Ajamu Baraka (born 1953), human rights activist and 2016 candidate for Vice President of the United States Amiri Baraka (1934–2014), American writer Ras J. Baraka (born 1970), American politician and current mayor of Newark, New Jersey Al-Said Barakah (1260–1280), Mamluk Sultan Barack Obama, Sr. (1934–1982), born Baraka Obama, Kenyan father of U.S. President Barack Obama Umm Ayman, a female companion of Muhammad