendants were classified as white by the early 18th century. Other Bunch descendants were considered [[free people of color]]. [[Ralph Bunche]], American delegate to the [[United Nations]], is thought by historian Paul Heinegg to have likely been an African-American descendant of the Bunch family via South Carolina and [[Detroit]], Michigan.<ref name="ancestry"/><ref name="heinegg">[http://www.freeafricanamericans.com Paul Heinegg, "Bunch Family"], ''Free African Americans of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland and Delaware'', 1995–2005</ref>

==={{anchor|Jonathan Singletary Dunham}}Jonathan Singletary Dunham (1640–1724)===
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Jonathan Singletary Dunham, born in 1640 in the [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]], was one of Obama's maternal eighth great-grandfathers and is his earliest ancestor known to be born in North America.<ref name="Reitwiesner" /><ref>{{Cite news | url=http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/familytree/545440,BSX-News-wotreea09.stng | title=Obama Family Tree | access-date=June 6, 2009 | work=Chicago Sun-Times | first=Scott | last=Fornek | date=September 9, 2007 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090717004841/http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/familytree/545440,BSX-News-wotreea09.stng | archive-date=July 17, 2009 | url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|title=Beyond Alt|last1=Read|first1=Max|date=May 1–14, 2017|work=[[New York (magazine)|New York]]|last2=van Zuylen-Wood|first2=Simon}}</ref>

==Paternal relations==
Obama's family in Kenya are members of the [[Jok'Obama]], a clan belonging to the [[Luo (Kenya and Tanzania)|Luo]] people, the nation's second-largest ethnic group. Linguistically, [[Dholuo|Luo]] is one of the [[Nilotic languages]]. The Obama family is concentrated in the western Kenyan province of [[Nyanza Province|Nyanza]].

[[File:Barack Obama's Kenyan relatives.jpg|thumb|'''Front row (left to right):''' [[Auma Obama]] (Barack's half-sister), [[Kezia Obama]] (Barack's stepmother), [[Sarah Onyango Obama|Sarah Hussein Onyango Obama]] (third wife of Barack's paternal grandfather), [[Zeituni Onyango]] (Barack's aunt)<br />'''Back row (left to right):''' Sayid Obama (Barack's uncle), [[Barack Obama]], [[Malik Obama|Abongo [Roy] Obama]] (Barack's half-brother), unidentified woman, [[Bernard Obama]] (Barack's half-brother), [[Abo Obama]] (Barack's half-brother)]]

==={{Anchor|Hussein Onyango Obama}} Hussein Onyango Obama (c. 1895–1979)===
{{Disputed section|date=November 2020}} 
Paternal grandfather to Barack Obama, he was born Onyango Obama.<ref>''Dreams from My Father'', p. 376</ref> (One source gives 1870–1975 as his dates of birth and death, possibly based on his tombstone in his home village.)<ref name="allafrica1">{{Cite news|url=https://allafrica.com/stories/200408160533.html?page=2|title=Kenya: Special Report: Sleepy Little Village Where Obama Traces His Own Roots|first=John|last=Oywa|newspaper=The Nation |date=August 16, 2004|via=AllAfrica}}</ref> Barack Obama relates finding in 1988 a British document, based on a 1928 ordinance, recording his grandfather as 35 years old. The date of the document was estimated to be about 1930, which would mean that his grandfather had been born {{circa|1895}}.<ref>''Dreams from My Father'', pages 425–426.</ref>) The Luo are given names related to the circumstances of their birth, and ''Onyango'' means "born in the early morning".{{Paragraph}}<!--

-->Onyango was the fifth son of his mother, Nyaoke, who was the first of the five wives of his father, Obama.<ref>''Dreams from My Father'', page 396.</ref> Barack Obama relates how his step-grandmother Granny Sarah ([[#Sarah Onyango Obama|Sarah Onyango Obama]]) describes his grandfather: "Even from the time that he was a boy, your grandfather Onyango was strange. It is said of him that he had ants up his anus, because he could not sit still."<ref name="Dreams, p. 397">''Dreams from My Father'', page 397.</ref> As a young man, Onyango learned to speak, read and write in English, the language of British colonial administration in Kenya.<ref name="Dreams, p. 400">''Dreams from My Father'', page 400.</ref>{{Paragraph}}<!--

--> Onyango worked as a mission cook and as a local [[herbalist]].<ref name="Dreams, p. 397"/> He joined the [[King's African Rifles]] during World War I.<ref>[http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/may/12/apple-fell-far-tree/ "The Apple Fell Far from the Tree"], ''New York Review of Books'', May 12, 2011</ref>{{Paragraph}}<!--

--> In 1949, Onyango spent at least six months in [[Kamiti Maximum Security Prison|Kamiti Prison]]. He was tried in a magistrates' court either on charges of [[sedition]] or being a member of a banned organization. Records do not survive; all such documentation was routinely destroyed after six years by the colonial administration. Onyango was then subject to [[torture]] due to suspicions that he was an associate of the [[Mau Mau Rebellion|Mau Mau rebels]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article5276010.ece |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090120210653/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article5276010.ece |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 20, 2009 |work=[[The Times]] |location=London |title=Beatings and abuse made Barack Obamas grandfather loathe the British |first1=Ben |last1=MacIntyre |first2=Paul |last2=Orengoh |date=December 3, 2008 |access-date=May 2, 2010}}</ref> In his memoir, Obama recounted family descriptions of his grandfather's shocking physical state when released from prison:
<blockquote>"When he returned to [[Siaya District|Alego]] he was very thin and dirty. He had difficulty walking, and his head was full of [[Head lice|lice]]." For some time, he was too traumatized to speak about his experiences. His wife told his grandson Obama: "From that day on, I saw that he was now an old man."<ref name="Dreams, p. 400"/></blockquote>{{Paragraph}}<!--

--> Onyango was permanently scarred, suffering pain and requiring assistance in moving until his death. Although previously he had worked closely with the British, Onyango became bitterly anglophobic after his experiences in Kamiti Prison.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/President-Barack-Obama-Exclusive-Sky-News-Interview-From-Ghana-Praises-British-Military/Article/200907215336045 |title=Obama's Praise For 'Extraordinary' Britain |date=July 12, 2009 |publisher=Sky News}}</ref>{{Paragraph}}<!--

--> According to his third wife, Sarah, Onyango had converted from tribal religion to [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholicism]] early in life. When [[Seventh-day Adventist Church|Seventh-day Adventist]] [[Missionary|missionaries]] visited the [[Kendu Bay]] area many people were baptized into the church, including Onyango.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.blacksdahistory.org/obama-and-adventism.html|title=President Obama and Adventism|website=blacksdahistory.org|access-date=November 1, 2018|archive-date=October 29, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181029221510/http://www.blacksdahistory.org/obama-and-adventism.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> When he later converted to Islam, he took the first name ''Hussein''. She said that he passed on the name of Hussein to his children, but not the religion.<ref name="AP-obama-kin">{{Cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-03-05-obama-kin_N.htm|title=Obama's grandma slams 'untruths'|date=March 5, 2008|agency=Associated Press |work=USA Today |access-date=May 2, 2010 |first=Katharine |last=Houreld}} See also this [https://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-03-10-446486469_x.htm correction].</ref> Onyango is sometimes referred to as Mzee Hussein Onyango Obama. The word ''mzee'' (meaning "elder") is a Kenyan [[honorific]]. To this day the Obama family in Kenya is divided between Seventh-day Adventists and Muslims.

==={{Anchor|Habiba Akumu Obama}} Habiba Akumu Obama (c. 1918–2006)===
Also known as Akumu Nyanjoga and Sje.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://peterfirstbrook.com/book_theobamas.html |title=Peter Firstbrook, writer and filmmaker, most recent book ''The Obamas: The Untold Story of an African Family'' |publisher=Peterfirstbrook.com |date=February 3, 2011 |access-date=March 24, 2013 |archive-date=January 17, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130117163018/http://www.peterfirstbrook.com/book_theobamas.html |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=http://allafrica.com/stories/200408160533.html |title=Special Report: Sleepy Little Village Where Obama Traces His Own Roots |author=Oywa, John |newspaper=The Nation |date=August 15, 2004}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://nymag.com/news/articles/09/11/nymag-obamafamily-091123.pdf |title=The President's Kin|website=nymag.com}}</ref><ref name="eastandard.net">{{Cite news|title=Eastandard.net - eastandard Resources and Information}}</ref> She was Barack Obama's [[paternal grandmother]], and the second wife of Hussein Onyango Obama. She had three children with Onyango: daughters Sarah and Auma, and son Barack (Barack Obama's father).<ref>''Dreams from My Father'', pages 408–412.</ref> Her father was named Njango or Njoga,<ref name="books.google.es">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gwieCgAAQBAJ&q=Hussein+Onyango+Obama+Nyaoke&pg=PA31|title=Obama Senior. A Dream Fulfilled|first=Donde|last=Fredrick|date=August 6, 2015|publisher=East African Educational Publishers|via=Google Books|isbn=9789966560391}}</ref> and she was born and raised in the Western Kenyan village of [[Karachuonyo Constituency|Karabondi]].<ref name="eastandard.net"/><ref>{{Cite news| url=http://africanpress.wordpress.com/2008/12/23/the-proposed-barrack-obama-snr-museum-has-caused-a-big-split-in-th-family-of-the-us-president-elect-right-in-the-middle |title=Fighting to get a share of the Obamas: The proposed Obama Sr museum has caused a big split in the family of the US President-elect right in the middle. |date=December 23, 2008 |publisher=Wordpress.com |author=Leo Odera Omolo |access-date=October 19, 2009}}</ref>

