Interesting Facts
- He won a Grammy Award in 2006 for Best Spoken Word Recording. It was for the audio version of his book Dreams From My Father
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- He and his wife bought a house in Chicago in 2005. Back then it cost $1.65 million. The house has 4 fireplaces.(picture)
- Daughter Malia's godmother is Jesse Jackson's daughter Santita
- He says his worst habit is constantly checking his BlackBerry
- He uses an Apple Mac laptop
- He drives a Ford Escape Hybrid, having ditched his gas-guzzling Chrysler 300
- He wears $1,500 (£952) Hart Schaffner Marx suits
- He owns four identical pairs of black size 11 shoes
- He has his hair cut once a week by his Chicago barber, Zariff, who charges $21 (£13)
- His favourite fictional television programmes are Mash and The Wire
- He was given the code name "Renegade" by his Secret Service handlers
- He was nicknamed "Bar" by his late grandmother
- He plans to install a basketball court in the White House grounds (He did it)
- His favourite artist is Pablo Picasso
- His speciality as a cook is chilli
- He has said many of his friends in Indonesia were "street urchins"
- He keeps on his desk a carving of a wooden hand holding an egg, a Kenyan symbol of the fragility of life
- His late father was a senior economist for the Kenyan government
- Barack made Time magazine's list of 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2005 & 2007.
