Family of Jeff Bezos
Family of American businessman Jeff Bezos
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The family of Jeff Bezos, who is an American business magnate, is active in business and philanthropy. Bezos and his former wife MacKenzie Scott co-founded Amazon.
Current regionFlorida, Houston, Texas and San Francisco, United States of America
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Jeff's mother and stepfather are the co-founders of the Bezos Family Foundation.
The family members have Danish-American and broader European-American ancestry, while having Mexican American and Cuban heritage through marriage and adoption.
Notable family members
- Ted Jorgensen (1944–2015) is the Danish-American biological father of Bezos.[1] Jorgensen was a unicycle hockey player as a youth, and a bicycle shop owner as an adult.[2][1] He left Bezos and his mother when Bezos was an infant.[1]
- Miguel Bezos (born 1945 or 1946[3]) is the step-father of Jeff Bezos.[4][5] He was born in Cuba[5] and moved to the United States in 1962.[6] He is the vice-president and the co-founder of the Bezos Family Foundation.[5]
- Jackie Bezos (1946-2025) is the mother of Jeff Bezos.[1] She was married to Jorgensen from 1963 to 1965.[1] She later married Miguel Bezos.[7]
- Mark Bezos (born 1967) is the half brother of Jeff Bezos.[8] He is a space tourist, a volunteer fire fighter, and former advertising executive.[9][10]
- Lauren Sánchez (born 1969) is Bezos’s second and current wife, marrying him in 2025. She is a former journalist and current philanthropist.[11] Sánchez is Mexican-American.[12]
- MacKenzie Scott (born 1970) is the former wife of Bezos, marrying him in 1993 and divorcing him in 2019.[13] Scott is a writer,[14] philanthropist,[15] and co-founder of Amazon.com.[16]
Other immediate family members
In popular culture
The family features in Brad Stone's 2013 book The Everything Store[21] and in the 2022 biographical film Bezos: The Beginning, directed by Khoa Le.[22] The film was based on the 2021 book Zero to Hero, Bezos: The Beginning (ISBN 979-8709873797).[23]
