On February 24, 1955, Steven Paul Jobs was born to Joanne Carole Schieble and Abdulfattah Jandali in San Francisco, California. Abdul Lateef Jandali, according to his relative Bassma Al Jandaly, was his real name at birth. Clara and Paul Reinhold Jobs adopted him.

In Homs, Syria, Abdulfattah “John” Jandali was born and reared in a Muslim Arab family. He was a political activist while a student at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon.

He was jailed for his political involvement. At the University of Wisconsin, where he was pursuing his Ph.D., he met Joanne Schieble, an American Catholic of German and Swiss ancestry.

Jandali, who was the same age as Schieble, was a Ph.D. student working as a teaching assistant for a class Schieble was enrolled in. Jobs’ actual sister, the novelist Mona Simpson, mentioned that Schieble’s Catholic parents disapproved of her relationship with a Muslim.

Schieble’s dying father allegedly “threatened to disown her if she wed Abdulfattah,” which is why they remained an unmarried pair, according to Jobs’s biographer Walter Isaacson.

Are Steve Jobs’ adoptive parents still alive?

Steve Jobs’ adoptive parents, Paul and Clara Jobs passed away. The interest in electronics and manual labor that Steve Jobs developed as a result of his father, Coast Guard veteran and former machinist Paul Jobs, who worked for a firm that made lasers, is entirely attributable to Paul Jobs. Clara Jobs worked as a CPA. Paul passed away in 1993, seven years after she had, in 1986.

What was their cause of death?

Not much is known about Paul and Clara Jobs’ cause of death.