List of statisticians

A

Aalen, Odd Olai (1947–1987)

Abbott, Edith (1876–1957)

Abelson, Robert P. (1928–2005)

Abramovitz, Moses (1912–2000)

Achenwall, Gottfried (1719–1772)

Adelstein, Abraham Manie (1916–1992)

Ahsan, Riaz (1951–2008)

Aitchison, John (1926–)

Aitken, Alexander (1895–1967)

Akaike, Hirotsugu (1927–2009)

Ali, Mir Masoom (1937–)

Allen, R. G. D. (1906–1983)

Allison, David B.

Altman, Doug (1948–)

Amemiya, Takeshi (1938–)

Anderson, Oskar (1887–1960)

Anderson, Theodore Wilbur

Anscombe, Francis (1918–2001)

Anselin, Luc

Armitage, Peter (1924–)

Arrow, Kenneth

Ashley-Cooper, Anthony

Austin, Oscar Phelps

Ayres, Leonard Porter

B

Bahadur, Raghu Raj (1924–1997)

Balding, David

Barnard, George Alfred (1915–2002)

Barnett, William A.

Bartels, Julius

Bartlett, M. S. (1910–2002)

Bascand, Geoff

Basu, Debabrata (1924–2001)

Baxter, Laurence (1954–1996)

Bayes, Thomas (1702–1761)

Beale, Calvin

Behm, Ernst

Benjamin, Bernard

Benzécri, Jean-Paul

Berger, James

Berkson, Joseph (1899–1982)

Bernardo, José-Miguel

Berry, Don

Best, Alfred M. (1876–1958)

Beveridge, William

Bhat, B. R.

Bhat, P. N. Mari

Bhat, U. Narayan

Bienaymé, Irénée-Jules

Bingham, Christopher

Birnbaum, Allan (1923–1976)

Bisika, Thomas John

Blackwell, David (1919–)

Bliss, Chester Ittner (1899–1979)

Block, Maurice

Bloom, David E.

Bodio, Luigi

Bodmer, Walter

Bonferroni, Carlo Emilio (1892–1960)

Booth, Charles

Boreham, John

Bortkiewicz, Ladislaus (1868–1931)

Bose, R. C. (1901–1987)

Botha, Roelof

Bottou, Léon

Bowley, Arthur Lyon (1869–1957)

Box, George E. P. (1919–)

Boyle, Phelim

Brad, Ion Ionescu de la (1818–1891)

Brassey, Thomas

Breiman, Leo

Breslow, Norman (1941–2015)

Brooks, Steve

Brown, Lawrence D.

Burgess, Warren Randolph

Buzek, Józef

C

Cai, T. Tony

Caird, James

Caldwell, John

Cam, Lucien Le (1924–2000)

Campion, Harry

Candès, Emmanuel

Carver, Harry C.

Castles, Ian

Chakrabarti, M. C.

Chalmers, George (1742–1825)

Chambers, John M.

Champernowne, D. G. (1912–2000)

Chand, Rattan (1955 -)

Charles, Enid (1894–1972)

Charlier, Carl (1862–1934)

Chebyshev, Pafnuty (1821–1894)

Chen, Louis Hsiao Yun

Chernoff, Herman (1923–)

Chervonenkis, Alexey (1938–)

Chow, Yuan-Shih

Chuprov, Alexander Alexandrovich (1874–1926)

Chuprov, Alexander Ivanovich (1841–1908)

Clark, Colin (1905–1989)

Clarke, Richard W. B. (1910–1975)

Clayton, David (1944–)

Coale, Ansley J.

Coats, Robert H. (1874–1960)

Cochran, William Gemmell (1909–1980)

Cockfield, Arthur

Coghlan, Timothy Augustine (1856–1926)

Cohen, Jacob

Cohen, Joel E.

Coifman, Ronald

Coleman, David

Cook, Len (1949–)

Cordeiro, Gauss Moutinho (1952–)

Cornfield, Jerome (1912–1979)

Courtney, Leonard

Cover, Thomas M.

