Thomas Bayes

Thomas Bayes

male, deceased (1761)
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh, English, From London, Christian, Kingdom of Great Britain, From Tunbridge Wells…Statistician
Thomas Bayes was a British mathematician and Presbyterian minister, known for having formulated a special case of Bayes' theorem, which was...
Persi Diaconis

Persi Diaconis

male, 64 years old (Stanford, California, United States)
Persi Warren Diaconis, "Trailing the Dovetail Shuffle to its Lair", randomization, coin flipping, Persi W. Diaconis, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation…Statistician
Persi Warren Diaconis (born January 31, 1945) is an American mathematician and former professional magician. He is Mary V. Sunseri professor of...
Bradley Efron

Bradley Efron

male, 71 years old
National Medal of Science, bootstrapping, differential geometry, MacArthur Prize Fellowship, National Academy of Sciences, statistical inference…Statistician
Bradley Efron is a statistician best known for proposing the bootstrap resampling technique, which has had a major impact in the field of...
Jerzy Neyman

Jerzy Neyman

male, deceased (1981)
Roman Catholic, pole, Imperial Russia, Statistician, Polish Academy of Sciences, polish
Jerzy Neyman, born Jerzy Spława-Neyman, was a Polish-American mathematician. He was born into a Polish family in Bendery, Bessarabia in Imperial R...
David Cox

David Cox

male, 85 years old
Academic of Imperial College London, Royal Society of London, Erdős number 3, Academic of Birkbeck, University of London, Alumni of the University of Leeds, St John's College, Cambridge…Statistician
Sir David Roxbee Cox (born 1924 in Birmingham) is an English statistician. He studied mathematics at St. John's College of the University of...
Frederick Mosteller

Frederick Mosteller

male, deceased (2006)
death by sepsis, American Statistical Association, Statistician, Harvard University faculty, Harvard, American
Charles Frederick Mosteller (December 24, 1916 - July 23, 2006, usually known as Frederick Mosteller or Fred) was one of the most eminent...
Jessica Utts

Jessica Utts

female
University of California, Davis faculty, University of California, SRI International, American Statistical Association, Stanford Research Institute, University of California, Davis…Statistician, American statistician
Jessica Utts is a statistics professor at the University of California, Davis. In 1995, the American Institutes for Research (AIR) appointed a...

Edward Jones

male, deceased (1920)
Statistician, American, eponym, Edward David Jones, Dow-Jones index
Edward David Jones was a U.S. statistician. He was the co-developer and co-eponym of the Dow-Jones index with Charles Dow and Charles Bergstresser.
Richard Doll

Richard Doll

male, deceased (2005)
William Richard Shaboe Doll, Biostatisticians, from Hampton, London, Sir William Richard Shaboe Doll, heart disease, smoking…Statistician
Sir William Richard Shaboe Doll CH OBE FRS (28 October 1912-24 July 2005) was a British physiologist who became the foremost epidemiologist of the...
Bill Frindall

Bill Frindall

male, 70 years old
Bearders, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, ACS Statistician of the Year, cricket writer, Test Match Special, Statistician of the Year…Statistician
William Howard Frindall MBE (March 3, 1939, Epsom, Surrey) is a British cricket scorer and statistician who is familiar to cricket followers from...