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Statisticians or people who made notable contributions to the theories of statistics, or to the related aspects of probability or machine learning. Also included are actuaries and demographers.
A
- Odd Olai Aalen (1947–)
- Edith Abbott
- Robert P. Abelson
- Moses Abramovitz
- Gottfried Achenwall (1719–1772)
- Abraham Manie Adelstein (1916–1992)
- Riaz Ahsan (1951-2008)
- John Aitchison (1926–)
- Alexander Aitken (1895–1967)
- Hirotsugu Akaike (1927–)
- Mir Masoom Ali
- R. G. D. Allen
- David B. Allison
- Doug Altman
- Takeshi Amemiya
- Oskar Anderson (1887–1960)
- Theodore Wilbur Anderson
- Francis Anscombe
- Luc Anselin
- Peter Armitage (1924–)
- Kenneth Arrow
- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
- Oscar Phelps Austin
- Leonard Porter Ayres
B
- Raghu Raj Bahadur (1924–1997)
- David Balding
- George Alfred Barnard (1915–2002)
- William A. Barnett
- Julius Bartels
- M. S. Bartlett (1910–2002)
- Geoff Bascand
- Debabrata Basu (1924–2001)
- Laurence Baxter (1954–1996)
- Thomas Bayes (1702–1761)
- Calvin Beale
- Ernst Behm
- Bernard Benjamin
- Jean-Paul Benzécri
- James Berger (statistician)
- Joseph Berkson
- José-Miguel Bernardo
- Don Berry
- Alfred M. Best
- William Beveridge
- B. R. Bhat
- P. N. Mari Bhat
- U. Narayan Bhat
- Irénée-Jules Bienaymé
- Christopher Bingham
- Allan Birnbaum (1923–1976)
- Thomas John Bisika
- David Blackwell (1919–)
- Chester Ittner Bliss
- Maurice Block
- David E. Bloom
- Luigi Bodio
- Walter Bodmer
- Carlo Emilio Bonferroni (1892–1960)
- Charles Booth
- John Boreham
- Ladislaus Bortkiewicz (1868–1931)
- R. C. Bose (1901–1987)
- Roelof Botha
- Leon Bottou
- Arthur Lyon Bowley (1869–-1957)
- George E. P. Box (1919–)
- Phelim Boyle
- Ion Ionescu de la Brad (1818–1891)
- Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey
- Leo Breiman
- Norman Breslow
- Steve Brooks (statistician)
- Lawrence D. Brown
- Warren Randolph Burgess
- Józef Buzek
C
- T. Tony Cai
- James Caird
- John Caldwell
- Lucien Le Cam (1924–2000)
- Harry Campion
- Harry C. Carver
- Ian Castles
- M. C. Chakrabarti
- George Chalmers (1742–1825)
- D. G. Champernowne (1912–2000)
- Enid Charles (1894–1972)
- Carl Charlier (1862–1934)
- Pafnuty Chebyshev (1821–1894)
- Louis Chen Hsiao Yun
- Herman Chernoff (1923–)
- Alexey Chervonenkis (1938–)
- Yuan-Shih Chow
- Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov (1874–1926)
- Colin Clark (1905–1989)
- Richard W. B. Clarke (1910–1975)
- David Clayton
- Ansley J. Coale
- Robert H. Coats (1874–1960)
- William Gemmell Cochran (1909–1980)
- Arthur Cockfield, Baron Cockfield
- Timothy Augustine Coghlan (1856–1926)
- Jacob Cohen
- Joel E. Cohen
- David Coleman
- Len Cook (1949–)
- Gauss Moutinho Cordeiro (1952–)
- Jerome Cornfield
- Leonard Courtney, 1st Baron Courtney of Penwith
- Thomas M. Cover
- David Cox (statistician) (1924–)
- Gertrude Mary Cox (1900–1978)
- Richard Threlkeld Cox (1898–1991)
