David George Kendall
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David George Kendall (born 15 January 1918) is a British statistician, who has spent much of his academic life in the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge. He is not to be confused with another Cambridge statistician of the same era Sir Maurice Kendall.
Kendall was born in Ripon, North Yorkshire, and was educated at Ripon Grammar School before attending Queen's College, Oxford, graduating in 1943. In 1962 he was appointed Professor of Mathematical Statistics at the University of Cambridge becoming a fellow of Churchill College where he remaining until 1985. In his career he pioneered Stochastic Geometry, and became a world expert in the field of probability and data analysis.
A daughter is Bridget Kendall, a BBC news correspondent.
