Portrait of Francis Galton
. Unknown photographer; Wellcome Library, London (institutional credit). CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Source.A statistician associated with the Neyman-Pearson lemma, confidence intervals and the Neyman Type A distribution.
Jerzy Neyman in Warsaw in 1973
. Photograph by Konrad Jacobs, copyright Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach. CC BY-SA 2.0 Germany, via Wikimedia Commons. Source.
Portrait of Alan Stuart, circa 1979
. Library of the London School of Economics and Political Science, via Wikimedia Commons. The source records no known copyright restrictions; this is not an asserted Creative Commons licence. Source.
Portrait of Maurice Kendall
. University of St Andrews, MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive. Photographer and image licence are not asserted. Source.
Portrait of Joseph Born Kadane
. Photograph from Carnegie Mellon University's official researcher profile. Source.
Portrait of Andrew Gelman
. Andrewgelman, 13 May 2026. CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Source.Homepage: efron.ckirby.su.domains/
Institutional profile: statistics.stanford.edu/people/bradley-efron
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Portrait of Bradley Efron at the 2007 National Medal of Science ceremony
. Ryan K. Morris, National Science and Technology Medals Foundation; cropped by Wikimedia user Dudek1337. Public domain, as recorded on Wikimedia Commons. Source usage terms. Source.Homepage: faculty.washington.edu/yenchic/
Yen-Chi Chen
. Identity and life dates: Harvard Department of Statistics obituary and tribute.
Portrait of Arthur P. Dempster
. Llorenzi. CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Source.Homepage: hsph.harvard.edu/profile/nan-m-laird/
Portrait of Donald B. Rubin
. Photograph of Donald B. Rubin linked from the Harvard Department of Statistics profile and labelled Don Rubin.Identity and homepage: Shalabh's institutional homepage.
Portrait of Shalabh
. External portrait of Shalabh embedded on his institutional homepage at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur; the photograph is hosted by that institution.
Portrait of Purnamrita Sarkar
. Homepage: www.stat.cmu.edu/~kass/
Robert E. Kass
. Homepage: www.stat.cmu.edu/~larry/
Portrait of Larry Wasserman
. Capolitsch, own work, 23 June 2021. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International., via Wikimedia Commons. Source.Statistician. Published under the pseudonym Student.
Portrait of William Sealy Gosset
. Unknown photographer; scan credited to Wujaszek; subsequent descreening by Quibik. Public domain; Public Domain Mark 1.0. Source and usage information on the linked Wikimedia file page. Source.Institutional biographical record: www.ucd.ie/students/t4media/2005-6%20science_pg.pdf
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A statistician is a professional who specializes in the collection, analysis, interpretation, presentation, and organization of data. Statisticians utilize statistical methods and theories to draw conclusions from data, often in order to inform decision-making or to solve problems across various fields such as healthcare, finance, marketing, government, and more. Key responsibilities of a statistician include: 1. **Data Collection**: Designing surveys and experiments to collect data relevant to research questions or business needs.