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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 economist, professor and investor. He is widely known as the "father of value investing", and wrote two of the founding texts in neoclassical investing: 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 1,538,613 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Benjamin Graham is the 44th most popular economist (up from 68th in 2019), the 499th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 593rd in 2019) and the 11th 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 44 out of 315. Before him are Werner Sombart, Oliver E. Williamson, Bernard Mandeville, John Hicks, Gary Becker, and Alexander Hamilton. After him are Thorstein Veblen, Kenneth Arrow, James Tobin, Frédéric Bastiat, Maurice Allais, and W. Edwards Deming.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Benjamin Graham ranks 23. Before him are Alfred Kinsey, Gala Dalí, Moshe Sharett, Dietrich von Choltitz, Isaac Babel, and Martha Graham. After him are Hermann Oberth, Dashiell Hammett, Arthur Nebe, Pyotr Kapitsa, Kiichiro Toyoda, and Otto Grotewohl. Among people deceased in 1976, Benjamin Graham ranks 26. Before him are Henrik Dam, Joachim Peiper, Eyvind Johnson, Jacques Monod, Raymond Queneau, and Rudolf Bultmann. After him are Zhu De, Leopold Ružička, Choe Yong-gon, Anneliese Michel, Juscelino Kubitschek, and Gustav Heinemann.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Benjamin Graham ranks 499 out of 6,924. Before him are James Bradley (1693), William Shockley (1910), Arthur Balfour (1848), Jerome K. Jerome (1859), Nicholas Winton (1909), and Banksy (1970). After him are Eadwig (940), Kate Bush (1958), Eadred (923), Christopher Tolkien (1924), Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia (1596), and Sweyn II of Denmark (1020).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United Kingdom

Among economists born in United Kingdom, Benjamin Graham ranks 11. Before him are David Ricardo (1772), Alfred Marshall (1842), John Law (1671), William Petty (1623), Ronald Coase (1910), and John Hicks (1904). After him are William Stanley Jevons (1835), Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877), James Mill (1773), Thomas Mun (1571), Richard Stone (1913), and James Meade (1907).

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