ECONOMIST

Harry Markowitz

1927 - 2023

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Harry Max Markowitz (August 24, 1927 – June 22, 2023) was an American economist who received the 1989 John von Neumann Theory Prize and the 1990 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Markowitz was a professor of finance at the Rady School of Management at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Harry Markowitz has received more than 795,506 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Harry Markowitz is the 71st most popular economist (up from 81st in 2019), the 984th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,041st in 2019) and the 18th most popular American Economist.

Harry Markowitz is most famous for his contributions to the theory of portfolio optimization, which is the process of constructing a portfolio with the best possible risk-adjusted return for a given level of risk.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Harry Markowitz ranks 71 out of 414. Before him are Cornelius Castoriadis, Trygve Haavelmo, Ben Bernanke, Kenneth Arrow, Arthur Cecil Pigou, and Nikolai Kondratiev. After him are Leonid Hurwicz, James Tobin, Henry Mintzberg, John Kenneth Galbraith, W. Edwards Deming, and Eugen Dühring.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Harry Markowitz ranks 45. Before him are Angelo Sodano, Robert Ludlum, Daniel Keyes, Hugo Pratt, Don Shirley, and Harry Mulisch. After him are Hans-Dietrich Genscher, George Andrew Olah, Maurice Ronet, Sydney Brenner, Stan Getz, and F. Sherwood Rowland. Among people deceased in 2023, Harry Markowitz ranks 65. Before him are Ahmed Qurei, Mark Margolis, Astrud Gilberto, Dubravka Ugrešić, Alain Touraine, and Gianluca Vialli. After him are Cormac McCarthy, Tony Bennett, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Gordon Moore, Mary Quant, and Elliott Erwitt.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Harry Markowitz ranks 984 out of 20,380. Before him are John Archibald Wheeler (1911), Richard Dreyfuss (1947), Jonathan Demme (1944), Marilyn vos Savant (1946), Queen Noor of Jordan (1951), and Tippi Hedren (1930). After him are Cormac McCarthy (1933), Matt Groening (1954), Nat Turner (1800), Martha Graham (1894), Éamon de Valera (1882), and James Tobin (1918).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Harry Markowitz ranks 18. Before him are Douglass North (1920), Theodore Schultz (1902), Oliver E. Williamson (1932), Irving Fisher (1867), Ben Bernanke (1953), and Kenneth Arrow (1921). After him are James Tobin (1918), W. Edwards Deming (1900), Richard Thaler (1945), Edmund Phelps (1933), Lawrence Klein (1920), and James M. Buchanan (1919).

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