Harold Hotelling

Harold Hotelling

male, deceased (1973)
Stanford University, Columbia University, Chapel Hill, Economist, Statistician, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Harold Hotelling (Fulda, Minnesota, september 29, 1895 - december 26, 1973) was a mathematical statistician, and very influential economic...

Terry Speed

male, 66 years old
PhD, DNA microarrays, Terence Paul Speed, University of California, Berkeley, bioinformatics, monash university…Statistician
Professor Terence Paul Speed, or Terry Speed (born 14 March 1943), is an Australian statistician, known for his contributions to bioinformatics,...
William Playfair

William Playfair

male, deceased (1823)
engineer, Scottish, Tufte, pie chart, line chart, Statistical Breviary…Statistician
William Playfair (September 22, 1759 - February 11, 1823) was a Scottish engineer and political economist who made important innovations in the...
Austin Bradford Hill

Austin Bradford Hill

male, deceased (1991)
Old Chigwellian, lung cancer, British, clinical trial, Epidemiologist, Statistician
Austin Bradford Hill (July 8, 1897 - April 18, 1991), English epidemiologist and statistician, pioneered the randomized clinical trial and,...
Stephen Stigler

Stephen Stigler

male
American, University of Chicago, robust estimators, Stephen Mack Stigler, Linear Functions of Order Statistics, University of California, Berkeley…Statistician
Stephen Mack Stigler is Ernest DeWitt Burton Distinguished Service Professor at the Department of Statistics of the University of Chicago. Stigler...
Rickey Henderson

Rickey Henderson

male, 50 years old
Star, athletic, Hall of Famer, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, New York Mets, outfielder…Statistician
Rickey Henley Henderson (born December 25, 1958) is a former Major League Baseball outfielder who is baseball's all-time leader in stolen bases and...
Richard Stone

Richard Stone

male, deceased (1991)
World War II, Nobel Laureate, Lloyd's Brokers, Statistician, British, economics
Sir John Richard Nicholas Stone (August 30, 1913 - December 6, 1991) was an eminent British economist who in 1984 received the Nobel Memorial...
William Petty

William Petty

male, deceased (1687)
Preclassical economics, English, Classical economist, Economist, inventor, Statistician
Sir William Petty was an English economist, scientist and philosopher. He first became prominent serving Oliver Cromwell and Commonwealth in...
Abraham Wald

Abraham Wald

male, deceased (1950)
Jewish, Jewish person, Erdős number 2, scientist, Plane crash victim, Cowles Commission for Research in Economics…Statistician
Abraham Wald was a mathematician born in Kolozsvár, Hungary (now Cluj, Romania) who contributed to decision theory, geometry, and econometrics, a...
Peter Armitage

Peter Armitage

male, 85 years old
Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge, George Barnard, medical statistics, Encyclopedia of Biostatistics, International Society for Clinical Biostatistics, Huddersfield College…Statistician
Peter Armitage (born July 15, 1924) is a statistician specialising in medical statistics. Peter Armitage attended Huddersfield College and went on...