Barack Hussein Obama II was born on Aug. 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Really, people, Obama was born in the United States.
Obama’s father, Barack Obama Sr., is a native of the East African nation of Kenya. The elder Obama grew up herding goats in his hometown. But he was scholastically gifted and earned a scholarship that allowed him to attend college in the United States. While studying at the University of Hawaii in Manoa, Obama, Sr. met fellow student, Ann Durham. They married on Feb. 2, 1961 and Barack H. Obama II was born six months later.
