Vijay Nair served as President of the International Statistical Institute and President of the International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics. 

Stephen M. Stigler is an American statistician and historian of statistics. He is known for his contributions to statistical theory and methodology, particularly in the field of historical statistics. 

Frederick Mosteller, an esteemed American mathematician, was widely regarded as one of the foremost statisticians of the 20th century.

William G. Cochran was a prominent statistician, born in Scotland but spent most of his life in the United States.

Walter Willcox initiated the first statistics course at Cornell University in 1892, one of the earliest university courses in statistics in the United States, and one among 16 universities with such courses in the 1890s.