In his memoir ''Dreams from My Father'', Obama wrote that Akumu was miserable in her marriage and abandoned Onyango Obama and her children with him. She subsequently married again and moved to Tanganyika, now [[Tanzania]]. Her name ''Akumu'' means "mysterious birth". Her mother conceived her after having given birth to another child and before resuming her [[menses]]. Akumu took the name ''Habiba'' upon her conversion to Islam in her second marriage, to Salmin Orinda, a Muslim from Wagwe, near Homa Hills, South Nyanza.<ref name="books.google.es"/> A photograph of her holding her son, Barack Sr., on her lap is on the cover of her grandson's memoir. (See image at right margin.)<ref>{{Cite news|title=Q&A ON THE NEWS | date=February 25, 2009| url=http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/stories/2009/02/25/questi0225.html |work=[[Atlanta Journal-Constitution]] |access-date=February 27, 2009}}</ref>

==={{Anchor|Sarah Obama (aunt of Barack Obama)}} Sarah Obama (b. 1933)===
Aunt of U.S. President Obama and elder sister of his father, daughter of Hussein Onyango and his second wife, Habiba Akumu Obama.<ref name="Dreams from my Father, p. 408">''Dreams from my Father'', page 408.</ref> (She should not be confused with her stepmother [[#Sarah Onyango Obama|Sarah Onyango Obama]], also often called just Sarah Obama, the third wife of Onyango.)

==={{anchor|Barack Obama Sr.}}Barack Obama Sr. (1934–1982)===
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Barack Obama Sr., father of Barack Obama, was the son of Onyango and his second wife Habiba Akumu Obama. Educated in the US at the [[University of Hawaiʻi]] and [[Harvard University]], he returned to Kenya, where he became an economist with the government. He served in the ministries of transportation and finance. Barack Obama Sr. married three times, and he fathered a daughter and at least five sons including the junior Barack.<ref name="genealogy">{{Cite web |url=http://genealogy.about.com/od/aframertrees/p/barack_obama.htm |title=Ancestry of Barack Obama |access-date=August 4, 2008 |archive-date=March 2, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080302182159/http://genealogy.about.com/od/aframertrees/p/barack_obama.htm |url-status=dead}}</ref>{{unreliable source?|date=November 2012}}

==={{Anchor|Hawa Auma Hussein (aunt of Barack Obama)}} Hawa Auma Hussein===
Aunt of U.S. President Obama and younger sister of his father, born to Hussein Onyango and second wife Habiba Akumu Obama.<ref name="Dreams from my Father, p. 408"/>

==={{Anchor|Sarah Onyango Obama}} Sarah Onyango Obama (1922–2021)===
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Sarah Onyango Obama was the third wife of Obama's paternal grandfather.<ref name="allafrica2">{{Cite web|last=Oywa |first=John |url=http://allafrica.com/stories/200408160533.html?page=2 |title=Kenya: Special Report: Sleepy Little Village Where Obama Traces His Own Roots (Page 2 of 2) |publisher=allAfrica.com |date=August 15, 2004 |access-date=March 24, 2013}}</ref> She was known for short as Sarah Obama; she was sometimes referred to as Sarah Ogwel, Sarah Hussein Obama, or Sarah Anyango Obama.<ref name="Time">{{Cite news|url=http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1717590,00.html?xid=rss-topstories|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080302235153/http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1717590,00.html?xid=rss-topstories|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 2, 2008|title=Dreams from Obama's Grandmother|last=Crilly|first=Rob|date=February 27, 2008|magazine=Time |access-date=July 3, 2008}}</ref> She lived in [[Nyang'oma Kogelo]] village, 30 miles west of western [[Kenya]]'s main town, [[Kisumu]], on the edge of [[Lake Victoria]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/09/wuspols1009.xml|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080416191741/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/09/wuspols1009.xml|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 16, 2008|title=Barack Obama's Kenyan relatives keep faith|first=Mike|last=Pflanz|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=January 11, 2008 | location=London}}</ref><ref name="chicsuntimes">{{Cite news|url=http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/familytree/545459,BSX-News-wotreeu09.article|title=Sarah Obama – 'Sparkling, laughing eyes'|first=Scott|last=Fornek|work=Chicago Sun-Times|date=September 9, 2007|access-date=July 15, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080604144256/http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/familytree/545459,BSX-News-wotreeu09.article|archive-date=June 4, 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref> (She should not be confused with her stepdaughter of the same name, [[#Sarah Obama (aunt of Barack Obama)|Sarah Obama]], a daughter of Onyango's second wife Akumu.)<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article3142143.ece |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080724141802/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article3142143.ece |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 24, 2008 |title=In Kenya, Barack Obama's family prays for end to conflict |work=The Times |access-date=March 24, 2013 |location=London}}</ref>

Although she was not a blood relation, Barack Obama calls her "Granny Sarah".<ref name="Time" /><ref name="CNN">{{Cite web|publisher=CNN|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikg6gj71U9k| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080618011617/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikg6gj71U9k| archive-date=June 18, 2008|title=Barack Obama in Kenya}}</ref> Sarah, who spoke [[Dholuo language|Luo]] and only a few words of English, communicated with President Obama through an interpreter.

On July 4, 2008, Sarah Obama attended the [[Independence Day (United States)|United States Independence Day]] celebrations in Nairobi, hosted by [[Michael Ranneberger]], the US ambassador in Kenya.<ref name="granny">''Daily Nation'', July 8, 2008: [http://www.nationmedia.com/dailynation/nmgcontententry.asp?category_id=39&newsid=126870 "Obama granny's day out with envoys and top politicians"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080715104536/http://www.nationmedia.com/dailynation/nmgcontententry.asp?category_id=39&newsid=126870 |date=July 15, 2008}}, ''Daily Nation'', July 8, 2008</ref>

During the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign, she protested attempts to portray Obama as a foreigner to the United States or as a Muslim, saying that while Obama's grandfather had been a Muslim, "In the world of today, children have different religions from their parents."<ref name="AP-obama-kin" /> <!-- This article incorrectly states that Sarah Obama is Christian. The AP later issued a correction; see https://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-03-10-446486469_x.htm-->Sarah Obama was "a strong believer of the Islamic faith", in her words.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/30/us/politics/30obama.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin&oref=slogin|title=A Candidate, His Minister and the Search for Faith|date=April 30, 2007|work=The New York Times | first=Jodi | last=Kantor | access-date=May 2, 2010}}</ref>

In November 2014, Sarah Obama received an award from the United Nations for the work of an education foundation that she headed, as a part of [[Women's Entrepreneurship Day]].<ref>"[https://www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandsoda/2014/11/22/365836945/obama-grandmother-continues-lifes-work-of-educating-young-kenyans Obama's Step-Grandmother Continues Educating Young Kenyans]", [[NPR]] (November 22, 2014).</ref>

==={{Anchor|Kezia Obama}} Kezia Obama (1940–2021)===
Kezia "Grace" Obama (also known as Kezia Aoko)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.eastandard.net/uselections/InsidePage.php?id=1143998528 |title=The Standard &#124; Online Edition :: Fascinating story of Obama family |website=The Standard |location=Kenya |access-date=August 11, 2010 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090818214846/http://www.eastandard.net/uselections/InsidePage.php?id=1143998528 |archive-date=August 18, 2009}}</ref> was born {{circa|1940}}.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.afrika.no/Detailed/17321.html |title=Kenya: All Obama kin to spend voting day in Kogelo |publisher=afrika.no |date=October 27, 2008 |access-date=January 31, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090113164901/http://www.afrika.no/Detailed/17321.html |archive-date=January 13, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Cohen |first=Roger |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/06/opinion/06cohen.html |title=The Obamas of the World |work=The New York Times |date=March 6, 2008 |access-date=January 31, 2009}}</ref> She was Barack Obama Sr.'s first wife; she married him in Kenya in 1954 before he studied abroad in the United States. They had at least two children together: [[Malik Obama|Abongo [Roy]]] and Auma; and also claimed [[Bernard Obama|Bernard]] and [[Abo Obama]] as sons by Barack Sr.

She lived in [[Bracknell]], Berkshire, England, until her death in 2021.<ref name="bbc-new-kezia-obama">{{cite news|title=Barack's bingo-loving stepmother |work=BBC News | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/berkshire/7834368.stm |first=Anna |last=Lindsay |date=January 20, 2009}}</ref> On March 22, 2009, Kezia Obama made a guest appearance on the British television show ''[[Chris Moyles' Quiz Night]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.channel4.com/programmes/chris-moyles-quiz-night/catch-up#2871249 |title= Kezia Obama in Chris Moyles' Quiz Night|access-date=April 12, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090408234703/http://www.channel4.com/programmes/chris-moyles-quiz-night/catch-up |archive-date=April 8, 2009}}</ref> Her sister, Jane, is the 'Auntie Jane' mentioned at the very start of ''Dreams from My Father;'' she telephoned Obama in the US in 1982 to tell him that his father had been killed in a car accident in Kenya.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/26/666733 |title=Keziah: First and last wife of Obama Sr |website=New Vision Online (Uganda) |publisher=Newvision.co.ug |date=January 2, 2009 |access-date=August 11, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110513093111/http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/26/666733 |archive-date=May 13, 2011}}</ref> She died on April 13, 2021.<ref>Roche, Darragh (2021). [https://www.newsweek.com/barack-obama-stepmother-kezia-obama-dead-1583505 "Barack Obama's Stepmother, Kezia Obama, Has Died"]. ''[[Newsweek]]''. April 14, 2021. Retrieved May 29, 2021.</ref>

==={{Anchor|Malik Obama}} Malik Obama===
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Barack Obama's half-brother, also known as Abongo or Roy, was born c. March 1958, the son of Barack Obama Sr. and his first wife, Kezia.<ref name=factcheck>{{Cite news|url=http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/06/from-the-fact-c.html |work=ABC News |title=From the Fact Check Desk: What Did Obama's Half-Brother Say About Obama's Background |date=June 18, 2008 |author=jpt}}</ref> Born and raised in [[Nairobi]], Kenya,<ref name=slowlane>{{Cite news |url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6333496 |agency=Associated Press |title=Obama's Brother Chooses Life in Slow Lane |first=Tom |last=Maliti |date=October 26, 2004 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080421133545/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6333496 |archive-date=April 21, 2008}}</ref> he earned a degree in [[accounting]] from the [[University of Nairobi]].<ref>''Dreams from my Father'', p. 265.</ref> The half brothers met for the first time in 1985<ref name=slowlane/> when Barack flew from Chicago to Washington, D.C., to visit him.<ref>''Dreams from my Father'', p. 262.</ref> They were [[best man|best men]] at each other's weddings.<ref name=slowlane/> The American Obama brought his wife Michelle to Kenya three years later, and they met with Malik again while meeting many other relatives for the first time.<ref name=sleepy/>

Malik lives in the Obamas' ancestral home, Nyang'oma Kogelo, a village of several hundred people, preferring its slow pace to that of the city.<ref name=slowlane/> He runs a small electronics shop a half-hour's drive outside of town.<ref name=slowlane/> A frequent visitor to the US,<ref name=sleepy>*{{Cite news|url=http://allafrica.com/stories/200408160533.html |work=The Daily Nation |title=Sleepy Little Village Where Obama Traces His Own Roots |date=August 15, 2004 |first=John |last=Oywa}}</ref> and a consultant in Washington, D.C., for several months each year,<ref name=slowlane/> Malik has dual citizenship in Kenya and the United States.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ibtimes.com/who-malik-obama-last-debate-trump-supporter-half-brother-president-be-guest-2433829|title=Who Is Malik Obama? At Last Debate, Trump Supporter And Half-Brother Of The President To Be Guest Of Republican Nominee|website=[[International Business Times]]|date=October 19, 2016}}</ref>

During his brother's 2008 presidential campaign, Malik Obama was a spokesman for the extended Obama family in Kenya. He dealt with safety and privacy concerns arising from the increased attention from the press.<ref>{{Cite news|work=Daily Nation |title=We cannot lay claims on Obama; he's not one of us – Obama in this world |url=http://www.nationmedia.com<!--courtesy link is spamblocked: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030293/posts--> |first=Rasna |last=Warah |date=June 9, 2008 |access-date=July 10, 2008}}</ref>

Malik ran for governor of the Kenyan county of [[Siaya District|Siaya]] in 2013.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-14/obama-s-step-brother-will-seek-governorship-of-kenyan-county.html|work=Bloomberg |title=Obama's Step-Brother Will Seek Governorship of Kenyan County |date=January 14, 2013|first=David |last=Gichana}}</ref> His campaign slogan was "Obama here, Obama there" in reference to his half-brother who was serving his second term as the [[president of the United States]]. Malik garnered a meager 2,792 votes, about 140,000 votes behind the eventual winner.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://politicker.com/2013/03/president-obamas-brother-loses-election-in-kenya/|title=President Obama's Brother Loses Election in Kenya|last=Walker|first=Hunter|date=March 7, 2013|work=[[The New York Observer]]|access-date=March 7, 2013}}</ref> Prior to the [[2016 United States presidential election]], he stated that he supported [[Donald Trump]], the candidate for the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Vincent |first=Isabel |url=https://nypost.com/2016/07/24/why-obamas-half-brother-says-hell-be-voting-for-donald-trump/ |title=Why Obama's half-brother says he'll be voting for Donald Trump |date=July 24, 2016 |website=New York Post |access-date=July 25, 2016}}</ref> He attended the third presidential debate as one of Trump's guests.<ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Begley|first1=Sarah|title=Donald Trump Is Bringing President Obama's Half-Brother to the Third Debate|url=https://time.com/4536121/malik-obama-donald-trump-third-debate/|magazine=Time|date=October 18, 2016}}</ref>

==={{Anchor|Auma Obama}} Auma Obama===
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[[File:Auma Obama.JPG|thumb|Auma Obama]]
Barack Obama's half-sister, born {{circa|1960}}, to Kezia, his father's first wife.<ref name="Auma">{{Cite news | url=http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/familytree/545465,BSX-News-wotreew09.article | title=AUMA OBAMA: 'Her restlessness, her independence' | author=Scott Fornek | work=Chicago Sun-Times | date=September 9, 2007 | access-date=March 23, 2008 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080314002023/http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/familytree/545465,BSX-News-wotreew09.article | archive-date=March 14, 2008 | url-status=dead}}</ref> As of July 2008, she was a development worker in [[Kenya]].<ref name="spiegeljul08">{{Cite news|url=http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,567286,00.html|title=Studentin in der Bundesrepublik: Wie Auma Obama mit Deutschland haderte|last=Gathmann|first=Florian|author2=Gregor Peter Schmitz |author3=Jochen Schönmann |date=July 24, 2008|work=Der Spiegel |language=de|access-date=July 24, 2008}}</ref> She attended [[Kenya High School|The Kenya High School]] and subsequently studied German at the [[University of Heidelberg]] from 1981 to 1987. After her graduation at Heidelberg, she went on for graduate studies at the [[University of Bayreuth]], earning a [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]] degree in 1996. Her [[dissertation]] was on the conception of [[Labour (economics)|labor]] in Germany and its literary reflections.<ref name="spiegeljul08"/>

Auma Obama has lived in London. In 1996 she married an [[English people|Englishman]], Ian Manners, although they have since divorced.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8072088.stm |work=BBC News | title=Obama relative 'to stand as MP' |date=May 28, 2009 |access-date=May 2, 2010}}</ref> They have a daughter named Akinyi (b. 1997).<ref name="spiegeljul08"/><ref>{{Cite news |first=Jane |last=Ridley |title=President Obama's British Step-mom, Kezia Obama, proud her son is meeting Queen |date=March 30, 2009 |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2009/03/30/2009-03-30_president_obamas_british_stepmom_kezia_o.html |work=Daily News |access-date=April 2, 2009 |location=New York |archive-date=April 2, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090402110734/http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2009/03/30/2009-03-30_president_obamas_british_stepmom_kezia_o.html |url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2011, Auma Obama was interviewed for [[Turk Pipkin]]'s documentary ''[[Building Hope]]'' and was the subject of a German documentary film ''[[The Education of Auma Obama]]''.

In 2017 Auma Obama was honoured with the fourth International TÜV Rheinland Global Compact Award in [[Cologne]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tuv.com/de/deutschland/ueber_uns/organisation_gremien/tuev_rheinland_stiftung/preise_der_stiftung/preise-der-stiftung.html|title=Preise der Stiftung {{!}} de {{!}} TÜV Rheinland|website=www.tuv.com|language=de|access-date=March 5, 2018|archive-date=June 28, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180628233751/https://www.tuv.com/de/deutschland/ueber_uns/organisation_gremien/tuev_rheinland_stiftung/preise_der_stiftung/preise-der-stiftung.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> At the award ceremony, she received the bronze sculpture 'Der Griff nach den Sternen' (Reaching for the stars), solely made for the award, by artist [[Hannes Helmke]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tuv.com/media/01_presse_2/all_languages_pressemeldungen/global_compact_award_2017/Fakten_Internationaler_TUeV_Rheinland_Global_Compact_Award.pdf|title=Internationaler TÜV Rheinland Global Compact Award im Überblick|access-date=March 5, 2018|archive-date=March 3, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180303050500/https://www.tuv.com/media/01_presse_2/all_languages_pressemeldungen/global_compact_award_2017/Fakten_Internationaler_TUeV_Rheinland_Global_Compact_Award.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==={{Anchor|Abo Obama}} Abo and Bernard Obama===
Said to be Barack Obama's half-brothers, Abo, also known as Samson Obama,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/news/Flight-attendant-chats-Obama-s-brother/article-625675-detail/article.html |title=Flight attendant chats with Obama's brother |publisher=thisisnottingham.co.uk |date=January 20, 2009 |access-date=April 11, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090703160909/http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/news/Flight-attendant-chats-Obama-s-brother/article-625675-detail/article.html |archive-date=July 3, 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref> was born in 1968 and Bernard was born two years later in 1970 to Kezia Obama. In ''Dreams from My Father'', Obama wrote that his Obama relatives doubt that Abo and Bernard are the biological sons of Barack Obama Sr.

