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DAB Dictionary of American Biography
DNB Dictionary of National Biography
DSB Dictionary of Scientific Biography
ESS Encyclopedia of Statistical Scial science
ESSU Encyclopedia of Statistical Science Update Volumes
IES International Encyclopedia of Statistics
IESocSci International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
ODNB Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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ABBE, Ernst Karl 1840-1905
From the internet at http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/BigPictures/Abbe.jpeg
DSB 1, 6-9; ESS 1, 2-3.
ADAMS, John Couch 1819-1892
From the internet at http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/PictDisplay/Adams.html
DSB 1, 53-54, ODNB.
ADRAIN, Robert 1775-1843
From p.242 in
S M Stigler, Mathematical statistics in the early states, Annals of Statistics 6 (1978), 239-275, reprinted in S M Stigler and I M Cohen (ed.), American Contributions to Mathematical Statistics in the Nineteenth Century, New York, NY: Arno Publishing Company 1980 (SF STI).
DSB 1, 65-66; DAB 1, 109-110, ODNB.
AIRY, Sir George Biddell 1801-1892
From fig.1 in
A J Meadow, Greenwich Observatory: Volume 2: Recent History (1836-1975), London: Taylor & Francis 1975.
DSB 1, 84-87, ODNB.
AITCHISON, John 1926-
From
RSS News 29 (1) (2001 September), 3.
AITKEN, Alexander Craig 1895-1967
Frontispiece from
A C Aitken, To Catch the Spirit, Dunedin: University of Otago Press 1995.
ESSU 1, 20-22, ODNB.
ALBERT, James H
From the web at
http://bayes.bgsu.edu/
ANDERSON, Oskar Nikolayevich 1887-1960
= ANDERSON, Oskar Johann Viktor
From Plate VII in
O Sheynin, Aleksandr A. Chuprov: Life, Work, Correspondence. The Making of mathematical statistics, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht 1996. This picture was reprinted from O Anderson, Ausgehwählte Schriftern (ed. von H Kellerer et al.), Tübingen 1963, Bd I, gegenüber S. I.
ANDERSON, Roy Malcolm 1947-
From the web at
http://www.med.ic.ac.uk/divisions/62/research/images/Roy_Anderson.jpg
ANDERSON, Theodore Wilbur 1918-
(left) with TUKEY, John Wilder 1915-2000
No. 133 from
Paul R Halmos, I Have a Photographic Memory, Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society 1987.
ANDERSON, Virgil Lee 1922-
A conversation with Shanti Gupta, Statistical Science, 13 (1998), 291-305 at page 295.
ANSCOMBE, Francis John (Frank) 1918-2001
From the web at
http://www.yale.edu/opa/v30.n9/story11.jpeg
ARBUTHNOT, John 1667-1735
From
L M Beattie, John Arbuthnot, Cambridge University Press 1935.
DSB 1, 208-209; DNB 1, 534-537; ESSU 2, 2-6, ODNB.
ARMITAGE, Peter 1924-
Frontispiece from
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A 146 (4) (1983)
ARNAULD, Antoine 1560-1619
Abb.4 from
H Loeffel, Blaise Pascal, Basel: Birkhäuser 1987.
DSB 1, 291-292.
AUBREY, John 1626-1697
From the web at http://www.druidic.isles.net/jpgs/aubreys.jpg
ODNB.
BABBAGE, Charles 1792-1871
Charles Babbage, aged thirty-six. From a Colnaghi engraving
From opposite p. 80 of
M Moseley, Irascible Genius: A Life of Charles Babbage, Inventor, London: Hutchinson 1964.
DSB 1, 354-356, ODNB.
BACHELIER, Louis Jean-Baptiste 1870-1946
From the web at
http://sjepg.univ-fcomte.fr/La_recherche/Libre/bachelier/page01/Louis_jeune_.gif
BAHADUR, Raghu Raj 1924-1997
From p. 1 of
J K Ghosh, S K Mitra and K R Parthasarathy (ed.), Glimpses of India’s Statistical Heritage, New Delhi, etc.: Wiley 1992.
BAILY, Francis 1744-1844
From p.331 of
T O’Donnell, History of Life Insurance in its Formative Years, Chicago: American Conservation Company 1936.
DSB 1, 402-403; DNB 1, 899-904, ODNB.
BANACH, Stefan 1892-1945
From p. 154 of
K Kuratowski, A Half Century of Polish Mathematics: Remembrances and Reflections, Oxford, etc.: Pergamon 1980.

The Scotch Café in L’viv, Lviv, Lwow, L’vov, Lvov or Lemberg
Was the Szkocka Café in Akamemichna in Lwow; now the Desertniy Bar at T. Shevchenko Prospekt 27, L’viv
From p.138 in
Lviv: Sightseeing Guide, L’viv: Centre d’Europe 1999.
BARNARD, George Alfred 1915-2002
Frontispiece from
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A 135 (1) (1972)
BARNDORFF-NIELSEN, Ole Eiler 1935-
From the internet at http://www.imf.au.dk/~oebn/ole.gif
BARRETT, George 1752-1821
From p.334 of
T O’Donnell, History of Life Insurance in its Formative Years, Chicago: American Conservation Company 1936.
See Bull. Inst. Math. Stats. 17 (1988), 278.
ODNB
BARTHOLOMEW, David J 1931-
Frontispiece from
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A 158 (1) (1995)
BARTLETT, Maurice Stephenson 1910-2002
Frontispiece from
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A 130 (4) (1967)
ODNB.
BASU, Debabrata 1924-2001
From p. 11 of
J K Ghosh, S K Mitra and K R Parthasarathy (ed.), Glimpses of India’s Statistical Heritage, New Delhi, etc.: Wiley 1992.
BAYES, Rev. Thomas 1702-1761
From p.335 of
T O’Donnell, History of Life Insurance in its Formative Years, Chicago: American Conservation Company 1936.
Note this portrait is of dubious authenticity - see an article entitled The Reverend Thomas Bayes, F.R.S. - 1701?-1761 originally from the Bulletin of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and other articles referred to below
His signature
From the web at http://www.stats.uwo.ca/faculty/bellhouse/bayespage.htm
The Bayes family vault
From p.297 in
J L Folks, Ideas of Statistics, Ames, IO: Iowa State University Press 1981.

Visitors’ Map of Bunhill Fields
Showing the site of his grave. From pp.12-13 in
The Official Guide to Bunhill Fields, London: Corporation of London 1991.

Ashton Lodge, 69 London Road
Where he “probably lodged during his time in Tunbridge Wells”
Bulletin of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics 20 (1991), 226 (see also 17 (1988), 49, 276-278, 482-3, 19 (1990), 478-479 and 21 (1992), 225-227).
D Bellhouse, A Bayesian busman’s holiday, Chance 3(4) (1990), 15-17 & 47.
DSB 1, 531-532; IES 1, 7-9; ESS Sup 14-17; DNB (Missing Persons), 50-51, ODNB.

Plaque at Ashton Lodge, 69 London Road, Tunbridge Wells
From the web at http://www.flickr.com/photos/15491198@N00/2361710588/
BECHHOFER, Robert E 1919-1996
(centre) with SOBEL, Milton (left) and GUPTA, Shanti Swarup (right)
A conversation with Shanti Gupta, Statistical Science, 13 (1998), 291-305 at page 294.
BELLHOUSE, David R
From the web at http://www.stats.uwo.ca/faculty/bellhouse/
BENJAMIN, Bernard 1910-2002
Frontispiece from
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A 134 (1) (1971)
BERGER, James Orvis 1950-
From the web at http://www.stat.duke.edu/~berger/icon/berger2.jpg
BERGER, Roger L
From the web at http://www.west.asu.edu/rlberge1/index.html
BERNARDO, José-Miguel 1950-
From the web at http://www.uv.es/~bernardo/Jose2b.jpg
BERNOULLI, Daniel 1700-1782
Frontispiece of
Werke, Vol.3, Basel: Birkhäuser 1987.
DSB 2, 36-46; IES 1, 20; ESS 1, 216-217.

The Bernoulli Family Tree
Adapted from the web at
http://www.ub.unibas.ch/spez/bernoull.htm
Compare p. 34 of
Daniel Bernoulli 1700-1782 zum dreihundertsten Geburtstag (ed. P Radelet-de Grave), Gygax - The digital Press, Basel 2000.
BERNOULLI, James 1654-1705
James Bernoulli in 1687, from frontispiece of
Werke, Vol.1, Basel: Birkhäuser 1989.

Tombstone in Basel
From Fig. 11.17 in
Eli Maor, To Infinity and Beyond: A Cultural History of the Infinite, Basel: Birkhäuser 1986
DSB 2, 46-51; IES 1, 19; ESS 1, 215-216.

The Bernoulli Family Tree
Adapted from the web at
http://www.ub.unibas.ch/spez/bernoull.htm
Compare p. 34 of
Daniel Bernoulli 1700-1782 zum dreihundertsten Geburtstag (ed. P Radelet-de Grave), Gygax - The digital Press, Basel 2000.
BERNOULLI, Nicholas 1687-1759
No known portrait appears to exist (cf. the Bernoulli family tree).
Title page of De Usu Artis Conjectandi in Jure
reproduced opposite p.287 in
James Bernoulli, Werke, Vol.3, Basel: Birkhäuser 1989.
DSB 2, 56-57; IES 1, 19-20; ESS 1, 216.

