List composed by the ISI Committee History on Statistics
| 1719-1722 | Gottfried Achenwall | (coined German word Statistik) |
| 1927-2009 | Hirotugo Akaike | (model selection) |
| 801-873 | Abu Al-Kindi | (statistical cryptography) |
| 1667-1735 | John Arbuthnot | (test of hypothesis of gender ratio ) |
| 1701-1761 | Thomas Bayes | (inverse probability) |
| 1700-1782 | Daniel Bernoulli | (logarithmic utility) |
| 1878-1956 | Felix Bernstein | (statistical analysis of blood group inheritance ) |
| 1821-1883 | Louis-Adolphe Bertillon | (demography) |
| 1945-2010 | Julian Besag | (spatial lattice models) |
| 1784-1846 | Friedrich Bessel | (probable error) |
| 1919-2010 | David Blackwell | (estimation, game theory) |
| 1711-1787 | Roger Boscovich | (least absolute deviations) |
| 1919-2013 | George Box | (time series) |
| 1811-1863 | Auguste Bravais | (theoretical regression) |
| 1789-1857 | Augustin Louis Cauchy | (minimizing largest error) |
| 1912-1979 | Jerome Cornfield | (clinical trials) |
| 1900-1978 | Gertrude Cox | (experimental design) |
| 1924-now | David Cox | (proportional hazards) |
| 1893-1985 | Harald Cramér | (mathematical basis of statistics) |
| 1906-1985 | Bruno de Finetti | (Bayesian statistics) |
| 1900-1993 | W. Edwards Deming | (quality control) |
| 1938-now | Bradley Efron | (bootstrap) |
| 1897-1883 | William Farr | (statistical visualization, medical statistics) |
| 1890-1962 | Ronald Fisher | (likelihood, significance test) |
| 1768-1830 | Joseph Fourier | (testing difference of two proportions) |
| 1822-1911 | Francis Galton | (empirical regression) |
| 1777-1855 | Carl Friedrich Gauss | (Gauss-Markov theorem, delta method) |
| 1809-1890 | Jules Gavarret | (fixed significance level testing in medicine) |
| 1884-1965 | Corrado Gini | (index of inequality) |
| 1908-1955 | Meyer Abraham Girschick | (decision theory) |
| 1620-1674 | John Graunt | (demography) |
| 1802-1866 | André-Michel Guerry | (criminal statistics, statistical graphics) |
| 1891-1966 | Emil Julius Gumbel | (statistics of extremes) |
| 1911-1999 | Trygve Haavelmo | (foundations of econometrics) |
| 1926-1974 | Jaroslav Hájek | (asymptotics) |
| 1656-1742 | Edmund Halley | (actuarial science) |
| 1910-1990 | Morris Hansen | (sampling) |
| 1897-1991 | Austin Bradford Hill | (randomized clinical trials) |
| 1895-1973 | Harold Hotelling | (confidence intervals) |
| 1891-1989 | Harold Jeffreys | (Bayes factors) |
| 1835-1882 | Stanley Jevons | (index numbers) |
| 1884-1961 | Truman Kelley | (coefficient of reliability) |
| 1838-1919 | Anders Kiaer | (survey sampling) |
| 1903-1987 | Andrei Kolmogorov | (optimal estimation, time series) |
| 1919-2013 | Danie Krige | (spatial estimation) |
| 1749-1827 | Pierre-Simon Laplace | (inverse probability, ratio estimation) |
| 1924-2000 | Lucien Le Cam | (asymptotics) |
| 1752-1833 | André-Marie Legendre | (least squares ) |
| 1917-2009 | Erich Lehmann | (testing) |
| 1837-1914 | William Lexis | (time series) |
| 1923-2013 | Dennis Lindley | (decision theory) |
| 1893-1972 | P. C. Mahalanobis | (multivariate distance) |
| 1895-1933 | Lucien March | (visualization of statistical distributions) |
| 1930-2000 | Georges Matheron | (geostatistics, mathematical morphology) |
| 1723-1762 | Tobias Mayer | (combining astronomical measurements) |
| 1924-2010 | John Nelder | (generalized linear model) |
| 1894-1981 | Jerzy Neyman | (hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, spatial cluster models) |
| 1820-1910 | Florence Nightingale | (data visualization) |
| 1924-2016 | Ingram Olkin | (meta-analysis) |
| 1895-1980 | Egon Pearson | (hypothesis testing) |
| 1857-1936 | Karl Pearson | (chi-square test, P-value) |
| 1623-1687 | William Petty | (estimation) |
| 1897-1993 | E.J.G. Pitman | (invariant and equivariant estimators) |
| 1723-1791 | Richard Price | (demography) |
| 1796-1874 | Adolphe Quetelet | (anthropometry) |
| 1920-now | C.R. Rao | (optimal unbiased estimation) |
| 1839-1914 | Charles Saunders Peirce | (randomized experimentation) |
| 1917-1971 | Leonard Jimmie Savage | (Bayesian statistics) |
| 1917-1988 | Elizabeth Scott | (spatial cluster models) |
| 1876-1937 | William Sealy Gosset | (t-test) |
| 1793-1859 | Lemuel Shattuck | (public health) |
| 1891-1967 | Walter Shewhart | (quality control) |
| 1710-1761 | Thomas Simpson | (least deviation regression) |
| 1878-1939 | Kirstine Smith | (optimal design of experiments 1918) |
| 1863-1945 | Charles Spearman | (factor analysis) |
| 1920-2016 | Charles Stein | (shrinkage estimation) |
| 1838-1910 | Thorvald Thiele | (analysis of variance) |
| 1915-2000 | John Tukey | (robust statistics, fast Fourier transform, exploratory data |
| 1912-1954 | Alan Turing | (cryptography) |
| 1883-1953 | Richard von Mises | (directional data) |
| 1902-1950 | Abraham Wald | (sequential analysis) |
| 1891-1983 | Helen Walker | (history of statistical education ) |
| 1717-1783 | Pehr Wargentin | (demography) |
| 1947-1975 | Robert Wedderburn | (generalized linear model) |
| 1892-1965 | Frank Wilcoxon | (rank tests) |
| 1816-1894 | Theodor Wittstein | (coined German term mathematische Statistik 1863) |
| 1871-1951 | Udny Yule | (time series) |
