List of mathematical probabilists
This list contains only probabilists in the sense of mathematicians specializing in probability theory.
- David Aldous
- Robert Azencott - Professor of Mathematics, University of Houston, Emeritus Professor, Ecole Normale Superieure, France
- Thomas Bayes - British mathematician and Presbyterian minister, known for Bayes' theorem
- Gerard Ben-Arous - Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
- Itai Benjamini
- Jakob Bernoulli - Switzerland, known for Bernoulli trials
- Joseph Louis François Bertrand
- Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch
- Patrick Billingsley
- Carlo Emilio Bonferroni
- Émile Borel
- Kai Lai Chung
- Erhan Cinlar
- Harald Cramér
- Persi Diaconis
- Joseph Leo Doob
- Lester Dubins
- Eugene Dynkin
- Robert J. Elliott
- Paul Erdős
- Alison Etheridge
- Steve Evans
- William Feller
- Bruno de Finetti - Italian probabilist and statistician
- Geoffrey Grimmett
- Alice Guionnet
- Ian Hacking
- Paul Halmos
- Joseph Halpern
- David Heath
- Wassily Hoeffding
- Kiyoshi Itô
- Edwin Thompson Jaynes
- Mark Kac
- Olav Kallenberg
- Rudolf E. Kálmán
- Samuel Karlin
- David George Kendall
- Richard Kenyon - Yale University
- 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
- Andrey Markov
- Stefan Mazurkiewicz
- Henry McKean
- Paul-André Meyer
- Richard von Mises
- Abraham de Moivre
- Octav Onicescu
- K. R. Parthasarathy
- Blaise Pascal
- Charles E. M. Pearce
- Judea Pearl
- 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
- Ray Solomonoff
- Frank Spitzer
- Ruslan L. Stratonovich
- Daniel W. Stroock
- Alain-Sol Sznitman
- Michel Talagrand
- Heinrich Emil Timerding
- Andrei Toom
- S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan - 2007 Abel Prize laureate
- Bálint Virág
- Wendelin Werner
- Norbert Wiener
- David Williams
- Ofer Zeitouni - Weizmann Institute
- Rudolf Carnap - one of the giants among twentieth-century philosophers
- Harold Jeffreys - one of the giants within Bayesian statistics school
- Richard Jeffrey - best known for the philosophy of radical probabilism and Jeffrey conditioning
- Terence Tao
- Richard M. Dudley
- William Timothy Gowers
- Bálint Tóth