Cox, David (1924–)

Cox, Gertrude Mary (1900–1978)

Cox, Richard Threlkeld (1898–1991)

Cramér, Harald (Sweden, 1893–1985)

Crome, August Friedrich Wilhelm

Crosby, James

Cudmore, Sedley

Cunliffe, Stella

Czekanowski, Jan

D

Daniels, Henry (1912–2000)

Dantzig, David van (1900–1959)

Dantzig, George (1914–2005)

Darwin, John (1923–2008)

David, Florence Nightingale (1909–1993)

Davies, Griffith (1788–1855)

Davis, Kingsley (1908–1997)

Dawid, Philip (1946–)

Daykin, Christopher (1948–)

DeGroot, Morris H. (1931–1989)

Deming, W. Edwards (1900–1993)

Dempster, Arthur P.

Desrosières, Alain

Dewey, Davis Rich

Diaconis, Persi (1945–)

Dilke, Sir Charles

Dodge, Harold F.

Dodson, James

Doll, Sir Richard (1912–2005)

Donnelly, Peter

Donoho, David

Doob, Joseph Leo

Dublin, Louis Israel

Duckworth, Frank

Dudley, Richard M.

Duncan, David F.

Duncan, Otis Dudley

Dunn, Halbert L.

Dunnell, Karen (1946–)

Dunnett, Charles

Durbin, James

Dvoretzky, Aryeh

E

Easton, Brian

Eckler, A. Ross (1901–1991)

Eckler, A. Ross Jr. (1927–)

Eden, Sir Frederick (1766–1809)

Edgeworth, Francis Ysidro (1845–1926)

Edwards, A. W. F. (1935–)

Efron, Bradley (1938–)

Eisenhart, Churchill (1913–1994)

Elderton, Ethel M.

Elderton, William Palin

Elston, Robert C.

Engel, Ernst (1821–1896)

Engle, Robert F.

Erlang, A. K. (1878–1929)

Erritt, John

Ezekiel, Mordecai

F

Fabri, Johann Ernst

Fallati, Johannes

Fan, Jianqing

Farr, William (1807–1883)

Farrer, Thomas

Fechner, Gustav (1801–1887)

Fellegi, Ivan (1935–)

Feller, William

Fernique, Xavier

Fienberg, Stephen

Finetti, Bruno de (1906–1985)

Finlaison, John

Finney, D. J. (1917–)

Fisher, Irving (1867–1947)

Fisher, Sir Ronald A. (1890–1962)

Fleetwood, William (1656–1723)

Fleiss, Joseph L. (1937–2003)

Flux, A. William

Foot, David

Fowler, Henry

Fox, John (1945–)

Frankel, Lester

Franscini, Stefano

Freedman, David A.

Freedman, Ronald

Friedman, Milton

Frigessi, Arnoldo di Rattalma (1959–)

G

Gain, Anil Kumar (1919–1978)

Gallant, A. Ronald

Gallup, George (1901–1984)

Galton, Francis (1822–1911)

Gauquelin, Michel

Geary, Roy C.

Geisser, Seymour (1929–2004)

Geman, Donald (1943–)

Ghosh, Jayanta Kumar

Ghysels, Eric

Giblin, Lyndhurst (1872–1951)

Giffen, Robert (1837–1910)

Gill, Richard D. (1951–)

Gini, Corrado (1884–1965)

Glass, David

Glass, Gene V. (1940–)

Goldman, Samuel

Goldstein, Harvey

Gompertz, Benjamin (1779–1865)

Good, I. J. (1916–2009)

Good, Phillip(1937–)

Goodnight, James

Goschen, George

Gosset, William Sealy (known as "Student") (1876–1937)

Granger, Clive

Graunt, John (1620–1674)

Gray, Mary W.

Grebenik, Eugene

Green, Peter

Greenland, Sander

Greenwood, Major (1880–1949)

Griffiths, Robert

Griliches, Zvi

Grimmett, Geoffrey (1950–)

Guerry, André-Michel

Gumbel, Emil Julius (1891–1966)

Guttman, Louis

Guy, William (1810–1885)

Gy, Pierre (1924–)

H

Haberman, Steven (1951–)

Hájek, Jaroslav (1926–1974)

Hajnal, John (1924–2008)

Hald, Anders (1913–)

Hastie, Trevor

Hall, Peter Gavin (1951–)

Halmos, Paul (1916–2006)

Hamilton, Lord George (1845–1927)

Hand, David (1950–)

Hardin, Garrett (1915–2003)

Harris, Ted (1919–2006)

Hartley, Herman Otto (1912–1980)

Hayter, Henry Heylyn (1821–1895)

Healy, Michael(1923–)

Hedges, Larry V.

