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Karl Pearson

1857 - 1936

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Karl Pearson (; born Carl Pearson; 27 March 1857 – 27 April 1936) was an English eugenicist, mathematician, and biostatistician. He has been credited with establishing the discipline of mathematical statistics. He founded the world's first university statistics department at University College London in 1911, and contributed significantly to the field of biometrics and meteorology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karl Pearson has received more than 1,012,457 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Karl Pearson is the 3rd most popular statistician (up from 4th in 2019), the 630th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 557th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular British Statistician.

Karl Pearson is most famous for his contributions to the field of statistics. He is considered one of the founders of mathematical statistics and is often referred to as the father of modern statistics.

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Among STATISTICIANS

Among statisticians, Karl Pearson ranks 3 out of 9. Before him are Francis Galton and Pafnuty Chebyshev. After him are Thomas Bayes, Ronald Fisher, Jerzy Neyman, C. R. Rao, Joseph Kruskal, and Gertrude Mary Cox.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, Karl Pearson ranks 30. Before him are Andrija Mohorovičić, Paul Doumer, Antoni Grabowski, Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, Georg Michaelis, and Joseph Babinski. After him are Infanta Maria Josepha of Portugal, Aleksandr Lyapunov, Otto von Below, Vladimir Bekhterev, Edward Emerson Barnard, and Eugène Atget. Among people deceased in 1936, Karl Pearson ranks 37. Before him are Charles Nicolle, Julius Schreck, Georg Michaelis, Nikolai Ostrovsky, Moritz Schlick, and Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. After him are Antoine Meillet, Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen, Henry Louis Le Chatelier, Georgy Chicherin, Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, and Robert Michels.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Karl Pearson ranks 630 out of 7,765. Before him are Diana Wynne Jones (1934), Bill Nighy (1949), Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia (1596), Julian Huxley (1887), Emperor Norton (1818), and James Mill (1773). After him are Julie Walters (1950), Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk (1484), Jane Seymour (1951), Thomas Bayes (1702), John Henry Newman (1801), and Bruce Dickinson (1958).

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Among STATISTICIANS In United Kingdom

Among statisticians born in United Kingdom, Karl Pearson ranks 2. Before him are Francis Galton (1822). After him are Thomas Bayes (1702) and Ronald Fisher (1890).

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