# 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) - 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 (born 1979)
* Kai Lai Chung (1917–2009)
* Erhan Çınlar (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 (1936–2023)
* 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 (1936–2023)
* 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 (1942–2012)
* 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)