The Bernoulli Family Tree
Adapted from the web at
http://www.ub.unibas.ch/spez/bernoull.htm
Compare p. 34 of
Daniel Bernoulli 1700-1782 zum dreihundertsten Geburtstag (ed. P Radelet-de Grave), Gygax - The digital Press, Basel 2000.
BERNSTEIN, Sergey Natanovich 1880-1968
From the web at http://hp.iitp.ru/ENG/02/0231.HTM
DSB 15, 22-24; ESS 1, 221-223.
BERTIN, Jacques 1918-2010
From the web at http://wwwusers.imaginet.fr/~bplanque/bertin.html
BERTRAND, Joseph Louis François 1822-1900
From p.277 in
A N Kolmogorov and A P Yushkevich (eds), Mathematics in the Nineteenth Century: Mathematical Logic, Algebra, Number Theory, Probability Theory, Boston, MA: Birkhäuser 1992.
DSB 2, 87-89.
BESAG, Julian 1945-2010
From
RSS News 29 (1) (2001 September), 2.
BESSEL, Friedrich Wilhelm 1784-1846
From fig.10, opp. p.321 in
A Pannekoek, A History of Astronomy, London: George Allen and Unwin 1961.
DSB 2, 97-102.
BHARUCHA-REID, Albert Turner 1930-1985
No. 479 from
Paul R Halmos, I Have a Photographic Memory, Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society 1987.
BIENAYMÉ, Irénée-Jules 1796-1878
Frontispiece from
C C Heyde and E Seneta, I.J. Bienaymé: Statistical Theory Anticipated, New York: Springer-Verlag 1977.
IES 1, 21-22; ESS 1, 231-235.
BIRNBAUM, Allan 1923-1976
From
The American Statistician 31 (1977), pp. 178
BLACKWELL, David Harold 1919-2010
From
Constance Reid, Neyman - from Life, New York: Springer-Verlag 1982
BODMER, Sir Walter Frederick (Fred) 1936-
Frontispiece from
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A 148 (2) (1985)
BOL’SHEV, Logiy Nikolaevich 1922-1978
From the web at http://hp.iitp.ru/ENG/38/3800.HTM
ESSU 1, 63-64.
BOLTZMANN, Ludwig Eduard 1844-1906
From p.270 in
A N Kolmogorov and A P Yushkevich (eds), Mathematics in the Nineteenth Century: Mathematical Logic, Algebra, Number Theory, Probability Theory, Boston, MA: Birkhäuser 1992.
DSB 2, 260-268; ESS 1, 293-294.
BONFERRONI, Carlo Emilio 1892-1960
From p.225 in
N L Johnson and S Kotz (ed.), Leading personalities in Statistical Sciences from the Seventeenth Century to the Present, New York, etc.: Wiley 1997
BOOLE, George 1815-1864
Frontispiece from
G Boole, Collected Logical Works, Vol. I: Studies in Logic and Probability,
La Salle, IL: Open Court 1952.
DSB 2, 293-298; DNB 2, 831-833, ODNB.
BOREL, Émile Félix-Edouard-Justin 1871-1956
From
Constance Reid, Neyman - from Life, New York: Springer-Verlag 1982
DSB 2, 302-305.
BORTKIEWICZ, Ladislaus von 1868-1931
From Plate IV in
O Sheynin, Aleksandr A. Chuprov: Life, Work, Correspondence. The Making of mathematical statistics, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht 1996. This picture was reprinted from Reichshandbuch der Deutschen Gessellschaft, Bd. I: Handbuch der Persönlichkeiten in Wort und Bild, 1930, S. 188.
BOSE, Raj Chandra 1901-1987
From p.41 in
The Mathematical Intelligencer 5(1) (1983).
ESS Sup, 22-23.
BOŠKOVIČ, Rudjer Josip, S.J. 1711-1787
= BOSCOVICH, Ruggiero Giuseppe
= BOSCOVICH, Roger Joseph
From frontispiece of
L L White (ed.), Roger Joseph Boscovich, S.J., F.R.S. 1711-1787, London: George Allen and Unwin 1961.
DSB 2, 326-332; ESS 1, 303-304.
BOWLEY, Sir Arthur Lyon 1869-1957
Frontispiece from
A H Bowley, A Memoir of Professor Sir Arthur Bowley, 1869-1957, and his family, Petworth 1972.
ODNB.
BOX, George Edward Pelham 1919-
From p.240 in
A conversation with George Box, Statistical Science, 2 (1987), 239-258.
BRADLEY, Ralph Allen 1923-
From
A conversation with Ralph A Bradley, Statistical Science, 16 (2001), 75-100 at page 88.
BRAVAIS, Auguste 1811-1863
From the internet at http://www.lmcp.jussieu.fr/~soyer/cristallo/bravais.gif
BREIMAN, Leo 1928-2005
A conversation with Richard Olshen, Statistical Science, 16 (2001), 184-198 at page 192.
BUFFON, George Louis Leclerc, Comte de 1707-1788
From p.211 of
T O’Donnell, History of Life Insurance in its Formative Years, Chicago: American Conservation Company 1936.
DSB 2, 576-582.
BUNYAKOVSKII, Viktor Yakovlevich 1804-1889
From p.250 in
A N Kolmogorov and A P Yushkevich (eds), Mathematics in the Nineteenth Century: Mathematical Logic, Algebra, Number Theory, Probability Theory, Boston, MA: Birkhäuser 1992.
BURR, Irving Wingate 1908-1989
A conversation with Shanti Gupta, Statistical Science, 13 (1998), 291-305 at page 295.
CANTELLI, Francesco Paolo 1875-1966
From p.228 in
N L Johnson and S Kotz (ed.), Leading personalities in Statistical Sciences from the Seventeenth Century to the Present, New York, etc.: Wiley 1997
ESSU 3, 65-69.
CARCAVI, Pierre de 1600-1684
DSB 3, 63-64.
CARDANO, Girolamo 1501-1576
From facing p.52 in
A Wykes, Doctor Cardano: Physician Extraordinary, London: Frederick Muller 1969.
DSB 3, 64-67.
CARLYLE, Thomas 1795-1881
From the web at http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/britlit/carlyle.gif
DNB 3, 1020-1036, ODNB.
CASELLA, George
From the web at http://www.stat.ufl.edu/personnel/usrpages/casella.shtml
CAUCHY, Augustin-Louis 1789-1857
Cauchy as a young academician. Half-length portrait by Boilly, 1821.
From p.137 in
B Belhouse, Augustin-Louis Cauchy: A Biography, Springer-Verlag 1991.

As a mature man
From p.497 in
D E Smith, A History of Mathematics, Vol. I, Boston, MA: Ginn 1925 and New York, NY: Dover 1958.
DSB 3, 131-148; ESS 1, 384-385.
CHAUVENET, William 1820-1870
From the web at http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~freiwald/chauvenet.html
CHEBYSHEFF, Pavnutii Lvovich 1821-1894
= TCHEBYCHEFF, Pafnuty Lvovitch
= ČEBYŠEV, Pafnuty Lvovič
From facing p.70 in
W J Adams, The Life and Times of the Central Limit Theorem, New York, NY: Kaedmon 1974.
DSB 3, 222-232; ESS 1, 429-431.
CHERNOFF, Herman 1923-
From p.166 in
The Mathematical Intelligencer 3 (1981).
CHETVERIKOV, Nikolai Sergeevich 1885-1973
From Plate VI in
O Sheynin, Aleksandr A. Chuprov: Life, Work, Correspondence. The Making of mathematical statistics, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht 1996. This picture was reprinted from Priroda 1974, No. 2, p. 87.
CHEYSSON, (Jean-Jacques) Emile 1836-1910
From the web at
http://annales.org/archives/x/cheysson.html
CHIANG, Chin Long 1914-
From
A conversation with Chin Long Chiang, Statistical Science, 14 (1999), 457-470 at page 458.
CHOW, Yuan Shih 1924-
A conversation with Yuan Shih Chow, Statistical Science, 13 (2006), 91-112 at page 108.
CHUPROV, Alexander Alexandrovich 1874-1926
= TSCHUPROW, Alexander Alexandrovich = ČUPROV, Aleksandr Aleksandrovič
From the web at http://hp.iitp.ru/ENG/30/3073.HTM
ESS 1, 477-479.
COCHRAN, William Gemmell 1909-1980
Frontispiece from
Contributions to Statistics, New York: Wiley 1982.
DSB 17, 171-173, ESSU 1, 124-125.
CONDORCET, Marquis de 1743-1794
= CARITAT, Marie-Antoine-Jean-Nicolas
From the cover of
R Rashed (ed.), Sciences a l’Époque de la Révolution Français, Paris: Blanchard 1988.
DSB 3, 383-388.
COOK, Leonard Warren 1949-
From
RSS News 33 (3) (2005 November), 7
COOLIDGE, Julian Coolidge 1873-1954
From the web at
http://www.maa.org/aboutmaa/coolidge.gif
CORNFIELD, Jerome 1912-1979
From the web at
http://www.biostat.jhsph.edu/newsEvent/history/cornfield.shtml
COURNOT, Antoine Augustine 1801-1877
From the web at http://www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger/fame.html
COURTNEY, Leonard Henry, Lord Courtney 1832-1918
Frontispiece from Cornish Granite: Extracts from the Writings and Speeches of Lord Courtney of Penrith, London: Leonard Parsons 1925.
ODNB.
COX, Sir David (Roxbee) 1924-
Frontispiece from
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A 144 (3) (1981)

Another portrait
Left to Right: Sir David (Roxbee) Cox, Nancy Reid, Donald A S Fraser, John Ashworth Nelder
From the web at:
http://www.unine.ch/statistics/cox/cox14.gif
COX, Gertrude Mary 1900-1978
From p.75 in
S Stinnett et al., Women in Statistics: Sesquicentennial Activities, American Statistician 44(2) (1990), 74-80.
ESSU 1, 167-168.
CRAIG, Allen T ????-1978
CRAMER, Gabriel 1704-1752
From the web at
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/BigPictures/Cramer.jpeg
CRAMÉR, Harald 1893-1985
with RAO, Cayampudi Radhakhrishna 1920-
From p.56 in
A conversation with C.R. Rao, Statistical Science, 2 (1987), 53-67.
ESS Sup 36-37.
CROFTON, Morgan Willaim 1826-1915
From the web following links from http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/
ODNB.
CSÖRGŐ, Sándor 1947-2008
From the web at
http://www.math.u-szeged.hu/portal/hu/az-intezet/in-memoriam-csorgo-sandor-5.html
CUNLIFFE, Stella Vivian 1917-
Frontispiece from
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A 139 (1) (1976)
D’ALEMBERT, Jean le Rond 1717-1783
From Fig. 13.8, p.201 in
J Stillwell, Mathematics and its History, Berlin: Springer 1989
DSB 1, 110-117
DANIEL, Cuthbert 1905-1997
From p. 92 in
Cuthbert Daniel: Industrial Statistician American Statistician 52 (2) (1998), 89-92
DANIELS, Henry Ellis 1912-2000
Frontispiece from
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A 138 (1) (1975)
DANTZIG, George Bernard 1914-2005
From p.61 in
D J Albers, G L Alexanderson and C Reid, More Mathematical People, Boston, MA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1990
DARMOIS, Georges 1888-1960
From p.166 in
D J Albers, G L Alexanderson and C Reid, More Mathematical People, Boston, MA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1990
DAVID, Florence Nightingale 1909-1993
F N David in her office at the Forestry Division at Berkeley, circa 1977,
from p.236 in
A conversation with F.N. David, Statistical Science 4 (1989), 235-246.
ESSU 2, 176-178.
DAVIDOV, August Yulevich 1823-1885
From p.252 in
A N Kolmogorov and A P Yushkevich (eds), Mathematics in the Nineteenth Century: Mathematical Logic, Algebra, Number Theory, Probability Theory, Boston, MA: Birkhäuser 1992.
DSB 3, 591-592.
DAVIES, Owen Lewis 1909-2007
Sent by E-mail from Charles W Dunnett.
DAWID, (Alexander) Philip 1946-
From
RSS News 29 (1) (2001 September), 8.
DEMING, William Edwards 1900-1993
From
Constance Reid, Neyman - from Life, New York: Springer-Verlag 1982.
ESSU 1, 181-185.
DE MOIVRE, Abraham 1667-1754
Abraham De Moivre painted by Jos. Highmore, 1736
from Plate 9 (facing p.160) in
F N David, Games, Gods and Gambling, London: Griffin 1962.
DSB 9, 452-455; IES 1, 601-604; ESS 2, 300-302; DNB 13, 563-564, ODNB.
DE MORGAN, Augustus 1806-1871
From p.345 of
T O’Donnell, History of Life Insurance in its Formative Years, Chicago: American Conservation Company 1936.