Hein, Jotun (1956–)

Helmert, Friedrich Robert (1843–1917)

Henderson, Charles Roy (1911–1989)

Heyde, Chris (1939–2008)

Hibbert, Sir Jack (1932–2005)

Hickman, James C. (1927–2006)

Hilbe, Joseph (1944–)

Hill, Austin Bradford (1897–1991)

Hill, Joseph Adna(1860–1938)

Hills, Michael

Hinkley, David V.

Hjort, Nils Lid (1953–)

Hoeffding, Wassily (1914–1991)

Hoem, Jan (1939–)

Hollander, Myles (1941–)

Hollerith, Herman (1860–1929)

Holmes, Chris

Holt, Tim (1943–)

Holtsmark, Gabriel Gabrielsen

Hogben, Lancelot (1895–1975)

Hooker, Reginald Hawthorn (1867–1944)

Hotelling, Harold (1895–1973)

Huff, Darrell (1913–2001)

Hunter, Sir William Wilson(1840–1900)

Hunter, William (1937–1986)

Hutchinson, Col

Huzurbazar, V. S.

I

Ihaka, Ross (1954/1955–)

Iman, Ronald L.

Irwin, Joseph Oscar (1898–1982)

Ishikawa, Kaoru (1915–1989)

Isserlis, Leon (1881–1966)

J

Jacoby, Oswald (1902–1984)

Jaffrey, Thomas (1861–1953)

James, Bill (1949–)

Jaynes, Edwin Thompson (1922–1998)

Jefferys, William H. (1940–)

Jeffreys, Harold (1891–1989)

Jellinek, E. Morton (1890–1963)

Jenkins, Gwilym (1933–1982)

Jevons, William Stanley (1835–1882)

Jobson, Alexander (1875–1933)

Johnson, Norman Lloyd (1917–2004)

Johnston, Robert Mackenzie

Jones, Edward

Jones-Loyd, Samuel

Jordan, Michael I.

Jöreskog, Karl Gustav

Jouffret, Esprit

Juran, Joseph M. (1904–)

Jurin, James (1684–1750)

K

Kac, Mark

Kempthorne, Oscar

Kendall, David George (1918–2007)

Kendall, Sir Maurice (1907–1983)

Kennedy, Joseph C. G.

Khattree, Ravindra

Khmaladze, Estate V.

Kiefer, Jack

Kiær, Anders Nicolai

King, Gregory

King, Willford I.

Kingman, John (1939–)

Kish, Leslie (1910–2000)

Knibbs, George Handley

Kočović, Bogoljub

Kolmogorov, Andrey Nikolaevich (1903–1987)

Koopman, Bernard

Kott, Phillip

Krewski, Dan

Krumbein, William C.

Kruskal, Joseph (1929–)

Kruskal, William (1919–2005)

Krüger, André

Kuczynski, Robert René

Kulischer, Eugene M.

Kullback, Solomon (1907–1994)

Kulldorff, Gunnar (1927–2015)

Künsch, Hans-Rudolf

Kurnow, Ernest

Kuzmicich, Steve

Kuznets, Simon

L

Lah, Ivo

Laird, Nan

Laslett, Peter

Laspeyres, Étienne (1834–1913)

Lathrop, Mark

Law, John (1671–1729)

Lawler, Gregory Francis

Lawrence, Charles

Lehmann, Erich Leo

Lemon, Charles

Leontief, Wassily

Levit, Boris

Lewis, Tony

Lexis, Wilhelm (1837–1914)

Li, C. C.

Li, David X.

Likert, Rensis

Lilliefors, Hubert (c. 1928–2008)

Lindeberg, Jarl Waldemar (1876–1932)

Lindley, Dennis V. (1923– )

Lindstedt, Anders

Lindstrom, Frederick B.

Linnik, Yuri (1915–1972)

Liu, Jun

Longman, Phillip

Lord, Frederic M.

Lorenz, Max O.

