Famous People with Name Fama

Fama Diagne Sène            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Fama Diagne Sène: is a Senegalese writer born in 1969. She is associated with Thiès, Senegal where she teaches. Ken Bugul listed her among "illustrious women" in Senegalese literature

Eugene F. "Gene" Fama            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Eugene F. "Gene" Fama: an American economist, known for his work on portfolio theory and asset pricing, both theoretical and empirical.He earned his undergraduate degree in French from Tufts University in 1960 and his M.B.A. and Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago in economics and finance. He has spent all of his teaching career at the University of Chicago.His Ph.D. thesis, which concluded that stock price movements are unpredictable and follow a random walk, was published in January, 1965 issue of the Journal of Business, entitled "The Behavior of Stock Market Prices". That work was subsequently rewritten into a less technical article, "Random Walks In Stock Market Prices",[1] which was published in the Financial Analysts Journal in 1965 and Institutional Investor in 1968.