British statisticians

Richard Price (23 February 1723 – 19 April 1791) was a Welsh moral philosopher, preacher and mathematician.

Gregory King (15 December 1648 – 29 August 1712) was an English genealogist, engraver and statistician.

Michael George Mulhall (1836-1900) was an Irish author, statistician, economist and newspaper editor.

James Durbin FBA (30 June 1923 – 23 June 2012) was a British statistician and econometrician, known particularly for his work on time series analysis and serial correlation.

Leonard Warren 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 for England and Wales from 2000 to 2005.

Leon Isserlis (1881–1966) was a Russian-born British statistician known for his work on the exact distribution of sample moments, including Isserlis’ theorem.

Reuben Jacob Smeed CBE (1909–1976) was a British statistician and transport researcher.

Tata Subba Rao (born 1942) is emeritus professor of statistics in the School of Mathematics, University of Manchester.

Henry Ellis Daniels FRS (2 October 1912 – 16 April 2000) was a British statistician.

Julian Ernst Besag FRS (26 March 1945 – 6 August 2010) was a British statistician known chiefly for his work in spatial statistics (including its applications to epidemiology, image analysis and agricultural science), and Bayesian inference (including Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms).

Edwards is a Life Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and retired Professor of Biometry at the University of Cambridge, and holds both the ScD and LittD degrees.

Michael John Romer Healy (26 November 1923 – 17 July 2016) was a British statistician known for his contributions to statistical computing, auxology, laboratory statistics and quality control, and methods for analysing longitudinal data, among other areas.

Harvey Goldstein (born 30 October 1939) is a British statistician known for his contributions to multilevel modelling methodology and software, and for applying this to educational assessment and league tables.

Simon John Godsill (born 2 December 1961) is Professor of Statistical Signal Processing at the University of Cambridge, and a Professorial Fellow at Corpus Christi College.

John "Jack" Johnston (13 March 1923 – 14 October 2003) was a British econometrician.

Sir Adrian Frederick Melhuish Smith, FRS (born 1946) is a distinguished British statistician and was Principal of Queen Mary, University of London from 1998 to 2008.

Sir Alfred William Flux CB (8 April 1867 – 16 July 1942) was a British economist and statistician.

Sir John Boreham, KCB (1925 – 8 June 1994) was a government statistician and the director of what was the Central Statistical Office of the United Kingdom from 1978 to 1985.

John Brownlee (1868–1927) was a British physician and medical statistician who became the first director of the Statistics Department of the UK's Medical Research Committee.

John Charles Gittins (born 1938) is a researcher in applied probability and operations research, who is a professor and Emeritus Fellow at Keble College, Oxford University.

John Micklewright (born 20 June 1957) is Professor Emeritus of Economics and Social Statistics at UCL Institute of Education, University College London.

Clara Collet (10 September 1860 – 3 August 1948) was a British social reformer.

Edward Hugh Simpson CB (born 10 December 1922) is a retired British civil servant and former statistician best known for describing Simpson's paradox along with Udny Yule.

Wilfrid S. Kendall is professor of statistics at University of Warwick.

Peter Whittle (born 27 February 1927, in Wellington, New Zealand) is a mathematician and statistician, working in the fields of stochastic nets, optimal control, time series analysis, stochastic optimisation and stochastic dynamics.

Enid Charles (29 December 1894 – 26 March 1972) was a socialist, feminist and statistician who was a pioneer in the fields of demography and population statistics.

David Victor Glass FRS (2 January 1911 – 23 September 1978) was an eminent English sociologist and was one of the few sociologists elected to the Royal Society.

From 1991 to 1994 McVean completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biological Sciences at the University of Oxford.

Guy Philip Nason (born 28 August 1966) is a British statistician, and Professor of Statistics at the University of Bristol.

Jotun John Piet Hein (born 19 July 1956) is Professor of Bioinformatics at the Department of Statistics of the University of Oxford and a professorial fellow of University College, Oxford.

Frederick Harcourt Kitchin, (1867–1932) was a British journalist, statistician and author.

David Firth (born c. 1958) is a British statistician specialising in social-science and biostatistical applications.

Deborah Ashby, OBE, FMedSci (née Davis; born 21 August 1959) is a British statistician and academic who specialises in medical statistics and Bayesian statistics.

Henry William Macrosty was President of the Royal Statistical Society between 1940–41.

Matt Singh is an election and opinion polling analyst and founder of the website Number Cruncher Politics, based in London.

Brian David Ripley FRSE (born 29 April 1952) is a British statistician.

John Hajnal FBA (born Hajnal-Kónyi; 26 November 1924 – 30 November 2008), was a Hungarian-British academic in the fields of mathematics and economics (statistics).

Kevin Schürer FAcSS FRGS (born 22 June 1957) is a British historian, genealogist and statistician who is currently on research leave at the University of Cambridge and was previously Pro-Vice Chancellor of Research and Enterprise at the University of Leicester.

Thomas Hoskyns Leonard (born 1948) is a British statistician.

Anatoly Aleksandrovich Zhigljavsky (born 19 November 1953) is a professor of statistics in the school of mathematics at Cardiff University.

