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20th-century American statisticians

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John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)
John Forbes Nash
American mathematician and economist (1928–2015)
Benoit Mandelbrot
Polish-born, French and American mathematician (1924–2010)
Charles Sanders Peirce
American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist (1839-1914)
Josiah Willard Gibbs
American scientist (1839–1903)
Wassily Leontief
Russian economist (1906-1999)
Simon Kuznets
economist
Robert Aumann
Israeli-American mathematician
George Stigler
American economist (1911–1991)
William Vickrey
Canadian-American professor of economics and Nobel Laureate (1914-1996)
Roger Myerson
American economist
George Pólya
Hungarian mathematician (1887-1985)
Tjalling Koopmans
Dutch American economist (1910–1985)
Lloyd Shapley
American economist and mathematician
George Bernard Dantzig
American mathematician (1914-2005)
Raymond Cattell
British-American psychologist (1905–1998)
Arpad Elo
Hungarian American physicists, developer of the Elo rating
Stephen Smale
American mathematician
W. Edwards Deming
American professor, author, and consultant (1900-1993)
George Gallup
American statistician (1901–1984)
Paul Halmos
American mathematician (1916–2006)
Story Musgrave
American physician and NASA astronaut
John Tukey
American mathematician (1915-2000)
Abraham Wald
American mathematician, statistician, and scientist (1902–1950)
Jerzy Neyman
Polish statistician (1894-1981)
Sewall Wright
American geneticist (1889-1988)
Alfred J. Lotka
American mathematician (1880–1949)
Walter A. Shewhart
American statistical quality control expert
Alvin Hansen
American economist (1887–1975)
Abba P. Lerner
American economist (1903-1982)
Hilda Geiringer
Austrian mathematician (1893–1973)
Arthur Melvin Okun
American economist (1928-1980)
Harold Hotelling
American statistician and econometrician (1895-1973)
George E. P. Box
British statistician (1919-2013)
I. J. Good
British statistician and cryptographer (1916–2009)
William Feller
Croatian-American mathematician
Mark Kac
mathematician (1914–1984)
Rensis Likert
American statistician (1903–1981)
George Kingsley Zipf
American statistician (1902–1950)
Gertrude Mary Cox
American statistician (1900-1978)
Edwin Thompson Jaynes
American physicist (1922-1998)
Joseph Kruskal
American statistician (1928-2010)
Arthur Frank Burns
American economist and diplomat (1904-1987)
William Gemmell Cochran
British / American statistician (1909–1980)
Paul Douglas
American politician and economist (1892–1976)
David Blackwell
American mathematician (1919–2010)
Gottfried Haberler
Austrian-American economist (1900-1995)
Don Patinkin
American economist (1922-1995)
David Gale
American mathematician (1921–2008)
Leonard Jimmie Savage
American mathematician (1917–1971)
Herman Chernoff
American statistician
Persi Diaconis
American mathematician
Evsey Domar
American economist (1914-1997)
Joseph Leo Doob
American mathematician (1910–2004)
Mary van Kleeck
American social reformer and social worker
William Fielding Ogburn
American sociologist (1886–1959)
George W. Snedecor
American mathematician (1881–1974)
John Maurice Clark
American economist (1884–1963)
William Kruskal
American mathematician (1919–2005)
Herbert Scarf
American academic (1930–2015)