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Florence Nightingale
English social reformer, statistician, and founder of modern nursing (1820–1910)
Francis Galton
British eugenist, polymath, and behavioural geneticist (1822–1911)
Ronald Fisher
British statistician, evolutionary biologist and geneticist (1890–1962)
Karl Pearson
English mathematician, biometrician, and eugenicist (1857–1936)
Thomas Bayes
British mathematician and Presbyterian minister (1702-1761)
William Petty
English scientist, philosopher, statistician and economist (1623-1687)
William Stanley Jevons
English economist and logician
Charles Spearman
English psychologist (1863-1945)
Harold Jeffreys
British geophysicist and statistician (1891–1989)
Arthur Young
English writer (1741-1820)
William Sealy Gosset
British statistician (1876–1937)
David Cox
English statistician (1924–2022)
John Graunt
British demographer and statistician
Richard Doll
British physician and epidemiologist (1912–2005)
George E. P. Box
British statistician (1919-2013)
Egon Pearson
British statistician (1895-1980)
I. J. Good
British statistician and cryptographer (1916–2009)
Reginald Crundall Punnett
British geneticist, zoologist (1875-1967)
Walter Frank Raphael Weldon
British evolutionary biologist (1860-1906)
Gilbert Walker
British meteorologist
Austin Bradford Hill
English epidemiologist and statistician (1897–1991)
Benjamin Gompertz
British mathematician (1779-1865)
William Farr
British statistician and epidemiologist (1807-1883)
Richard Peto
British statistician and epidemiologist
Maurice Kendall
British statistician (1907–1983)
Arthur Lyon Bowley
English statistician and economist (1869–1957)
Frank Yates
British statistician (1902-1994)
David George Kendall
British statistician (1918–2007)
D. G. Champernowne
British mathematician and economist
James Jurin
British mathematician and doctor; (1684-1750)
M. S. Bartlett
British statistician (1910–2002)
Florence Nightingale David
British statistician and university teacher (1909–1993)
John Kingman
Statistician, Professor of Mathematical Science at the University of Cambridge
Walter Bodmer
German-born British human geneticist (born 1936)
Frances Wood
English chemist and statistician (1883-1919)
Douglas G. Altman
British statistician (1948-2018)
Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp
British industrialist, economist, civil servant, statistician, writer, and banker (1880–1941)
Gregory King
British herald, engraver, and political economist
James Dodson
British mathematician
John Nelder
British statistician (1924-2010)
David Glass
British sociologist (1911–1978)
David Spiegelhalter
British mathematician
Major Greenwood
English epidemiologist and statistician (1880-1949)
Peter Armitage
British statistician (1924–2024)
William Fleetwood
Anglican bishop (1656-1723)
Geoffrey Grimmett
Professor of Mathematical Statistics, University of Cambridge and Master, Downing College, Cambridge
Dennis Lindley
British statistician (1923-2013)
Frank Anscombe
British statistician (1918–2001)
William George Hill
British geneticist (1940–2021)
L. H. C. Tippett
British statistician (1902–1985)
Philip Dawid
British Bayesian statistician (born 1946)
Robin Plackett
British statistician (1920–2009)
Rosemary A. Bailey
British statistician and algebraist
Norman Lloyd Johnson
Bristish-American mathematical statistician
Elizabeth A. Thompson
British-born American statistician
Peter Lee
British chess player