Stanley Dunham's distant cousins include six U.S. presidents - and another president who is Dunham's grandson: James Madison, Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush, plus Barack Obama, his grandson.

Malia Ann, a newcomer to Hollywood, is the older daughter of a very famous United States couple. She decided to ditch her last name in a bid to have a fresh start as a filmmaker and an individual. Malia Ann is actually Malia Obama, the oldest daughter of former US president and first lady, Barack and Michelle Obama.

Obama chose to stay with his grandparents in Honolulu to continue his studies at Punahou School for his high school years. In his memoir Obama describes his experiences growing up in his mother's middle class family.

Dunham was born on November 29, 1942, at St. Francis Hospital in Wichita, Kansas, the only child of Madelyn Lee Payne and Stanley Armour Dunham. She was of predominantly English ancestry, with small amounts of Scottish, Welsh, Irish, German and Swiss-German. Wild Bill Hickok was her sixth cousin, five times removed.