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FAMOUS PEOPPLE OF UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

Barack Hussein Obama II ( born August 4, 1961) is an
American politician serving as the 44th President of the United
States. He is the first African American to hold the office, as
well as the first president born outside of the continental United
States. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Obama is a graduate of
Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he
served as president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a
community organizer in Chicago before earning his law
degree. He worked as a civil rights attorney and taught
constitutional law at University of Chicago Law School
between 1992 and 2004. He served three terms representing
the 13th District in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004, and
ran unsuccessfully in the Democratic primary for the United
States House of Representatives in 2000 against incumbent
Bobby Rush.

Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr.;

January 17, 1942 June 3, 2016) was an American
Olympic and professional boxer and activist. He is
widely regarded as one of the most significant and
celebrated sports figures of the 20th century. From
early in his career, Ali was known as an inspiring,
controversial and polarizing figure both inside and
outside the ring.
Cassius Clay was born and raised in Louisville,
Kentucky, and began training as a boxer when he
was 12 years old. At 18, he won the Light
Heavyweight gold medal in the 1960 Summer
Olympics in Rome, and converted to Islam shortly afterwards. At 22, he won the WBC and WBA
heavyweight championships from Sonny Liston in an upset in 1964. Clay then changed his legal
name from Cassius Clay, which he called his "slave name", to Muhammad Ali, and gave a message
of racial pride for African Americans and resistance to white domination during the 1960s Civil Rights
Movement

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Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 June 25,

was an American singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer,
actor. Called the King of Pop, his contributions to music,
and fashion along with his publicized personal life made him a
figure in popular culture for over four decades.

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