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| title | full_name | born | died | nationality | occupation | url |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nate Silver | Nathaniel Read Silver | 1978 | n/a | American | statistician, writer and poker player who analyzes baseball (see sabermetrics), basketball, and elections (see psephology) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nate_Silver |
| Milton Friedman | Milton Friedman | 1912 | 2006 | American | economist and statistician who received the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his research on consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and the complexity of stabilization policy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Friedman |
| Morton Klein | Morton A. "Mort" Klein | 1947 | n/a | German | economist, statistician, and pro-Israeli activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton_Klein |
| Paul Halmos | Paul Richard Halmos | 1916 | 2006 | Hungarian | mathematician and statistician who made fundamental advances in the areas of mathematical logic, probability theory, statistics, operator theory, ergodic theory, and functional analysis (in particular, Hilbert spaces) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Halmos |
| Simon Kuznets | Simon Smith Kuznets | 1901 | 1985 | American | economist and statistician who received the 1971 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "for his empirically founded interpretation of economic growth which has led to new and deepened insight into the economic and social structure and process of development | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Kuznets |
| Harvey Goldstein | Harvey Goldstein | 1939 | 2020 | British | statistician known for his contributions to multilevel modelling methodology and software, and for applying this to educational assessment and league tables | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Goldstein |
| Jacob Lestschinsky | Jakob Lestschinsky | 1876 | 1966 | null | Jewish statistician and sociologist who wrote in Yiddish, German, and English | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Lestschinsky |
| Sergio Della Pergola | Sergio Della Pergola | 1942 | n/a | Italian | demographer and statistician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergio_Della_Pergola |
| Leon Lichtblau | Leon Lichtblau | 1901 | 1938 | Romanian | socialist and communist militant, and Soviet statistician who was executed during the Great Purge | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Lichtblau |
| Jacob Wolfowitz | Jacob Wolfowitz | 1910 | 1981 | Polish | Jewish statistician and Shannon Award-winning information theorist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Wolfowitz |
| William M. Feigenbaum | William Morris Feigenbaum | 1886 | 1949 | American | statistician, journalist and politician from New York | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_M._Feigenbaum |
| Claus Moser, Baron Moser | Claus Adolf Moser, Baron Moser | 1922 | 2015 | British | statistician who made major contributions in both academia and the Civil Service | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claus_Moser,_Baron_Moser |
| Maurice Block | Maurice Block ; 18 February 18169 January 1901) | null | null | German | statistician and economist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Block |
| Bradley Efron | Bradley Efron | 1938 | n/a | American | statistician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_Efron |
| Isaac Hourwich | Isaac Aronovich Hourwich | 1860 | 1924 | American | Jewish economist, statistician, lawyer, and political activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Hourwich |
| Abraham George Silverman | Abraham George Silverman | null | null | null | mathematician and statistician who was a member of the Soviet Ware Group | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_George_Silverman |
| Joseph Kruskal | Joseph Bernard Kruskal, Jr. | 1928 | 2010 | American | mathematician, statistician, computer scientist and psychometrician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kruskal |
| Victor Niederhoffer | Victor Niederhoffer | 1943 | n/a | American | hedge fund manager, champion squash player, bestselling author and statistician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Niederhoffer |
| Henry Schultz | Henry Schultz | 1893 | 1938 | American | economist, statistician, and one of the founders of econometrics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Schultz |
| Herman Chernoff | Herman Chernoff | 1923 | n/a | American | applied mathematician, statistician and physicist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Chernoff |
| Robert R. Sokal | Robert Reuven Sokal | 1926 | 2012 | Austrian | biostatistician and entomologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_R._Sokal |
| William Kruskal | William Henry Kruskal | 1919 | 2005 | American | mathematician and statistician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kruskal |
| Henry Daniels | Henry Ellis Daniels FRS | 1912 | 2000 | British | statistician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Daniels |
| E. Morton Jellinek | Elvin Morton "Bunky" Jellinek | 1890 | 1963 | null | biostatistician, physiologist, and an alcoholism researcher, fluent in nine languages and able to communicate in four others | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Morton_Jellinek |
| Harvey Pollack | Herbert Harvey Pollack | 1922 | 2015 | American | sports statistician, a journalist of sports and entertainment, a publicist, and long term director of statistical information for the Philadelphia 76ers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Pollack |
