What was Steve Jobs’s full birth name?

Steve Jobs’s full birth name was Steven Paul Jobs.

He was born on February 24, 1955, in San Francisco, California, to Joanne Schieble and Abdulfattah Jandali. His biological parents placed him for adoption, and Paul and Clara Jobs adopted him; they raised him in the area that later became central to Silicon Valley’s technology culture.

Jobs was generally known publicly as Steve Jobs, although his formal given name was Steven. The spelling “Steven,” rather than “Stephen,” is part of his documented name and is a common point of confusion. His middle name was Paul, shared with his adoptive father, Paul Jobs.

Jobs later became co-founder and chief executive of Apple, co-founder and chairman of Pixar, and founder of NeXT. Those later achievements often dominate biographies, but his official birth name belongs to the earliest part of his story, before his adoption and childhood in California.