As drawn by a student
From p.36 of
N Harte and J North, The World of University College London, London: University College London 1978.
DSB 4, 35-37; DNB 5, 780-784, ODNB.
DIACONIS, Persi Warren 1945-
From p.320 in
A conversation with Persi Diaconis, Statistical Science 1 (1986), 319-334.
DIRICHLET, Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune 1805-1859
From the web at
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Dirichlet.html
DOLL, Sir (William) Richard (Shaboe) 1912-2005
From the web at http://www.bmj.com/collections/century/data/doll.htm
DONNELLY, Peter 1959-
From
M Atkins and N Gilbert, Faces of Mathematics, Panoptika 2001.
DOOB, Joseph Leo 1910-2004
From
Constance Reid, Neyman - from Life, New York: Springer-Verlag 1982
DUNNELL, Karen Hope 1946-
From p.175 of
Inside National Statistics, Significance 2 (2005), 174-176.
DUNNETT, Charles 1921-2007
From the web at
http://www.ssc.ca/images/dunnett_hamilton.jpg
DURBIN, James 1923-
Frontispiece from
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A 150 (3) (1987)
EBBINGHAUS, Hermann 1850-1909
From frontispiece of
Zeitschrift für Psychologie 51 (1909); also reprinted on p.239 of
S M Stigler, The History of Statistics: The Measurment of Uncertainty Before 1900, Belknap (Harvard) 1986.
EDGEWORTH, Francis Ysidro 1845-1926
From facing p.238 in
Annals of the Royal Statistical Society 1834-1934, London: Royal Statistical Society 1934.
ESS Sup 54-55, ODNB.
EDWARDS, Anthony William Fairbanks 1935-
From the web at
http://www.gnxp.com/blog/2006/08/10-questions-for-awf-edwards.php
EINSTEIN, Albert 1879-1955
From the web at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein
EISENHART, Churchill 1913-1994
From p.513 in
A conversation with Churchill Eisenhart, Statistical Science, 7 (1992), 512-530.
ELFVING, Gustav 1908-1984
From p.96 in
N L Johnson and S Kotz (ed.), Leading personalities in Statistical Sciences from the Seventeenth Century to the Present, New York, etc.: Wiley 1997
ENCKE, Johann Franz 1791-1865
Johann Encke, Director of the Berlin Observatory, from p.47 in
M Littman, Planets Beyond: Discovering the Solar System, New York: Wiley 1978.
DSB 4, 369-370.
ENGEL, (Christian Lorenz) Ernst 1821-1896
From p.280 in
N L Johnson and S Kotz (ed.), Leading personalities in Statistical Sciences from the Seventeenth Century to the Present, New York, etc.: Wiley 1997
ESSU 2, 200-202.
ENGSET, Tore Olaus 1865-1943
Tore Olaus Engset with his wife Marie Amelie from the web at
http://www.telenor.com/telektronikk/volumes/pdf/2.1998/Page_154-164.pdf
EN’KO, Pyotr Dimitrievich 1844-1916
From p. 223 in
C C Heyde and E Seneta, Statisticians of the Centuries, New York: Springer-Verlag 2001.
ERLANG, Agner Krarup 1878-1929
From p. 328 in
C C Heyde and E Seneta, Statisticians of the Centuries, New York: Springer-Verlag 2001.
ESSÉEN, Carl-Gustav 1918-2001
= ESSEEN, Carl-Gustav
From the web at
http://www.stat.unipd.it/bernoulli/02a/esseen.jpg
EULER, Leonhard 1707-1783
From Fig. 9.3, p.133 in
J Stillwell, Mathematics and its History, Berlin: Springer 1989
DSB 4, 467-484
FARR, William 1807-1883
Facing p.60 in
Annals of the Royal Statistical Society 1834-1934, London: Royal Statistical Society 1934.
DNB 6, 1090-1091, ODNB.
FAULHABER, Johann 1580-1635
From the web at
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/PictDisplay/Faulhaber.htm
FECHNER, Gustav Theodor 1801-1887
Frontispiece from
G E Fechner, Elements of Psychophysics, ed. D.H. Howles and E.G. Boring, New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1966.
DSB 4, 556-559.
FEDERER, Walter Theodore 1915-2008
A conversation with Walter T Federer, Statistical Science, 20 (2005), 302-315 at page 303.
FELLER, William 1906-1970
= FELLER, Vilim = FELLER, Vilibald Srecko
From
Constance Reid, Neyman - from Life, New York: Springer-Verlag 1982
DSB 17, 287-289; ESSU 2, 247-250.
FERGUSON, Thomas Shelburne 1929-
From p.450 of
Bulletin of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics 26 (5) (1997 Sep/Oct)
FERMAT, Pierre de 1601-1665
Abb.45 from
H Loeffel, Blaise Pascal, Basel: Birkhäuser 1987.
DSB 4, 566-576.
de FINETTI, Bruno 1906-1985
From frontispiece of
P K Goel and A Zellner (ed.), Bayesian Inference and Decision: Essays in Honor of Bruno de Finetti, Amsterdam: North-Holland 1986.
ESS Sup, 46-47.
FINLAISON, John 1783-1860 = FINLAYSON, John
From p.298 of
T O’Donnell, History of Life Insurance in its Formative Years, Chicago: American Conservation Company 1936.
DNB 7, 27-29.
FINNEY, David John 1917-
Frontispiece from
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A 137 (1) (1974)
FISHER, Irving 1867-1947
From p. 268 in
C C Heyde and E Seneta, Statisticians of the Centuries, New York: Springer-Verlag 2001.
FISHER, Sir Ronald Aylmer 1890-1962
Photograph (supplied by Fisher Memorial Committee) by Antony Barrington-Brown, as reproduced as frontispiece of
R A Fisher, Collected Papers, Vol.5, Adelaide: Department of Genetics of the University of Adelaide; and also as frontispiece of
J F Box, R.A. Fisher: The Life of a Scientist, New York: Wiley 1978.
DSB 5, 7-11; IES 1, 352-358; ESS 3, 103-111; DNB (1961-70), 361-362, ODNB.

Portrait by Leontine Tintner
In the Department of Statistics, University of North Carolina; frontispiece from
Biometrika 50 (1963).

with Kempthorne, Oscar 1919-2000
Oscar Kempthorne (left in photo; from his personal collection) with R.A. Fisher during a short visit to Ames, Iowa in 1952.
From p.29 in
G A Barnard, Fisher: A Retrospective, Chance 3 (1) (1990), 22-32.

Memorial window in Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
From the web at http://www.senns.demon.co.uk/FisherWeb.html
FRANSCINI, Stefano 1796-1857
From p. 137 in
C C Heyde and E Seneta, Statisticians of the Centuries, New York: Springer-Verlag 2001.
FRASER, Donald Alexander Stuart 1925-
Left to Right: Sir David (Roxbee) Cox, Nancy Reid, Donald A S Fraser, John Ashworth Nelder
From the web at:
http://www.unine.ch/statistics/cox/cox14.gif
FRÉCHET, Maurice René 1878-1973
From p. 331 in
C C Heyde and E Seneta, Statisticians of the Centuries, New York: Springer-Verlag 2001.
FREUND, John Ernst 1921-2004
From Teaching Statistics 27 (2005), 32.
FRISCH, Ragnar Anton Kittil 1895-1973
From the web at http://www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger/fame.html
GALILEI, Galileo 1564-1642
Facing p.188 in
D E Smith, A History of Mathematics, Vol. I, Boston, MA: Ginn 1925 and New York, NY: Dover 1958.
DSB 5, 237-249.
GALTON, Sir Francis 1822-1911
Francis Galton, aged 66, from Plate VIII of
D W Forrest, Francis Galton: The Life and Work of a Victorian Genius, London: Paul Elek 1974.
DSB 5, 265-267; IES 1, 359-364; ESS 3, 274-276; DNB (1901-1911), 70-72.