Ann Cartwright (born 1925) is a statistician and socio-medical researcher whose Institute for Social Studies in Medical Care was launched by Michael Young, initially under the auspices of his Institute of Community Studies.

David John Bartholomew FBA (born 6 August 1931) is a British statistician who was President of the Royal Statistical Society between 1993 and 1995.

David John Finney FRS, CBE (born 3 January 1917), is a British statisticianand Professor Emeritus of Statistics at the University of Edinburgh.

George Richardson Porter (1792–1852) was a British statistician.

Oscar Kempthorne (January 31, 1919 – November 15, 2000) was a statistician and geneticist known for his research on randomization-analysis and the design of experiments, which had wide influence on research in agriculture, genetics, and other areas of science.

Stuart J. Pocock is a British medical statistician.

Hilda Mary Woods (1892 – 1971) MBE, was a British statistician who began work in 1916 at the Medical Research Council's Statistical Research Unit with Major Greenwood ("Major" being his forename, not a military rank).

Sir Alfred Edmund Bateman KCMG (31 August 1844 – 7 August 1929) was a British Statistician, sometime president of the Royal Statistical Society.

Alice Lee (1858–1939) was a British mathematician, one of the first women to graduate from London University.

Sheila Macdonald Bird (née Gore, born 18 May 1952) OBE FRSE, British biostatistician whose assessment of misuse of statistics in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) and BMJ series ‘Statistics in Question’ led to statistical guidelines for contributors to medical journals.

George Phillips Bevan (1829 – 1889) F.

Henry William Durrant (1902–1982) was a noted opinion pollster and market researcher.

Peter Gerald Moore TD FIA (5 April 1928 – 14 June 2010) was a British soldier, actuary, academic and statistician.

John Stewart Shawe-Taylor (born 1953) is Director of the Centre for Computational Statistics and Machine Learning at University College, London (UK).

Sir Robert Henry Rew KCB (4 Aug. 1858 - 7 April 1929) was a British agricultural statistician.

Herbert Edward Soper (1865 – 1930) was an eminent British statistician, who worked with Karl Pearson.

William Augustus Guy (13 June 1810 – 10 September 1885) was a British physician and medical statistician.

Peter Green, FRS (born 28 April 1950) is a British Bayesian statistician.

Peter Nicholas Lee (born 21 November 1943) is an English chess player who won the British Chess Championship in 1965.

Philip A. Scarf is Professor of Applied Statistics at Salford Business School, University of Salford.

William George "Bill" Hill, OBE, FRS, FRSE (born 7 August 1940) is a British geneticist and statistician.

Sir William Palin Elderton KBE PhD (Oslo) (1877–1962) was a British actuary who served as president of the Institute of Actuaries (1932–1934).

Rosa Mabel Lee (born 1884) was a statistician, the first woman scientist to be employed by the Marine Biological Association and the first woman to work as a government fishery scientist in the United Kingdom.

Bernard Benjamin (8 March 1910 – 15 May 2002) was a noted British health statistician, actuary and demographer.

Henry Philip Wynn (born 19 February 1945) is a British statistician.

Herbert "Bert" Arthur Frederick Turner (1919–1998) was a British economist, statistician, and academic.

Nicholas Polson (born May 7, 1963) is a British statistician who is a professor of econometrics and statistics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Nicholas Edward Day, CBE, FRS (born 24 September 1939) is a retired statistician and cancer epidemiologist.

Sir Richard William Barnes Clarke, KCB, OBE (commonly known as Otto Clarke) (13 August 1910 – 21 June 1975) was a British civil servant.

William Gemmell Cochran (15 July 1909 – 29 March 1980) was a prominent statistician.

John Martin Bland (born 6 March 1947), known as Martin Bland, is a British statistician.

Abraham Manie "Abe" Adelstein (28 March 1916 – 18 October 1992) was a South African born doctor who became the United Kingdom's Chief Medical Statistician.

Major-General Sir Alexander Murray Tulloch KCB (1803–16 May 1864) was a British soldier and a statistician.

Arnold Weinstock, Baron Weinstock (29 July 1924 – 23 July 2002) was an English businessman.

David George Clayton, born 13 June 1944, is a British statistician and epidemiologist.

David John Hand OBE FBA (born 30 June 1950 in Peterborough) is a British statistician.

David Colin Kendix (born 2 April 1966) is an English actuary, cricket statistician and scorer.

Denise Anne Lievesley, CBE, FAcSS is a British social statistician.

Howell Tong (simplified Chinese: 汤家豪; traditional Chinese: 湯家豪; pinyin: Tāng Jiāháo; born 1944 in Hong Kong) is a pioneer and an acknowledged authority in the field of nonlinear time series analysis, linking it with deterministic chaos.

Sir Ian David Diamond, DL, FBA, FRSE, FAcSS (born 14 March 1954) is the Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen.

Sir Jervoise Athelstane Baines, CSI, (17 October 1847 - 26 November 1925) was an administrator in the Indian Civil Service during the period of the British Raj.