# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sarah-onyango-obama
# Generated: 2026-08-31T19:44:03.173Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sarah-onyango-obama"
name: "Sarah Onyango Obama"
slug: "sarah-onyango-obama"
description: "Sarah Onyango Obama was a Kenyan educator and philanthropist. She was the third wife of Hussein Onyango Obama, the paternal grandfather of U.S. president Barack Obama and helped raise his father, Barack Obama Sr. She was known by her short name as Sarah Obama and was sometimes referred to as Sarah Ogwel, Sarah Hussein Obama, or Sarah Anyango Obama. She lived in Nyang'oma Kogelo village, 48 km west of western Kenya's main city, Kisumu, on the edge of Lake Victoria."
tagline: "Kenyan educator and philanthropist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sarah_Obama_2014.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Educators"
  slug: "educators"
profileType:
  name: "Educator"
  slug: "educator"
birthDate: "1922"
deathDate: "2021-03-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.06
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.834056
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5132226/"
    handle:    "nm5132226"
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D8%A3%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%88_%D8%A3%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A7"
    title: "سارة أونيانجو أوباما"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%87_%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%88_%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A7"
    title: "ساره اونيانجو اوباما"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Onyango_Obama"
    title: "Sarah Onyango Obama"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Onyango_Obama"
    title: "Sarah Onyango Obama"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%B1%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B0%2C_%D0%A1%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0"
    title: "Обама, Сара"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24004768"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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