==={{Anchor|Ruth Ndesandjo}} Ruth (Baker) Ndesandjo===
Born Ruth Beatrice Baker in the United States {{circa|1937}}, the daughter of Maurice Joseph Baker and Ida Baker of [[Newton, Massachusetts]], who are of [[Lithuanian Jews|Lithuanian-Jewish]] descent.<ref name="Jacobs 2011">{{Cite book |author=Jacobs, Sally H. |year=2011 |title=The other Barack: the bold and reckless life of President Obama's father |location=New York |publisher=[[PublicAffairs]] |isbn=978-1-58648-793-5 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/otherbarackboldr0000jaco/page/160 160–161, 165, 172–174, 177, 187–190, 193–196, 199–202, 226–227, 230–231, 247] |url=https://archive.org/details/otherbarackboldr0000jaco/page/160}}</ref> Ruth Baker was a 1954 graduate of [[Brookline High School]] in [[Brookline, Massachusetts]], and a 1958 graduate of [[Simmons College (Massachusetts)|Simmons College]] in Boston with a degree in business.<ref name="Jacobs 2011"/> She was a suburban elementary school teacher when she met and began dating Barack Sr. in Cambridge in June 1964, a month before his return to Kenya in August 1964.<ref name="Jacobs 2011"/> She followed Obama Sr. back to Kenya five weeks later, and married him in Kenya in a civil ceremony on December 24, 1964.<ref name="Jacobs 2011"/> She later became a private kindergarten director in Kenya.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.madarikindergarten.com/|title=Madarikindergarten.com|website=www.madarikindergarten.com|access-date=July 13, 2008|archive-date=November 13, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081113150926/http://www.madarikindergarten.com/|url-status=usurped}}</ref> She had two sons with Barack Obama Sr.: Mark and David. She and Barack Sr. separated in 1971 and divorced about 1973. Since she remarried when her sons were young, they took their stepfather's surname, Ndesandjo, as their own. Her third son, Joseph Ndesandjo, was born {{circa|1980}} in her second marriage.

==={{Anchor|Mark Ndesandjo}} Mark Okoth Obama Ndesandjo===
Barack Obama's half-brother, born {{circa|1965}}, son of Barack Obama Sr. and his third wife Ruth Baker.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article4406813.ece |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080815230447/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article4406813.ece |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 15, 2008 |title=Barack Obama's brother pushes Chinese imports on US |work=The Times |access-date=March 24, 2013 |location=London}}</ref> Mark Ndesandjo runs an Internet company called WorldNexus that advises Chinese corporations how best to reach international customers.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thomascrampton.com/china/obamas-brother-runs-internet-company-in-china/ |title=Obama half-brother runs Internet company in China |publisher=Thomascrampton.com |date=July 27, 2008 |access-date=March 24, 2013}}</ref> Mark was educated in the US, graduating from [[Brown University]]; he studied [[physics]] at [[Stanford University]], and received an [[Master of Business Administration|MBA]] degree from [[Emory University]].<ref name="cohen"/>

He has lived in [[Shenzhen, China]], since 2002.<ref name="cohen">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/17/opinion/29cohen.html |title=Obama's Brother in China |author=Roger Cohen |work=The New York Times |date=March 17, 2008 | access-date=March 23, 2008}}</ref> Through his mother, he is [[Jewish]].<ref>"Chief Rabbi Metzger says Obama's Jewish half-brother will lobby to release Pollard", ''The Jewish Connection'', 4;16.</ref> He is married to Liu Xuehua (also spelled Liu Zue Hua in some reports), a Chinese woman from [[Henan Province]].<ref name="SZDaily">{{Cite news |title=Obama's half brother performs in China |date=January 17, 2009 |url=http://szdaily.sznews.com/html/2009-01/19/content_494617.htm |work=China Daily |access-date=March 26, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091121142002/http://szdaily.sznews.com/html/2009-01/19/content_494617.htm |archive-date=November 21, 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|work=Shenzhen Daily | last=Lai |first=Jane |date=January 19, 2009 |access-date=November 5, 2009 |title=Obama's half brother goes public |url=http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-01/17/content_7406508_2.htm}}</ref> He is an accomplished pianist and has performed in concert.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://buzz.youku.com/2009/01/18/barack-obamas-half-brother-in-concert/ |title=Youku Buzz (daily) – Blog Archive – Barack Obama's Half-Brother in Concert |publisher=Buzz.youku.com |date=January 18, 2009 |access-date=January 31, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090122145349/http://buzz.youku.com/2009/01/18/barack-obamas-half-brother-in-concert/ |archive-date=January 22, 2009}}</ref>{{Paragraph}}<!--

-->In 2009, Mark Ndesandjo published a semi-autobiographical novel, ''Nairobi to Shenzhen: A Novel of Love in the East''.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/04/AR2009110401214.html |title=Obama's half brother goes public with new book |author=Keith B. Richburg |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=November 5, 2009 |access-date=October 9, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-nov-05-fg-china-obama-book5-story.html |title=Obama's half brother describes abuse |date=November 5, 2009 |author=Barbara Demick |access-date=October 9, 2012 |work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|author-link=Barbara Demick}}</ref> He published a memoir in 2013, entitled, ''Cultures: My Odyssey of Self-Discovery''.<ref>{{Cite news|agency=Associated Press |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/obama-brother-releasing-book-father-abuse-article-1.1552646 |title=Obama's half brother claims their shared father was physically abusive in explosive new book |work=Daily News|location=New York |access-date=December 27, 2013}}</ref> In it, he accused their father Barack Sr. of abuse.<ref>[http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ap-interview-obamas-brother-writes-about-abuse "Obama's brother writes about abuse"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140428073816/http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ap-interview-obamas-brother-writes-about-abuse |date=April 28, 2014}}, Associated Press, December 18, 2013.</ref>

==={{Anchor|David Ndesandjo}} David Ndesandjo ({{circa|1967}}–{{circa|1987}})===
Barack Obama's half-brother (also known as '''David Opiyo Obama'''), son of Barack Obama Sr. and his third wife, Ruth Baker, an American. He died in a motorcycle accident several years after his father's death in a car accident.<ref>{{Cite web|author=jaketapper |url=http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/07/barack-obamas-1.html |title=Political Punch: Barack Obama's Branch-y Family Tree |work=ABC News |date=July 28, 2008 |access-date=January 31, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.geditcom.com/samples/Obamas/INDIs/II89.html |title=David Ndesandjo |publisher=Geditcom.com |access-date=March 24, 2013}}</ref>

==={{Anchor|George Hussein Onyango Obama}} George Hussein Onyango Obama===
Youngest half-brother of Barack Obama, born c. May 1982, son of Barack Obama Sr.<ref>{{Cite news|first=Scott |last=Fornek |title=HALF-BROTHER GEORGE: 'I would be there for him' |url=http://suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/familytree/545447,BSX-News-wotreecc09.stng |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071020040458/http://suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/familytree/545447%2CBSX-News-wotreecc09.stng |archive-date=October 20, 2007 |work=Chicago Sun-Times |date=September 9, 2007 |access-date=August 4, 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref> and Jael Otieno. (She has since moved to [[Atlanta]], Georgia as a full-time resident.)<ref name="myinspiration" /><ref name="lifegood" /> George was six months old when his father died in an automobile accident, after which he was raised in Nairobi by his mother and a French stepfather. His mother took him to South Korea for two years while she was working there.<ref name="myinspiration"/> Returning to Kenya, George Obama "slept rough for several years",<ref>Obama, George (January 2, 2010). [http://www.newsweek.com/id/228946 "Being Obama's Brother"], ''Newsweek''.</ref> until his aunt gave him a six-by-eight foot corrugated metal shack in the [[Nairobi]] slum of [[Huruma Flats]].<ref name="myinspiration">{{Cite news|first=Mike |last=Pflanz |title=Barack Obama is my inspiration, says lost brother |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/2595688/Barack-Obama-is-my-inspiration-says-lost-brother.html |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=August 21, 2008 |access-date=August 23, 2008 |location=London |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080823161039/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/2595688/Barack-Obama-is-my-inspiration-says-lost-brother.html |archive-date=August 23, 2008}}</ref>{{Paragraph}}<!--

