ECONOMIST

William F. Sharpe

1934 - Today

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William Forsyth Sharpe (born June 16, 1934) is an American economist. He is the STANCO 25 Professor of Finance, Emeritus at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Sharpe was one of the originators of the capital asset pricing model (CAPM). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William F. Sharpe has received more than 424,057 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). William F. Sharpe is the 160th most popular economist (down from 142nd in 2019), the 2,338th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,894th in 2019) and the 52nd most popular American Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, William F. Sharpe ranks 160 out of 414. Before him are Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Michał Kalecki, Kenneth E. Boulding, Ernst Engel, John Bates Clark, and Oskar R. Lange. After him are Daniel McFadden, Roger Myerson, Piero Sraffa, Myron Scholes, Raymond Barre, and Henry George.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, William F. Sharpe ranks 122. Before him are Gloria Steinem, Howard Martin Temin, Wilford Brimley, Jean Chrétien, Dashrath Manjhi, and Hank Aaron. After him are Leonard Kleinrock, Claude Berri, George Segal, George Chakiris, Ken Rosewall, and Franc Rode.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, William F. Sharpe ranks 2,338 out of 20,380. Before him are Jim Hines (1946), Anne Sexton (1928), Walker Evans (1903), Irving Penn (1917), Jerome Powell (1953), and Robert Ballard (1942). After him are Justin Timberlake (1981), William Moulton Marston (1893), Danny Kaye (1911), Allison Janney (1959), Nancy Allen (1950), and Bridget Fonda (1964).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, William F. Sharpe ranks 52. Before him are Vernon L. Smith (1927), Jeffrey Sachs (1954), Robert F. Engle (1942), Walt Whitman Rostow (1916), Peter Diamond (1940), and John Bates Clark (1847). After him are Daniel McFadden (1937), Roger Myerson (1951), Henry George (1839), George Shultz (1920), Lars Peter Hansen (1952), and Daniel Ellsberg (1931).

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