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The Guy Medals are awarded by the Royal Statistical Society in three categories; Gold, Silver and Bronze. The Silver and Bronze medals are awarded annually. The Gold Medal was awarded every three years between 1987 and 2011, but is awarded biennially as of 2019. They are named after
William Guy William Augustus Guy (13 June 1810 – 10 September 1885) was a British physician and medical statistician. Life He was born in Chichester and educated at Christ's Hospital and Guy's Hospital; he then studied at the University of Heidelberg an ...
. *The Guy Medal in Gold is awarded to fellows or others who are judged to have merited a signal mark of distinction by reason of their innovative contributions to the theory or application of statistics. *The Guy Medal in Silver is awarded to any fellow or, in exceptional cases, to two or more fellows in respect of a paper/papers of special merit communicated to the Society at its ordinary meetings, or in respect of a paper/papers published in any of the journals of the Society. General contributions to statistics may also be taken into account. *The Guy Medal in Bronze is awarded to fellows, or to non-fellows who are members of a section or a local group, in respect of a paper or papers read to a section or local group or at any conference run by the Society, its sections or local groups, or published in any of the Society's journals. Preference will be given to people under the age of 35. Exceptionally two or more authors of a paper/papers may be considered for the award provided they are members of sections or local groups.


Gold Medalists

*1892 Charles Booth *1894
Robert Giffen Sir Robert Giffen (22 July 1837 – 12 April 1910) was a Scottish statistician and economist. Life Giffen was born at Strathaven, Lanarkshire. He entered a solicitor's office in Glasgow, and while in that city attended courses at the uni ...
*1900
Jervoise Athelstane Baines Sir Jervoise Athelstane Baines (17 October 1847 – 26 November 1925) was an administrator in the Indian Civil Service during the period of the British Raj. Early life Baines was the son of Edward Baines, the vicar of Yalding in Kent, and his ...
*1907
Francis Ysidro Edgeworth Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (8 February 1845 – 13 February 1926) was an Anglo-Irish philosopher and political economist who made significant contributions to the methods of statistics during the 1880s. From 1891 onward, he was appointed the ...
*1908 Patrick G. Craigie *1911
G. Udny Yule George Udny Yule FRS (18 February 1871 – 26 June 1951), usually known as Udny Yule, was a British statistician, particularly known for the Yule distribution. Personal life Yule was born at Beech Hill, a house in Morham near Haddington, ...
*1920 T. H. C. Stevenson *1930 A. William Flux *1935 Arthur Lyon Bowley *1945 Major Greenwood *1946 Ronald Fisher *1953 A. Bradford Hill *1955
Egon Pearson Egon Sharpe Pearson (11 August 1895 – 12 June 1980) was one of three children of Karl Pearson and Maria, née Sharpe, and, like his father, a leading British statistician. Career He was educated at Winchester College and Trinity College, ...
*1960
Frank Yates Frank Yates FRS (12 May 1902 – 17 June 1994) was one of the pioneers of 20th-century statistics. Biography Yates was born in Manchester, England, the eldest of five children (and only son) of seed merchant Percy Yates and his wife Edith. H ...
*1962 Harold Jeffreys *1966 Jerzy Neyman *1968
Maurice Kendall Sir Maurice George Kendall, FBA (6 September 1907 – 29 March 1983) was a prominent British statistician. The Kendall tau rank correlation is named after him. Education and early life Maurice Kendall was born in Kettering, Northampton ...
*1969
M. S. Bartlett Maurice Stevenson Bartlett FRS (18 June 1910 – 8 January 2002) was an English statistician who made particular contributions to the analysis of data with spatial and temporal patterns. He is also known for his work in the theory of statis ...
*1972
Harald Cramér Harald Cramér (; 25 September 1893 – 5 October 1985) was a Swedish mathematician, actuary, and statistician, specializing in mathematical statistics and probabilistic number theory. John Kingman described him as "one of the giants of statist ...
*1973 David Cox *1975
George Alfred Barnard George Alfred Barnard (23 September 1915 – 9 August 2002) was a British statistician known particularly for his work on the foundations of statistics and on quality control. Biography George Barnard was born in Walthamstow, London ...
*1978 Roy Allen *1981 David George Kendall *1984
Henry Daniels Henry Ellis Daniels FRS (2 October 1912 – 16 April 2000) was a British statistician. He was President of the Royal Statistical Society (1974–1975), and was awarded its Guy Medal in Gold in 1984, following a silver medal in 1947. He bec ...
