Probability theorists

Bruno de Finetti (13 June 1906 – 20 July 1985) was an Italian probabilist, statistician and actuary, noted for the "operational subjective" conception of probability.

Carlo Emilio Bonferroni (28 January 1892 – 18 August 1960) was an Italian mathematician who worked on probability theory.

Matthes studied from 1948 to 1954 mathematics at Humboldt University of Berlin.

Kai Lai Chung (traditional Chinese: 鍾開萊; simplified Chinese: 钟开莱; September 19, 1917 – June 2, 2009) was a Chinese American mathematician known for his significant contributions to modern probability theory.

Georg Bohlmann (23 April 1869 – 25 April 1928) was a German mathematician who specialized in probability theory and actuarial mathematics.

Lawrence Alan Shepp (September 9, 1936 Brooklyn, NY – April 23, 2013, Tucson, AZ) was an American mathematician, specializing in statistics and computational tomography.

Jacob Wolfowitz (March 19, 1910 – July 16, 1981) was a Polish-born American statistician and Shannon Award-winning information theorist.

Radha Govind Laha (1 October 1930 – 14 July 1999) was a probabilist, statistician, and mathematician, known for his work in probability theory, characteristic functions, and characterisation of distributions.

Ward Whitt (born 1942) is an American professor of operations research and management sciences.

Francis Patrick "Frank" Kelly, CBE, FRS (born 28 December 1950) is Professor of the Mathematics of Systems at the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Richard Alejandro Arratia is a mathematician noted for his work in combinatorics and probability theory.

Theodore Preston Hill (born December 28, 1943) is an American mathematician known for his research on mathematical probability theory, in particular for his work on Benford's law, and for his work in the theories of optimal stopping (secretary problems) and fair division.

Itai Benjamini is an Israeli mathematician who holds the Renee and Jay Weiss Chair in the Department of Mathematics at the Weizmann Institute of Science.

Mikhail Vasilyevich Menshikov (Russian: Михаи́л Васи́льевич Ме́ньшиков, born 1948) is a Russian-British mathematician with publications in areas ranging from probability to combinatorics.

Nicolaus Bernoulli (born 21 October 1687 in Basel, died 29 November 1759 in Basel; also spelled Nicolas or Nikolas), was a Swiss mathematician and was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family.

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Probal Chaudhuri (born 1963) is an Indian statistician.

Michael Röckner is a mathematician working in the fields of Probability Theory, Analysis and Mathematical Physics.

Kari Karhunen (1915–1992) was a probabilist and a mathematical statistician, of Finnish origin.

Wassily Hoeffding (June 12, 1914 – February 28, 1991) was a Finnish statistician and probabilist.

Hans Föllmer (20 May 1941 in Heiligenstadt, Thuringia, Germany) is a German mathematician, currently Professor Emeritus at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Visiting Professor at the National University of Singapore, and Andrew D.

Dietrich Stoyan (born 1940, Germany) — mathematician, statistician; student of Mathematics at Technical University Dresden; applied research at Deutsches Brennstoffinstitut Freiberg, 1967 PhD, 1975 Habilitation.

Grégory Miermont (born on 16 July 1979) is a French mathematician working on probability, random trees and random maps.

Rajeeva Laxman Karandikar (born 1956) is an Indian mathematician, statistician and psephologist.

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.

Donald Andrew Dawson (born 1937) is a Canadian mathematician, specializing in probability.

Boris Rozovsky is Ford Foundation Professor of Applied Mathematics at Brown University.

Erhan Çınlar (born May 28, 1941, Turkey) is a probabilist and Professor Emeritus in Engineering at Princeton University.

Kalyanapuram Rangachari Parthasarathy (born 25 June 1936) is professor emeritus at the Indian Statistical Institute and a pioneer of quantum stochastic calculus.

Lajos Takács (August 21, 1924 (Maglód) – December 4, 2015 ) was a Hungarian mathematician, known for his contributions to probability theory and in particular, queueing theory.

Robin Lyth Hudson (born 1940) is a British mathematician notable for his contribution to quantum probability.

John Michael Hammersley (21 March 1920 – 2 May 2004) was a British mathematician best known for his foundational work in the theory of self-avoiding walks and percolation theory.

Romanas Yanushkevichius (Lithuanian: Romanas Januškevičius born July 10, 1953 in Vilnius) is a Lithuanian mathematician who worked in probability theory and characterization of probability distributions and its stability, professor of Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences, head of Department of Mathematics, educator, participated actively in the preparation of teachers of mathematics and informatics in Lithuania.

