List of statisticians

Statisticians or people who made notable contributions to the theories of statistics, or related aspects of probability, or machine learning:

A to E

 * Odd Olai Aalen (1947–)
 * Gottfried Achenwall (1719–1772)
 * Abraham Manie Adelstein (1916–1992)
 * John Aitchison (1926–)
 * Alexander Aitken (1895–1967)
 * Hirotsugu Akaike (1927–)
 * Oskar Anderson (1887–1960)
 * Peter Armitage (1924–)
 * Raghu Raj Bahadur (1924-1997)
 * George Alfred Barnard (1915–2002)
 * M. S. Bartlett (1910–2002)
 * Debabrata Basu (1924–2001)
 * Laurence Baxter (1954–1996)
 * Michael Baxter (1956-)
 * Thomas Bayes (1702–1761)
 * Don Berry
 * Allan Birnbaum (1923–1976)
 * David Blackwell (1919–)
 * Ladislaus Bortkiewicz (1868–1931)
 * Raj Chandra Bose (1901–1987)
 * Henry Bottomley (1963–)
 * Arthur Lyon Bowley (1869–1957)
 * George Box (1919–)
 * Bento de Jesus Caraça (1901–1948)
 * Ian Castles
 * George Chalmers (1742–1825)
 * D. G. Champernowne (1912–2000)
 * Carl Charlier (1862–1934)
 * Pafnuty Chebyshev (1821–1894)
 * Herman Chernoff (1923–)
 * Alexey Chervonenkis
 * Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov (1874–1926)
 * Colin Clark (1905–1989)
 * Richard W. B. Clarke (1910–1975)
 * Robert H. Coats (1874–1960)
 * William Gemmell Cochran (1909–1980)
 * Timothy Augustine Coghlan (1856–1926)
 * Len Cook (1949–)
 * Gauss Moutinho Cordeiro (1952–)
 * David Cox (statistician) (1924–)
 * Gertrude Mary Cox (1900–1978)
 * Richard Threlkeld Cox (1898–1991)
 * Harald Cramér (Sweden, 1893 – 1985)
 * Philip Dawid (1946–)
 * Bruno de Finetti (1906–1985)
 * W. Edwards Deming (1900–1993)
 * Persi Diaconis (1945–)
 * Sir Richard Doll (1912–2005)
 * Karen Dunnell (1946–)
 * A. Ross Eckler (1901–1991)
 * A. Ross Eckler, Jr. (1927–)
 * Frederick Morton Eden (1766–1809)
 * Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (1845–1926)
 * A. W. F. Edwards (1935–)
 * Churchill Eisenhart (1913–1994)
 * Ernst Engel (1821–1896)
 * A. K. Erlang (1878–1929)

F to J

 * William Farr (1807–1883)
 * Gustav Fechner (1801–1887)
 * Ivan Fellegi (1935–)
 * Irving Fisher (1867–1947)
 * Sir Ronald A. Fisher (1890–1962)
 * William Fleetwood (1656–1723)
 * John Fox (statistician) (1945–)
 * Arnoldo Frigessi di Rattalma (1959–)
 * George Gallup (1901–1984)
 * Francis Galton (1822–1911)
 * Seymour Geisser (1929–2004)
 * Lyndhurst Giblin (1872–1951)
 * Robert Giffen (1910–)
 * Corrado Gini (1884–1965)
 * Gene V. Glass (1940–)
 * Benjamin Gompertz (1779–1865)
 * I. J. Good (1916–)
 * Phillip Good(1937–)
 * William Sealey Gosset (known as "Student") (1876–1937)
 * John Graunt (1620–1674)
 * Major Greenwood (1880–1949)
 * Emil Julius Gumbel (1891–1966)
 * Dimitrie Gusti (1880–1955)
 * Pierre Gy (1924–)
 * Steven Haberman (1951–)
 * Anders Hald (1913–)
 * Jotun Hein (1956–)
 * Friedrich Robert Helmert (1843–1917)
 * Jim Hendy (1905-1961)
 * Sir Jack Hibbert (1932–2005)
 * Joseph Hilbe (1944-)
 * Austin Bradford Hill (1897–1991)
 * Nils Lid Hjort (1953–)
 * Wassily Hoeffding (1914–1991)
 * Herman Hollerith (1860–1929)
 * Tim Holt (1943–)
 * Reginald Hawthorn Hooker (1867–1944)
 * Harold Hotelling (1895–1973)
 * Darrell Huff (1913–2001)
 * Ion Ionescu de la Brad (1818–1891)
 * Joseph Oscar Irwin (1898–1982)
 * Kaoru Ishikawa (1915–1989)
 * Bill James (1949-)
 * Edwin Thompson Jaynes (1922–1998)
 * Gwilym Jenkins (1933–1982)
 * William H. Jefferys (1940–)
 * Harold Jeffreys (1891–1989)
 * E. Morton Jellinek (1890–1963)
 * William Stanley Jevons (1835–1882)
 * Norman Lloyd Johnson (1917–2004)
 * Joseph M. Juran (1904–)
 * James Jurin (1684-1750)

