Harold Jeffreys

Harold Jeffreys

male, deceased (1989)
Sir Harold Jeffreys (22 April 1891 - 18 March 1989) was a mathematician, statistician, geophysicist, and astronomer. He was born in Fatfield,...
Anders Hald

Anders Hald

male, 96 years old
Anders Hald (born 3 July 1913) is a Danish statistician who in later years has made contributions to the history of statistics. He was a professor...

Darrell Huff

male, deceased (2001)
Darrell Huff was an American writer, and is best known as the author of "How to Lie with Statistics" (1954), the best-selling statistics book of...
Stephen Fienberg

Stephen Fienberg

male
Stephen Fienberg is Maurice Falk Professor of Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University. He earned a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Statistics from the...
John Law

John Law

male, deceased (1729)
John Law ("bap." 21 April 1671 - 21 March 1729) was a Scottish economist who believed that money was only a means of exchange that did not...

Dennis Lindley

male, 86 years old
Dennis Victor Lindley (born July 25, 1923) is a British statistician, decision theorist and leading advocate of Bayesian statistics. Dennis Lindley...
Pete Palmer

Pete Palmer

male, 71 years old
Pete Palmer is an American statistician, and a major contributor to the applied mathematical field referred to as sabermetrics. Along with the Bill...
Gregory King

Gregory King

male, deceased (1712)
Gregory King (December 15, 1648 - August 29, 1712) English genealogist, civil servant and "the first great economic statistician." Gregory King was...
Udny Yule

Udny Yule

male, deceased (1951)
George Udny Yule (February 18, 1871 - June 26, 1951) was a Scottish statistician. Yule made important contributions to the theory and practice of...
Richard Price

Richard Price

male, deceased (1791)
Richard Price (February 23, 1723 - April 19, 1791), was a Welsh moral and political philosopher. He was born at Tynton, Glamorgan, the son of a...