What was the name of Steve Jobs’s wife, whom he married in 1991?

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Steve Jobs married Laurene Powell in 1991.

Laurene Powell and Steve Jobs married on March 18, 1991, in a Buddhist ceremony at Yosemite National Park. The ceremony was conducted by the Zen Buddhist monk Kobun Chino Otogawa, who had been an important spiritual influence on Jobs.

Powell Jobs and Jobs had three children: Reed, Erin, and Eve. Jobs also had a daughter, Lisa Brennan-Jobs, from an earlier relationship. Powell Jobs later became a prominent philanthropist and founded Emerson Collective, an organization active in education, immigration, environmental work, and social reform.

Her name is often given as Laurene Powell Jobs, but “Laurene Powell” is the concise name requested here. She should not be confused with Jobs’s biological mother, Joanne Schieble, or his biological sister, the novelist Mona Simpson.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Sept. 2026

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