Gallery of photographs of Sir Francis Galton
Link to web at http://www.mugu.com/galton/photos/
GAUSS, Carl Friedrich 1777-1855
From opp. p.42 in
W J Adams, The Life and Times of the Central Limit Theorem, New York, NY: Kaedmon 1974.
DSB 5, 298-315; IES 1, 378-386; ESS 3, 305-309.
GEARY, Robert Charles 1896-1983
From p. 459 in
C C Heyde and E Seneta, Statisticians of the Centuries, New York: Springer-Verlag 2001.
GEIRINGER, Hilda 1893-1973
From p.50 in
Die Mathematik war eing Halt und eine Freude: Hilda Geiringer zum 100 Geburtstag, Koruphyäe 15 (1994 May), 50-51.
GEISSER, Seymour 1929-2004
From the web at
http://www.stat.umn.edu/Geisser_Lectureship/Note.html
GIBBS, Josiah Willard 1839-1903
From the web at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Willard_Gibbs
GINI, Corrado 1884-1965
From p. 459 in
C C Heyde and E Seneta, Statisticians of the Centuries, New York: Springer-Verlag 2001.
ESSU 2, 277-281.
GNANADESIKAN, Ramanathan 1932-
Interviewing John Tukey at Bellcore in 1993
A conversation with Ramanathan Gnanadesikan, Statistical Science, 16 (2001), 295-309 at page 302.
GNEDENKO, Boris Vladimirovich 1912-1995
From p.244 in
N L Johnson and S Kotz (ed.), Leading personalities in Statistical Sciences from the Seventeenth Century to the Present, New York, etc.: Wiley 1997
ESSU 2, 281-282.
GODAMBE, Vidyadhar Prabhakar 1926-
From the web at
http://www.ssc.ca/images/godambe.jpg
GOMPERTZ, Benjamin 1779-1865
From p.341 of
T O’Donnell, History of Life Insurance in its Formative Years, Chicago: American Conservation Company 1936.
DSB 5, 466.
GOOD, Irving John 1916-2009
From Bulletin of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics 16(3) (1987), 106.
GOSSET, William Sealy (‘Student’) 1876-1937
Frontispiece from
E S Pearson, ‘Student’: A Statistical Biography of William Sealy Gosset, edited and augmented by R L Plackett with the assistance of G A Barnard, Oxford: Clarendon Press 1990.
Reprinted from
Annals of Eugenics 9 (1939)
DSB 5, 409-413; IES 1, 409-413; ESS 1, 461-463; DNB (1931-1940), 353-354, ODNB.
GOULD, Stephen Jay 1941-2002
Frontispiece from
S J Gould, The Individual in Darwin’s World, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 1990.
GOULDEN, Cyril Harold 1897-1981
From the web at
http://www.usask.ca/archives/history/hondegrees.php?id=80&view=detail&keyword=&campuses=
ESSU 2, 282-284.
GRAUNT, John 1620-1674
From p.147 of
T O’Donnell, History of Life Insurance in its Formative Years, Chicago: American Conservation Company 1936.
DSB 5, 506-508; IES 1, 435-437; DNB 8, 427-428, ODNB.
’sGRAVESANDE, Willem Jacob 1688-1742
From the internet at
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/BigPictures/SGravesande.jpeg
DSB 5, 509-511; ESSU 2, 617-619.
GREEN, Peter James 1950-
From
RSS News 29 (1) (2001 September), 5.
GRILICHES, Zvi 1930-1999
From the web at http://www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger/fame.html
GUMBEL, Emil Julius 1891-1966
From p. 406 in
C C Heyde and E Seneta, Statisticians of the Centuries, New York: Springer-Verlag 2001.
GUPTA, Shanti Swarup 1925-2001
From p.14 in
Bulletin of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics 31 (3) (2002).
GUTTMAN, Louis 1916-1987
From p.112 in
N L Johnson and S Kotz (ed.), Leading personalities in Statistical Sciences from the Seventeenth Century to the Present, New York, etc.: Wiley 1997
HAAVELMO, Trygve 1911-1999
From the web at http://www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger/fame.html
HAIGHT, Frank Avery 1919-2006
From the web at http://www.julianhaight.com/fah/local_obit.html
HÁJEK, Jaroslav 1926-1974
From the web at http://www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger/fame.html
HALD, Anders 1913-2007
From the web at http://www.genarians.com/1913.html
HALDANE, John Burdon Sanderson 1892-1964
J B S Haldane with his second wife, Dr Helen Spurway, in June 1956.
Opposite p.208 in
R Clark, J.B.S.: The Life and Work of J.B.S. Haldane, London: Hodder and Stoughton 1968.
DSB 5, 21-23; DNB (1961-70), 473-475.
HALLEY, Edmond 1656-1742
Edmond Halley as a naval officer, after a portrait by Sir Geoffrey Kneller
Plate 2 from
A Armitage, Edmond Halley, London: Nelson 1966
DSB 6, 67-72; DNB 8, 988-994, ODNB.
HAND, David John
From p. 7 in
RSS News, 30 (1) (2002).
HANNAN, Edward James 1921-1994
From frontispiece of
Essays in Time Series and Allied Processes: papers in Honour of E.J. Hannan, ed. J Gani and M B Priestley, Journal of Applied Probability 23A (1986).
ESSU 1, 306-310.
HARTIGAN, John Anthony 1937-
A conversation with John Hartigan, Statistical Science, 13 (2005), 418-430 at page 430.
HARTLEY, Herman Otto 1912-1980
= HIRSCHFIELD, Hermann Otto
From p.197 in
N L Johnson and S Kotz (ed.), Leading personalities in Statistical Sciences from the Seventeenth Century to the Present, New York, etc.: Wiley 1997
HÁYEK, Jaroslav 1926-1974
From p.194 in
N L Johnson and S Kotz (ed.), Leading personalities in Statistical Sciences from the Seventeenth Century to the Present, New York, etc.: Wiley 1997
HELMERT, Friedrich Robert 1843-1917
From the web at http://www.math.wisc.edu/~apache/photos/kurtz.gif
DSB 6, 239-241; ESS 3, 605-606.
HEYDE, Christopher Charles 1939-2008
A conversation with Chris Heyde, Statistical Science, 13 (2006), 286-298 at page 297.
HEYSHAM, John 1753-1834
From p.363 of
T O’Donnell, History of Life Insurance in its Formative Years, Chicago: American Conservation Company 1936.
DNB 9, 778.
HILL, Sir Austin Bradford 1897-1991
Frontispiece from
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A 140 (2) (1977)
ODNB.
HODGES, Joseph Lawson, Jr. 1922-2000
From
Constance Reid, Neyman - from Life, New York: Springer-Verlag 1982
HOEFFDING, Wassily 1914-1991
From p.118 in
N L Johnson and S Kotz (ed.), Leading personalities in Statistical Sciences from the Seventeenth Century to the Present, New York, etc.: Wiley 1997
HOEL, Paul Gerhard 1905-2000
From p.412 of
Bulletin of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics 29 (4) (2000 Jul/Aug)
HOGG, Robert Vincent 1924-
From
http://www.stat.uiowa.edu/~bhogg
HOLT, Tim 1943-
From the web at
http://www.rss-manchester.org/student_prize_winners_2007.html
HOTELLING, Harold 1895-1973
From
Constance Reid, Neyman - from Life, New York: Springer-Verlag 1982
ESS 3, 668-669.
HOYLE, Edmond 1672-1762
From p.131 of
T O’Donnell, History of Life Insurance in its Formative Years, Chicago: American Conservation Company 1936.
DNB 10, 132-133, ODNB.
HUBER, Peter 1934-
Third Erich L Lehmann Symposium. Chance encounter with a former Ph.D. Student Emery Brown, Professor of Computational Neurology, MIT/Harvard [Huber on the right]. From
A conversation with Peter Huber, Statistical Science 23 (1) (2008), 120-135 at p. 135
HUDDE, Johannes 1628 or 1629-1769
= HUDDE, Jan
From p.131 of
T O’Donnell, History of Life Insurance in its Formative Years, Chicago: American Conservation Company 1936.
DSB 6, 536-538.
HUNTINGTON, Edward Vermilye 1873-1954
From the web at
http://www.maa.org/aboutmaa/huntington.gif
HURST, Harold Edwin 1880-1978
From p. 335 in
C C Heyde and E Seneta, Statisticians of the Centuries, New York: Springer-Verlag 2001.
HUYGENS, Christiaan 1625-1695
Abb.47 from
H Loeffel, Blaise Pascal, Basel: Birkhäuser 1987.
DSB 6, 597-613.
HUZURBAZAR, Vasant Shankar 1919-1991
From p. 25 of
J K Ghosh, S K Mitra and K R Parthasarathy (ed.), Glimpses of India’s Statistical Heritage, New Delhi, etc.: Wiley 1992.
IRWIN, Joseph Oscar 1898-1982
Frontispiece from
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A 126 (3) (1963)
ISHAM, Valerie Susan
From
M Atkins and N Gilbert, Faces of Mathematics, Panoptika 2001.
JEFFREYS, Sir Harold 1891-1989
Opposite p.303. in
A Cook, "Sir Harold Jeffreys", Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 36 (1990), 303-333.
ODNB.
JEVONS, William Stanley 1835-1882
From p.21 in
A N Kolmogorov and A P Yushkevich (eds), Mathematics in the Nineteenth Century: Mathematical Logic, Algebra, Number Theory, Probability Theory, Boston, MA: Birkhäuser 1992.
JORDAN Károly 1871-1959
From the dustjacket of
K Jordan, Chapters from the Classical Theory of Probability, Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó 1972.
KAC, Mark 1914-1985
No. 470 from
Paul R Halmos, I Have a Photographic Memory, Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society 1987.
KALLIANPUR, Gopinath 1925-
From p. 45 of
J K Ghosh, S K Mitra and K R Parthasarathy (ed.), Glimpses of India’s Statistical Heritage, New Delhi, etc.: Wiley 1992.
KANTOROVICH, Leonid Vitaliyevich 1912-1986
From the web at http://www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger/fame.html
KARLIN, Samuel 1924-2007
From
London Mathematical Society Newsletter 301 (2002 February).
KAY-SHUTTLEWORTH, Sir James Phillips, Bart. 1804-1877
From the internet at
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PHkay.htm
ODNB.
KELLY, Francis Patrick (Frank) 1950-
From
M Atkins and N Gilbert, Faces of Mathematics, Panoptika 2001.
KEMPERMAN, Johannes Henricus Bernardus 1924-
From
A conversation with Johannes H B Kemperman, Statistical Science, 15 (2000), 396-408 at page 399.
KEMPTHORNE, Oscar 1919-2000
From the web at http://www.stat.iastate.edu/StatTimes/2005-06/StatTimes2005-06.html
KEMPTHORNE, Oscar 1919-2000
with FISHER, Sir Ronald Aylmer 1890-1962
Oscar Kempthorne (left in photo; from his personal collection) with R.A. Fisher during a short visit to Ames, Iowa in 1952.
From p.29 in
G A Barnard, Fisher: A Retrospective, Chance 3 (1) (1990), 22-32.
KENDALL, David George 1918-2007
From
London Mathematical Society Newsletter 201 (1993 January).
KENDALL, Sir Maurice George 1907-1983
Frontispiece from
Sir Maurice Kendall, Statistics: Theory and Practice, London: Griffin 1984.
ESSU 1, 343-345, ODNB.
KEYNES, John Maynard (Lord) 1883-1946
From the web at http://www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger/fame.html
ODNB.
KHINCHIN, Aleksandr Yakovlevich 1894-1959
= KHINTCHINE, Aleksandr Jakovlevich
= HINCHIN, Aleksandr Yakovlevich
From p.39 in
S Zdravkovska and P L Duren (eds), Golden Years of Moscow Mathematics, Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society/London Mathematical Society 1993
DSB 7, 351-352.
