Statisticians or people who made notable contributions to the theories of statistics, or related aspects of probability, or machine learning:

• Peter Armitage
• M. S. Bartlett
• Thomas Bayes
• Allan Birnbaum
• Ladislaus Bortkiewicz
• Pafnuty Chebyshev
• Alexey Chervonenkis
• Richard Threlkeld Cox
• Harald Cramér (Sweden, 1893 - 1985)
• Bruno de Finetti
• W. Edwards Deming
• Persi Diaconis
• (Sir) Richard Doll
• Francis Ysidro Edgeworth
• A. K. Erlang
• (Sir) Ronald A. Fisher
• Francis Galton
• Seymour Geisser
• Corrado Gini
• I. J. Good
• William Sealey Gosset (known as "Student")
• Major Greenwood
• Emil Julius Gumbel
• Pierre Gy
• Austin Bradford Hill
• Harold Hotelling
• Edwin Thompson Jaynes
• Harold Jeffreys
• David Kendall
• (Sir) Maurice Kendall
• Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov
• Alfred J. Lotka
• Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
• Karl Pearson
• Adolphe Quetelet
• Herbert Robbins
• Leonard Jimmie Savage
• Walter A. Shewhart
• Mike Dugas
• Jeff Sagarin
• George W. Snedecor
• Charles Spearman
• Genichi Taguchi
• Pafnuty Tchebycheff, see Pafnuty Chebyshev
• John Tukey
• Vladimir Vapnik (Russia, ~1935 - )
• Samuel Stanley Wilks
• Frank Yates
• G. Udny Yule
• Abraham Wald

See also

• List of mathematicians
• List of people
• List of people by occupation