- Len Cook
Leonard Warren "Len" Cook, CBE, (born 13 April, 1949), is a professional statistician who was Government Statistician of New Zealand from 1992 to 2000 and National Statistician and Director of the Office for National Statistics, United Kingdom, and Registrar General of England and Wales from 2000 to 2005.
- Brian Pink
Brian Pink is the Australian Statistician, the head of the Australian Bureau of Statistics, beginning March 2007. Prior to September 1999 Brian Pink was ABS's Statistical Support Group Manager, when he was appointed as the Government Statistician for New Zealand and Chief Executive of Statistics New Zealand.
- Karl Pearson
Karl Pearson FRS (March 27, 1857 - April 27, 1936) established the discipline of mathematical statistics. A sesquicentenary conference was held in London on 23 March 2007, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of his birth. In 1911 he founded the world's first university statistics department at University College London. He was a proponent of eugenics, and a protégé and biographer of Sir Francis Galton. He was also a socialist.
- W. Edwards Deming
William Edwards Deming was an American statistician, college professor, author, lecturer, and consultant. Deming is widely credited with improving production in the United States during World War II, although he is perhaps best known for his work in Japan. There, from 1950 onward he taught top management how to improve design (and thus service), product quality, testing and sales (the latter through global markets) through various methods, …
- John Tukey
John Wilder Tukey (June 16, 1915 - July 26, 2000) was a statistician born in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Tukey obtained a B.A. in 1936 and M.Sc. in 1937, both in Chemistry, from Brown University, before moving to Princeton University where he received his Ph.D. in mathematics. During World War II, Tukey worked at the Fire Control Research Office and collaborated with Samuel Wilks and William Cochran.
- Francis Galton
Sir Francis Galton F.R.S. (February 16, 1822 - January 17, 1911), half-cousin of Charles Darwin, was an English Victorian polymath, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, psychometrician, and statistician. He was knighted in 1909. Galton had a prolific intellect, and produced over 340 papers and books throughout his lifetime.
- Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale, OM, RRC (12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910), who came to be known as "The Lady of the Lamp", was a pioneer of modern nursing and a noted statistician.
- Geoff Bascand
Geoff Bascand is the current Government Statistician of New Zealand and the Chief Executive of Statistics New Zealand. He was appointed to these positions on 22 May 2007
- Chief Statistician Of Canada
The Chief Statistician of Canada is a deputy of the Minister Responsible for Statistics Canada - the Minister of Industry. The Chief Statistician advises on matters pertaining to statistical programs of the department and agencies of the Government of Canada. The Chief Statistician supervises the administration of the Statistics Act and controls the operation and staff of Statistics Canada.
- Ronald Fisher
Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher, FRS (17 February 1890 – 29 July 1962) was an English statistician, evolutionary biologist, and geneticist. He was described by Anders Hald as "a genius who almost single-handedly created the foundations for modern statistical science" and Richard Dawkins described him as "the greatest of Darwin's successors".
- C. R. Rao
Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao (born September 10, 1920) is a famous Indian statistician and currently professor emeritus at Penn State University. He was born in Hadagali, Karnataka state, India. He received an M.S. in mathematics from Andhra University and an M.S. in Statistics from Calcutta University in 1943.
- Dennis Trewin
Dennis J. Trewin was the Australian Statistician, the head of the Australian Bureau of Statistics, between July 2000 and January 2007. He was listed as one of Australia's Smart 100 in a 2003 poll run by the Australian magazine The Bulletin. Dennis joined the ABS in 1966 as a Statistics cadet. Between 1992 and 1995 he was the Deputy Government Statistician in New Zealand Statistics and a Deputy Australian Statistician from 1995 to 2000, …
- Enrico Giovannini
Enrico Giovannini Italian economist and statistician. Since January 2001 he is Director of Statistics and Chief Statistician of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Since 2002 he is also full professor of economic statistics at the Rome University “Tor Vergata”.
- Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal, (June 19 1623-August 19 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father. Pascal's earliest work was in the natural and applied sciences where he made important contributions to the construction of mechanical calculators, the study of fluids, and clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum by generalizing the work of Evangelista Torricelli.
