Barack Hussein Obama II is an American politician and attorney who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017.
- Barack Obama, the 44th President of the U.S., was the first African American to hold the office and the first born outside of the continental U.S.
- Just 9 months after his inauguration, Barack Obama was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
- Barack Obama's late father was a senior economist for the Kenyan government.
- Barack Obama won a Grammy in 2006 for the audio version of his memoir, "Dreams From My Father."
- President Obama has read every Harry Potter book.
- Barack Obama was the first sitting U.S. president to visit a federal prison.
- Obama was the first sitting U.S. president to visit Cuba in almost a century.
- In his first few days in office, Barack Obama ordered the closing of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, but Congress prevented it.
- Barack Obama had the most followers on Twitter of any world leader in his last year in power, 2016.
- There's an Obama Fried Chicken (OFC) in China.
- Famous left-handed people include Napoleon, Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Einstein, Newton, Bill Gates, Oprah, Obama and Jimi Hendrix.
- In 2012, a Somali Islamist militant group offered a bounty of 10 camels for President Obama and
- 2 for information on Hillary Clinton.
- President Obama used to call UK's PM David Cameron "bro".
- In 1961, Robert F Kennedy said the U.S. would have a black president within 40 years.
- Barack Obama was the first sitting U.S. president to visit Hiroshima, 71 years after the atomic bomb.
- Barack Obama was the first president who mentioned gay rights or the word "gay" in an inaugural address.
- Barack Obama was the first sitting President to publish an academic paper.
- Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, the first President from that State.
- Favorable views of the U.S. around the world rose from a median of 51% in George W. Bush's final year in office to 66% during Obama's final 2 years.
- The Obama administration deported more people than any other president's administration in history.
- In 2015, President Obama made it legal for Americans to own asteroids.
- More species have been named after Barack Obama than any other U.S. president.
- Before becoming "Posh Spice", Victoria Beckham used to dress up as a sperm for a BBC sex education show.
- Barack Obama scooped ice cream in high school.