*1986
Bernard Benjamin Bernard Benjamin (8 March 1910 – 15 May 2002) was a noted British health statistician, actuary and demographer. He was author or co-author of at least six books and over 100 papers in learned journals. He was born in London and studied physi ...
*1987 Robin L. Plackett *1990
Peter Armitage Peter Armitage may refer to: * Peter Armitage (statistician) (born 1924), British statistician * Peter Armitage (actor) Peter James Armitage (23 October 1939 – 30 November 2018) was an English television and stage actor best known for his r ...
*1993
George E. P. Box George Edward Pelham Box (18 October 1919 – 28 March 2013) was a British statistician, who worked in the areas of quality control, time-series analysis, design of experiments, and Bayesian inference. He has been called "one of the gre ...
*1996 Peter Whittle *1999 Michael Healy *2002 Dennis Lindley *2005 John Nelder *2008
James Durbin __NOTOC__ James Durbin FBA (30 June 1923 – 23 June 2012) was a British statistician and econometrician, known particularly for his work on time series analysis and serial correlation. Education The son of a greengrocer, Durbin was born in W ...
*2011
C. R. Rao Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao FRS (born 10 September 1920), commonly known as C. R. Rao, is an Indian-American mathematician and statistician. He is currently professor emeritus at Pennsylvania State University and Research Professor at the Un ...
*2013
John Kingman __NOTOC__ Sir John Frank Charles Kingman (born 28 August 1939) is a British mathematician. He served as N. M. Rothschild and Sons Professor of Mathematical Sciences and Director of the Isaac Newton Institute at the University of Cambridge from ...
*2014 Bradley Efron *2016 Adrian Smith *2019 Stephen Buckland *2020
David Spiegelhalter Sir David John Spiegelhalter (born 16 August 1953) is a British statistician and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. From 2007 to 2018 he was Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk in the Statistical Laboratory at the U ...
*2022 Nancy Reid


Silver Medalists

* 1893 John Glover * 1894 Augustus Sauerbeck * 1895 Arthur Lyon Bowley * 1897
F.J. Atkinson FJ may refer to: Places * Fiji (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code) ** .fj, the country code top level domain (ccTLD) for Fiji ** Fijian language (ISO 639-1 language code) * Fujian, a province of China Vehicles * FJ Fury, an early Cold War fi ...
* 1899 C.S. Loch * 1900 Richard Crawford * 1901
Thomas A. Welton Thomas Abercrombie Welton Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, FSS (1835 – 16 January 1918) was an English statistician and chartered accountant. He received a Guy Medal in Silver from the Royal Statistical Society in 1901. Welton was born ...
* 1902 R. H. Hooker * 1903
Yves Guyot Yves Guyot (6 September 184322 February 1928) was a French politician and economist. Biography He was born at Dinan. Educated at Rennes, he took up the profession of journalism, coming to Paris in 1867. He was for a short period editor-in-chief of ...
* 1904 D.A. Thomas * 1905
R. Henry Rew Sir Robert Henry Rew (4 August 1858 – 7 April 1929) was a British agricultural statistician. He had a long career in public service and was a prominent member of the Royal Statistical Society serving as its President from 1920-22. Life He was ...
* 1906
W.H. Shaw WH, W.H., or wh may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Mr. W.H., a mysterious dedication in Shakespeare's sonnets * Whitney Houston (1963-2012), American singer Language * ''wh'' (digraph), in ''when'', etc. ** Voiceless labio-velar approximan ...
* 1907
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* 1909
Edward Brabrook Sir Edward William Brabrook (10 April 1839 – 20 March 1930) was an English civil servant, author, and anthropologist with a special interest in folklore. He was a member of the Folklore Society and a fellow of Society of Antiquaries of London ...
* 1910 G. H. Wood * 1913
R. Dudfield R. or r. may refer to: * ''Reign'', the period of time during which an Emperor, king, queen, etc., is ruler. * '' Rex'', abbreviated as R., the Latin word meaning King * ''Regina'', abbreviated as R., the Latin word meaning Queen * or , abbreviat ...
* 1914
S. Rowson S is the nineteenth letter of the English alphabet. S may also refer to: History * an Anglo-Saxon charter's number in Peter Sawyer's, catalogue Language and linguistics * Long s (ſ), a form of the lower-case letter s formerly used where "s ...
