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
- Siva Athreya
- Thomas Bayes - British mathematician and Presbyterian minister, known for Bayes' theorem
- Gerard Ben-Arous
- Itai Benjamini
- Jakob Bernoulli - Switzerland, known for Bernoulli trials
- Jean Bertoin
- Joseph Louis François Bertrand
- Patrick Billingsley
- Robert Blumenthal
- Erwin Bolthausen
- Carlo Emilio Bonferroni
- Émile Borel
- Sourav Chatterjee
- Kai Lai Chung
- Erhan Çınlar
- Harald Cramér
- Miklós Csörgő
- Sándor Csörgő
- Amir Dembo
- Persi Diaconis
- Catherine Doléans-Dade
- Joseph Leo Doob
- Lester Dubins
- Richard M. Dudley
- Hugo Duminil-Copin
- Eugene Dynkin
- Robert J. Elliott
- Paul Erdős
- Alison Etheridge
- Steve Evans
- William Feller
- Bruno de Finetti
- Hans Föllmer
- Iosif Gikhman
- Igor Girsanov
- Boris Gnedenko
- Geoffrey Grimmett
- Alice Guionnet
- Ian Hacking
- Paul Halmos
- Joseph Halpern
- David Heath
- Wassily Hoeffding
- Kiyoshi Itô
- Jean Jacod
- Peter Jagers
- Edwin Thompson Jaynes
- Richard Jeffrey
- Harold Jeffreys
- Mark Kac
- Olav Kallenberg
- Gopinath Kallianpur
- Rudolf E. Kálmán
- Rajeeva L. Karandikar
- Samuel Karlin
- David George Kendall
- Richard Kenyon
- Harry Kesten
- John Maynard Keynes - best known for his pioneering work in economics
- Aleksandr Khinchin
- Andrey Kolmogorov
- Pierre-Simon Laplace
- Gregory Lawler
- Lucien Le Cam
- Jean-François Le Gall
- Paul Lévy
- Jarl Waldemar Lindeberg
- Paul Malliavin
- Andrey Markov
- Stefan Mazurkiewicz
- Henry P. McKean, Jr
- Paul-André Meyer
- Richard von Mises
- Abraham de Moivre
- Octav Onicescu
- K. R. Parthasarathy
- Blaise Pascal
- Charles E. M. Pearce
- Yuval Peres
- Edwin A. Perkins
- Siméon Denis Poisson
- Yuri Vasilevich Prokhorov
- Frank P. Ramsey
- Alfréd Rényi
- Oded Schramm
- Romano Scozzafava
- Scott Sheffield
- Albert Shiryaev
- Yakov Sinai
- Anatoliy Skorokhod
- Ray Solomonoff
- Frank Spitzer
- Ruslan L. Stratonovich
- Daniel W. Stroock
- Alain-Sol Sznitman
- Michel Talagrand
- Bálint Tóth
- S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan
- Bálint Virág
- Wendelin Werner
- Norbert Wiener
- David Williams
- Marc Yor
- Ofer Zeitouni