List of mathematical probabilists
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- See probabilism for the followers of such a theory in theology or philosophy
This list contains only probabilists in the sense of mathematicians specializing in probability theory.
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- Thomas Bayes, British mathematician and Presbyterian minister, known for Bayes' theorem. (1702–1761)
- Jakob Bernoulli (1654–1705)
- Joseph Louis François Bertrand (1822–1900)
- Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch (1891–1970)
- Carlo Emilio Bonferroni (1892–1960)
- Émile Borel (1871–1956)
- Abraham de Moivre (1667–1754)
- Persi Diaconis (1945–)
- Joseph Leo Doob (1910–2004)
- Eugene Dynkin (1924–)
- Paul Erdős (1913–1996)
- William Feller (1906–1970)
- Bruno de Finetti, Italian probabilist and statistician (1906–1985)
- Ian Hacking (1936–)
- Paul Halmos (1916–2006)
- Joseph Halpern
- Kiyoshi Itō (1915–)
- Edwin Thompson Jaynes (1922–1998)
- Aleksandr Khinchin (1894–1959)
- Rudolf Kalman (1930–)
- David George Kendall (1918–2007)
- John Maynard Keynes, best known for his pioneering work in economics (1883–1946)
- Andrey Kolmogorov (1903–1987)
- Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827)
- Paul Pierre Lévy (1886–1971)
- Jarl Waldemar Lindeberg (1876–1932)
- Lucien le Cam (1924–2000)
- Paul Pierre Lévy (1886–1971)
- Stefan Mazurkiewicz (1888–1945)
- Paul-André Meyer (1934–2003)
- Richard von Mises (1883–1953)
- Andrey Markov (1856–1922)
- Octav Onicescu (1892–1983)
- Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
- Siméon-Denis Poisson (1781–1840)
- Charles E. M. Pearce (1940–)
- Yuri Vasilevich Prokhorov (1929–)
- Alfréd Rényi (1921–1970)
- Frank P. Ramsey (1903–1930)
- C. R. Rao (1920–)
- Frank Spitzer (1926–1992)
- Albert Shiryaev (1934–)
- Ruslan L. Stratonovich (1930–1997)
- Andrei Toom (1942–)
- Norbert Wiener (1894–1964)
- David Williams
- S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan (1940–)
