Steve Ballmer
Steve Ballmer · Economics & Business
Former Microsoft CEO
1956, Detroit, Michigan, USA
United States
Steve Ballmer is recognized among Jewish contributors to Economics & Business — Former Microsoft CEO
Ballmer joined Microsoft in 1980 as its first business manager and served as CEO from 2000 to 2014, presiding over major revenue growth; he later bought the NBA's Los Angeles Clippers. His mother, Beatrice Dworkin, was Ashkenazi Jewish (family from Belarus and Poland) and his father a Swiss immigrant; Ballmer describes himself as an ethnic Jew and had a bar mitzvah in 2015.
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Former Microsoft CEO
Source: Forbes Billionaire 2025
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