KIAER, Anders Nicolai 1838-1919
From p. 208 in
C C Heyde and E Seneta, Statisticians of the Centuries, New York: Springer-Verlag 2001.
ESS Sup, 78.
KIEFER, Jack Carl 1924-1981
Frontispiece from
Collected Papers, Volume III, New York: Springer-Verlag 1985
KINGMAN, Sir John (Frank Charles) 1939-
Frontispiece from
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A 152 (3) (1989)
KNAPP, Georg Friedrich 1842-1926
From Plate IV in
O Sheynin, Aleksandr A. Chuprov: Life, Work, Correspondence. The Making of mathematical statistics, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht 1996. This picture was reprinted from 150 Jahre Promotion an der Wirtshcaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Tübingen (ed von I Eberl and H Marcon), Stuttgart 1984, S. 771, Bild Nr. 62.
KNIBBS, Sir George Handley 1858-1929
From p. 257 in
C C Heyde and E Seneta, Statisticians of the Centuries, New York: Springer-Verlag 2001.
KNUTH, Donald Ervin 1938-
From the web at
http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/
KOLMOGOROV, Andrei Nikolaevich 1903-1987
Frontispiece from
Russian Mathematical Surveys 43 (1) (1988)
ESS Sup, 78-80.
KONÜS, Alexandr Alexandrovich 1895-1990
From the web at http://www.ruc.su/association/histor/
ESSU 2, 353-355.
KOOPMANS, Tjalling Charles 1910-1986
From the web at http://www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger/fame.html
KOTZ, Samuel Borisovich 1930-2010
Frontispiece from
N L Johnson and N Balakrishnan (ed.), Advances in the Theory and Practice of Statistics: A Volume in Honor of Samuel Kotz, Wiley 1997.
KRAVCHUK, Mikhailo Pylypovich 1892-1942
= KRAWTCHOUK, Mikhailo Pylypovich
From p. 425 in
C C Heyde and E Seneta, Statisticians of the Centuries, New York: Springer-Verlag 2001.
KRISHNAIAH, Parachuri Rama 1932-1987
with H Drygas, J Müller, C Rao, and C Parisetti
From the web at
http://owpdb.mfo.de/person_detail?id=2339
ESSU 2, 355-356.
KRUSKAL, Joseph Bernard 1928-2010
From p.182 in
The Mathematical Intelligencer 4 (1982).
KRUSKAL, William Henry 1919-2005
From the web at
http://leifcarlsen.wordpress.com/2006/01/01/citat-william-h-kruskal-1/
KURTZ, Thomas Eugene 1928-
From the web at http://schools.keldysh.ru/sch444/museum/1_17-60.htm
KUZNETS, Simon Smith 1901-1985
From the web at http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/kuznets.htm
LAGRANGE, Joseph-Louis 1736-1813 = LAGRANGIA, Giuseppe Lodovico
From p.38 in
B Belhouse, Augustin-Louis Cauchy: A Biography, Berlin: Springer-Verlag 1991.
DSB 7, 559-573.
LAHIRI, Debabrata B 1913-2003
From p. 67 of
J K Ghosh, S K Mitra and K R Parthasarathy (ed.), Glimpses of India’s Statistical Heritage, New Delhi, etc.: Wiley 1992.
LAMBERT, Johann Heinrich 1728-1777
From the web at
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/BigPictures/Lambert_2.jpeg
LANCASTER, Henry Oliver 1913-2001
From p.16 in
Bulletin of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics 31 (2) (2002).
LANGEVIN, Paul 1872-1946
From the internet at http://perso.netinfo.fr/PLangevin/Langevin.JPG
DSB 8, 9-14; ESS 4, 468-469.
LAPLACE, Pierre-Simon, Marquis de 1749-1827
Laplace in his robes as Chancellor of the Senate, from Plate 6 in
M Crosland, The Society of Arcueil, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 1967.
DSB 15, 273-403 (sic); IES 1, 493-9; ESS 4, 469-473.
LAURITZEN, Steffen L 1947-
From the internet at http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~steffen/
LEBESGUE, Henri Léon 1875-1941
From
Constance Reid, Neyman - from Life, New York: Springer-Verlag 1982
DSB 8, 110-112.
LE CAM, Lucien Marie 1924-2000
From
A conversation with Lucien Le Cam, Statistical Science, 14 (1999), 223-241 at page 230.
LEGENDRE, Adrien-Marie 1752-1833
From the web at
http://www.numericana.com/answer/record.htm#legendre
DSB 8, 135-143.
LEHMANN, Erich Leo 1917-2009
with his daughter Barbara
From
Constance Reid, Neyman - from Life, New York: Springer-Verlag 1982
LEHRER, Thomas Andrew 1928-
No. 606 from
Paul R Halmos, I Have a Photographic Memory, Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society 1987.
LE VERRIER, Urbain Jean Joseph 1811-1877
From the web at
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/PictDisplay/Le_Verrier.html
DSB 8, 176-179.
LÉVY, Paul Pierre 1886-1971
From opp. p.300 in
Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society 7 (1973).
ESS 4, 617-618.
LEXIS, Wilhelm 1837-1914
From p.221 of
S M Stigler, The History of Statistics: The Measurment of Uncertainty Before 1900, Cambridge, MA: Belknap (Harvard) 1986; reproduced from
Illustrirte Zeitung (Leipzig), 143 (1914), 394.
IES 1, 507-512; ESS 4, 625-627.
LIEVESLEY, Denise
Frontispiece of:
The Statistician 50 (4) (2001).
LINDEBERG, Jarl Waldemar 1876-1932
From p. 318 in
C C Heyde and E Seneta, Statisticians of the Centuries, New York: Springer-Verlag 2001.
LINDLEY, Dennis Victor 1923-
From Fig. 1.5, opp. p.7
The archetypal progressive: Volvo, Guardian and green wellies.
P R Freeman and A F M Smith (ed.), Aspects of Uncertainty: A Tribute to D V Lindley, New York: Wiley 1994.
LINNIK, Yurii Vladimirovich 1915-1972
From the web at
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/PictDisplay/Linnik.html
LOÈVE, Michel 1907-1979
From
Constance Reid, Neyman - from Life, New York: Springer-Verlag 1982
LUKACS, Eugene 1906-1987
From p.13 in
J Gani (ed.), The Making of Statisticians, Berlin: Springer 1982.
LUNDBERG, Ernest Filip Oskar 1876-1965
From p. 308 in
C C Heyde and E Seneta, Statisticians of the Centuries, New York: Springer-Verlag 2001.
LÜROTH, Jacob 1844-1910
From the web at:
http://www.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de/page/geschichte/en
LYAPUNOV, Aleksandr Mikhailovich 1857-1918
From opp. p.94 in
W J Adams, The Life and Times of the Central Limit Theorem, New York, NY: Kaedmon 1974.
DSB 8, 559-563; ESS 4, 625-627.
MACFARLANE, Alexander 1851-1913
From the web at:
http://ca.geocities.com/macfarlanebio/
MAHALANOBIS, Prasanta Chandra 1893-1972
From p.336 in
J L Folks, Ideas in Statistics, Ames, IO: Iowa State University Press 1981.
IES 1, 571-576; ESS 5, 175-176.
MALTHUS, Thomas Robert 1766-1834
From facing p.4 in
Annals of the Royal Statistical Society 1834-1934, London: Royal Statistical Society 1934.
DNB 9, 67-71; ESS 5, 189-190, ODNB.
MANN, Henry Berthold 1905-2000
No. 150 from
Paul R Halmos, I Have a Photographic Memory, Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society 1987.
MARDIA, Kantilal Vardichand 1935-
A conversation with Kenti Mardia, Statistical Science, 17 (2002), 113-148 at page 120.
MARKOV, Andrei Andreevich 1856-1922
From opp. p.80 in
W J Adams, The Life and Times of the Central Limit Theorem, New York, NY: Kaedmon 1974.
DSB 9, 124-130; ESS 5, 247-249.
MASANI, Pesi Rustom 1919-1999
From p. 83 of
J K Ghosh, S K Mitra and K R Parthasarathy (ed.), Glimpses of India’s Statistical Heritage, New Delhi, etc.: Wiley 1992.
MASÈRES, Francis 1731-1824
From p.278 in
T O’Donnell, History of Life Insurance in its Formative Years, Chicago: American Conservation Company 1936.
DSB 9, 158-159; DNB 12, 1292-1294.
MATHESON, Jil
From the web at
http://www.ons.gov.uk/images/jil-matheson_tcm77-18244.jpg
MAXWELL, James Clerk 1831-1909
From
M Goldman, The Demon in the Aether, Edinburgh: Harris 1983.
DSB 9, 198-230; DNB 13, 118-121, ODNB.
MAYER, Johann Tobias 1723-1762
Opposite contents page (and on title page) of
E G Forbes, The Birth of Navigational Science: Tobias Mayer, Maritime Monographs and Reports No. 10, London: National Maritime Museum 1974.
DSB 9, 232-235.
MAYR, Georg von 1841-1925
From p. 219 in
C C Heyde and E Seneta, Statisticians of the Centuries, New York: Springer-Verlag 2001.
McKEAN, Joseph W
From the web at
http://www.stat.wmich.edu/people/faculty.html
McKENDRICK, Anderson Gray 1876-1943
From p. 323 in
C C Heyde and E Seneta, Statisticians of the Centuries, New York: Springer-Verlag 2001.
ODNB.
McLENNAN, William Patrick (Bill) 1942-
From the web at
http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/featurearticlesbytitle/26A6EFD3F32999D2CA256E6F00064FA0?OpenDocument
MENDEL, Johann Gregor 1822-1884
Mendel in 1862. Opposite p.49 in
R Olby, Origins of Mendelism, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press 1966.
DSB 9, 277-283.
MENDENHALL, Willaim 1925-2009
From the web at
http://www.stat.ufl.edu/personnel/Faculty%20Listing/Emeritus.html
MERRIMAN, Mansfield 1848-1925
From the web at:
http://histv2.free.fr/licks/Merriman-photo.JPG
MERSENNE, Marin 1588-1648
Abb.4 from
H Loeffel, Blaise Pascal, Basel: Birkhäuser 1987.
DSB 9, 316-322.
MEYER, Anton 1801-1857
From p. 148 in
C C Heyde and E Seneta, Statisticians of the Centuries, New York: Springer-Verlag 2001.
MISES, Richard Edler von 1883-1953
Frontispiece from
Garrett Birkhoff, Gustav Kuerti and Gabor Szegö, Studies in Mathematics and Mechanics Presented to Richard von Mises by Friends, Colleagues and Pupils, New York: Academic Press 1954.
DSB 9, 419-420; ESS 6, 502-505.
MITRA, Sujit Kumar 1932-2004
From p.10 in
IMS Bulletin 33 (2004), 10.
MOLENBERGHS, Geert
From p. 7 in
RSS News, 30 (1) (2002).
MONTMORT, Pierre Raymond de 1678-1719
DSB 9, 499-500; ESS 5, 618-620.
According to http://cerebro.xu.edu/math/Sources/Montmort/montmort.html no portrait is known
MOORE, Peter Gerard 1928-2010
Frontispiece from
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A 153 (3) (1990)
MORGENSTERN, Oskar 1902-1976
From the web at http://chasholloway.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/morgenstern.jpg
MOSER, Claus Adolf, Lord 1922-
Frontispiece from
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A 143 (1) (1980)
MOSES, Lincoln E 1921-2006
A conversation with Lincoln E Moses, Statistical Science, 14 (1999), 338-354 at page 353.
MOSTELLER, Frederick 1916-2006
From p.241 in
D J Albers, G L Alexanderson and C Reid, More Mathematical People, Boston, MA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1990
NAIR, Keshavan Raghavan 1910-1957
From p. 101 of
J K Ghosh, S K Mitra and K R Parthasarathy (ed.), Glimpses of India’s Statistical Heritage, New Delhi, etc.: Wiley 1992.
NELDER, John Ashworth 1924-2010
Frontispiece from
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A 149 (2) (1986)