* 1915
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* 1918 J. Shield Nicholson * 1919 J. C. Stamp * 1921 A. William Flux * 1927 H. W. Macrosty * 1928 Ethel Newbold * 1930
Herbert Edward Soper Herbert Edward Soper (1865 – 1930) was a British statistician, who worked with Karl Pearson. He was awarded the Guy Silver Medal of the Royal Statistical Society in 1930. He had an obituary in the ''Journal of the Royal Statistical Society''.''J ...
* 1934
J.H. Jones JH may refer to: * Jh (digraph), in written language * JH (hash function), in cryptography * Japan Highway Public Corporation * Jharkhand, India (ISO 3166: JH) * Juvenile hormone * Fuji Dream Airlines (IATA: JH), a Japanese airline * Harlequin Air ...
* 1935 Ernest Charles Snow * 1936 Ralph George Hawtrey * 1938 E.C. Ramsbottom * 1939 Leon Isserlis * 1940 Hector Leak * 1945
Maurice Kendall Sir Maurice George Kendall, FBA (6 September 1907 – 29 March 1983) was a prominent British statistician. The Kendall tau rank correlation is named after him. Education and early life Maurice Kendall was born in Kettering, Northampton ...
* 1950 Harry Campion * 1951 F. A. A. Menzler * 1952
M. S. Bartlett Maurice Stevenson Bartlett FRS (18 June 1910 – 8 January 2002) was an English statistician who made particular contributions to the analysis of data with spatial and temporal patterns. He is also known for his work in the theory of statis ...
* 1953
J. Oscar Irwin Joseph Oscar Irwin (17 December 1898 – 27 July 1982) was a British statistician who advanced the use of statistical methods in biological assay and other fields of laboratory medicine. Irwin's grasp of modern mathematical statistics distin ...
* 1954
L. H. C. Tippett Leonard Henry Caleb Tippett (8 May 1902 – 9 November 1985), known professionally as L. H. C. Tippett, was an English statistician. Tippett was born in London but spent most of his early life in Cornwall and attended St Austell County Gramma ...
* 1955 David George Kendall * 1957
Henry Daniels Henry Ellis Daniels FRS (2 October 1912 – 16 April 2000) was a British statistician. He was President of the Royal Statistical Society (1974–1975), and was awarded its Guy Medal in Gold in 1984, following a silver medal in 1947. He bec ...
* 1958 George Barnard * 1960
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* 1961 David Cox * 1962
P. V. Sukhatme Pandurang Vasudeo Sukhatme (1911–1997) was an Indian statistician. He is known for his pioneering work of applying random sampling methods in agricultural statistics and in biometry, in the 1940s. He was also influential in the establishment o ...
* 1964
George Box George Edward Pelham Box (18 October 1919 – 28 March 2013) was a British statistician, who worked in the areas of quality control, time-series analysis, design of experiments, and Bayesian inference. He has been called "one of the g ...
* 1965
C. R. Rao Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao FRS (born 10 September 1920), commonly known as C. R. Rao, is an Indian-American mathematician and statistician. He is currently professor emeritus at Pennsylvania State University and Research Professor at the Un ...
* 1966 Peter Whittle * 1968 Dennis Lindley * 1973
Robin Plackett Robin L. Plackett (3 September 1920 – 23 June 2009) was a statistician best known for his contributions to the history of statistics and to experimental design, most notably the Plackett–Burman designs. Early life and education Placke ...
* 1976
James Durbin __NOTOC__ James Durbin FBA (30 June 1923 – 23 June 2012) was a British statistician and econometrician, known particularly for his work on time series analysis and serial correlation. Education The son of a greengrocer, Durbin was born in W ...
* 1977 John Nelder * 1978
Peter Armitage Peter Armitage may refer to: * Peter Armitage (statistician) (born 1924), British statistician * Peter Armitage (actor) Peter James Armitage (23 October 1939 – 30 November 2018) was an English television and stage actor best known for his r ...
* 1979 Michael Healy * 1980
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* 1981
John Kingman __NOTOC__ Sir John Frank Charles Kingman (born 28 August 1939) is a British mathematician. He served as N. M. Rothschild and Sons Professor of Mathematical Sciences and Director of the Isaac Newton Institute at the University of Cambridge from ...
* 1982
Henry Wynn Henry Philip Wynn (born 19 February 1945) is a British statistician who has been a President of the Royal Statistical Society. He gained a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics from Oxford and a Doctor of Philosophy, PhD in Mathematical Statistics ...