-->As of August 2008, George Obama was studying to become a mechanic.<ref name="myinspiration" /> He received little attention until featured in an article in the Italian-language edition of ''[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]'' in August 2008 during the US presidential campaign. This portrayed him as living in poverty, shame, and obscurity.<ref name="cnngo" /> The article quoted George Obama as saying that he lived "on less than a dollar a month" and said that he "does not mention his famous half-brother in conversation" out of shame at his own poverty.<ref name="telegraph20081020">{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/2590614/Barack-Obamas-lost-brother-found-in-Kenya.html |title=Barack Obama's 'lost' brother found in Kenya |last=Pisa |first=Nick |date=August 20, 2008 |access-date=August 20, 2008 |work=The Daily Telegraph |location=London |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080820223312/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/2590614/Barack-Obamas-lost-brother-found-in-Kenya.html |archive-date=August 20, 2008}}</ref> In later interviews, George contradicted this account. In an interview with ''[[The Times]]'', he "said that he was furious at subsequent reports that he had been abandoned by the Obama family and that he was filled with shame about living in a slum".<ref name="lifegood">{{Cite news|first=Rob |last=Crilly |title=Life is good in my Nairobi slum, says Barack Obama's younger brother |url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/life-is-good-in-my-nairobi-slum-says-barack-obamas-younger-brother-nlj83vnhq93 |work=The Times  |date=August 22, 2008 |access-date=18 January 2025 | location=London}}</ref>

He told ''The Times'', "Life in Huruma is good." George Obama said that he expects no favors, that he was supported by relatives, and that reports he lived on a dollar a month were "all lies by people who don't want my brother to win".<ref name="lifegood" /> He told ''The Telegraph'' that he was inspired by his half-brother.<ref name="myinspiration" /> According to ''Time'', George "has repeatedly denied&nbsp;... that he feels abandoned by Obama".<ref name="timego">{{Cite magazine|last=Wadhams |first=Nick |url=http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1847965,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081008212817/http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1847965,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 8, 2008 |title=Corsi in Kenya: Obama's Nation Boots Obama Nation Author |magazine=Time |date=October 7, 2008 |access-date=January 31, 2009}}</ref> [[CNN]] quoted him as saying, "I was brought up well. I live well even now. The magazines, they have exaggerated everything – I think I kind of like it here. There are some challenges, but maybe it is just like where you come from, there are the same challenges."<ref name="cnngo">{{Cite news| first=David | last=McKenzie | title=Behind the Scenes: Meet George Obama | date=August 23, 2008 | url=http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/22/bts.obama.brother/ |publisher=CNN | access-date=October 26, 2008}}</ref> George Obama and the British journalist Damien Lewis published George's story in a 2011 book called ''Homeland''.<ref>D'Souza, Dinesh. "How I became George Obama's 'brother{{'"}}, ''Fox News: Opinion'', August 16, 2012, [https://web.archive.org/web/20120816211610/http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/08/16/how-became-george-obama-brother/ Retrieved 2012-08-17]</ref><ref>[http://books.simonandschuster.com/Homeland/George-Obama/9781439176184 Obama, George, with Damien Lewis. ''Homeland: An Extraordinary Story of Hope and Survival''], Simon and Schuster, 2011</ref> George also appeared in the 2012 film, ''[[2016: Obama's America]]'', an anti-Obama documentary.<ref>{{Cite news|author=Bond, Paul|title=Barack Obama's Brother to Make Film Debut in Anti-Obama Documentary|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/barack-obama-brother-anti-documentary-george-obama-346807|access-date=August 28, 2012|newspaper=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|date=July 9, 2012}}</ref>

==={{Anchor|Omar Okech Obama}} Omar Okech Obama===
At times using a variation of the name of his father, '''Onyango Obama''',<ref name="BosGlobe083111">{{Cite news |title=Obama's uncle is called a fugitive |first=Maria |last=Sacchetti |author2=Dan Adams |url=http://archive.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/08/31/obamas_uncle_called_a_fugitive_from_deportation_since_1992/ |newspaper=[[The Boston Globe]] |location=Boston |date=August 31, 2011 |access-date=September 3, 2011 |ref=BosGlobe083111 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111104155936/http://articles.boston.com/2011-08-31/news/29949966_1_zeituni-onyango-immigration-status-boston-immigration-judge |archive-date=November 4, 2011 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="BosHerald083111">{{Cite news|title=Packie owner praises Prez's troubled uncle |url=http://news.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/2011_0831says_hed_have_him_back_in_a_heartbeat/srvc=home&position=2 |work=[[Boston Herald]] |date=August 31, 2011 |access-date=August 31, 2011}}</ref> Omar Okech Obama is a half-uncle of Barack Obama.<ref name="familytree">{{Cite news|title=The Obama Family Tree |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-7585778.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140610081617/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-7585778.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 10, 2014 |work=Chicago Sun-Times |date=September 9, 2007}}</ref> Born on June 3, 1944, in [[Nyang'oma Kogelo]], he is the eldest son of [[Onyango Obama|Onyango]] and his third wife, [[Sarah Onyango Obama|Sarah Obama]]. He moved to the United States in October 1963 when he was 17 years old as part of Kenya president [[Tom Mboya#Political life|Tom Mboya's Airlift Africa]] project, to send promising Kenyan students to the US for education, particularly undergraduate and graduate school.<ref name=BosGlobe083111 /><ref name="BostonGlobe01302013" /> Once he arrived in the country, his half-brother, Barack Obama Sr., found him a place at a boys' school then known as Browne & Nichols, in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]].<ref name="BosGlobe083111" /> He later dropped out of school and changed his name to O. Onyango Obama.<ref name="BosGlobe083111" /> He has operated a liquor store in [[Framingham, Massachusetts|Framingham]], where he resided as of March 2011.<ref name="BosGlobe083111" /><ref>{{Cite news|work=The Australian|url = http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/barack-obamas-uncle-has-been-arrested-and-held-as-illegal-immigrant/story-e6frg6so-1226124269032|date = August 29, 2011|title = Barack Obama's uncle has been arrested and held as illegal immigrant|first1 = James|last1 = Bone|first2 = Catherine|last2 = Philp}}</ref> Barack Obama lived with Onyango in the 1980s while a student at Harvard Law School in Cambridge.<ref name="BlakeWashPo12052013">Blake, Aaron & Juliet Eilperin. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/12/05/after-denying-they-had-met-white-house-now-says-obama-lived-with-uncle/?tid=pm_politics_pop After denial, White House now says Obama lived with uncle], ''[[The Washington Post]]'', December 5, 2013.</ref>

Omar Okech Obama was subject to a [[deportation]] order in 1989.<ref name="BosGlobe090911">{{Cite news |title=Obama's uncle quietly released from jail |first=Maria |last=Sacchetti |url=https://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/09/09/obamas_uncle_quietly_released_from_jail/?p1=Local_Links |newspaper=[[The Boston Globe]]  |location=Boston |date=September 9, 2011 |access-date=September 9, 2011 |ref=BosGlobe090911}}</ref> After an unsuccessful appeal, he was given a new deportation order in 1992.<ref name="BosGlobe090911" /><ref>{{Cite news |newspaper=[[Grand Junction Daily Sentinel]] |url = http://hosted2.ap.org/COGRA/APUSnews/Article_2011-08-31-Obama%27s%20Uncle-Arrest/id-1a303322efd34df3a590c3a9ca6791cf|date = August 29, 2011|title = Official: Obama uncle here illegally since 1992|first1 = Denise|last1 = Lavoie}}</ref> He was arrested on August 24, 2011, for [[driving under the influence]], or DUI,<ref name="BosGlobe090911" /> and was held in jail until September 9, 2011, on a federal immigration warrant.<ref name="BosHerald083111" /><ref name="BosHerald09102011">{{Cite news |title=President's uncle released by feds, but must 'check in' |first=John |last=Zaremba |url=  http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2011/09/president%E2%80%99s_uncle_released_feds_must_%E2%80%98check_in%E2%80%99|newspaper=Boston Herald |date=September 10, 2011 |access-date=January 31, 2013 |ref=BosHerald09102011}}</ref> The ''[[Boston Herald]]'' reported in August 2011 that Obama had had a valid Social Security card "for at least 19 years".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2011/08/president_obama%E2%80%99s_uncle_had_social_security_id|title=President Obama's uncle had Social Security ID|author=Dave Wedge}}</ref> On November 30, 2012, the [[Board of Immigration Appeals]] remanded the immigration case to the [[Executive Office for Immigration Review]] for reconsideration of the original order of deportation, which was issued in 1986 and re-issued in 1992.<ref name="BostonGlobe12032012">{{Cite news  | last = Sacchetti | first = Maria | title = President Obama's uncle wins new bid to try to stay in US | url = https://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2012/12/04/president-obama-uncle-wins-new-bid-try-stay/EkbuNMEFER5sWrngSRWysL/story.html | work =The Boston Globe | date = December 3, 2012 | access-date = December 13, 2012}}</ref>

