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.
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- Aalen, Odd Olai (1947–)
- Abbott, Edith
- Abelson, Robert P.
- Abramovitz, Moses
- Achenwall, Gottfried (1719–1772)
- Adelstein, Abraham Manie (1916–1992)
- Ahsan, Riaz (1951-2008)
- Aitchison, John (1926–)
- Aitken, Alexander (1895–1967)
- Akaike, Hirotsugu (1927–)
- Ali, Mir Masoom
- Allen, R. G. D.
- Allison, David B.
- Altman, Doug
- Amemiya, Takeshi
- Anderson, Oskar (1887–1960)
- Anderson, Theodore Wilbur
- Anscombe, Francis
- 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
- Bernardo, José-Miguel
- Berry, Don
- Best, Alfred M.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Carver, Harry C.
- Castles, Ian
- Chakrabarti, M. C.
- Chalmers, George (1742–1825)
- Champernowne, D. G. (1912–2000)
- 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)
- Clark, Colin (1905–1989)
- Clarke, Richard W. B. (1910–1975)
- Clayton, David
- 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.
- Coleman, David
- Cook, Len (1949–)
- Cordeiro, Gauss Moutinho (1952–)
- Cornfield, Jerome
- 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
- Dantzig, David van
- Dantzig, George
- Darwin, John
- David, Florence Nightingale
- Davies, Griffith
- Davis, Kingsley
- Dawid, Philip (1946–)
- Daykin, Christopher
- DeGroot, Morris H.
- 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
- 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
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- 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
- Eisenhart, Churchill (1913–1994)
- Elderton, Ethel M.
- Elderton, William Palin
- Elston, Robert C.
- Emering, Edward J.
- Engel, Ernst (1821–1896)
- Engle, Robert F.
- Erlang, A. K. (1878–1929)
- Erritt, John
- Ezekiel, Mordecai
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- Fabri, Johann Ernst
- Fallati, Johannes
- 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.
- Fisher, Irving (1867–1947)
- Fisher, Sir Ronald A. (1890–1962)
- Fleetwood, William (1656–1723)
- Fleiss, Joseph L.
- 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
- 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 (1910–)
- Gifford, Dale L.
- Gill, Richard D.
- Gini, Corrado (1884–1965)
- Gladstone, William
- 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
- Guerry, André-Michel
- Gumbel, Emil Julius (1891–1966)
- Guttman, Louis
- Guy, William
- Gy, Pierre (1924–)
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- Haberman, Steven (1951–)
- Hájek, Jaroslav (1926–1974)
- Hajnal, John
- Hald, Anders (1913–)
- Hall, Peter Gavin
- Halmos, Paul
- Hamilton, Lord George
- Hardin, Garrett
- Harris, Ted (1919–2006)
- Hartley, Herman Otto
- Hayter, Henry Heylyn
- Healy, Michael
- Hedges, Larry V.
- Hein, Jotun (1956–)
- Helmert, Friedrich Robert (1843–1917)
- Henderson, Charles Roy (1911–1989)
- Hewitt, Catherine
- Heyde, Chris (1939–2008)
- Hibbert, Sir Jack (1932–2005)
- Hickman, James C.
- Hilbe, Joseph (1944-)
- Hill, Austin Bradford (1897–1991)
- Hill, Joseph Adna
- Hinkley, David V.
- Hjort, Nils Lid (1953–)
- Hoeffding, Wassily (1914–1991)
- Hoem, Jan (1939-)
- Hollander, Myles
- 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)
- Hutchison, Col
- Huzurbazar, V. S.
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- Jacoby, Oswald
- Jaffrey, Thomas
- 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
- 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
- Krewski, Dan
- Krumbein, William C.
- Kruskal, Joseph (1929–)
- Kruskal, William (1919–2005)
- Krüger, André
- Kuczynski, Robert René
- Kulischer, Eugene M.
- Kullback, Solomon (1907–1994)
- Künsch, Hans-Rudolf
- Kurnow, Ernest
- Kuzmicich, Steve
- Kuznets, Simon
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- Lah, Ivo
- Laha, Arnab
- Laird, Nan
- Lange, Antti
- Laslett, Peter
- Laspeyres, Étienne (1834–1913)
- Lathrop, Mark
- Law, John (1671–1729)
- 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 (1928?–2008)
- Lindeberg, Jarl Waldemar (1876–1932)
- Lindley, Dennis V. (1923–)
- Lindstedt, Anders
- Lindstrom, Frederick B.
- Linnik, Yuri (1915–1972)
- Longman, Phillip
- Lord, Frederic M.
- Lorenz, Max O.
- Lotka, Alfred J. (1880–1949)
- Loève, Michel
- Lubbock, John
- Lundberg, Filip (1876–1965)
- Luntz, Frank
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- MacGregor, John F.
- Madhavan, T.
- Mahalanobis, Prasanta Chandra (1893–1972)
- 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
- 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
- Mumford, Stephen Douglas
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- Nason, Guy
- Neill, Charles P.
- Nelder, John
- Nesbitt, Cecil J.
- Newmarch, William (1820–1882)
- Neyman, Jerzy (1894–1981)
- Nightingale, Florence (1820–1910)
- Noether, Gottfried E.
- Nordling, Carl O.
- Notestein, Frank W.
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- Paine, George
- Pakington, John
- Panaretos, John
- Parzen, Emanuel (1929–)
- 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
- Pollak, Henry O.
- Polson, Nicholas
- Preston, Samuel H.
- Price, Richard
- Priestley, Maurice
- Princet, Maurice
- Punnett, Reginald
- Pólya, George (1887–1985)
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- Raftery, Adrian
- Raghavarao, D.
- Raiffa, Howard
- Ralescu, Stefan (1952–)
- Rao, A. R. (1942–2006)
- Rao, C.R. (1920–)
- Rasch, Georg (1901–1980)
- Redington, Frank
- Reiersøl, Olav (1908–2001)
- Rhodes, E. C.
- Rice, Thomas Spring
- Richardson, Sylvia
- Rickman, John
- Ripley, Brian Daniel (1952–)
- Robbins, Herbert (1922–2001)
- Roberts, Harry V.
- Robertson, Stuart A.
- Robine, Jean-Marie
- Robins, James
- Robinson, Claude E.
- 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
- 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
- Stein, Charles
- Stephens, Matthew
- Stigler, Stephen
- Stone, Richard
- Stouffer, Samuel A.
- Stoyan, Dietrich (1940–)
- Süssmilch, Johann Peter
- Sykes, William Henry
- Sylvester, James Joseph
- Sztrem, Edward Szturm de
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- Taguchi, Genichi (1924–)
- Teitelbaum, Michael
- Telser, Lester G.
- Thiele, Thorvald N. (1838–1910)
- Thorndike, Robert L.
- Thornton, John Wingate
- Thorp, Willard
- Thurstone, Louis Leon
- Tippett, Leonard Henry Caleb
- Tobin, James
- Todd, Emmanuel
- Tong, Howell
- Trewin, Dennis
- Trybuła, Stanisław
- Tufte, Edward
- Tukey, John (1915-2000)
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- Wahba, Grace
- Wald, Abraham (1902–1950)
- Walker, Francis Amasa
- Walker, Gilbert
- Wallace, Chris (1933–2004)
- Wallis, Wilson 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)
- Wissot, Mike
- Wludyka, Peter
- 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.
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