Lotka, Alfred J. (1880–1949)

Loève, Michel

Lubbock, John

Lundberg, Filip (1876–1965)

M

MacGregor, John F.

Mahalanobis, Prasanta Chandra (1893–1972)

Manwar, Khandakar Hossain (1930–1999)

Mallet, Bernard

Malthus, Thomas Robert (1766–1834)

Mannheimer, Renato

Mantel, Nathan (1919–2002)

Mardia, Kantilal

Marpsat, Maryse

Marquardt, Donald (1929–1997)

Marquis, Frederick

Marschak, Jacob

Marshall, Herbert

Martin, Sir Richard

Massey, Kenneth

Masuyama, Motosaburo (1912–2005)

Mauchly, John

McClintock, Emory

McCrossan, Paul

McCullagh, Peter

McEvedy, Colin

McKendrick, Anderson Gray (1876–1943)

McLennan, Bill

McNemar, Quinn (1900–1986)

McVean, Gilean

Meeker, Royal

Meier, Paul, (1924–2011)

Meng, Xiao-Li (1963–)

Mihoc, Gheorghe

Milliken, George A.

Milliman, Wendell

Milne, Joshua

Milnes, Richard Monckton

Mitchell, Wesley Clair

Mitofsky, Warren

Mohn, Jakob

Moivre, Abraham de

Molina, Edward C.

Moore, Henry Ludwell

Moran, Pat

Mores, Edward Rowe

Morgan, William

Morris, Carl

Morrison, Winifred J.

Moser, Claus (1922–)

Mosteller, Frederick (1916–2006)

Mouat, Frederic J.

Moyal, José Enrique

Murphy, Susan

N

Nair, Vijayan N.

Nason, Guy

Neill, Charles P.

Nelder, John (1924–2010)

Nesbitt, Cecil J.

Newmarch, William (1820–1882)

Neyman, Jerzy (1894–1981)

Nightingale, Florence (1820–1910)

Niyogi, Partha (1967–2010)

Noether, Gottfried E.

Nordling, Carl O.

Notestein, Frank W.

O

Ogburn, William Fielding

Olshansky, S. Jay

Onicescu, Octav

Onslow, William

Orshansky, Mollie

P

Paine, George

Pakington, John

Panaretos, John

Parzen, Emanuel (1929–2016)

Pearl, Raymond

Pearson, Egon (1895–1980)

Pearson, Karl (1857–1936)

Peirce, Charles Sanders

Pereira, Basilio de Bragança

Peto, Julian

Peto, Richard

Petty, William (1623–1687)

Petty-Fitzmaurice, Henry

Piekałkiewicz, Jan

Pillai, K. C. Sreedharan

Pillai, Vijayan K

Pink, Brian

Pitman, E. J. G. (1897–1993)

Plackett, Robin

Playfair, William (1759–1823)

Pleszczyńska, Elżbieta

Pocock, Stuart

Pollak, Henry O.

Polson, Nicholas

Preston, Samuel H.

Price, Richard

Priestley, Maurice

Princet, Maurice

Punnett, Reginald

Pólya, George (1887–1985)

Q

Quetelet, Adolphe (1796–1874)

R

Chand Rattan (1955 - )

Raftery, Adrian

Raghavarao, D.

Raiffa, Howard

Ralescu, Stefan (1952–)

Rao, C.R. (1920–)

Rasch, Georg (1901–1980)

Redington, Frank

Reid, Nancy

Reiersøl, Olav (1908–2001)

Rhodes, E. C.

Rice, Thomas Spring

Richardson, Sylvia

Rickman, John

Ripley, Brian Daniel (1952–)

Robbins, Herbert (1922–2001)

Roberts, Gareth O.

Roberts, Harry V.

Robertson, Stuart A.

Robine, Jean-Marie

Robins, James

Robinson, Claude E.

Rosenthal, Jeff

Roy, Bimal Kumar

Roy, S. N. (1906–1966)

Rubin, Donald

Rubinow, I. M.

