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 (born 1952)
 * Siva Athreya
 * Thomas Bayes (1702–1761) - British mathematician and Presbyterian minister, known for Bayes' theorem
 * Gerard Ben-Arous (born 1957) - Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
 * Itai Benjamini
 * Jakob Bernoulli (1654–1705) - Switzerland, known for Bernoulli trials
 * Joseph Louis François Bertrand (1822–1900)
 * Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch (1891–1970)
 * Patrick Billingsley (1925–2011)
 * Erwin Bolthausen (born 1945)
 * Carlo Emilio Bonferroni (1892–1960)
 * Émile Borel (1871–1956)
 * Sourav Chatterjee
 * Kai Lai Chung (1917–2009)
 * Erhan Cinlar (born 1941)
 * Harald Cramér (1893–1985)
 * Amir Dembo (born 1958)
 * Persi Diaconis (born 1945)
 * Hugo Duminil-Copin (born 1985)
 * Joseph Leo Doob (1910–2004)
 * Lester Dubins (1920–2010)
 * Eugene Dynkin (1924–2014)
 * Robert J. Elliott (born 1940)
 * Paul Erdős (1913–1996)
 * Alison Etheridge (born 1964)
 * Steve Evans (born 1960)
 * William Feller (1906–1970)
 * Bruno de Finetti (1906–1985) - Italian probabilist and statistician
 * Geoffrey Grimmett (born 1950)
 * Alice Guionnet (born 1969)
 * Ian Hacking (born 1936)
 * Paul Halmos (1916–2006)
 * Joseph Halpern (born 1953)
 * David Heath (c.1943–2011)
 * Wassily Hoeffding (1914–1991)
 * Kiyoshi Itô (1915–2008)
 * Jean Jacod (born 1944)
 * Edwin Thompson Jaynes (1922–1998)
 * Mark Kac (1914–1984)
 * Olav Kallenberg (born 1939)
 * Rudolf E. Kálmán (1930–2016)
 * Samuel Karlin (1924–2007)
 * David George Kendall (1918–2007)
 * Richard Kenyon (born 1964) - Yale University
 * Harry Kesten (1931–2019)
 * John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946) - best known for his pioneering work in economics
 * Aleksandr Khinchin (1894–1959)
 * Andrey Kolmogorov (1903–1987)
 * Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827)
 * Gregory Lawler (born 1955)
 * Lucien Le Cam (1924–2000)
 * Jean-François Le Gall (born 1959)
 * Paul Lévy (1886–1971)
 * Jarl Waldemar Lindeberg (1876–1932)
 * Andrey Markov (1856–1922)
 * Stefan Mazurkiewicz (1888–1945)
 * Henry P. McKean, Jr (1930-2024)
 * Paul-André Meyer (1934–2003)
 * Richard von Mises (1883–1953)
 * Abraham de Moivre (1667–1754)
 * Octav Onicescu (1892–1983)
 * K. R. Parthasarathy (born 1936)
 * Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
 * Charles E. M. Pearce (1940–2012)
 * Judea Pearl (born 1936)
 * Yuval Peres (born 1963)
 * Edwin A. Perkins (born 1953)
 * Loren D. Pitt (born 1939)
 * Siméon Denis Poisson (1781–1840)
 * Yuri Vasilevich Prokhorov (1929–2013)
 * Frank P. Ramsey (1903–1930)
 * Alfréd Rényi (1921–1970)
 * Oded Schramm (1961–2008)
 * Romano Scozzafava (born 1935)
 * Scott Sheffield (born 1973)
 * Albert Shiryaev (born 1934)
 * Yakov Sinai (born 1935)
 * Ray Solomonoff (1926–2009)
 * Frank Spitzer (1926–1992)
 * Ruslan L. Stratonovich (1930–1997)
 * Daniel W. Stroock (born 1940)
 * Tibor Szele (1918–1955)
 * Alain-Sol Sznitman (born 1955)
 * Michel Talagrand (born 1952)
 * Heinrich Emil Timerding (1873–1945)
 * Andrei Toom (born 1942)
 * S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan (born 1940) - 2007 Abel Prize laureate
 * Gopinath Kallianpur (1925-2015)
 * Bhamidi V. Rao ((born 1945)
 * Bálint Virág (born 1973)
 * Wendelin Werner (born 1968)
 * Norbert Wiener (1894–1964)
 * David Williams
 * Ofer Zeitouni (born 1960) - Weizmann Institute
 * Rudolf Carnap (1891–1970) - one of the giants among twentieth-century philosophers (best known for confirmation probability)
 * Harold Jeffreys (1891–1989) - one of the giants within Bayesian statistics school
 * Richard Jeffrey (1926–2002) - best known for the philosophy of radical probabilism and Jeffrey conditioning
 * Karamat Ali Karamat (1936–2022)
 * Terence Tao (born 1975)
 * Richard M. Dudley (1938–2020)
 * William Timothy Gowers (born 1963)
 * Bálint Tóth (born 1955)
 * Rajeeva L. Karandikar (born 1956)