NELDER, John Ashworth 1924-2010
Left to Right: Sir David (Roxbee) Cox, Nancy Reid, Donald A S Fraser, John Ashworth Nelder
From the web at:
http://www.unine.ch/statistics/cox/cox14.gif
NEMCHINOV, Vasilii Sergeevich 1894-1964
From the web at http://hp.iitp.ru/ENG/19/1986.HTM
ESSU 3, 521-522.
NEUMANN, Caspar 1648-1715
From p. 29 in
C C Heyde and E Seneta, Statisticians of the Centuries, New York: Springer-Verlag 2001.
NEWCOMB, Simon 1835-1909
Frontispiece from
Reminiscences of an Astronomer, London: Harper & Bros. 1903.
DSB 10, 33-36; DAB 7, 452-455.
NEYMAN, Jerzy (Spława-) 1894-1981
Frontispiece from
Early Statistical Papers, Cambridge University Press 1967.
DSB 18, 669-675; IESocSci 18 (Biog. Supp.), 587-590; ESS 6, 215-223.

with SCOTT, Elizabeth 1917-1988
From
Constance Reid, Neyman - from Life, New York: Springer-Verlag 1982
NIGHTINGALE, Florence 1820-1910
A portrait taken immediately after her return from the Crimea
Frontispiece from
D Erskine Muir, Florence Nightingale, London: Blackie 1946
ESS 6, 246-249, ODNB.
O’HAGAN, Anthony 1948-
From the web at http://www.shef.ac.uk/~st1ao/aoh.gif
ONICESCU, Octav 1892-1983
From p. 415 in
C C Heyde and E Seneta, Statisticians of the Centuries, New York: Springer-Verlag 2001.
OSTROGRADSKY, Mikhail Vasilievich 1801-1862
From p.124 in
B Belhouse, Augustin-Louis Cauchy: A Biography, Berlin: Springer-Verlag 1991.
DSB 10, 247-252.
PACIOLI, Fra Luca 1445-1509
= PACCIOLI, Fra Luca
= PACIOLO, Fra Luca
From the painting ‘Fra Luca Pacioli and Pupil’ by J. de Barbari (1440/50-1516) in the Capodimonte Museum, Naples. Reproduced on the front cover of R Lawlor, Sacred Geometry: Philosophy and Practice, London: Thames and Hudson 1982. Also reproduced on p.108 of the same book and as Plate 8 (opp. p.25) of
F N David, Games, Gods and Gambling, London: Griffin 1962.
DSB 10, 269-272.
PARETO, Vilfredo Federigo Samaso 1848-1923
From p. 232 in
C C Heyde and E Seneta, Statisticians of the Centuries, New York: Springer-Verlag 2001.
PARZEN, Emanuel 1929-
No. 401 from
Paul R Halmos, I Have a Photographic Memory, Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society 1987.
PASCAL, Blaise 1623-1662
Frontispiece from
H Loeffel, Blaise Pascal, Basel: Birkhäuser 1987.
DSB 10, 330-342; ESS 6, 626-628.
PEARL, Judea 1936-
From the internet at http://www.bruinwalk.com/professors/images/mugs/pearl.judea.gif
PEARSON, Egon Sharpe 1895-1980
Frontispiece from
E S Pearson, Selected Papers, Cambridge University Press 1966.
IESocSci 18 (Biog. Supp.), 630-632; ESS 6, 650-653, ODNB.
PEARSON, Karl 1857-1936
Frontispiece from
E S Pearson, Karl Pearson: An Appreciation of some aspects of his life and works, Cambridge University Press 1938.
DSB 10, 447-473; IES 2, 691-698; ESS 6, 653-655; ESSU 3, 572-576; DNB (1931-1940), 681-684, ODNB.
PEIRCE, Benjamin 1809-1880
From
http://www2.polito.it/didattica/polymath/htmlS/argoment/APPUNTI/TESTI/Ott_04/Numeroe.htm
PEIRCE, Charles Sanders 1839-1914
From p.663 in
C B Boyer and U C Merzbach, A History of Mathematics (2nd ed.), London: Wiley 1989 (1st ed. by Boyer alone, 1968).
DSB 10, 478-488; IES 2, 698-702.
PETTY, Sir William 1623-1687
From a portrait by Closterman at Bowood; frontispiece of
The Petty-Southwood correpondence 1676-1687, edited from the Bowood papers by the Marquis of Lansdowne, London: Constable 1928.
DSB 10, 564-565; IES 2, 702-704; DNB 15, 999-1005, ODNB.
PHILLIPS, Peter Charles Bonard 1948-
From the internet at http://cowles.econ.yale.edu/faculty/phillips.htm
PITMAN, Edwin James George 1897-1993
From the internet at http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/aasmemoirs/gifs/pitman.gif
ESS 6, 729-731.
POINCARÉ, Jules Henri 1854-1912
From the internet at http://www-chaos.umd.edu/misc/poincare.html
POISSON, Siméon Denis 1781-1840
From p.52 in
B Belhouse, Augustin-Louis Cauchy: A Biography, Berlin: Springer-Verlag 1991.
DSB 15, 480-490; IES 2, 704-6; ESS 7, 41-43.

Another portrait
From p.159 in
I J Good, Some statistical applications of Poisson’s work, Statistical Science 1 (1986), 704-6.
DSB 15, 480-490; IES 2, 704-6; ESS 7, 41-43.
POLLACZEK, Félix 1892-1981
From p. 429 in
C C Heyde and E Seneta, Statisticians of the Centuries, New York: Springer-Verlag 2001.
PÓLYA, George 1887-1985
From the web at
http://www.mathgym.com.au/htdocs/polya.jpg
PRICE, Richard 1723-1791
From an engraving by Holloway in the National Museum of Wales after an original painting by Sir Benjamin West now in the possession of the Royal Society; frontispiece from
R Thomas, Richard Price: Philosopher and Apostle of Liberty, Oxford University Press 1924; also reproduced as Plate 8, opp. p.81 in
M E Ogborn, Equitable Assurances, London: George Allen and Unwin 1962.
DNB 16, 334-7.
PYKE, Ronald 1931-2005
From
IMS Bulletin 35 (2006), 4-5.
QUETELET, (Lambert) Adolphe (Jacques) 1796-1874
From facing p.40 in
H M Walker, Studies in the History of Statistical Method, Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins 1931.
DSB 11, 236-238; IES 2, 824-834; ESS 7, 481-483.
RAIFFA, Howard 1924-
From
A conversation with Howard Raiffa, Statistical Science 23 (1) (2009), 136-149 at p. 137
RAMSEY, Frank Plumpton 1903-1930
Frontispiece from
D H Mellor (ed.), Prospects for Pragmatism: Essays in Memory of F.P. Ramsey, Cambridge University Press 1980.
DSB 11, 285-286, ODNB.
RAO, Cayampudi Radhakrishna 1920-
with CRAMÉR, Harald
From p.56 in
A conversation with C.R. Rao, Statistical Science, 2 (1987), 53-67.
REID, Constance Bowman 1918-
No. 585 from
Paul R Halmos, I Have a Photographic Memory, Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society 1987.
REID, Nancy
Left to Right: Sir David (Roxbee) Cox, Nancy Reid, Donald A S Fraser, John Ashworth Nelder
From the web at:
http://www.unine.ch/statistics/cox/cox14.gif
RÉNYI Alfréd 1921-1970
Frontispiece from
A Rényi, Probability Theory, Amsterdam: North-Holland 1970
DSB 18, 732-734.
RÉVÉSZ, Paul 1934-
= RÉVÉSZ Pal
No. 340 from
Paul R Halmos, I Have a Photographic Memory, Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society 1987.
RICCI, Ostilio 1540-1603
From p.73 in
C A Ronan, Galileo, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1974.
DSB 11, 405-406.
RICE, John A
From the web at
http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~rice/
RICE, Stuart Arthur 1889-1969
From p. 386 in
C C Heyde and E Seneta, Statisticians of the Centuries, New York: Springer-Verlag 2001.
RIPLEY, Brian David 1952-
From the web at
http://www.r-project.org/conferences/DSC-2001/Photos/CityHall/12.html
ROBBINS, Herbert Ellis 1915-2001
From
Constance Reid, Neyman - from Life, New York: Springer-Verlag 1982
ROBERVAL, Gilles Personne 1602-1675
= ROBERVAL, Gilles Personnier
From the web at
http://encycloscience.eun.org/lmalp/worklist_action2.cfm?wid=18270&lang=fr&workLang=fr&tLang=fr
DSB 11, 486-491.
ROBERTS, Gareth
From
M Atkins and N Gilbert, Faces of Mathematics, Panoptika 2001.
ROMANOVSKY, Vsevelod Ivanovich 1879-1954
From Plate V in
O Sheynin, Aleksandr A. Chuprov: Life, Work, Correspondence. The Making of mathematical statistics, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht 1996. This picture was reprinted from Uspekhi Matematicheski Nauk 10 (1) (1955), facing p. 79.
ROWNTREE, (Benjamin) Seebohm 1871-1954
From
S Hogarth and V Wallace (eds), Yorkshire People and Places: A millenium celebration, York: Yorkshire Philosohpical Society 2001, p. 132.
ODNB.
ROTA, Gian-Carlo 1932-1999
From
Obituary: Gian-Carlo Rota, The Mathematical Scientist 25 (2000), 61-62.
RUBEN, Harold 1923-2001
From p.17 in
Bulletin of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics 31 (2) (2002).
RUBIN, Herman 1926-
No. 342 from
Paul R Halmos, I Have a Photographic Memory, Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society 1987.
SAVAGE, I Richard 1925-2004
No. 22 from
Paul R Halmos, I Have a Photographic Memory, Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society 1987.
SAVAGE, Leonard Jimmie 1917-1971
From frontispiece of
The Writings of Leonard Jimmie Savage: A Memorial Selection, Washington, DC: American Statistical Association/ Institute of Mathematical Statistics 1981.
IESocSci 18 (Biog. Supp.), 691-694; ESS 8, 265-267.
SCHEFFÉ, Henry 1907-1977
From
Constance Reid, Neyman - from Life, New York: Springer-Verlag 1982
DSB 18, 783-784.
SCHEAFFER, Richard L
From the web at
http://www.stat.ufl.edu/personnel/Faculty%20Listing/Emeritus.html
SCOTT, Elizabeth Leonard 1917-1988
with NEYMAN, Jerzy (Spława) 1894-1981
From
Constance Reid, Neyman - from Life, New York: Springer-Verlag 1982
SEN, Pranab Kumar 1937-
with NEYMAN, Jerzy (Spława) 1894-1981
From the web at http://www.stat.unc.edu/faculty/sen.html
SHANNON, Claude Elwood 1916-2001
From p.155 in
P R Masani, Norbert Wiener 1894-1964, Basel: Birkhäuser 1990.
SHCHERBINA, Fedor Andreevich 1849-1936
From p. 239 in
C C Heyde and E Seneta, Statisticians of the Centuries, New York: Springer-Verlag 2001.
SHEWHART, Walter Andrew 1891-1967
From the internet at http://www.lucent.dk/museum/1924scc.html
DSB 18, 816-819.
SHRIKHANDE, Sharadchandra Shankar 1917-
= SHRIKHANDE, Sharadchandra Shankar
From p. 215 of
J K Ghosh, S K Mitra and K R Parthasarathy (ed.), Glimpses of India’s Statistical Heritage, New Delhi, etc.: Wiley 1992.
SIBSON, Robin
From the web at
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/robin_sibson
SILVERMAN, Bernard 1952-
From the web at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Silverman
SIMPSON, Thomas 1710-1761
From p.209 of
T O’Donnell, History of Life Insurance in its Formative Years, Chicago: American Conservation Company 1936.
DSB 12, 443-445; DNB 18, 279, ODNB.

