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Who are barack obama's parents?

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His family are members of the Luo ethnic group. His father was Onyango (later Hussein) Obama (c. 1895–1979), and his mother was Habiba Akumu Nyanjango of Karabondi, Kenya, Onyango's second wife. They had two daughters and a son together, Barack Obama (Sr). read more

Stanley Ann Dunham (November 29, 1942 – November 7, 1995) was an American anthropologist who specialized in the economic anthropology and rural development of Indonesia. She was the mother of Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States. read more

Barack Obama’s stepfather Lolo Soetoro; biological mother Ann Dunham; and half-sister Maya Soetoro-Ng (Ann Dunham married Lolo Soetoro, from Indonesia, after she and Barack Sr. were divorced. read more

Obama's parents met in 1960 in a Russian language class at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where his father was a foreign student on scholarship. The couple married in Wailuku, Hawaii on February 2, 1961, six months before Obama was born. read more

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