- Harald Cramér (Sweden, 1893–1985)
- August Friedrich Wilhelm Crome
- James Crosby
- Sedley Cudmore
- Stella Cunliffe
- Jan Czekanowski
D
- Henry Daniels
- David van Dantzig
- George Dantzig
- John Darwin
- Florence Nightingale David
- Griffith Davies
- Kingsley Davis
- Philip Dawid (1946–)
- Christopher Daykin
- Morris H. DeGroot
- W. Edwards Deming (1900–1993)
- Arthur P. Dempster
- Alain Desrosières
- Davis Rich Dewey
- Persi Diaconis (1945–)
- Sir Charles Dilke, 2nd Baronet
- Harold F. Dodge
- James Dodson
- Sir Richard Doll (1912–2005)
- Peter Donnelly
- Joseph Leo Doob
- Louis Israel Dublin
- Frank Duckworth
- Richard M. Dudley
- David F. Duncan
- Otis Dudley Duncan
- Halbert L. Dunn
- Karen Dunnell (1946–)
- Charles Dunnett
- James Durbin
- Aryeh Dvoretzky
E
- Brian Easton
- A. Ross Eckler, Jr. (1927–)
- A. Ross Eckler (1901–1991)
- Sir Frederick Eden, 2nd Baronet (1766–1809)
- Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (1845–1926)
- A. W. F. Edwards (1935–)
- Bradley Efron
- Churchill Eisenhart (1913–1994)
- William Palin Elderton
- Ethel M. Elderton
- Robert C. Elston
- Edward J. Emering
- Ernst Engel (1821–1896)
- Robert F. Engle
- A. K. Erlang (1878–1929)
- John Erritt
- Mordecai Ezekiel
F
- Johann Ernst Fabri
- Johannes Fallati
- William Farr (1807–1883)
- Thomas Farrer, 1st Baron Farrer
- Gustav Fechner (1801–1887)
- Ivan Fellegi (1935–)
- William Feller
- Xavier Fernique
- Stephen Fienberg
- Bruno de Finetti (1906–1985)
- John Finlaison (Finlayson)
- D. J. Finney
- Sir Ronald A. Fisher (1890–1962)
- Irving Fisher (1867–1947)
- Charles Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 5th Earl Fitzwilliam
- William Fleetwood (1656–1723)
- Joseph L. Fleiss
- A. William Flux
- David Foot
- John Fox (statistician) (1945–)
- Henry Fowler, 1st Viscount Wolverhampton
- Lester Frankel
- Stefano Franscini
- David A. Freedman (statistician)
- Ronald Freedman
- Milton Friedman
- Arnoldo Frigessi di Rattalma (1959–)
G
- A. Ronald Gallant
- George Gallup (1901–1984)
- Francis Galton (1822–1911)
- Michel Gauquelin
- Roy C. Geary
- Seymour Geisser (1929–2004)
- Donald Geman (1943–)
- Jayanta Kumar Ghosh
- Eric Ghysels
- Lyndhurst Giblin (1872–1951)
- Robert Giffen (1910–)
- Dale L. Gifford
- Richard D. Gill
- Corrado Gini (1884–1965)
- William Gladstone
- David Glass (sociologist)
- Gene V. Glass (1940–)
- Samuel Goldman
- Harvey Goldstein
- Benjamin Gompertz (1779–1865)
- I. J. Good (1916–2009)
- Phillip Good(1937–)
- James Goodnight
- George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen
- William Sealy Gosset (known as "Student") (1876–1937)
- Clive Granger
- John Graunt (1620–1674)
- Mary W. Gray
- Eugene Grebenik
- Peter Green
- Sander Greenland
- Major Greenwood (1880–1949)
- Robert Griffiths
- Zvi Griliches
- André-Michel Guerry
- Emil Julius Gumbel (1891–1966)
- Louis Guttman
- William Guy
- Pierre Gy (1924–)
H
- Steven Haberman (1951–)
- Jaroslav Hájek
- John Hajnal
- Anders Hald (1913–)
- Peter Gavin Hall
- Paul Halmos
- Lord George Hamilton
- John Pakington, 1st Baron Hampton
- Garrett Hardin
- Ted Harris (1919–2006)
- Dudley Ryder, 2nd Earl of Harrowby
- Herman Otto Hartley
- Henry Heylyn Hayter
- Michael Healy
- Larry V. Hedges
- Jotun Hein (1956–)
- Friedrich Robert Helmert (1843–1917)
- Charles Roy Henderson (1911–1989)
- Catherine Hewitt
- Chris Heyde (1939–2008)
- Sir Jack Hibbert (1932–2005)
- James C. Hickman
- Joseph Hilbe (1944-)
- Austin Bradford Hill (1897–1991)
- Joseph Adna Hill
- David V. Hinkley
- Nils Lid Hjort (1953–)
- Wassily Hoeffding (1914–1991)
- Jan Hoem (1939-)
- Myles Hollander
- Herman Hollerith (1860–1929)
- Chris Holmes
- Tim Holt (1943–)
- Gabriel Gabrielsen Holtsmark
- Reginald Hawthorn Hooker (1867–1944)
- Lancelot Hogben (1895–1975)
- Harold Hotelling (1895–1973)
- Darrell Huff (1913–2001)
- Sir William Wilson Hunter(1840–1900)
- William Hunter (statistician) (1937–1986)
- Col Hutchison
- V. S. Huzurbazar
I
- Ross Ihaka
- Ronald L. Iman
- Joseph Oscar Irwin (1898–1982)
- Kaoru Ishikawa (1915–1989)
J
- Oswald Jacoby
- Thomas Jaffrey
- Bill James (1949–)
- Edwin Thompson Jaynes (1922–1998)
- William H. Jefferys (1940–)
- Harold Jeffreys (1891–1989)
- E. Morton Jellinek (1890–1963)
- Gwilym Jenkins (1933–1982)
- William Stanley Jevons (1835–1882)
- Alexander Jobson
- Norman Lloyd Johnson (1917–2004)
- Robert Mackenzie Johnston
- Edward Jones
- Samuel Jones-Loyd, 1st Baron Overstone
- Michael I. Jordan
- Karl Gustav Jöreskog
- Esprit Jouffret
- Joseph M. Juran (1904–)
- James Jurin (1684–1750)
K
- Mark Kac
- Oscar Kempthorne
- Sir Maurice Kendall (1907–1983)
- David George Kendall (1918–2007)
- Joseph C. G. Kennedy
- Estate V. Khmaladze
- Ravindra Khattree
- Jack Kiefer
- Anders Nicolai Kiær
- Gregory King
- Willford I. King
- John Kingman (1939–)
- Leslie Kish (1910–2000)
- George Handley Knibbs
- Bogoljub Kočović
- Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov (1903–1987)
- Bernard Koopman
- Dan Krewski
- William C. Krumbein
- Joseph Kruskal (1929–)
- William Kruskal (1919–2005)
- André Krüger
- Robert René Kuczynski
- Eugene M. Kulischer
- Solomon Kullback (1907–1994)
- Hans-Rudolf Künsch
- Ernest Kurnow
- Steve Kuzmicich
- Simon Kuznets
L
- Ivo Lah
- Arnab Laha
- Nan Laird
- Antti Lange
- Peter Laslett
- Étienne Laspeyres (1834–1913)
- Mark Lathrop
- John Law (economist) (1671–1729)
- Erich Leo Lehmann
- Charles Lemon
- Wassily Leontief
- Boris Levit
- Tony Lewis
- Wilhelm Lexis (1837–1914)
- David X. Li
- C. C. Li
- Rensis Likert
- Hubert Lilliefors (1928?–2008)
- Jarl Waldemar Lindeberg (1876–1932)
- Dennis V. Lindley (1923–)
- Anders Lindstedt
- Frederick B. Lindstrom
- Yuri Linnik (1915–1972)
- Phillip Longman
- Frederic M. Lord
- Max O. Lorenz
- Alfred J. Lotka (1880–1949)
- Michel Loève
- John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
- Filip Lundberg (1876–1965)
- Frank Luntz
M
- John F. MacGregor
- T.Madhavan
- Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893–1972)
- Bernard Mallet
- Thomas Robert Malthus (1766–1834)
- Renato Mannheimer
- Nathan Mantel (1919–2002)
- Kantilal Mardia
- Maryse Marpsat
- Donald Marquardt (1929–1997)
- Frederick Marquis, 1st Earl of Woolton
- Jacob Marschak
- Herbert Marshall
- Sir Richard Martin, 1st Baronet
- Kenneth Massey
- Motosaburo Masuyama (1912–2005)
- John Mauchly
- Emory McClintock
- Paul McCrossan
- Peter McCullagh
- Colin McEvedy
- Anderson Gray McKendrick (1876–1943)
- Bill McLennan
- Quinn McNemar (1900–1986)
- Gilean McVean
- Royal Meeker
- Gheorghe Mihoc
- George A. Milliken
- Wendell Milliman
- Joshua Milne
- Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton
- Wesley Clair Mitchell
- Warren Mitofsky
- Jakob Mohn
- Abraham de Moivre
- Edward C. Molina
- Henry Ludwell Moore
- Pat Moran
- Edward Rowe Mores
- William Morgan
- Carl Morris
- Winifred J. Morrison
- Claus Moser (1922–)
- Frederick Mosteller (1916–2006)
- Frederic J. Mouat
- José Enrique Moyal
- Stephen Douglas Mumford
N
- Guy Nason
- Charles P. Neill
- John Nelder
- Cecil J. Nesbitt
- William Newmarch (1820–1882)
- Jerzy Neyman (1894–1981)
- Florence Nightingale (1820–1910)
- Gottfried E. Noether
- Carl O. Nordling
- Frank W. Notestein
O
- William Fielding Ogburn
- S. Jay Olshansky
- Octav Onicescu
- William Onslow, 4th Earl of Onslow
- Mollie Orshansky
P
- George Paine
- John Panaretos
- Emanuel Parzen (1929–)
- Raymond Pearl
- Egon Pearson (1895–1980)
- Karl Pearson (1857–1936)
- Charles Sanders Peirce
- Basilio de Bragança Pereira
- Julian Peto
- Richard Peto
- William Petty (1623–1687)
- Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne
- Jan Piekałkiewicz
- K. C. Sreedharan Pillai
- Vijayan K Pillai
- Brian Pink
- E. J. G. Pitman (1897–1993)
- Robin Plackett
- William Playfair (1759–1823)
- Elżbieta Pleszczyńska
- Henry O. Pollak
- Nicholas Polson
- Samuel H. Preston
- Richard Price
- Maurice Priestley
- Maurice Princet
- Reginald Punnett
- George Pólya (1887–1985)
Q
- Adolphe Quetelet (1796–1874)
R
- Adrian Raftery
- D. Raghavarao
- Howard Raiffa
- Stefan Ralescu (1952–)
- A. R. Rao (1942–2006)
- C.R. Rao (1920–)
- Georg Rasch (1901–1980)
- Frank Redington
- Olav Reiersøl (1908–2001)
- E. C. Rhodes
- Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon
- Sylvia Richardson
- John Rickman
- Brian Daniel Ripley (1952–)
- Herbert Robbins (1922–2001)
- Harry V. Roberts
- Stuart A. Robertson
- Jean-Marie Robine
- James Robins
- Claude E. Robinson
- Bimal Kumar Roy
- S. N. Roy (1906–1966)
- Donald Rubin
- I. M. Rubinow
- Reuven Rubinstein
- Steven Ruggles
- John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
S
- Jeff Sagarin
- Jahar Saha
- Nicolas-François Dupré de Saint-Maur
- David Salsburg
- Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel
- William Sanders (statistician)
- Leonard Jimmie Savage (1917–1971)
- Shlomo Sawilowsky
- Robert Schlaifer (1915–1994)
- Henry Schultz
- Arthur Schuster (1851–1934)
- Tore Schweder (1943–)