Another portrait
Thomas Bayes, F.R.S.: A biography to celebrate the tercentenary of his birth (with discussion), by D R Bellhouse, Statistical Science, 19 (2000), 3-43 at p.20.
SINCLAIR, Sir John 1754-1835
Raeburn’s portrait of Sir John Sinclair (National Galleries of Scotland), opp. p.179 in
J C Gower, Statistics in Agriculture, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, 151 (1988), 179-200.
DNB 18, 301-305, ODNB.
SLUTSKY, Evgeny Evgeneivich 1880-1948
From the internet at http://www.math.bme.hu/mathhist/SmallPictures/Slutsky.gif
DSB 12, 461; ESS 8, 512-515.
SMIRNOV, Nikolai Vasil’yevich 1900-1966
From the internet at http://hp.iitp.ru/eng/25/2584.htm
ESSU 1, 500-502.
SMITH, Adrian Frederick Melhuish 1946-
Frontispiece from
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A 159 (3) (1996)
SMOLUCHOWSKI, Marian Ritter von Smolan 1872-1917
From p. 299 in
C C Heyde and E Seneta, Statisticians of the Centuries, New York: Springer-Verlag 2001.
SNEDECOR, George Waddell 1882-1974
From p.258 in
J L Folks, Ideas in Statistics, Ames, IO: Iowa State University Press 1981.
ESS 8, 526-528.
SNELL, James Laurie 1925-
From p.118 in
The Mathematical Intelligencer 4 (1982).
SNOW, John 1813-1858
From the internet at http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snowsinglehead.gif
DSB 12, 502-503; DNB 18, 615-617, ODNB.
SOBEL, Milton 1919-2002
Sobel at the Bell Telephone Labs, 1959
A conversation with Nitis Mukhopadhyay, Statistical Science, 15 (2000), 168-190 at p.178.
Another portrait (left) with BECHHOFER, Robert (centre) and GUPTA, Shanti S (right)
A conversation with Shanti Gupta, Statistical Science, 13 (1998), 291-305 at page 294.
SPEARMAN, Charles Edward 1863-1945
From p.328 in
J L Folks, Ideas in Statistics, Ames, IO: Iowa State University Press 1981.
ODNB.
SPIEGELHALTER, David John 1953-
From the web at
http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/people/d.spiegelhalter/
SPROTT David A 1930-
From the web at
http://www.ssc.ca/images/newsprott.jpg
STEIN, Charles M 1920-
Charles Stein in 1984, from p.462 in
A conversation with Charles Stein, Statistical Science 1 (1986), 454-462.
STIGLER, Stephen Mack 1941-
From the dust-jacket of
S M Stigler, The History of Statistics: The Measurement of Uncertainty before 1900, Cambridge, MA: Belknap (Harvard) 1986.
STIRLING, James "The Venetian" 1692-1770
No known portrait appears to exist.
The illustration shows the arms of Stirling of Garden
From p.90 in
William Fraser, The Stirlings of Keir and their Family Papers, Edinburgh: Privately Printed 1858.
DSB 13, 443-445; DNB 18, 1266-1267, ODNB.
STUART, Alan 1922-1998
From p.6 in The Independent, 1998 July 25.
SUKHATME, Pandurang Vasudeo 1911-1997
From p. 11 of
J K Ghosh, S K Mitra and K R Parthasarathy (ed.), Glimpses of India’s Statistical Heritage, New Delhi, etc.: Wiley 1992.
SÜSSMILCH, Johann Peter 1707-1767
From p. 72 in
C C Heyde and E Seneta, Statisticians of the Centuries, New York: Springer-Verlag 2001.
TAKÁCS, Lajos 1924-
From p.139 in
J Gani (ed.), The Craft of Probabilistic Modelling: A Collection of Personal Accounts, Berlin: Springer 1986.
TAGUCHI, Genichi 1924-
From the web at
http://www.skymark.com/images/taguchi.gif
TANIS, Elliot A. 1924-
From the web at
http://www.math.hope.edu/tanis/
TARTAGLIA, Nicolo 1500?-1559
From facing p.117 in
A Wykes, Doctor Cardano: Physician Extraordinary, London: Frederick Muller 1969.
DSB 13, 258-262.
TAVARÉ, Simon
From the internet at
http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/st321/
TAWN, Jonathan
From
M Atkins and N Gilbert, Faces of Mathematics, Panoptika 2001.
TETENS, Johannes Nikolaus 1736-1807
From p.330 of
T O’Donnell, History of Life Insurance in its Formative Years, Chicago: American Conservation Company 1936.
THIELE, Thorvald Nicolai 1838-1910
From p.161 in
N L Johnson and S Kotz (ed.), Leading personalities in Statistical Sciences from the Seventeenth Century to the Present, New York, etc.: Wiley 1997
THOM, Alexander 1894-1985
From the web at
http://www.soue.org.uk/souenews/issue6/fourprofs.html
THORP, Edward Oakley 1933-
No. 175 from
Paul R Halmos, I Have a Photographic Memory, Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society 1987.
TIPPETT, Leonard Henry Caleb 1902-1985
Frontispiece from
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A 129 (4) (1966)
TODHUNTER, Isaac 1820-1884
Detail from frontispiece of
A Macfarlane, Lectures on Ten British Mathematicians of the Nineteenth Century, New York: Wiley and London: Chapman & Hall 1916.
DNB 19, 914-915, ODNB.
TUFTE, Edward Rolf 1942-
From leaflet advertising
E R Tufte, Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative, Cheshire, CO: Graphics Press 1997.
TUKEY, John Wilder 1915-2000
(right) with ANDERSON, Theodore Wilbur 1918-
No. 133 from
Paul R Halmos, I Have a Photographic Memory, Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society 1987.
TWEEDIE, Maurice Charles Kenneth 1918-1996
Photograph supplied by his daughter
TWEEDIE, Richard L 1948-2001
From p.6 in
Bulletin of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics 31 (6) (2002).
VARADHAN, Sathamangalam Ravi Srinivasa 1940-
From the web at
http://www.math.utah.edu/~firas/varadhan.html
VENABLES, William D
From the web at
http://www.csiro.au/people/Bill.Venables.html
VENN, John 1834-1923
From frontispiece of
H D Francis, In memoriam John Venn. Privately printed, Cambridge 1928. Reprinted from The Caian, vol. XXXI, no.3.
DSB 13, 611-613; DNB (1922-1930), 869-870, ODNB.

