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20th-century British statisticians

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Alan Turing
English computer scientist (1912–1954)
John Maynard Keynes
British economist (1883–1946)
Harold Wilson
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1964-1970 and 1974-1976 (1916–1995)
Ronald Fisher
British statistician, evolutionary biologist and geneticist (1890–1962)
John Richard Hicks
British economist (1904-1989)
Clive Granger
British economist
Richard Stone
British economist, Nobel Memorial Prize winner (1913-1991)
Raymond Cattell
British-American psychologist (1905–1998)
Lancelot Hogben
British zoologist, statistician, science writer (1895–1975)
Nicholas Kaldor
Hungarian-British economist
Harold Jeffreys
British geophysicist and statistician (1891–1989)
William Sealy Gosset
British statistician (1876–1937)
David Cox
English statistician (1924–2022)
Abba P. Lerner
American economist (1903-1982)
Roy Harrod
English economist (1900–1978)
Egon Pearson
British statistician (1895-1980)
Colin Clark
British economist (1905–1989)
Cyril Burt
discredited English educational psychologist (1883–1971)
R. G. D. Allen
British economist (1906–1983)
Austin Bradford Hill
English epidemiologist and statistician (1897–1991)
George Udny Yule
British statistician (1871–1951)
Maurice Kendall
British statistician (1907–1983)
Frank Yates
British statistician (1902-1994)
David George Kendall
British statistician (1918–2007)
D. G. Champernowne
British mathematician and economist
John Wishart
British statistician (1898-1956)
G. L. S. Shackle
British economist (1903–1992)
M. S. Bartlett
British statistician (1910–2002)
Stella Cunliffe
British statistician (1917-2012)
John Nelder
British statistician (1924-2010)
Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp
British industrialist, economist, civil servant, statistician, writer, and banker (1880–1941)
Edward H. Simpson
British statistician and civil servant (1922–2019)
Frances Wood
English chemist and statistician (1883-1919)
Gwilym Jenkins
Welsh statistician (1932–1982)
Richard D. Gill
British mathematician
Major Greenwood
English epidemiologist and statistician (1880-1949)
Andy Sandham
Cricket player of England. (1890-1982)
A. W. F. Edwards
British statistician and geneticist
David Glass
British sociologist (1911–1978)
David Spiegelhalter
British mathematician
Geoffrey Grimmett
Professor of Mathematical Statistics, University of Cambridge and Master, Downing College, Cambridge
Harvey Goldstein
British statistician (1939–2020)
Adrian Smith
British statistician
Claus Moser, Baron Moser
British statistician and Civil Servant (1922-2015)
Frank Anscombe
British statistician (1918–2001)
Valerie Isham
British mathematician
Peter Lee
British chess player
Duncan Black
British economist (1908–1991)
John Hajnal
Hungarian-British statistical economist (1924–2008)
L. H. C. Tippett
British statistician (1902–1985)
Philip Dawid
British Bayesian statistician (born 1946)
Rosemary A. Bailey
British statistician and algebraist