Alfred Aeppli was a Swiss mathematician.

Marc Yor (24 July 1949 – 9 January 2014) was a French mathematician well known for his work on stochastic processes, especially properties of semimartingales, Brownian motion and other Lévy processes, the Bessel processes, and their applications to mathematical finance.

Etheridge was educated at the University of Oxford where she was awarded a DPhil in 1989 for research supervised by David Albert Edwards.

Erik Gustav Elfving (June 25, 1908 – March 25, 1984) was a Finnish mathematician and statistician.

(For the South African rugby union player, see Edwin Hewitt (rugby union). For the American architect, see Edwin Hawley Hewitt.) Edwin Hewitt (January 20, 1920, Everett, Washington – June 21, 1999) was an American mathematician known for his work in abstract harmonic analysis and for his discovery, in collaboration with Leonard Jimmie Savage, of the Hewitt–Savage zero-one law.

Janos Galambos (Galambos János in Hungarian, Born Zirc, Hungary, 1 September 1940) is a mathematician affiliated with Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

Richard Mansfield Dudley (born 1938) is Professor of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Laurens de Haan (born 15 January 1937) is a Dutch economist and Emeritus Professor of Probability and Mathematical Statistics at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, specializing in extreme value theory.

Shinzō Watanabe (渡辺 信三 Watanabe Shinzō, 23 December 1935) is a Japanese mathematician, who works on probability theory, stochastic processes and stochastic differential equations.

Daniel Wyler Stroock (born March 20, 1940) is an American mathematician, a probabilist.

(For other people named David Aldous, see David Aldous (disambiguation).) David John Aldous, FRS (born 13 July 1952) is a mathematician known for his research on mathematical probability theory and its applications, in particular in topics such as exchangeability, weak convergence, Markov chain mixing times, the continuum random tree and stochastic coalescence.

David Williams FRS is a Welsh mathematician who works in probability theory.

Terence "Terry" John Lyons FRSE, FLSW, FRS is a British mathematician, specializing in stochastic analysis, and is a fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford.

Monroe David Donsker (October 17, 1924 – June 8, 1991) was an American mathematician and a professor of mathematics at New York University (NYU).

Richard David Gill (born 11 September 1951) is a mathematician born in the United Kingdom who has lived in the Netherlands since 1974.

David Clay Heath (~1943 – 11 August 2011) was an American probabilist, who is most famous for the co-invention of the Heath–Jarrow–Morton framework to model the evolution of the interest rate curve.

Arthur Herbert Copeland (June 22, 1898 Rochester, New York – July 6, 1970) was an American mathematician.

Svante Janson (born 21 May 1955) is a Swedish mathematician.

Frank Ludvig Spitzer (July 24, 1926 – February 1, 1992) was an Austrian-born American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to probability theory, including the theory of random walks, fluctuation theory, percolation theory, the Wiener sausage, and especially the theory of interacting particle systems.

Fridrikh Israilevich Karpelevich (Russian: Фридрих Израилевич Карпелевич; 2 October 1927 – 5 July 2000) was a Russian mathematician known for his work on semisimple Lie algebras, geometry, and probability theory.

Gheorghe Mihoc (July 7, 1906 – December 25, 1981) was a Romanian statistician.

Frederic Gordon Foster (24 February 1921 – 20 December 2010) was an Irish computational engineer, statistician, professor, and college dean who is widely known for devising, in 1965, a nine-digit code upon which the International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is based.

Gregory Francis Lawler (born July 14, 1955) is an American mathematician working in probability theory and best known for his work since 2000 on the Schramm–Loewner evolution.

Ronald Kay Getoor (9 February 1929, Royal Oak, Michigan) is an American mathematician.

Jonathan Peter Keating is a British mathematician.

Gordon Douglas Slade (born December 11, 1955 in Toronto) is a Canadian mathematician, specializing in probability theory.

Stuart Alan Geman (born c. 1949) is an American mathematician, known for influential contributions to computer vision, statistics, probability theory, machine learning, and the neurosciences.

Ole Eiler Barndorff-Nielsen (born 18 March 1935 in Copenhagen) is a Danish statistician who has contributed to many areas of statistical science.

Anna Gennadievna Erschler, née Dyubina, (Анна Геннадьевна Эршлер, born 14 February 1977), is a Russian-born mathematician, working in France.

Thomas Milton Liggett (born March 29, 1944) is a mathematician at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Olav Kallenberg is a probability theorist known for his work on exchangeable stochastic processes and for his graduate-level textbooks and monographs.