K to N

 * David George Kendall (1918–)
 * Sir Maurice Kendall (1907–1983)
 * John Kingman (1939–)
 * Leslie Kish (1910–2000)
 * Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov (1903–1987)
 * Joseph Kruskal (1929–)
 * William Kruskal (1919–2005)
 * Etienne Laspeyres (1834–1913)
 * John Law (1671–1729)
 * Lucien le Cam (1924–2000)
 * Wilhelm Lexis (1837–1914)
 * Jarl Waldemar Lindeberg (1876–1932)
 * Dennis V. Lindley (1923–)
 * Yuri Vladimirovich Linnik (1915–1972)
 * Alfred J. Lotka (1880–1949)
 * Filip Lundberg (1876–1965)
 * Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893–1972)
 * Nathan Mantel (1919–2002)
 * Donald Marquardt (1929–1997)
 * Motosaburo Masuyama (1912–2005)
 * Anderson Gray McKendrick (1876–1943)
 * Claus Moser (1922–)
 * Frederick Mosteller (1916–2006)
 * William Newmarch (1820–1882)
 * Jerzy Neyman (1894–1981)
 * Florence Nightingale (1820–1910)

P to T

 * Emanuel Parzen (1929–
 * Egon Pearson (1895–1980)
 * Karl Pearson (1857–1936)
 * William Petty (1623–1687)
 * E.J.G. Pitman (1897–1993)
 * William Playfair (1759–1823)
 * George Pólya (1887–1985)
 * Alwyn Pritchard (1947–)
 * Adolphe Quetelet (1796–1874)
 * Howard Raiffa
 * Ştefan Ralescu (1952-)
 * C.R. Rao (1920–)
 * Georg Rasch (1901–1980)
 * Šarūnas Raudys (1941-)
 * Olav Reiersøl (1908–2001)
 * Brian Daniel Ripley (1952–)
 * Herbert Robbins (1922–2001)
 * Irving Rosenwater (1932–2006)
 * S. N. Roy (1906–1966)
 * Jeff Sagarin
 * Leonard Jimmie Savage (1917–1971)
 * Robert Schlaifer (1915–1994)
 * Arthur Schuster (1851–1934)
 * Howie Schwab
 * Tore Schweder (1943–)
 * Elizabeth Scott (1917–1988)
 * Pyotr Semenov-Tyan-Shansky (1827–1914)
 * Lloyd Shapley (1923–)
 * William Fleetwood Sheppard (1863–1936)
 * Walter A. Shewhart (1891–1967)
 * Herbert Sichel (1915–1995)
 * John Sinclair (1754–1835)
 * Eugen Slutsky (1880–1948)
 * A.F.M Smith
 * Cedric Smith (1917–2002)
 * George W. Snedecor (1881–1974)
 * Carl Snyder (1869–1946)
 * Charles Spearman (1863–1945)
 * David Spiegelhalter (1953–)
 * Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp (1880–1941)
 * Stephen Stigler
 * Dietrich Stoyan (1940–)
 * Genichi Taguchi (1924–)
 * Thorvald N. Thiele (1838–1910)
 * John Tukey (1915–2000)

U to Z

 * Jessica Utts
 * Vladimir Vapnik (~1935 - )
 * Abraham Wald (1902–1950)
 * Chris Wallace (1933–2004)
 * Waloddi Weibull (1887–1979)
 * Arnold Weinstock (1924–2002)
 * Harald Ludvig Westergaard (1853–1936)
 * Peter Whittle (1927–)
 * Frank Wilcoxon (1892–1965)
 * Martin Wilk (1922–)
 * Samuel Stanley Wilks (1906–1964)
 * John Wishart (1898–1956)
 * Herman Wold (1908–1992)
 * Jacob Wolfowitz (1910–1981)
 * Frank Yates (1902–1994)
 * Arthur Young (1741–1820)
 * G. Udny Yule (1871–1951)
 * George Kingsley Zipf (1902–1950)
 * Arnold Zellner (1927–)