Memorial window in Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
From the web at http://vannevar.blogspot.com/2009/06/venn-diagrams-chart-geek-favorite.html
VILLE, Jean Andre 1910-1988
From p.122 in
The Mathematical Intelligencer 4 (1982).
WAKSBERG, Joseph 1915-2006
From p. 136 in
D Morganstein and D Marker, A conversation with Joseph Waksberg, Statistical Science 15 (2000), 299-312.
WALD, Abraham 1902-1950
From
Constance Reid, Neyman - from Life, New York: Springer-Verlag 1982
DSB 14, 121-123; ESS 9, 514-517.
WALKER, Francis Amasa 1840-1897
From p. 216 in
C C Heyde and E Seneta, Statisticians of the Centuries, New York: Springer-Verlag 2001.
WALKER, Sir Gilbert Thomas 1868-1958
A connection between El Niño and Statistics, Statistical Science, 17 (2002), at page 99.
ODNB.
WALKER, Helen Mary 1891-1983
From p.78 in
S Stinnett et al., Women in Statistics: Sesquicentennial Activities, American Statistician 44(2) (1990), 74-80.
WALLIS, John 1616-1703
From Plate III of
A Cook, Edmond Halley: Charting the Heavens and the Seas, Oxford: Clarendon Press 1998.
DSB 14, 146-155; DNB 20, 598-602, ODNB.
WARGENTIN, Pehr Wilhelm 1717-1783
DSB 14, 178-179; ESSU 2, 706-709.
From the web at http://www.ra.se/ola/wargentin.htm
WEAVER, Warren 1894-1978
From
Constance Reid, Neyman - from Life, New York: Springer-Verlag 1982
WEIBULL, Ernst Hjalmar Waloddi 1887-1979
From the web at
http://www.barringer1.com/weibull_bio_files/image001.gif
WELDON, Walter Frank Raphael 1860-1906
From p.264 of
K Pearson, Walter Frank Raphael Weldon: A Memoir, Biometrika 5 (1906), 1-52, reprinted in E S Pearson and M G Kendall (ed.), Studies in the History of Statistics and Probability, London: Griffin 1970, pp.264-321.
DSB 14, 251-252.
WEST, Mike
From the web at http://www.stat.duke.edu/~mw/mw.gif
WESTERGAARD, Harald Ludvig 1853-1936
From p.319 in
N L Johnson and S Kotz (ed.), Leading personalities in Statistical Sciences from the Seventeenth Century to the Present, New York, etc.: Wiley 1997
WIENER, Norbert 1894-1964
Frontispiece from
Norbert Wiener, Selected Papers, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press 1964.
DSB 14, 344-347; ESS 9, 605-607; DAB Supp 7 (1961-65), 783-785.
WILCOXON, Frank 1892-1965
From p. 136 in
A R Sampson and B Spencer, A conversation with I. Richard Savage, Statistical Science 14 (1999), 126-148.
ESS 9, 609-612.
WILKS, Samuel Stanley 1906-1964
From p.211 in
N L Johnson and S Kotz (ed.), Leading personalities in Statistical Sciences from the Seventeenth Century to the Present, New York, etc.: Wiley 1997.
DSB 14, 381-386.
WILLCOX, Walter Francis 1861-1964
From p. 265 in
C C Heyde and E Seneta, Statisticians of the Centuries, New York: Springer-Verlag 2001.
ESS Sup, 78.
WILSON, Edwin Biddell 1879-1964
From the web at:
http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/guides/genetics/stern.htm
DSB 14, 436-438, ESSU 1, 545-546
WINKLER, Wilhelm 1884-1984
From p. 369 in
C C Heyde and E Seneta, Statisticians of the Centuries, New York: Springer-Verlag 2001.
ESS Sup, 78.
WISHART, John 1898-1956
From opp. p.1 in
E S Pearson, John Wishart 1898-1956, Biometrika 44 (1957), 1-8.
De WITT, Jan 1625-1672
Frontispiece from
A Lefevre-Pontalis, Jean de Witt, Grande Pensionnaire de Hollande, Paris: Plon, Nourrit 1884.
DSB 14, 465-467, ESS Sup 47-50.
WOLD, Herman Ole Andreas 1908-1992
No. 126 from
Paul R Halmos, I Have a Photographic Memory, Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society 1987.
ESSU 1 546-548.
WOLFOWITZ, Jacob 1910-1981
No. 402 from
Paul R Halmos, I Have a Photographic Memory, Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society 1987.
DSB 18, 996-997; ESS 9, 646-650.
WU, Chien-Fu Jeff
From p.10 in
IMS Bulletin 33 (4) (2004), 4.
YANSON, Yulii Eduardovich 1835-1892
= JAHNSON, Yulii Eduardovich
From the web at http://hp.iitp.ru/ENG/33/3301.HTM
ESS 9, 658-659.
YASTREMSKII, Boris Sergeyevich 1877-1962
From the web at http://demoscope.ru/weekly/2007/0289/nauka01.php
ESS 9, 659.
YATES, Frank 1902-1994
Plate 23 from
J F Box, R.A. Fisher: The Life of a Scientist, New York: Wiley 1978.
ESSU 1 549-551, ODNB.
YOUDEN, William John 1900-1971
From p. 479 in
C C Heyde and E Seneta, Statisticians of the Centuries, New York: Springer-Verlag 2001.
ESS Sup, 78.
YULE, Sir George Udny 1871-1951
Fronticepiece from
Statistical Papers of George Udny Yule, London: Griffin 1971.
ODNB.
ZACKS, Shelemyahu 1932-
A conversation with Shelemyahu Zacks, Statistical Science, 13 (2005), 89-110 at page 96.
ZELLNER, Arnold 1927-2010
From the web at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Zellner
ZIDEK, Jim 1939-
From the web at
http://www.ssc.ca/images/JimZidek.jpg

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PORTRAITS AND ARTICLES FROM BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARIES

INITIAL LETTER OF SURNAME

ABBREVIATIONS USED

ABBE, Ernst Karl 1840-1905

ADAMS, John Couch 1819-1892

ADRAIN, Robert 1775-1843

AIRY, Sir George Biddell 1801-1892

AITCHISON, John 1926-

AITKEN, Alexander Craig 1895-1967

ANDERSON, Oskar Nikolayevich 1887-1960 = ANDERSON, Oskar Johann Viktor

ANDERSON, Roy Malcolm 1947-

ANDERSON, Theodore Wilbur 1918-

ANDERSON, Virgil Lee 1922-

ANSCOMBE, Francis John (Frank) 1918-2001

ARBUTHNOT, John 1667-1735

ARMITAGE, Peter 1924-

ARNAULD, Antoine 1560-1619

AUBREY, John 1626-1697

BABBAGE, Charles 1792-1871

BACHELIER, Louis Jean-Baptiste 1870-1946

BAHADUR, Raghu Raj 1924-1997

BAILY, Francis 1744-1844

BANACH, Stefan 1892-1945

BARNARD, George Alfred 1915-2002

BARNDORFF-NIELSEN, Ole Eiler 1935-

BARRETT, George 1752-1821

BARTHOLOMEW, David J 1931-

BARTLETT, Maurice Stephenson 1910-2002

BASU, Debabrata 1924-2001

BAYES, Rev. Thomas 1702-1761

BECHHOFER, Robert E 1919-1996

BENJAMIN, Bernard 1910-2002

BERGER, James Orvis 1950-

BERNARDO, José-Miguel 1950-

BERNOULLI, Daniel 1700-1782

BERNOULLI, James 1654-1705

BERNOULLI, Nicholas 1687-1759

BERNSTEIN, Sergey Natanovich 1880-1968

BERTIN, Jacques 1918-2010

BERTRAND, Joseph Louis François 1822-1900

BESAG, Julian 1945-2010

BESSEL, Friedrich Wilhelm 1784-1846

BHARUCHA-REID, Albert Turner 1930-1985

BIENAYMÉ, Irénée-Jules 1796-1878

BIRNBAUM, Allan 1923-1976

BLACKWELL, David Harold 1919-2010

BODMER, Sir Walter Frederick (Fred) 1936-

BOL’SHEV, Logiy Nikolaevich 1922-1978

BOLTZMANN, Ludwig Eduard 1844-1906

BONFERRONI, Carlo Emilio 1892-1960

BOOLE, George 1815-1864

BOREL, Émile Félix-Edouard-Justin 1871-1956

BORTKIEWICZ, Ladislaus von 1868-1931

BOSE, Raj Chandra 1901-1987

BOŠKOVIČ, Rudjer Josip, S.J. 1711-1787 = BOSCOVICH, Ruggiero Giuseppe = BOSCOVICH, Roger Joseph

BOWLEY, Sir Arthur Lyon 1869-1957

BOX, George Edward Pelham 1919-

BRADLEY, Ralph Allen 1923-

BRAVAIS, Auguste 1811-1863

BREIMAN, Leo 1928-2005

BUFFON, George Louis Leclerc, Comte de 1707-1788

BUNYAKOVSKII, Viktor Yakovlevich 1804-1889

BURR, Irving Wingate 1908-1989

CANTELLI, Francesco Paolo 1875-1966

CARCAVI, Pierre de 1600-1684

CARDANO, Girolamo 1501-1576

CARLYLE, Thomas 1795-1881

CAUCHY, Augustin-Louis 1789-1857

CHAUVENET, William 1820-1870

CHEBYSHEFF, Pavnutii Lvovich 1821-1894 = TCHEBYCHEFF, Pafnuty Lvovitch = ČEBYŠEV, Pafnuty Lvovič

CHERNOFF, Herman 1923-

CHETVERIKOV, Nikolai Sergeevich 1885-1973

CHEYSSON, (Jean-Jacques) Emile 1836-1910

CHIANG, Chin Long 1914-

CHOW, Yuan Shih 1924-

CHUPROV, Alexander Alexandrovich 1874-1926 = TSCHUPROW, Alexander Alexandrovich = ČUPROV, Aleksandr Aleksandrovič

COCHRAN, William Gemmell 1909-1980

CONDORCET, Marquis de 1743-1794 = CARITAT, Marie-Antoine-Jean-Nicolas

COOK, Leonard Warren 1949-

COOLIDGE, Julian Coolidge 1873-1954

ANDERSON, Oskar Nikolayevich 1887-1960
= ANDERSON, Oskar Johann Viktor

BOŠKOVIČ, Rudjer Josip, S.J. 1711-1787
= BOSCOVICH, Ruggiero Giuseppe
= BOSCOVICH, Roger Joseph

CHEBYSHEFF, Pavnutii Lvovich 1821-1894
= TCHEBYCHEFF, Pafnuty Lvovitch
= ČEBYŠEV, Pafnuty Lvovič

CHUPROV, Alexander Alexandrovich 1874-1926
= TSCHUPROW, Alexander Alexandrovich = ČUPROV, Aleksandr Aleksandrovič

CONDORCET, Marquis de 1743-1794
= CARITAT, Marie-Antoine-Jean-Nicolas

ESSÉEN, Carl-Gustav 1918-2001
= ESSEEN, Carl-Gustav

FELLER, William 1906-1970
= FELLER, Vilim = FELLER, Vilibald Srecko