List of statisticians
This list of statisticians lists people who have made notable contributions to the theories or application of statistics, or to the related fields of probability or machine learning. Also included are actuaries and demographers.
AEdit
- Sajid Ali Khan, Rawalakot (1984)
- 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,Beatrice (1908–1997)
- 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
BEdit
- 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. (1919–2010)
- 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
CEdit
- Chand, Rattan
- 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
DEdit
- 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
EEdit
- 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
FEdit
- 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–)
GEdit
- 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)
- Goulden, Cyril (1897-1981)
- 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–)
HEdit
- 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
- Holmes, Susan
- Holt, Tim (1943–)
- Holtsmark, Gabriel Gabrielsen
- Hogben, Lancelot (1895–1975)
- Hooker, Reginald Hawthorn (1867–1944)
- Horn, Susan
- Hotelling, Harold (1895–1973)
- Huff, Darrell (1913–2001)
- Hunter, Sir William Wilson (1840–1900)
- Hunter, William (1937–1986)
- Hutchinson, Col
- Huzurbazar, V. S.
IEdit
- Ihaka, Ross (1954/1955–)
- Iman, Ronald L.
- Irwin, Joseph Oscar (1898–1982)
- Ishikawa, Kaoru (1915–1989)
- Isserlis, Leon (1881–1966)
JEdit
- 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. (1904–2008)
- Jurin, James (1684–1750)
KEdit
- 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
LEdit
- 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)
MEdit
- 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
- McSharma, India (1981–)
- 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 (1922–2015)
- Mosteller, Frederick (1916–2006)
- Mouat, Frederic J.
- Moyal, José Enrique
- Murphy, Susan
NEdit
- 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.
OEdit
PEdit
- 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
- Pena, Daniel
- 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)
- Professor Dr. M Sekander Hayat Khan [1]
QEdit
- Quetelet, Adolphe (1796–1874)
- Qazi Motahar Hossain (1897–1981) Bangladesh
REdit
- 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
SEdit
- Sagarin, Jeff
- Saha, Jahar
- Saint-Maur, Nicolas-François Dupré de
- Salsburg, David
- Samuel, Herbert
- Samworth, Richard
- 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.
- Swamy, Subramanium
- Shapley, Lloyd (1923–2016)
- 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
- Syed Shahadat Hossain
TEdit
- 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)
UEdit
VEdit
WEdit
- Wahba, Grace
- Wakefield, Edward (1774–1854)
- 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.
- Hadley Wickham
- Whittle, Peter (1927–)
- Wilcoxon, Frank (1892–1965)
- Wilk, Martin (1922–2013)
- 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
- Woodroofe, Michael (1940–)
- Woolhouse, Wesley S. B.
- Working, Holbrook
- Wright, Carroll D.
- Wright, Elizur
- Wright, Sewall
- Wrigley, E. A.
- Wu, Jeff C. F.
YEdit
- Yates, Frank (1902–1994)
- Young, Allyn Abbott
- Young, Arthur (1741–1820)
- Young, Hilton
- Yule, G. Udny (1871–1951)
ZEdit
- Zaman, Arif
- Zarnowitz, Victor
- Elena Zarova (1959–)
- Zellner, Arnold (1927–2010)
- Zhaohuan, Zhang
- Zipf, George Kingsley (1902–1950)
See alsoEdit
External linksEdit
- "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.