# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/madelyn-dunham
# Generated: 2026-09-03T12:24:16.240Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/madelyn-dunham"
name: "Madelyn Dunham"
slug: "madelyn-dunham"
description: "Madelyn Lee Payne Dunham was an American banker and the maternal grandmother of Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States. She and her husband Stanley Armour Dunham raised Obama from age ten in their Honolulu apartment. She died on November 2, 2008, two days before her grandson was elected president."
tagline: "Maternal grandmother of Barack Obama (1922-2008)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/Madelyn_Dunham_with_Ann_Dunham_and_Stanley_Armour_Dunham.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1922-10-26"
deathDate: "2008-11-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.48
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.075004
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madelyn_Dunham"
    title: "Madelyn Dunham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86_%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%85"
    title: "مادلین دونهام"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%84%D5%A5%D5%A4%D5%A5%D5%AC%D5%A1%D5%B5%D5%B6_%D4%B4%D5%A1%D5%B6%D5%B0%D5%A5%D5%B4"
    title: "Մեդելայն Դանհեմ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%85%D1%8D%D0%BC%2C_%D0%9C%D1%8D%D0%B4%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BD"
    title: "Данхэм, Мэдлин"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madelyn_Lee_Payne"
    title: "Madelyn Lee Payne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%91%AA%E5%BE%B7%E8%93%AE%E9%84%A7%E7%B4%8D%E5%A7%86"
    title: "瑪德蓮鄧納姆"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%91%AA%E5%BE%B7%E7%90%B3%C2%B7%E6%9D%8E%C2%B7%E6%BD%98%E6%81%A9%C2%B7%E9%84%A7%E7%B4%8D%E5%A7%86"
    title: "瑪德琳·李·潘恩·鄧納姆"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2856311"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump