This list contains only probabilists in the sense of mathematicians specializing in probability theory.
This list is incomplete; please add to it.
David Aldous (1952–)
Robert Azencott - Professor of Mathematics, University of Houston, Emeritus Professor, Ecole Normale Superieure, France
Thomas Bayes (1702–1761) - British mathematician and Presbyterian minister, known for Bayes' theorem
Itai Benjamini
Gerard Ben-Arous - Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Jakob Bernoulli (1654–1705) - Switzerland, Known for Bernoulli trials
Erwin Bolthausen
Maury Bramson - University of Minnesota
Joseph Louis François Bertrand (1822–1900)
Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch (1891–1970)
Patrick Billingsley (1925–2011)
Carlo Emilio Bonferroni (1892–1960)
Émile Borel (1871–1956)
Erhan Cinlar
Harald Cramér (1893–1985)
Kai Lai Chung (1917–2009)
Amir Dembo - Stanford University
Abraham de Moivre (1667–1754)
Persi Diaconis (1945–)
Joseph Leo Doob (1910–2004)
Lester Dubins (1920–2010)
Eugene Dynkin (1924–2014)
Robert J. Elliott (1940-)
Paul Erdős (1913–1996)
Steve Evans
William Feller (1906–1970)
Bruno de Finetti (1906–1985) - Italian probabilist and statistician
Geoffrey Grimmett (1950–)
Ian Hacking (1936–)
Paul Halmos (1916–2006)
Joseph Halpern
David Heath
Kiyoshi Itō (1915–2008)
Edwin Thompson Jaynes (1922–1998)
Mark Kac (1914–1984)
Olav Kallenberg
Rudolf E. Kálmán (1930–)
Samuel Karlin (1924–2007)
David George Kendall (1918–2007)
Richard Kenyon - Brown University
Harry Kesten (1931–)
John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946) - best known for his pioneering work in economics
Aleksandr Khinchin (1894–1959)
Wolfgang Kőnig
Andrey Kolmogorov (1903–1987)
Claudio Landim
Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827)
Gregory Lawler
Lucien Le Cam (1924–2000)
Jean-François Le Gall
Paul Lévy (1886–1971)
Jarl Waldemar Lindeberg (1876–1932)
Stefan Mazurkiewicz (1888–1945)
Henry McKean (1930–)
Paul-André Meyer (1934–2003)
Richard von Mises (1883–1953)
Andrey Markov (1856–1922)
Octav Onicescu (1892–1983)
K. R. Parthasarathy
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
Siméon Denis Poisson (1781–1840)
Charles E. M. Pearce (1940–)
Yuval Peres
Edwin A. Perkins
Jim Pitman - University of California, Berkeley
Yuri Vasilevich Prokhorov (1929–)
Alfréd Rényi (1921–1970)
Frank P. Ramsey (1903–1930)
Oded Schramm (1961–2008)
Romano Scozzafava
Scott Sheffield
Yakov Sinai (1935–)
Ray Solomonoff (1926–2009)
Frank Spitzer (1926–1992)
Daniel W. Stroock (1940–)
Alain-Sol Sznitman
Michel Talagrand (1952–)
Timerding, Heinrich Emil (1873–1945)
Balint Virag (1973–)
Norbert Wiener (1894–1964)
David Williams
David Wilson
Ruslan L. Stratonovich (1930–1997)
Andrei Toom (1942–)
Albert Shiryaev (1934–)
S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan (1940–) - 2007 Abel Prize laureate
Wendelin Werner (1968–)
Ofer Zeitouni (1960–) - Weizmann Institute