- Herman Hollerith
Herman Hollerith (February 29, 1860 - November 17, 1929) was an American statistician who developed a mechanical tabulator based on punched cards in order to rapidly tabulate statistics from millions of pieces of data.
- Ivan Fellegi
Ivan Peter Fellegi O.C., B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D., (born 1935) is a Hungarian-Canadian statistician and the Chief Statistician of Canada since 1985. Born in Szeged, Hungary, Ivan Fellegi was in his third year of studying mathematics at the University of Budapest, when the Hungarian uprising was crushed in 1956. He arrived in Ottawa, Ontario Canada that year and soon began working for Statistics Canada (then known as the Dominion Bureau of Statistics).
- Edward Tufte
Edward Rolf Tufte (born 1942 in Kansas City, Missouri, to Virginia and Edward E. Tufte), a professor emeritus of statistics, information design, interface design, and political economy at Yale University has been described by "The New York Times" as "the Leonardo da Vinci of Data". He is an expert in the presentation of informational graphics such as charts and diagrams, and is a fellow of the American Statistical Association.
- Adolphe Quetelet
Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quételet was a Flemish astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist. He founded and directed the Brussels Observatory and was influential in introducing statistical methods to the social sciences. Some French-language sources give his last name as Quetelet, with no accent.
- George Gallup
George Horace Gallup, American statistician, invented the Gallup poll, a successful statistical method of survey sampling for measuring public opinion.
- Richard Peto
Sir Richard Peto, FRS (born 1943) is Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology at the University of Oxford. He attended Richard Taunton's School in Southampton and subsequently studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge University. His career has included important collaborations with Richard Doll beginning at the Medical Research Council Statistical Research Unit in London. He set up the Clinical Trial Services Unit in Oxford in 1975 and is currently co-director.
- Thomas Bayes
Thomas Bayes was a British mathematician and Presbyterian minister, known for having formulated a special case of Bayes' theorem, which was published posthumously.
- Persi Diaconis
Persi Warren Diaconis (born January 31, 1945) is an American mathematician and former professional magician. He is Mary V. Sunseri professor of statistics and professor of mathematics at Stanford University. He is particularly known for tackling mathematical problems involving randomness and randomization, such as coin flipping and shuffling playing cards. Professor Diaconis achieved brief national fame when he received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1979, …
- Bradley Efron
Bradley Efron is a statistician best known for proposing the bootstrap resampling technique, which has had a major impact in the field of Statistics and virtually every area of statistical application. The bootstrap was one of the first computer-intensive statistical techniques, replacing traditional algebraic derivations with data-based computer simulations. On May 29th 2007, he was awarded the National Medal of Science, the highest scientific honor by the United States, …
- Jerzy Neyman
Jerzy Neyman, born Jerzy Spława-Neyman, was a Polish-American mathematician. He was born into a Polish family in Bendery, Bessarabia in Imperial Russia, the second of four children of Czesław Spława-Neyman and Kazimiera Lutosławska. His family was Roman Catholic and Neyman served as an altar boy during his early childhood. Later, Neyman would become an agnostic. Neyman's family descended from a long line of Polish nobles and military heros.
- David Cox
Sir David Roxbee Cox (born 1924 in Birmingham) is an English statistician. He studied mathematics at St. John's College of the University of Cambridge and obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Leeds in 1949. He was employed from 1944 to 1946 at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, from 1946 to 1950 at the Wool Industries Research Association in Leeds, and from 1950 to 1956 worked at the Statistical Laboratory at the University of Cambridge.
- Frederick Mosteller
Charles Frederick Mosteller (December 24, 1916 - July 23, 2006, usually known as Frederick Mosteller or Fred) was one of the most eminent statisticians of the 20th century. He was the founding chairman of Harvard's statistics department, from 1957 to 1971, and served as the president of several professional bodies including the Psychometric Society, the American Statistical Association, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, …
- Jessica Utts
Jessica Utts is a statistics professor at the University of California, Davis. In 1995, the American Institutes for Research (AIR) appointed a panel consisting primarily of Utts and Dr. Ray Hyman to evaluate a project investigating remote viewing for espionage applications, which was funded by the Central Intelligence Agency and Defense Intelligence Agency, and carried out initially by Stanford Research Institute and subsequently by SAIC.