An immigration judge ruled on January 30, 2013, that Onyango Obama would receive a deportation hearing.<ref name="BostonGlobe01302013">{{Cite news  | last = Sacchetti | first = Maria | title = President Obama's uncle ordered to face deportation hearing Dec. 3 by immigration judge | url = https://www.boston.com/metrodesk/2013/01/30/president-obama-uncle-faces-hearing-fight-against-deportation/GcWYiYxEaMVdHSiyaefmIN/story.html | work =The Boston Globe | date = January 30, 2013 | access-date = January 31, 2013}}</ref> Onyango's attorneys said that his defense at the December 3, 2013, deportation hearing would be a reliance on the [[Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986]], because Onyango had resided in the U.S. since before January 1, 1972, the cutoff date of the 1986 [[amnesty]].<ref name="BosHerald01302013">{{Cite news |title=President's uncle fights for permanent residency  |last=Zaremba |first=John |url= http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2013/01/president_obamas_uncle_fights_permanent_residency |newspaper=Boston Herald |date=January 30, 2013 |access-date=January 31, 2013 |ref=BosHerald01302013}}</ref> At the hearing, Immigration Judge Leonard I. Shapiro ruled that Onyango was eligible for [[Permanent residence (United States)|permanent residence]] and would receive a [[Permanent residence (United States)|green card]].<ref name="BosGlobe12032013">{{Cite news |title=Obama's uncle allowed to remain in US, judge rules  |last=Sacchetti |first=Maria |url= https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/12/03/uncle-president-obama-faces-deportation-kenya-today/04hVnIqteh0BIfyMn22XzL/story.html?s_campaign=sm_tw |newspaper=[[The Boston Globe]] |location=Boston |date=December 3, 2013 |access-date=December 3, 2013 |ref=BosGlobe12032013}}</ref>

==={{anchor|Zeituni Onyango}} Zeituni Onyango (1952–2014)===
[[Zeituni Onyango]], half-aunt of Barack Obama,<ref name="MSNBC">{{Cite web |url=http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/10/31/1620851.aspx |title=First read, MSNBC |publisher=MSNBC |date=October 24, 2012 |access-date=March 24, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090212090203/http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/10/31/1620851.aspx |archive-date=February 12, 2009}}</ref> was born May 29, 1952, in [[Kenya]].<ref name="theaustralian">{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/3282348/Barack-Obamas-Kenyan-aunt-living-in-Boston-housing-project.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/3282348/Barack-Obamas-Kenyan-aunt-living-in-Boston-housing-project.html |archive-date=January 11, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Barack Obama's Kenyan aunt 'living in Boston housing project' |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=October 30, 2008 |access-date=February 6, 2012 |location=London}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Onyango is referred to as "Aunti Zeituni" in Obama's memoir ''[[Dreams from My Father]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://bostonherald.com/news/2008/view.bg?articleid=1128958&format=text |title=Boston Housing Authority 'flabbergastered' Barack Obama's aunt living in Southie |newspaper=Boston Herald |date=October 31, 2008 |access-date=March 24, 2013}}</ref> She entered the US in 2000 on a temporary visa with her son who was going to school; she applied in 2002 for political asylum due to unrest in Kenya and ethnic conflict. This was denied in 2004, but she remained in the country illegally. Her presence was leaked to the media during Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign. She was granted asylum in 2010. She died on April 7, 2014, from complications caused by cancer and respiratory problems.<ref>Frizell, Sam. [https://time.com/54320/barack-obama-aunt-dies-zeituni-onyango/ "Barack Obama's Aunt Has Died"], ''Time'', April 8, 2014.</ref>

==Michelle Obama's extended family==
[[File:Family of Barack Obama.jpg|thumb|Marian Robinson (second from right) makes an appearance with the rest of the immediate family of Barack Obama on the [[Blue Room (White House)|South Portico]] of the White House during festivities of the 2009 [[White House Easter Egg Roll]].]]
Barack Obama has called his wife [[Michelle Obama]] "the most quintessentially American woman I know".<ref name="soil"/> Her family is of African-American heritage, descendants of Africans and Europeans of the [[Colonial history of the United States|colonial era]] and [[Antebellum United States|antebellum]] eras.<ref name="soil"/> Michelle Obama's family history traces from colonists and [[Slavery in the United States|slavery]] in the South to [[Reconstruction era of the United States|Reconstruction]] to the [[Great Migration (African American)|Great Migration]] to northern cities, in her family's case, Cleveland and Chicago. Each of her four grandparents was multiracial.<ref name="swarns">[https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/us/dna-gives-new-insights-into-michelle-obamas-roots.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1& Rachel L. Swarns, "Meet Your Cousin, the First Lady: A Family Story, Long Hidden"], ''The New York Times'', June 16, 2012</ref> Some of Michelle's relatives still reside in [[South Carolina]]. Extended family from her mother's Shields ancestors also reside in Georgia and throughout the South.

==={{Anchor|Jim Robinson}}Jim Robinson===
Michelle's earliest known relative on her father's side is her great-great grandfather Jim Robinson, born in the 1850s, who was an American [[slavery|slave]] on the [[Friendfield Plantation]] in [[Georgetown, South Carolina]] in the [[South Carolina Lowcountry|Low Country]], where African Americans developed as the [[Gullah people]] and culture. The family believes that after the Civil War, he worked as a Friendfield [[sharecropper]] for the rest of his life. He is said to have been buried there in an unmarked grave.<ref name="soil"/>

Jim married twice, first to a woman named Louiser, with whom he had two sons, Gabriel and Fraser, Michelle Obama's great-grandfather. A daughter was born to the family, but her name has not been discovered, and she is believed to have died as a child. His second marriage to Rose Ella Cohen produced six more children. Fraser had an arm amputated as a result of a boyhood injury. He worked as a shoemaker, a newspaper salesman, and in a lumber mill.<ref name="soil"/> Carrie Nelson, Gabriel Robinson's daughter, is the keeper of family lore and the oldest living Robinson at 80 years old in 2008.<ref name="soil"/>

At least three of Michelle Obama's great-uncles served in the [[military of the United States]]. One aunt moved to [[Princeton, New Jersey]], where she worked as a maid. She cooked [[Soul food|Southern-style meals]] for Michelle and her brother Craig, when they were students at [[Princeton University]].

==={{Anchor|Melvinia Shields}}Melvinia Shields (1844–1938)===
The earliest known relative on her mother's side is her great-great-great-grandmother, Melvinia Shields (1844–1938), who was held as a slave on a farm in [[Clayton County, Georgia|Clayton County, North Georgia]]. Her master was Henry Walls Shields, who had a 200-acre farm near [[Rex, Georgia|Rex]]. He would have worked along with his slaves.<ref name="swarns"/> Melvinia became pregnant at about age 15 and had a biracial son, Dolphus T. Shields, born into slavery about 1860. Melvinia did not talk to relatives about his father.<ref name="NYT-maternal ancestry">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/08/us/politics/08genealogy.html?_r=1&hp|title=In First Lady's Roots, a Complex Path From Slavery|last=Swarns |first=Rachel L.|author2=Kantor, Jodi|date=October 7, 2009|work=The New York Times|access-date=October 8, 2009}}</ref> Based on DNA and other evidence, in 2012 researchers said the father was likely 20-year-old Charles Marion Shields, son of Melvinia's master.<ref name="swarns"/> After the Civil War, Dolphus Shields moved to [[Birmingham, Alabama]]. Charles later became a teacher and married a white woman. Michelle Obama's extended family has said that people didn't talk about slavery time while they were growing up.<ref name="swarns"/> Michelle Obama's distant ancestry also includes Irish and other European roots.<ref>{{Cite news|first=Meghan |last=Louttit |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/06/22/us/first-lady-family-q-and-a.html |title=The First Family: A New Glimpse of Michelle Obama's White Ancestors&nbsp;— Interactive Feature |location=Southern States (US) |work=The New York Times |date=June 22, 2012 |access-date=December 14, 2012}}</ref>

On June 26, 2012, a monument to Shields was erected in Rex, with an inscription summarizing her life and "a five-generation journey that began in oppression" resulting in her descendant becoming First Lady of the United States.<ref name="Bee">{{cite web|url=http://fox6now.com/2013/06/11/monument-to-michelle-obamas-ancestor-knocked-down/|title=Monument to Michelle Obama's ancestor knocked down|first=Trisha|last=Bee|date=June 11, 2013}}</ref> A year later, the monument was vandalized and knocked from its base, but was quickly replaced.<ref name="Bee"/>

