Makiki is an area of Honolulu, Hawaii

Hawaii

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 located northeast of downtown Honolulu

Downtown Honolulu

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 generally stretching east to west from Punahou Street to Pensacola Street and north to south from Round Top Drive/Makiki Heights Drive to Lunalilo Freeway. Punchbowl

Punchbowl Crater

Punchbowl Crater is an extinct volcanic tuff cone located in Honolulu, Hawaii. It is the location of the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific....

, an extinct tuff cone, and Tantalus

Tantalus (Oahu)

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, tower over the Makiki neighborhood. The geographic layout of this area is primarily older houses, smaller apartment buildings, and side streets. Major roadways include Punahou Street, Pensacola Street, Piikoi Street, Nehoa Street, and Wilder Avenue. The area also includes a fire station, hospital, public school system, private schools including Punahou School

Punahou School

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, several churches of various denominations, a library, a community center, market place, and parks.

Two Makiki community organizations, Hui o Makiki and Friends of Makiki Community Library, have partnered together to create a Makiki Community Website with information about educational, cultural, recreational, and social-service offerings in the Makiki area, including a calendar of events.

Notable residents

• Barack Obama
  Barack Obama
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   was born in Makiki at Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women & Children
  Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women & Children
  Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children is part of Hawaii Pacific Health's network of hospitals. It is located in Honolulu, Hawaii, within the residential inner city district of Makiki...
  
   and lived in Makiki for much of his childhood and adolescence, attending Punahou School
  Punahou School
  Punahou School, once known as Oahu College, is a private, co-educational, college preparatory school located in Honolulu CDP, City and County of Honolulu in the U.S. State of Hawaii...
  
  . His maternal grandparents, Stanley Armour
  Stanley Armour Dunham
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   and Madelyn Dunham
  Madelyn Dunham
  Madelyn Lee Payne Dunham was the American maternal grandmother of Barack Obama, the 44th and current President of the United States of America...
  
  , rented an apartment in Makiki in which Obama lived mostly in his childhood.
• Brian Schatz, Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii
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  , resides in the district.
• Bruno Mars
  Bruno Mars
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  , President Theodore Roosevelt High School
  President Theodore Roosevelt High School
  President Theodore Roosevelt High School is a public, co-educational college preparatory high school of the Hawaii State Department of Education and serves grades nine through twelve...
  
  , R&B Singer.