List of mathematical probabilists

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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• David Aldous (1952–)
• Thomas Bayes, British mathematician and Presbyterian minister, known for Bayes' theorem. (1702–1761)
• Gerard Ben-Arous
• Jakob Bernoulli (1654–1705)
• Joseph Louis François Bertrand (1822–1900)
• Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch (1891–1970)
• Patrick Billingsley (1925–2011)
• Carlo Emilio Bonferroni (1892–1960)
• Émile Borel (1871–1956)
• Harald Cramér (1893-1985)
• Kai Lai Chung (1917–2009)
• Amir Dembo
• Abraham de Moivre (1667–1754)
• Persi Diaconis (1945–)
• Joseph Leo Doob (1910–2004)
• Eugene Dynkin (1924–)
• Paul Erdős (1913–1996)
• Steve Evans
• William Feller (1906–1970)
• Bruno de Finetti, Italian probabilist and statistician (1906–1985)
• Geoffrey Grimmett (1950–)
• Ian Hacking (1936–)
• Paul Halmos (1916–2006)
• Joseph Halpern
• Kiyoshi Itō (1915–2008)
• Edwin Thompson Jaynes (1922–1998)
• Mark Kac (1914–1984)
• Olav Kallenberg
• Rudolf E. Kálmán (1930–)
• Samuel Karlin (1924–2007)
• David George Kendall (1918–2007)
• Rick Kenyon
• John Maynard Keynes, best known for his pioneering work in economics (1883–1946)
• Aleksandr Khinchin (1894–1959)
• Wolfgang Kőnig
• Andrey Kolmogorov (1903–1987)
• Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827)
• Gregory Lawler
• Lucien Le Cam (1924–2000)
• Jean Francois Le-Gall
• Paul Pierre Lévy (1886–1971)
• Jarl Waldemar Lindeberg (1876–1932)
• 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–)
• Yuval Peres
• Jim Pitman
• Yuri Vasilevich Prokhorov (1929–)
• Alfréd Rényi (1921–1970)
• Frank P. Ramsey (1903–1930)
• Henry P. Mckean, Jr (1930–)
• Oded Schramm (1961–2008)
• Frank Spitzer (1926–1992)
• Michel Talagrand (1952–)
• Timerding, Heinrich Emil (1873–1945)
• Norbert Wiener (1894–1964)
• David Williams
• David Wilson
• Ruslan L. Stratonovich (1930–1997)
• Andrei Toom (1942–)
• Albert Shiryaev (1934–)
• S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan (1940–)
• Wendelin Werner (1968–)

See also

• List of statisticians