Jeff Bezos

Described as

American business magnate (born 1964)

Other names

Jeffrey Jorgensen, Jeff Jorgensen, Jeffrey Preston Bezos, Jeffrey Bezos, Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen

Born

January 12, 1964 · 6 references

Born in

Albuquerque · 3 references

Name at birth

Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen · 1 reference

Citizen of

United States

Occupation

computer scientist; entrepreneur · 2 references; commercial astronaut; business oligarch; programmer · 1 reference

Positions held

chief executive officer (1996–2021) · 2 references; chairperson of the executive board

Worked for

Amazon (1994–); Bankers Trust (1988–1990); D.E. Shaw (1990–1994); First International Telecom

Education

Princeton University (1982–1986); Miami Palmetto High School · 1 reference; River Oaks Elementary School

Member of

American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2012–); Phi Beta Kappa Society; National Academy of Engineering (2018–)

Awards

The James Smithson Bicentennial Medal (2016); Time Person of the Year (1999); Axel Springer Award (2018); Heinlein Prize for Advances in Space Commercialization · 1 reference; Logistics Hall of Fame (2017); Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Time 100 (2 times) (2017, 2018) · 1 reference; Knight of the Legion of Honour (2023) · 3 references; Innovation Prize of the German Economy; Gerard K. O’Neill Memorial Award (2018) · 1 reference; World Space Award (2025) · 1 reference

Spouse

MacKenzie Scott (1992–2019) · 1 reference; Lauren Sánchez (2025–) · 1 reference

Children

Preston Bezos; second son of Jeff Bezos; third son of Jeff Bezos

Father

Ted Jorgensen

Mother

Jackie Bezos · 1 reference

Siblings

Mark Bezos

Religion

irreligion · 1 reference

Lived in

Medina · 1 reference

Wikipedias with a page

116

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Jeffrey Preston Bezos ( BAY-zohss; né Jorgensen; born January 12, 1964) is an American businessman, and the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce and cloud computing company. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index and Forbes, he was the world's wealthiest person from 2017 to 2021, and in 2026, his net worth was approximately US$284 billion. He is commonly considered part of the global elite.
Bezos was born in Albuquerque, and raised in Houston and Miami. He graduated from Princeton University in 1986 with a degree in engineering. He worked on Wall Street in a variety of related fields from 1986 to early 1994. He founded Amazon in mid-1994 on a road trip from New York City to Seattle. The company began as an online bookstore and expanded to a variety of other e-commerce products and services, including video and audio streaming, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. It is the world's largest online sales company, the largest Internet company by revenue, and the largest provider of virtual assistants and cloud infrastructure services through its Amazon Web Services branch.
Bezos founded the aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company Blue Origin in 2000, and he flew into space on Blue Origin NS-16 in 2021. He purchased the major American newspaper The Washington Post in 2013 and manages many other investments through his venture capital firm, Bezos Expeditions.
The first centibillionaire on the Forbes Real Time Billionaires Index, Bezos was named the "richest man in modern history" after his net worth increased to $150 billion in July 2018 (equivalent to $1.9×1011 in 2025). On July 5, 2021, Bezos took over the role of executive chairman and stepped down as the CEO and president of Amazon, succeeded by Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy.

Born, in its opening lines

January 12, 1964

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