| Akiva Yaglom | Akiva Moiseevich Yaglom | 1921 | 2007 | Soviet | physicist, mathematician, statistician, and meteorologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akiva_Yaglom |
| John Fox (statistician) | Anthony John Fox | 1946 | n/a | British | statistician, who has worked in both the public service and academia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fox_(statistician) |
| Jacob Cohen (statistician) | Jacob Cohen | 1923 | 1998 | American | psychologist and statistician best known for his work on statistical power and effect size, which helped to lay foundations for current statistical meta-analysis and the methods of estimation statistics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Cohen_(statistician) |
| Mollie Orshansky | Mollie Orshansky | 1915 | 2006 | American | economist and statistician who, in 1963–65, developed the Orshansky Poverty Thresholds, which are used in the United States as a measure of the income that a household must not exceed to be counted as poor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mollie_Orshansky |
| Stanley Wasserman | Stanley Wasserman | 1951 | n/a | American | statistician and Rudy Professor of Statistics, Psychology, and Sociology at Indiana University Bloomington and Academic Supervisor of the International laboratory for Applied Network Research at Moscow's National Research University – Higher School of Economics (since 2014) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Wasserman |
| Andrew S. C. Ehrenberg | Andrew Ehrenberg | 1926 | 2010 | null | statistician and marketing scientist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_S._C._Ehrenberg |
| Nathan Mantel | Nathan Mantel | 1919 | 2002 | American | biostatistician best known for his work with William Haenszel which led to the Mantel–Haenszel test and its associated estimate, the Mantel–Haenszel odds ratio | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Mantel |
| Louis Israel Dublin | Louis Israel Dublin | 1882 | 1969 | American | Jewish statistician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Israel_Dublin |
| Allan Birnbaum | Allan Birnbaum | 1923 | 1976 | American | statistician who contributed to statistical inference, foundations of statistics, statistical genetics, statistical psychology, and history of statistics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Birnbaum |
| Gottfried E. Noether | Gottfried Emanuel Noether | 1915 | 1991 | German | statistician and educator; one of the third generation of a famous family of mathematicians: he was the son of Fritz Noether and nephew of Emmy Noether, the grandson of Max Noether, and brother of chemist Herman Noether | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottfried_E._Noether |
| Leone Levi | Leone Levi | 1821 | 1888 | English | jurist and statistician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leone_Levi |
| Emanuel Parzen | Emanuel Parzen | 1929 | 2016 | American | statistician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel_Parzen |
| Leon Isserlis | Leon Isserlis | 1881 | 1966 | Russian | statistician known for his work on the exact distribution of sample moments, including Isserlis’ theorem | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Isserlis |
| Zygmunt Wilhelm Birnbaum | Zygmunt Wilhelm Birnbaum | 1903 | 2000 | Polish | mathematician and statistician who contributed to functional analysis, nonparametric testing and estimation, probability inequalities, survival distributions, competing risks, and reliability theory | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zygmunt_Wilhelm_Birnbaum |
| Roberto Bachi | Roberto Bachi | 1909 | 1995 | Italian | statistician and demographer, and founder of the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Bachi |
| Juliet Popper Shaffer | Juliet Popper Shaffer | 1932 | n/a | American | psychologist, statistician and statistics educator known for her research on multiple hypothesis testing | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliet_Popper_Shaffer |
| Edna Schechtman | Edna Schechtman | null | null | Israeli | statistician, a professor emeritus of statistics at the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edna_Schechtman |
| Ester Samuel-Cahn | Ester Samuel-Cahn | 1933 | 2015 | Israeli | statistician and educator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ester_Samuel-Cahn |
| Esther Seiden | Esther Seiden | 1908 | 2014 | null | mathematical statistician known for her research on the design of experiments and combinatorial design theory | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_Seiden |
| Shirley Kallek | Shirley Kallek | 1926 | 1983 | American | economic statistician known for her work at the United States Census Bureau | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Kallek |
| Michael Hasofer | Abraham Michael Hasofer | 1927 | 2010 | Australian | statistician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hasofer |
| Benedict Bermange | Benedict Bermange | 1975 | n/a | null | Sky Sports cricket statistician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict_Bermange |
| Emanuel Boekman | Emanuel ("Manus") Boekman | 1889 | 1940 | Dutch | social democratic politician, statistician, demographer and typographer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel_Boekman |
| Leo Goldhammer | Leo Arieh Goldhammer (Zehawi) | 1884 | 1949 | Austrian | journalist, lawyer, sociologist, statistician, and Zionist leader | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Goldhammer |
| Samuel B. Dicker | Samuel Byron Dicker | 1889 | 1960 | American | lawyer and statistician and the 58th Mayor of Rochester from 1939 to 1955 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_B._Dicker |
| Erwin Rothbarth | Erwin Rothbarth | 1913 | 1944 | German | economist and statistician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Rothbarth |