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rolf: Yes, he's half Syrian-half American. "Steve Jobs was born in San Francisco to American Joanne Carole Schieble and Syrian Abdulfattah John Jandali, a graduate student who later became a political science professor. One week after birth, Jobs was put up for adoption by his unmarried mother, who was also in graduate school. He was adopted by Paul and Clara (née Hagopian) Jobs of Mountain View, Santa Clara County, California. They gave him the name Steven Paul Jobs."
I also remember with Elephants Dream (world's first open-source movie), I was watching the documentary, and the director of the movie was called Bassam Kurdali, first I thought he was Lebanese, but he turned to be an American from Syrian origins as well.
Check it out:
http://orange.blender.org/theteam
Paula Abdul and Jerry Seinfeld are also Syrian Americans. (Paula's father is a Syrian Jew, and Jerry's mother as well).