William Stanley Jevons

William Stanley Jevons

male, deceased (1882)
Logician, Economist, Statistician, logic, scientific method, coal
William Stanley Jevons, English economist and logician, was born in Liverpool. He expounded in his book "The Theory of Political Economy" (1871)...
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis

Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis

male, deceased (1972)
Indian, mathematician, Statistician, scientist, Hindu, Anthropometry
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (June 29 1893-June 28, 1972) was an Indian scientist and applied statistician. He is best known for the Mahalanobis...
Henry Chadwick

Henry Chadwick

male, deceased (1908)
buried at Green-Wood Cemetery, From Exeter, Baseball Writer, immigrant to the United States, English, National Base Ball Club…Baseball statistician, Statistician
Henry Chadwick (October 5 1824 - April 20 1908), often called the "father of baseball," was a sportswriter, baseball statistician and historian....
George W. Snedecor

George W. Snedecor

male, deceased (1974)
mathematician, George Waddel Snedecor, Snedecor's F distribution, Iowa State University faculty, American Statistical Association, Iowa State University alumni…Statistician
George Waddel Snedecor (October 20, 1881 - February 15, 1974) was an American mathematician and statistician. He contributed to the foundations of...
Philip Dawid

Philip Dawid

male, 63 years old
Alumni of Darwin College, Cambridge, scientist, University of Cambridge, Jewish, Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, Academic of University College London…Statistician
(Alexander) Philip Dawid (born 1 February 1946) is Pearson Professor of Statistics at University College London and a leading proponent of Bayesian...
Warren Mitofsky

Warren Mitofsky

male, deceased (2006)
Guilford College, from New York City, death from cardiovascular disease, Statistician, entrepreneur, research
Warren Mitofsky (September 17 1934 - September 1, 2006) was a well-regarded American pollster. He founded a survey research company, Mitofsky...
Kaoru Ishikawa

Kaoru Ishikawa

male, deceased (1989)
Quality experts, Japanese, JUSE, Dr. Juran, Dr. Deming, quality circle…Statistician
Kaoru Ishikawa (1915-1989) was a Japanese University professor and influential quality management innovator best known in North America for the...
Ernst Engel

Ernst Engel

male, deceased (1896)
freiberg, Economist, Statistician, German, Radebeul, Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Dieterici
Ernst Engel (March 26 1821-December 8 1896) was a German statistician and economist, famous for the Engel curve, also known as Engel's law. Ernst...
Joseph M. Juran

Joseph M. Juran

male, 104 years old
human knowledge, Recruitment Strategy, Centenarian, quality guru, quality management, consulting…Statistician
Joseph Moses Juran (b. December 24, 1904) is an American industrial engineer and philanthropist. Juran is known as a business and industrial...
John Kingman

John Kingman

male, 70 years old
PhD, University of Oxford, University of Manchester, From beckenham, Doctor of Philosophy, Graduating…Statistician
Sir John Frank Charles Kingman, a mathematician, was born on 28 August 1939 in Beckenham, Kent<sup>1</sup>. Since 2001, he has been N. M....