Madelyn Dunham, American grandmother of Barack Obama (d. 2008)
Madelyn Lee Payne Dunham ( DUN-əm; October 26, 1922 – November 2, 2008) was the American maternal grandmother of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States. She and her husband Stanley Armour Dunham raised Obama from age ten in their Honolulu apartment, where on November 2, 2008, she died two days before her grandson was elected president.