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Benjamin Graham

1894 - 1976

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Benjamin Graham (; né Grossbaum; May 9, 1894 – September 21, 1976) was a British-born American financial analyst, economist, accountant, investor and professor. He is widely known as the "father of value investing", and wrote two of the discipline's founding texts: Security Analysis (1934) with David Dodd, and The Intelligent Investor (1949). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Benjamin Graham has received more than 2,080,532 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia. Benjamin Graham is the 58th most popular economist (down from 35th in 2019), the 557th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 385th in 2019) and the 12th most popular British Economist.

Benjamin Graham is most famous for his book The Intelligent Investor, which is a book on value investing.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Benjamin Graham ranks 58 out of 414. Before him are Tansu Çiller, Werner Sombart, Bertil Ohlin, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Douglass North, and Johann Heinrich von Thünen. After him are Wang Anshi, Theodore Schultz, Oliver E. Williamson, Irving Fisher, Franco Modigliani, and Robert Mundell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Benjamin Graham ranks 29. Before him are Satyendra Nath Bose, Heinrich Lübke, Alexander Oparin, Pyotr Kapitsa, Otto Grotewohl, and Hermann Oberth. After him are Kim Hyong-jik, Fyodor Tolbukhin, Arthur Nebe, Kōnosuke Matsushita, Wilhelm Bittrich, and Karl Böhm. Among people deceased in 1976, Benjamin Graham ranks 33. Before him are Trofim Lysenko, Gustav Heinemann, Alexander Calder, Rudolf Bultmann, Juscelino Kubitschek, and Dalton Trumbo. After him are Lars Onsager, Émile Benveniste, Anneliese Michel, Tove Ditlevsen, Andrei Grechko, and Prince Paul of Yugoslavia.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Benjamin Graham ranks 557 out of 8,785. Before him are Jane Seymour (1951), Thomas Cranmer (1489), Christian Bale (1974), David II of Scotland (1324), Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet (1892), and David J. Thouless (1934). After him are Philip Miller (1691), Thomas Wolsey (1473), Bill Nighy (1949), Hugh Laurie (1959), James Parkinson (1755), and Christopher Tolkien (1924).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United Kingdom

Among economists born in United Kingdom, Benjamin Graham ranks 12. Before him are Alfred Marshall (1842), John Law (1671), William Petty (1623), Ronald Coase (1910), William Stanley Jevons (1835), and John Hicks (1904). After him are Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877), James Mill (1773), Thomas Mun (1571), Richard Stone (1913), Joan Robinson (1903), and Harriet Martineau (1802).

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