Martin Thomas Barlow FRS FRSC (born 16 June 1953 in London) is a British mathematician who is professor of mathematics at the University of British Columbia in Canada since 1992.

Gábor J. Székely (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈseːkɛj], born February 4, 1947 in Budapest) is a Hungarian-American statistician/mathematician best known for introducing E-statistics or energy statistics [see E-statistics or Package energy in R (programming language)], e.

Peter Gavin Hall AO FAA FRS (20 November 1951 – 9 January 2016) was an Australian researcher in probability theory and mathematical statistics.

Carl-Gustav Esseen (September 18, 1918, Linköping – November 10, 2001) was a Swedish mathematician.

Shizuo Kakutani (角谷 静夫 Kakutani Shizuo, August 28, 1911 in Ōsaka – August 17, 2004 in New Haven, Connecticut) was a Japanese-American mathematician, best known for his eponymous fixed-point theorem.

Michel Pierre Talagrand (born 15 February 1952) is a French mathematician.

Sir John Frank Charles Kingman, FRS (born 28 August 1939) is a British mathematician.

Wolfgang Doeblin, known in France as Vincent Doblin (17 March 1915 – 21 June 1940), was a French-German mathematician.

Neil Michael O'Connell is a mathematician working in the field of probability theory, in particular random matrices.

Richard Timothy Durrett is a mathematician known for his research andbooks on mathematical probability theory, stochastic processes and theirapplication to mathematical ecology and population genetics.

Robert Horton Cameron (1908 – 1989, Minnesota) was an American mathematician, who worked on analysis and probability theory.

Rollo Davidson (b. Bristol, 8 October 1944, d. Piz Bernina, 29 July 1970) was a probabilist, alpinist, and Fellow-elect of Churchill College, Cambridge, who died aged 25 on Piz Bernina.

Mark Kac (/kɑːts/ KAHTS; Polish: Marek Kac; August 3, 1914 – October 26, 1984) was a Polish American mathematician.

Imre Csiszár is a Hungarian mathematician with contributions to information theoryand probability theory.

Eugene Lukacs (Hungarian: Lukács Jenő, 14 August 1906 – 21 December 1987) was a Hungarian statistician born in Szombathely, notable for his work in characterization of distributions, stability theory, and being the author of Characteristic Functions, a classic textbook in the field.

Franz Thomas Bruss is a Belgian-German professor of mathematics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles.

Philippe Biane (born 1962) is a French mathematician known for his contributions in probability theory and group representation.

Jeremy Daniel Quastel is a Canadian mathematician specializing in probability theory, stochastic processes, partial differential equations.

Lucien Marie Le Cam (November 18, 1924 – April 25, 2000) was a mathematician and statistician.

Bernt Karsten Øksendal (born 10 April 1945 in Fredrikstad) is a Norwegian mathematician.

Donald Lyman Burkholder (January 19, 1927 – April 14, 2013) was an American mathematician known for his contributions to probability theory, particularly the theory of martingales.

Christopher Charles "Chris" Heyde AM (20 April 1939, Sydney – 6 March 2008, Canberra) was a prominent Australian statistician who did leading research in probability, stochastic processes and statistics.

Leonard Christopher Gordon "Chris" Rogers is a mathematician working in probability theory and quantitative finance.

Dimitri Panteli Bertsekas (Greek: Δημήτρης Παντελής Μπερτσεκάς) is an applied mathematician and computer scientist, and a professor at the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in School of Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Albert Turner Bharucha-Reid (November 13, 1927 – February 26, 1985) was an American mathematician and theorist who worked extensively on probability theory, Markov chains, and statistics.

Harald Cramér (Swedish: [kraˈmeːr]; 25 September 1893 – 5 October 1985) was a Swedish mathematician, actuary, and statistician, specializing in mathematical statistics and probabilistic number theory.

Bálint Virág (born 1973) is a Hungarian mathematician working in Canada, known for his work in probability theory, particularly determinantal processes, random matrix theory, and random walks and other probabilistic questions on groups.

David Harold Blackwell (April 24, 1919 – July 8, 2010) was Professor Emeritus of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley, and is one of the eponyms of the Rao–Blackwell theorem.

István Gyöngy (born 1951) is a Hungarian mathematician working in the fields of stochastic differential equations, stochastic partial differential equations and their applications to nonlinear filtering and stochastic control.

James Ritchie Norris (born August 29, 1960) is a mathematician working in probability theory and stochastic analysis.