=== {{Anchor|Marian Lois Robinson}}Marian Lois Robinson (1937–2024) ===
{{Main|Marian Shields Robinson}}
Marian Lois Robinson (born Marian Lois Shields, July 30, 1937, died May 31, 2024), was descended from Dolphus Shields and his wife. She married Michelle's father, [[Fraser Robinson]], on October 27, 1960.<ref>{{Cite web |author=Taylor Marsh |url=http://www.taylormarsh.com/archives_view.php?id=28286 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240525195605/https://www.webcitation.org/66VcuatLZ?url=http://www.taylormarsh.com/archives_view.php%3Fid=28286 |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 25, 2024 |title=Political Analysis, National Security and Breaking News |publisher=Taylor Marsh |date=August 25, 2008 |access-date=January 31, 2009}}</ref><ref name="radaronline.com">{{Cite news|url=http://www.radaronline.com/features/2008/07/john_mccain_barack_obama_michelle_cindy_dunham_roberta_wrigh_04.php |title=First Families: Radar introduces you to the next president's relatives |author=Lia LoBello |publisher=Radar Online |date=January 2, 2008 |access-date=January 28, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090123152110/http://www.radaronline.com/features/2008/07/john_mccain_barack_obama_michelle_cindy_dunham_roberta_wrigh_04.php |archive-date=January 23, 2009}}</ref> Robinson was formerly a secretary at [[Spiegel (catalog)|Spiegel catalog]] and a bank. While Michelle and Barack Obama were campaigning in 2008, Robinson tended the Obamas' young children. She continued to help care for them while living in the White House as part of the First Family;<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/09/obamas-mother-in-law-to-move-into-the-white-house/?hp | title=Obama's Mother-in-Law to Move Into the White House |author=Rachel L. Swarns |work=The New York Times |date=January 9, 2009|access-date=January 9, 2009}}</ref> she was the first live-in grandmother since Elivera M. Doud during the Eisenhower administration.<ref name="AFPfamilyaffair" /> Some media outlets dubbed Robinson as the "First Granny".<ref name="AFPfamilyaffair">{{Cite news| url=https://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gN_i2jrCVkJQgfMbSDRRrNk8U4Sw | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090123133928/http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gN_i2jrCVkJQgfMbSDRRrNk8U4Sw | url-status=dead | archive-date=January 23, 2009 | title=Will Obama mum-in-law make it a family affair in the White House? |agency=Agence France-Presse |date=November 22, 2008 |access-date=January 9, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/3407525/Michelle-Obama-persuades-First-Granny-to-join-new-White-House-team.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/3407525/Michelle-Obama-persuades-First-Granny-to-join-new-White-House-team.html |archive-date=January 11, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |author=Philip Sherwell|title=Michelle Obama persuades First Granny to join new White House team |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph (UK) |date=November 8, 2008 |access-date=January 9, 2009 |location=London}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Marian took Sasha and Malia to school daily.<ref>{{Cite news|title='First granny' embraces life in D.C|url=https://www.politico.com/story/2011/09/first-grandma-embraces-life-in-dc-061719|access-date=September 12, 2011|newspaper=Politico}}</ref> The Obamas announced her death on May 31, 2024.

==={{Anchor|Fraser Robinson III}}Fraser C. Robinson III (1935–1991)===
Michelle Obama's father (August 1, 1935 — March 6, 1991), married Michelle's mother, [[Marian Shields Robinson|Marian Shields]], on October 27, 1960.<ref name="radaronline.com"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=dowfam3&id=I105855 |title=RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project: Dowling Family Genealogy |publisher=Wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com |access-date=January 31, 2009}}</ref> Robinson was a pump worker at the City of Chicago water plant.<ref name="soil"/>

==={{anchor|Craig Robinson (basketball)}}Craig Robinson===
{{Main|Craig Robinson (basketball)}}
Craig Robinson, Michelle Obama's brother, was born in 1962. From 2008 until 2014, he served as [[head coach]] of men's basketball at [[Oregon State Beavers men's basketball|Oregon State University]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.osubeavers.com/sports/m-baskbl/mtt/robinson_craig00.html |title=Oregon State University Beavers: Craig Robinson bio |access-date=November 7, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121119100634/http://www.osubeavers.com/sports/m-baskbl/mtt/robinson_craig00.html |archive-date=November 19, 2012}}</ref>

==={{Anchor|Fraser Robinson Jr.}}Fraser Robinson Jr. (1912–1996)===
Michelle Obama's paternal grandfather was born on August 24, 1912, in [[Georgetown, South Carolina]], and died on November 9, 1996, aged 84. He was a good student and orator but moved from South Carolina to Chicago during the [[Great Migration (African American)|Great Migration]] to find better work and living conditions than in the South, where [[Jim Crow]] had been imposed and blacks were [[Disfranchisement after Reconstruction era|disfranchised]]. He became a worker for the [[United States Postal Service]]. He married LaVaughn Johnson. When he retired, they moved back to South Carolina.<ref name="soil"/>

==={{anchor|LaVaughn Dolores Johnson}}LaVaughn Dolores Johnson (1915–2002)===
Michelle Obama's paternal grandmother (February 6, 1915 – September 17, 2002) and married to Fraser Robinson Jr. She was born in Chicago, Illinois, to James Preston Johnson (1880–1920?) and Phoebe (1879–1920?).

==={{anchor|Robbie Shields Terry}}Robbie Shields Terry (1908–1983)===
Robbie Shields Terry (born Robbie Lee Shields; July 3, 1908 – June 1, 1983) was Michelle Obama's great-aunt: her mother's father's sister. In the 1940 census, she was listed as head of household,<ref>{{cite web |last1=Smolenyak |first1=Megan |title=Ancestors of Michelle Obama in the 1940 Census |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/megan-smolenyak-smolenyak/michelle-obama-genealogy_b_1427151.html |website=HuffPost |date=April 15, 2012 |access-date=November 25, 2018}}</ref> with [[Marian Shields Robinson|Marian Shields]] listed as niece.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KWYS-6MG |title=Robbie Shields, Ward 6, Chicago, Chicago City, Cook, Illinois, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 103-380, sheet 3B, line 60, family 56, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. |publisher= Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 933 |access-date=March 14, 2018}}</ref> Michelle Obama, in her memoir, ''[[Becoming (book)|Becoming]]'', introduces Robbie and her husband, Terry, in the first chapter.<ref name="York">{{cite book |last1=Obama |first1=Michelle |title=Becoming |url=https://archive.org/details/becoming0000obam |url-access=limited |date=2018 |publisher=Crown |location=New York |isbn=978-1-5247-6313-8 |page=[https://archive.org/details/becoming0000obam/page/n22 3] |edition=First}}</ref> Her nuclear family moved into a small apartment on the second floor in their house while she was still a young child.<ref name="York6">{{cite book |last1=Obama |first1=Michelle |title=Becoming |url=https://archive.org/details/becoming0000obam |url-access=limited |date=2018 |publisher=Crown |location=New York |isbn=978-1-5247-6313-8 |page=[https://archive.org/details/becoming0000obam/page/6 6] |edition=First}}</ref> Robbie was Michelle's piano teacher<ref name="York8">{{cite book |last1=Obama |first1=Michelle |title=Becoming |url=https://archive.org/details/becoming0000obam |url-access=limited |date=2018 |publisher=Crown |location=New York |isbn=978-1-5247-6313-8 |page=[https://archive.org/details/becoming0000obam/page/8 8] |edition=First}}</ref> as well as nearest neighbor. When she died, Robbie, a widow, left the house to her mother, [[Marian Shields Robinson|Marian]], and father, [[Fraser Robinson]], who moved downstairs.<ref name="York90">{{cite book |last1=Obama |first1=Michelle |title=Becoming |url=https://archive.org/details/becoming0000obam |url-access=limited |date=2018 |publisher=Crown |location=New York |isbn=978-1-5247-6313-8 |page=[https://archive.org/details/becoming0000obam/page/90 90] |edition=First}}</ref> Subsequently, Michelle moved into the second floor apartment while working at the law firm Sidley & Austin.<ref name="York95">{{cite book |last1=Obama |first1=Michelle |title=Becoming |url=https://archive.org/details/becoming0000obam |url-access=limited |date=2018 |publisher=Crown |location=New York |isbn=978-1-5247-6313-8 |page=[https://archive.org/details/becoming0000obam/page/95 95] |edition=First}}</ref> When Barack Obama settled in Chicago after graduating law school, he moved into this same apartment.<ref name="York130">{{cite book |last1=Obama |first1=Michelle |title=Becoming |url=https://archive.org/details/becoming0000obam |url-access=limited |date=2018 |publisher=Crown |location=New York |isbn=978-1-5247-6313-8 |page=[https://archive.org/details/becoming0000obam/page/130 130] |edition=First}}</ref>

==={{anchor|Capers Funnye}}Capers Funnye===
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Capers C. Funnye Jr. is Michelle Obama's first cousin once removed: his mother, Verdelle Robinson Funnye (born Verdelle Robinson; August 22, 1930 – April 16, 2000), was a sister of Michelle Obama's paternal grandfather, Fraser Robinson Jr. He is 12 years older, and Funnye and Obama grew to know each other as adults in Chicago, where both were involved in community organizing, along with Barack Obama. He is one of America's most prominent African-American rabbis, known for acting as a bridge between mainstream Jewry and African American Jews. He converted to Judaism after 1970, during years of activism when he regarded Christianity as having been imposed on slaves.<ref name="weiss">{{Cite news|first=Anthony |last=Weiss |title=Michelle Obama Has a Rabbi in Her Family |url=http://www.forward.com/articles/14121/ |work=[[The Forward]] |date=September 2, 2008 |access-date=October 9, 2008}}</ref>
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==Index==
*'''Key''':
**<u>Underscored</u>: <u>Now or once a member of Barack Obama's household</u>
**Personal name '''bolded:''' '''Living'''
*'''Note''': Every link in this index is to entries in this article

