Barack Obama - 44th president of the USA The 44th president and the first African- American president of the USA, Barack Obama was born on August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii. His mother was a white American, Ann Dunham from Wichita, Kansas, and his father Barack Obama Sr is a black Kenyan. Barack's mom and dad were college students at the University of Hawaii, when they met first. Unfortunately their marriage did not last long and got divorced in 1964, when Barack was 3 years old.