Steve Jobs, who died at 56 on Oct. 5, 2011, was the No. 1 name of the year, according to the Global Language Monitor. Citations for Jobs topped those for Osama bin-Laden and Seal Team by more than 30 per cent.

Steve Jobs was born in San Francisco on Feb. 24, 1955, and adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs of Mountain View, California. In 1974, Jobs took a job at videogame company Atari Inc. but resigned after a few months to travel to India. In 1975, Jobs and his high school friend Steve Wozniak built a prototype computer in the garage of Jobs' parents. In 1976, Jobs and Wozniak co-founded Apple Computer to sell their machines, starting with the Apple I. In 1986, Jobs bought the computer graphics division of Lucasfilm Ltd, the company owned by Star Wars director George Lucas, and founded what would become Pixar Animation Studios.

In 1997, Jobs became Apple's interim chief executive. In 1998, the iMac was launched, a self-contained computer and monitor. The first iPod went on sale in October 2001 and proved a huge success. The iTunes music store was launched in April 2003. In 2007, the first iPhone launched, And Jobs decided to drop the computer part of Apple's name. The iPad was launched in April 2010 and three million units were sold in 80 days. Nearly 15 million iPads were sold worldwide by the end of the year. Apple's annual sales reach US$65 billion -- a huge rise from US$8 billion in 2000. In 2011, Apple continued to roll out new products to great demand including the iPad 2 and the iPhone 4.

In 2004, Jobs announced that he was suffering from pancreatic cancer and he had a liver transplant in 2009. In January, he took medical leave, before resigning as CEO in August and handing over his duties to Tim Cook. He introduced the colorful iMac computer, the iPod and the iPhone to the world. His death came just a day after Apple unveiled its latest iPhone 4S model. Apple -- whose market value is estimated at US$351 billion -- is now the world's most valuable technology company. As the face of Apple, Jobs represented its dedication to high-end technology and fashionable design.

據美國全球語言監測機構公布，喬布斯占到了2011年度熱門名字的首位。提到喬布斯的媒體比提到本?拉登和海豹突擊隊的高出30個百分點。喬布斯于2011年10月5日辭世，享年56歲。

1955年2月24日史蒂夫?喬布斯在舊金山出生，之后在加州山景城被保羅?喬布斯和克拉拉?喬布斯收養。1974年，在視頻游戲公司Atari工作了幾個月后，他辭職開始獨自在印度旅行。1975年，喬布斯和朋友史蒂夫?沃茲尼亞克在父母的車庫內組裝了第一臺電腦樣機。1976年，他們合伙建立了蘋果電腦公司，并推出了蘋果第一代電腦Apple I。喬布斯在1986年收購了星球大戰導演喬治?盧卡斯名下的Lucasfilm Ltd計算機圖形部門，然后在此基礎上組建了皮克斯動畫工作室。

1997年，喬布斯被任命為蘋果臨時CEO。1998年，蘋果推出的主機一體機iMac電腦。2001年10月，蘋果推出iPod并大獲成功。2003年4月，蘋果推出iTunes音樂商店。2007年，蘋果推出首部iPhone。喬布斯宣布蘋果電腦公司更名為蘋果公司。2010年4月，蘋果發布iPad平板電腦，在推出后80多天就賣出了300萬臺。截至2010年年底，全球共賣出了近1500萬臺。蘋果年銷售額高達到650億美元，相比2000年的80億有了巨大增長。2011年，在巨大的需求之下，蘋果不斷推出新產品，包括iPad 2和iPhone 4。

2004年，喬布斯宣布他患了胰腺癌，2009年他做了換肝手術。2011年1月，他開始休病假。8月，他辭掉蘋果CEO，將職務移交給蒂姆?庫克。是他將多彩的iMac電腦、iPod播放器和iPhone手機帶給了世界，而他也在蘋果剛剛發布最新款的iPhone 4S手機一天后匆匆離世。蘋果公司市值約3510億美元，是世界上最值錢的科技公司。該公司致力于追求高端技術和時尚設計；而作為蘋果的靈魂人物，喬布斯更是這種精神的典范。