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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.

David Aldous (born 1952) Siva Athreya (born 1971) Thomas Bayes (1702–1761) - British mathematician and Presbyterian minister, known for Bayes' theorem Gerard Ben-Arous (born 1957) Itai Benjamini Jakob Bernoulli (1654–1705) - Switzerland, known for Bernoulli trials Jean Bertoin (born 1961) Joseph Louis François Bertrand (1822–1900) Patrick Billingsley (1925–2011) Robert Blumenthal (1931–2012) Erwin Bolthausen (born 1945) Carlo Emilio Bonferroni (1892–1960) Émile Borel (1871–1956) Sourav Chatterjee (born 1979) Kai Lai Chung (1917–2009) Erhan Çınlar (born 1941) Harald Cramér (1893–1985) Miklós Csörgő (born 1932) Sándor Csörgő (1947–2008) Amir Dembo (born 1958) Persi Diaconis (born 1945) Catherine Doléans-Dade (1942–2004) Joseph Leo Doob (1910–2004) Lester Dubins (1920–2010) Richard M. Dudley (1938–2020) Hugo Duminil-Copin (born 1985) 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) Hans Föllmer (born 1941) Iosif Gikhman (1918–1985) Igor Girsanov (1934–1967) Boris Gnedenko (1912–1995) Geoffrey Grimmett (born 1950) Alice Guionnet (born 1969) Ian Hacking (1936–2023) Paul Halmos (1916–2006) Joseph Halpern (1953–2026) David Heath (c.1943–2011) Wassily Hoeffding (1914–1991) Kiyoshi Itô (1915–2008) Jean Jacod (born 1944) Peter Jagers (born 1941) Edwin Thompson Jaynes (1922–1998) Richard Jeffrey (1926–2002) Harold Jeffreys (1891–1989) Mark Kac (1914–1984) Olav Kallenberg (born 1939) Gopinath Kallianpur (1925–2015) Rudolf E. Kálmán (1930–2016) Rajeeva L. Karandikar (born 1956) Samuel Karlin (1924–2007) David George Kendall (1918–2007) Richard Kenyon (born 1964) 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) Paul Malliavin (1925–2010) 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 (1936–2023) Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) Charles E. M. Pearce (1940–2012) Yuval Peres (born 1963) Edwin A. Perkins (born 1953) 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) Anatoliy Skorokhod (1930–2011) Ray Solomonoff (1926–2009) Frank Spitzer (1926–1992) Ruslan L. Stratonovich (1930–1997) Daniel W. Stroock (1940–2025) Alain-Sol Sznitman (born 1955) Michel Talagrand (born 1952) Bálint Tóth (born 1955) S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan (born 1940) Bálint Virág (born 1973) Wendelin Werner (born 1968) Norbert Wiener (1894–1964) David Williams Marc Yor (1949–2014) Ofer Zeitouni (born 1960)

See also List of statisticians

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