Benjamin Graham

This article is about an American economist. For information on the Australian AFL and NFL player, see Ben Graham. Benjamin Graham (May 8, 1894 –  September 21, 1976) was an influential economist and professional investor who is today often called the "Father of Modern Security Analysis" from frequent references made to him by billionaire investor Warren Buffett, who studied under Graham at Columbia University, and was his only pupil to receive an A+. Graham was also called the "Dean of Wall Street" and is considered the first proponent of Value Investing. Other well known disciples (students and teaching assistants) of Graham include William J. Ruane, Irving Kahn, Walter J. Schloss, and Charles Brandes. Buffett, who credits Graham as grounding him with a sound intellectual investment framework, described him as the second most influential person in his life after his own father. In fact, Graham had such an overwhelming influence on his students that two of them, Buffett and Kahn, named their sons, Howard Graham Buffett and Thomas Graham Kahn, after him.
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