===By last name===
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*{{anchor|Baker}}Baker
**'''[[#Ruth Ndesandjo|Ruth]]'''
*{{anchor|Dunham}}Dunham
**[[#Ann Dunham|<u>Ann</u>]]
**[[#Jonathan Singletary Dunham|Jonathan]]
**[[#Madelyn Lee Payne Dunham|<u>Madelyn</u>]]
**[[#Ralph Dunham|Ralph]]
**[[#Stanley Armour Dunham|<u>Stanley</u>]]
*{{anchor|Funnye}}Funnye
**'''[[#Capers Funnye|Capers]]'''
*{{anchor|Ndesandjo}}Ndesandjo
**'''[[#Mark Ndesandjo|Mark]]'''
**'''[[#Ruth Ndesandjo|Ruth]]'''
*{{anchor|Ng}}Ng
** '''[[#Konrad Ng|Konrad]]'''
** [[#Maya Soetoro-Ng|<u>'''Maya'''</u>]]
*{{anchor|Obama}}Obama
** '''[[#Abo Obama|Abo]]'''
**'''[[#Auma Obama|Auma]]'''
**[[#Top|<u>'''Barack'''</u>]]
**[[#Barack Obama Sr.|Barack Sr.]]
**'''[[#Bernard Obama|Bernard]]'''
**'''[[#George Hussein Onyango Obama|George]]'''
**[[#Habiba Akumu Obama|Habiba Akumu]]
**'''[[#Hawa Auma Hussein (aunt of Barack Obama)|Hawa Auma]]'''
**[[#Hussein Onyango Obama|Hussein Onyango]]
**'''[[#Kezia Obama|Kezia]]'''
**[[#Malia and Sasha Obama|<u>'''Malia'''</u>]]
**'''[[#Malik Obama|Malik]]'''
**[[#Michelle Obama|<u>'''Michelle'''</u>]]
**'''[[#Omar Okech Obama|Omar Onyango]]'''
**'''[[#Sarah Obama (aunt of Barack Obama)|Sarah (aunt)]]'''
**'''[[#Sarah Onyango Obama|Sarah Onyango]]'''
**[[#Malia and Sasha Obama|<u>'''Sasha'''</u>]]
**'''[[#Said Obama|Sayid]]'''
**'''[[#Yusuf Obama|Yusuf]]'''
*{{anchor|Onyango}}Onyango
** '''[[#Zeituni Onyango|Zeituni]]'''
*{{anchor|Payne}}Payne
**[[#Charles T. Payne|Charles]]
**[[#Madelyn Lee Payne Dunham|<u>Madelyn</u>]]
**[[#Margaret Arlene Payne|Margaret]]
*{{anchor|Robinson}}Robinson
**'''[[#Craig Robinson (basketball)|Craig]]'''
**[[#Fraser Robinson III|Fraser III]]
**[[#Fraser Robinson Jr.|Fraser Jr.]]
**[[#Jim Robinson|Jim]]
**[[#Marian Lois Robinson|<u>'''Marian'''</u>]]
**[[#Michelle Obama|<u>'''Michelle'''</u>]]
*{{anchor|Soetoro}}Soetoro
**[[#Lolo Soetoro|<u>Lolo</u>]]
*{{anchor|Soetoro-Ng}}Soetoro-Ng
**[[#Maya Soetoro-Ng|<u>'''Maya'''</u>]]
*{{anchor|Wolfley}}Wolfley
**[[#Robert Wolfley|Robert]]
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===By first name===
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*'''[[#Abo Obama|Abo Obama]]'''
*[[#Ann Dunham|<u>Ann Dunham</u>]]
*'''[[#Auma Obama|Auma Obama]]'''
*[[#Top|<u>'''Barack Obama'''</u>]]
*[[#Barack Obama Sr.|Barack Obama Sr.]]
*'''[[#Bernard Obama|Bernard Obama]]'''
*'''[[#Capers Funnye|Capers Funnye]]'''
*[[#Charles T. Payne|Charles Payne]]
*'''[[#Craig Robinson (basketball)|Craig Robinson]]'''
*[[#David Ndesandjo|David Ndsandjo]]
*[[#Fraser Robinson III|Fraser Robinson III]]
*[[#Fraser Robinson Jr.|Fraser Robinson Jr.]]
*'''[[#George Hussein Onyango Obama|George Obama]]'''
*[[#Habiba Akumu Obama|Habiba Akumu Obama]]
*'''[[#Hawa Auma Hussein (aunt of Barack Obama)|Hawa Auma Obama]]'''
*[[#Hussein Onyango Obama|Hussein Onyango Obama]]
*[[#Jim Robinson|Jim Robinson]]
*[[#Jonathan Singletary Dunham|Jonathan Dunham]]
*'''[[#Konrad Ng|Konrad Ng]]'''
*[[#Lolo Soetoro|<u>Lolo Soetoro</u>]]
*[[#Madelyn Lee Payne Dunham|<u>Madelyn Dunham</u>]]
*[[#Malia and Sasha Obama|<u>'''Malia Obama'''</u>]]
*'''[[#Malik Obama|Malik Obama]]'''
*[[#Margaret Arlene Payne|Margaret Payne]]
*[[#Marian Lois Robinson|<u>'''Marian Robinson'''</u>]]
*[[#Maya Soetoro-Ng|<u>'''Maya Soetoro‑Ng'''</u>]]
*[[#Michelle Obama|<u>'''Michelle Obama'''</u>]]
*'''[[#Omar Okech Obama|Omar Obama / Onyango Obama (uncle)]]'''
*[[#Hussein Onyango Obama|Onyango Obama (grandfather)]]
*[[#Ralph Dunham|Ralph Dunham]]
*'''[[#Ruth Ndesandjo|Ruth Ndesandjo]]'''
*'''[[#Sarah Obama (aunt of Barack Obama)|Sarah Obama (aunt)]]'''
*'''[[#Sarah Onyango Obama|Sarah Onyango]]'''
*[[#Malia and Sasha Obama|<u>'''Sasha Obama'''</u>]]
*'''[[#Said Obama|Sayid Obama]]'''
*[[#Stanley Armour Dunham|<u>Stanley Dunham</u>]]
*'''[[#Yusuf Obama|Yusuf Obama]]'''
*'''[[#Zeituni Onyango|Zeituni Onyango]]'''
{{div col end}}
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==See also==
{{Portal|Biography|United States|Politics}}
*[[Family of Joe Biden]], Obama's vice president (2009–2017)
*[[Family of Kamala Harris]]
*[[List of African-American firsts]]
*[[List of African American U.S. state firsts]]
*[[New England Historic Genealogical Society]]

==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}

==External links==
{{Commons}}
*[http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/06/19/the_mystery_of_michelle_obamas_roots_114529.html "The Mystery of Michelle Obama's Roots"] (''[[Real Clear Politics]]'')
*[http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/galleries/barack_obama_and_his_daughters_malia_and_/barack_obama_and_his_daughters_malia_and_.html "Fashionable first daughters, Malia and Sasha"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090721174427/http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/galleries/barack_obama_and_his_daughters_malia_and_/barack_obama_and_his_daughters_malia_and_.html |date=July 21, 2009}} (''[[New York Daily News]]'' news photos)
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080825014523/http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1834628_1754174,00.html Barack Obama's Family Tree – Photo Essays – ''Time'']
*[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/22/AR2008082201679.html?hpid=topnews "Though Obama Had to Leave to Find Himself, It Is Hawaii That Made His Rise Possible"], by [[David Maraniss]]
*[http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/07/barack-obamas-1.html Barack Obama's Branch-y Family Tree] by [[Jake Tapper]]
*[http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/familytree/index.html "Obama Family Tree"] series, by Scott Fornek
*[http://www.americanancestors.org/ancestry-of-senator-barack-hussein-obama-jr/ "Notes on the Ancestry of Senator Barack Hussein Obama Jr."], by Gary Boyd Roberts
*[http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20080326/NEWS02/151343661 "Obama, Clinton and McCain have some famous relations"], by [[Associated Press]]
*[http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/07/16/michelle.obama.slaveroots/ "Tracking Michelle Obama's Slave Roots"], by [[Joe Johns]] and Justine Redman
*[http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/obamason.asp Satirical Onion article about Obama son misinterpreted as fact]
*{{NYTtopic|people/o/malia_obama|Malia Obama}}
*{{NYTtopic|people/o/sasha_obama|Sasha Obama}}
*[http://www.honoringourancestors.com/barack-obama.html "President Barack Obama's Roots"] by [[Megan Smolenyak]]
*[http://www.honoringourancestors.com/michelle-obama.html "Michelle Obama's Roots"] by [[Megan Smolenyak]]
*[http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0315/obamab.html "Obama's Irish family links] by [[RTÉ]]

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