# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/zeituni-onyango
# Generated: 2026-08-31T19:38:28.623Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/zeituni-onyango"
name: "Zeituni Onyango"
slug: "zeituni-onyango"
description: "Zeituni Onyango was the half-aunt of United States President Barack Obama; she was born into the Luo tribe in Kenya. Born during the British rule of the Protectorate of Kenya, Onyango was the half-sister of Barack Obama Sr., father to the president. The younger Obama refers to her as \"Aunti Zeituni\" in his 1995 memoir, Dreams from My Father. In 2002 she applied for political asylum in the United States but was denied. She became notable when her case was leaked in the final days of the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign in which Barack Obama was the Democratic candidate, attracting international media attention."
tagline: "Relative of Barack Obama"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1952-05-29"
deathDate: "2014-04-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.95
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.278150666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeituni_Onyango"
    title: "Zeituni Onyango"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B2%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86%D9%89_%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%88"
    title: "زيتونى اونيانجو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeituni_Onyango"
    title: "Zeituni Onyango"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%9D%E5%9D%A6%E5%A6%AE%C2%B7%E5%A5%A5%E5%B0%BC%E5%AE%89%E6%88%88"
    title: "丝坦妮·奥尼安戈"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeituni_Onyango"
    title: "Zeituni Onyango"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeituni_Onyango"
    title: "Zeituni Onyango"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8068634"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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