Rubinstein, Reuven

Ruggles, Steven

Russell, John

Ryder, Dudley

S

Sagarin, Jeff

Saha, Jahar

Saint-Maur, Nicolas-François Dupré de

Salsburg, David

Samuel, Herbert

Sanders, William

Savage, Leonard Jimmie (1917–1971)

Sawilowsky, Shlomo (1954–)

Scheffé, Henry (1907–1977)

Schlaifer, Robert (1915–1994)

Schultz, Henry

Schuster, Arthur (1851–1934)

Schweder, Tore (1943–)

Scott, Elizabeth (1917–1988)

Scurfield, Hugh Hedley

Searle, Shayle R. (1928–)

Sebastiani, Paola

Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky, Pyotr (1827–1914)

Shah, B. V.

Shapley, Lloyd (1923–)

Shaw-Lefevre, George

Shepp, Lawrence

Sheppard, William Fleetwood (1863–1936)

Shewhart, Walter A. (1891–1967)

Shrikhande, S. S. (1917–)

Sichel, Herbert (1915–1995)

Siegel, Sidney

Silver, Nate

Silverman, Bernard

Simiand, François

Simon, Leslie Earl

Sinclair, Sir John (1754–1835)

Sirkeci, Ibrahim

Slutsky, Eugen (1880–1948)

Smith, A.F.M

Smith, Cedric (1917–2002)

Smith, Walter L.

Snedecor, George W. (1881–1974)

Snyder, Carl (1869–1946)

Sokal, Robert R.

Spearman, Charles (1863–1945)

Speed, Terry

Spengler, Joseph J.

Spiegelhalter, David (1953–)

Srivastava, J. N.

Stamp, Josiah (1880–1941)

Stanley, Julian C. Jr.

Stanley, Edward

Steele, J. Michael

Steffensen, Johan Frederik (1873–1961)

Stein, Charles

Stephens, Matthew

Stigler, Stephen (1941–)

Stone, Richard

Stouffer, Samuel A.

Stoyan, Dietrich (1940–)

Süssmilch, Johann Peter

Sykes, William Henry

Sylvester, James Joseph

Sztrem, Edward Szturm de

Shyamaprasad Mukherjee(1939– ), India

T

Taguchi, Genichi (1924–2012)

Teitelbaum, Michael

Telser, Lester G.

Thiele, Thorvald N. (1838–1910)

Thorndike, Robert L.

Thornton, John Wingate

Thorp, Willard

Thurstone, Louis Leon

Tibshirani, Robert

Tippett, Leonard Henry Caleb

Tobin, James

Todd, Emmanuel

Tong, Howell

Trewin, Dennis

Trybuła, Stanisław

Tufte, Edward

Tukey, John (1915–2000)

U

Utts, Jessica

Uyanto, Stanislaus S.

V

Vapnik, Vladimir (~1935–)

Vaupel, James

Villani, Giovanni

Visman, Jan

W

Wahba, Grace

Wald, Abraham (1902–1950)

Walker, Francis Amasa

Walker, Gilbert

Wallace, Chris (1933–2004)

Wallis, W. Allen

Wanless, Derek

Watson, Geoffrey

Wedderburn, Robert

Wegman, Edward

Weibull, Waloddi (1887–1979)

Weinstock, Arnold (1924–2002)

Weldon, Walter Frank Raphael

Welton, Thomas A.

Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, Charles

Westergaard, Harald Ludvig (1853–1936)

Wheeler, Donald J.

Whittle, Peter (1927–)

Wilcoxon, Frank (1892–1965)

Wilk, Martin (1922–)

Wilkinson, Leland

Wilks, Samuel S. (1906–1964)

Willcox, Walter Francis

Wilson, Edwin Bidwell (1879–1964)

Wilson, Harold

Wishart, John (1898–1956)

Wold, Herman (1908–1992)

Wolfowitz, Jacob (1910–1981)

Wood, George Henry

Woolhouse, Wesley S. B.

Working, Holbrook

Wright, Carroll D.

Wright, Elizur

Wright, Sewall

Wrigley, E. A.

Wu, Jeff C. F.

Y

Yates, Frank (1902–1994)

Young, Allyn Abbott

Young, Arthur (1741–1820)

Young, Hilton

Yule, G. Udny (1871–1951)

Z

Zaman, Arif

Zarnowitz, Victor

Zellner, Arnold (1927–)

Zhaohuan, Zhang

Zipf, George Kingsley (1902–1950)