- Edward Jones
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
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 20th century, turning the subject into a rigorous science. He was a pioneer in research linking smoking to health problems. With Ernst Wynder, Bradford Hill and Evarts Graham, he was the first in the modern world to prove that smoking caused lung cancer and increased the risk of heart disease.
- Bill Frindall
William Howard Frindall MBE (March 3, 1939, Epsom, Surrey) is a British cricket scorer and statistician who is familiar to cricket followers from his appearances on the BBC's radio programme Test Match Special. He was nicknamed the Bearded Wonder (often shortened to Bearders) by Brian Johnston for his ability to research the most obscure cricketing facts in moments at the same time as keeping perfect scorecards.
- I. J. Good
Irving John (Jack) Good (born 9 December 1916) is a British statistician who worked also as a cryptographer at Bletchley Park. In his publications he is called I. J. Good. He was born Isidore Jacob Gudak to a Jewish family in London. He read mathematics at Jesus College, Cambridge, graduating in 1938. He did research work under G. H. Hardy and Besicovitch, before moving to Bletchley Park in 1941 on completing his doctorate.
- Ian Castles
Ian Castles, AO is a Visiting Fellow at the Asia Pacific School of Economics and Government at the Australian National University, Canberra, he was the Australian Statistician (1986-94) and Secretary of the Australian Government Department of Finance (1979-86). He has also been Executive Director and Vice President of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (1995-2000) and President of the International Association of Official Statistics.
- John Fox
(Anthony) John Fox is a British statistician, who has worked in both the public service and academia. He was born on April 25 1946, the son of Fred Frank Fox OBE. He was educated at Dauntsey's School, University College London (BSc) and Imperial College London (PhD). He was a statistician at the Employment Medical Advisory Service, 1970-5 and then the Medical Statistics Division of the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys (OPCS) until 1979.
- Irving Fisher
Irving Fisher (February 27 1867 Saugerties, New York - April 29 1947, New York) was an American economist, health campaigner, and eugenicist, and one of the earliest American neoclassical economists and, although he was perhaps the first celebrity economist, his reputation today is probably higher than it was in his lifetime. Several terms are named after him, including the Fisher equation, Fisher hypothesis and Fisher separation theorem.
- George E. P. Box
George Edward Pelham Box, born 18 October 1919 in Gravesend, Kent, England, was one of the most influential statisticians of the 20th century and a pioneer in the areas of quality control, time series analysis, design of experiments and Bayesian inference. Box was originally trained as a chemist, and he worked on biochemical experiments on the effect of poison gases on small animals for the British Army during World War II.
- Corrado Gini
Corrado Gini (May 23, 1884 - March 13, 1965) was an Italian statistician, demographer and sociologist who developed the Gini coefficient, a measure of the income inequality in a society. Gini was also a leading fascist theorist and ideologue who wrote "The Scientific Basis of Fascism" in 1927.
- William Farr
William Farr (November 30, 1807 - April 14, 1883) was a nineteenth century British epidemiologist, regarded as one of the founders of medical statistics.
- Donald Rubin
Donald B. Rubin is the John L. Loeb Professor of Statistics at Harvard University. He was hired by Harvard in 1984, and served as chair of the department from 1985-1994. He is most well-known for the Rubin Causal Model, a set of methods designed for causal inference with observational data, and for his methods for dealing with missing data.
- John Graunt
John Graunt (April 24,1620-April 18, 1674) was one of the first demographers, though by profession he was a haberdasher. Born in London, Graunt, along with William Petty, developed early human statistical and census methods that later provided a framework for modern demography.
- Peter Donnelly
Peter Donnelly, FRS is an Australian mathematician and Professor of Statistical Science at the University of Oxford. He is a specialist in applied probability and has made important mathematical contributions to coalescent theory. His research group at Oxford has an international reputation for the development of statistial methodology to analyse genetic data. He is a fellow of St Anne's College and, …