Barack Hussein Obama

The 44th President of The United States

January 20, 2009 - Jan. 19, 2017

• Barack Obama was born on August 4, 1961 at the Kapi'olani Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. In Swahili, his name "Barack" means "one who is blessed." He was the first President to be born in the State of Hawaii.
• Some people asserted that Hawaii was not actually a state when he was born.
• Because his birth certificate had not been made available to the general public, some believed that Barack Obama Jr. was born in Africa, not in the United States.