List of mathematical probabilists
- List of mathematical probabilists
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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)
*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–)
* Timerding, Heinrich Emil (1873 - 1945)
*Norbert Wiener (1894–1964)
*David Williams
*S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan (1940–)
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*List of statisticians
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