The Most Famous
STATISTICIANS from India
This page contains a list of the greatest Indian Statisticians. The pantheon dataset contains 9 Statisticians, 1 of which were born in India. This makes India the birth place of the 5th most number of Statisticians behind Russia and Moldova.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Indian Statisticians of all time. This list of famous Indian Statisticians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. C. R. Rao (1920 - 2023)
With an HPI of 44.40, C. R. Rao is the most famous Indian Statistician. His biography has been translated into 27 different languages on wikipedia.
Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao (10 September 1920 – 22 August 2023) was an Indian-American mathematician and statistician. He was professor emeritus at Pennsylvania State University and Research Professor at the University at Buffalo. Rao was honoured by numerous colloquia, honorary degrees, and festschrifts and was awarded the US National Medal of Science in 2002. The American Statistical Association has described him as "a living legend” whose work has influenced not just statistics, but has had far reaching implications for fields as varied as economics, genetics, anthropology, geology, national planning, demography, biometry, and medicine." The Times of India listed Rao as one of the top 10 Indian scientists of all time. In 2023, Rao was awarded the International Prize in Statistics, an award often touted as the "statistics’ equivalent of the Nobel Prize". Rao was also a Senior Policy and Statistics advisor for the Indian Heart Association non-profit focused on raising South Asian cardiovascular disease awareness.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as statisticians born between 1920 and 1920. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased statisticians include C. R. Rao.