- Elizabeth Scott (1917–1988)
- Hugh Hedley Scurfield
- Shayle R. Searle (1928–)
- Paola Sebastiani
- Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky (1827–1914)
- B. V. Shah
- Lloyd Shapley (1923–)
- George Shaw-Lefevre, 1st Baron Eversley
- Lawrence Shepp
- William Fleetwood Sheppard (1863–1936)
- Walter A. Shewhart (1891–1967)
- Shrikhande S. S. (1917–)
- Herbert Sichel (1915–1995)
- Sidney Siegel
- Nate Silver
- Bernard Silverman
- Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet (1754–1835)
- François Simiand
- Leslie Earl Simon
- Ibrahim Sirkeci
- Eugen Slutsky (1880–1948)
- A.F.M Smith
- Cedric Smith (statistician) (1917–2002)
- Walter L. Smith
- George W. Snedecor (1881–1974)
- Carl Snyder (1869–1946)
- Robert R. Sokal
- Charles Spearman (1863–1945)
- Terry Speed
- Joseph J. Spengler
- David Spiegelhalter (1953–)
- J. N. Srivastava
- Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp (1880–1941)
- Julian C. Stanley Jr.
- Edward Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby
- J. Michael Steele
- Charles Stein (statistician)
- Matthew Stephens (statistician)
- Stephen Stigler
- Richard Stone
- Samuel A. Stouffer
- Dietrich Stoyan (1940–)
- Michael Stuart
- William Henry Sykes
- James Joseph Sylvester
- Johann Peter Süssmilch
- Edward Szturm de Sztrem
T
- Genichi Taguchi (1924–)
- Michael Teitelbaum
- Lester G. Telser
- Thorvald N. Thiele (1838–1910)
- Robert L. Thorndike
- John Wingate Thornton
- Willard Thorp
- Louis Leon Thurstone
- Leonard Henry Caleb Tippett
- James Tobin
- Emmanuel Todd
- Howell Tong
- Dennis Trewin
- Stanisław Trybuła
- Edward Tufte
- John Tukey (1915-2000)
U
V
W
- Grace Wahba
- Abraham Wald (1902–1950)
- Francis Amasa Walker
- Gilbert Walker
- Chris Wallace (1933–2004)
- Wilson Allen Wallis
- Derek Wanless
- Geoffrey Watson
- Robert Wedderburn
- Edward Wegman
- Waloddi Weibull (1887–1979)
- Arnold Weinstock (1924–2002)
- Walter Frank Raphael Weldon
- Thomas A. Welton
- Harald Ludvig Westergaard (1853–1936)
- Donald J. Wheeler
- Peter Whittle (1927–)
- Frank Wilcoxon (1892–1965)
- Martin Wilk (1922–)
- Leland Wilkinson
- Samuel S. Wilks (1906–1964)
- Walter Francis Willcox
- Edwin Bidwell Wilson (1879–1964)
- Harold Wilson
- John Wishart (1898–1956)
- Mike Wissot
- Peter Wludyka
- Herman Wold (1908–1992)
- Jacob Wolfowitz (1910–1981)
- George Henry Wood
- Wesley S. B. Woolhouse
- Holbrook Working
- Elizur Wright
- Carroll D. Wright
- Sewall Wright
- E. A. Wrigley
Y
- Frank Yates (1902–1994)
- Allyn Abbott Young
- Arthur Young (1741–1820)
- Hilton Young, 1st Baron Kennet
- G. Udny Yule (1871–1951)
Z
- Arif Zaman
- Victor Zarnowitz
- Arnold Zellner (1927–)
- Zhang Zhaohuan
- George Kingsley Zipf (1902–1950)
See also
External links
- "Statisticians in History". American Statistical Association.
- "Life and Work of Statisticians". Department of Mathematics, University of York.
- John Aldrich. "Figures from the History of Probability and Statistics". University of Southampton.