Steve Jobs Biography:

Youth: 

The Jobs family

Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, in the city of San Francisco. His 

biological mother was an unwed graduate student named Joanne Simpson, 

and his biological father was either a political science or mathematics 

professor, a native Syrian named Abdulfattah John Jandali.

Being born out of wedlock in the puritan America of the 1950s, the baby 

was put up for adoption. Joanne had a college education, and she insisted 

that the future parents of her boy be just as well educated. Unfortunately, 

the candidates, Paul and Clara Jobs, did not meet her expectations: they 

were a lower-middle class couple that had settled in the Bay Area after the 

war. Paul was a machinist from the Midwest who had not even graduated 

from high school. In the end, Joanne agreed to have her baby adopted by 

them, under the !rm condition that they later send him to college.

Paul and Clara called their new son Steven Paul. While Steve was still a 

toddler, the couple moved to the Santa Clara county, later to be known as 

Silicon Valley. They adopted another baby, a girl called Patti.