List of statisticians - Definition and Overview

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

• Peter Armitage
• M. S. Bartlett
• Thomas Bayes
• Yves Berger
• Duane Boes
• Ladislaus Bortkiewicz
• George Box
• Pafnuty Chebyshev
• Alexey Chervonenkis
• William Cochran
• (Sir) David R. Cox
• Richard Threlkeld Cox
• Harald Cramér (Sweden, 1893 - 1985)
• Bruno de Finetti
• W. Edwards Deming
• Persi Diaconis
• (Sir) Richard Doll
• Francis Ysidro Edgeworth
• A. K. Erlang
• (Sir) Ronald A. Fisher
• Francis Galton
• Seymour Geisser
• Corrado Gini
• I. J. Good
• William Sealey Gosset (known as "Student")
• Franklin Graybill
• Major Greenwood
• Emil Julius Gumbel
• Pierre Gy
• Austin Bradford Hill
• Michael Hidiroglou
• Harold Hotelling
• Edwin Thompson Jaynes
• Harold Jeffreys
• David Kendall
• (Sir) Maurice Kendall
• Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov
• Alfred J. Lotka
• Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
• Matosaburo Masuyama
• Alexander Mood
• Jerzy Neyman
• Egon Pearson
• Karl Pearson
• Edwin James George Pitman
• Adolphe Quetelet
• C. R. Rao
• Herbert Robbins
• Carl Eric Sarndal
• Leonard Jimmie Savage
• Walter A. Shewhart
• Mike Dugas
• Jeff Sagarin
• George W. Snedecor
• Charles Spearman
• P. V. Sukhatme
• Genichi Taguchi
• Pafnuty Tchebycheff, see Pafnuty Chebyshev
• Pafnuty Tchebyscheff, see Pafnuty Chebyshev
• Leonard H. C. Tippett
• John Tukey
• Vladimir Vapnik (Russia, ~1935 - )
• Samuel Stanley Wilks
• Frank Yates
• George Udny Yule
• Abraham Wald
• Marvin Zelen

See also

• List of mathematicians
• List of people
• List of people by occupation