* 1983 Julian E. Besag * 1984
John C. Gittins John Charles Gittins (born 1938) is a researcher in applied probability and operations research, who is a professor and Emeritus Fellow at Keble College, Oxford University. He is renowned as the developer of the "Gittins index", which is used for ...
* 1985 Derek Bissell and Wilfrid Pridmore * 1986
Richard Peto Sir Richard Peto (born 14 May 1943) is an English statistician and epidemiologist who is Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology at the University of Oxford, England. Education He attended Taunton's School in Southampton and subsequ ...
* 1987
John Copas John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second E ...
* 1988
John Aitchison John Aitchison (22 July 1926 – 23 December 2016) was a Scottish statistician. Career John Aitchison studied at the Universitiy of Edinburgh after being uncomfortable explaining to his headmaster that he didn’t plan to attend universi ...
* 1989 Frank Kelly * 1990
David Clayton David George Clayton (born 13 June 1944), is a British statistician and epidemiologist. He is titular Professor of Biostatistics in the University of Cambridge and Wellcome Trust and Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Principal Research Fello ...
* 1991 Richard L. Smith * 1992 Robert Curnow * 1993 Adrian Smith * 1994
David Spiegelhalter Sir David John Spiegelhalter (born 16 August 1953) is a British statistician and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. From 2007 to 2018 he was Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk in the Statistical Laboratory at the U ...
* 1995
Bernard Silverman Sir Bernard Walter Silverman, (born 22 February 1952) is a British statistician and former Anglican clergyman. He was Master of St Peter's College, Oxford, from 1 October 2003 to 31 December 2009. He is a member of the Statistics Department a ...
* 1996 Steffen Lauritzen * 1997 Peter Diggle * 1998
Harvey Goldstein Harvey Goldstein (30 October 1939 – 9 April 2020) was a British statistician known for his contributions to multilevel modelling methodology and software, and for applying this to educational assessment and league tables. Goldstein was born i ...
* 1999 Peter Green * 2000
Walter Gilks Walter may refer to: People * Walter (name), both a surname and a given name * Little Walter, American blues harmonica player Marion Walter Jacobs (1930–1968) * Gunther (wrestler), Austrian professional wrestler and trainer Walter Hahn (born 19 ...
* 2001 Philip Dawid * 2002 David Hand * 2003 Kanti Mardia * 2004
Peter Donnelly Sir Peter James Donnelly (born 15 May 1959) is an Australian-British mathematician and Professor of Statistical Science at the University of Oxford, and the CEO of Genomics PLC. He is a specialist in applied probability and has made contrib ...
* 2005
Peter McCullagh Peter McCullagh (born 8 January 1952) is a Northern Irish-born American statistician and John D. MacArthur Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Chicago. Education McCullagh is from Plumbridge ...
* 2006 Michael Titterington * 2007
Howell Tong Howell Tong (; born in 1944 in Hong Kong) is a statistician who has made fundamental contributions to nonlinear time series analysis, semi-parametric statistics, non-parametric statistics, dimension reduction, model selection, likelihood-free s ...
* 2008 Gareth Roberts * 2009
Sylvia Richardson Sylvia Therese Richardson is a French/British Bayesian statistician and is currently Professor of Biostatistics and Director of the MRC Biostatistics Unit at the University of Cambridge. In 2021 she became the president of the Royal Statistical ...
* 2010
Iain M. Johnstone Iain Murray Johnstone (born 1956) is an Australian born statistician who is the Marjorie Mhoon Fair Professor in Quantitative Science in the Department of Statistics at Stanford University. Education Johnstone was born in Melbourne in 1956. In 1 ...
* 2011 Peter Hall * 2012
David Firth David Firth may refer to: * David Firth (actor), English actor and writer * David Firth (animator), creator of the British animated web series ''Salad Fingers'' * David Firth (statistician), British statistician See also * David Frith David E ...
* 2013
Brian D. Ripley Brian David Ripley FRSE (born 29 April 1952) is a British statistician. From 1990, he was professor of applied statistics at the University of Oxford and is also a professorial fellow at St Peter's College, Oxford, St Peter's College. He retired ...
* 2014 Jianqing Fan * 2015 Anthony Davison * 2016 Nancy Reid * 2017
Neil Shephard Neil Shephard (born 8 October 1964), FBA, is an econometrician, currently Frank B. Baird Jr., Professor of Science in the Department of Economics and the Department of Statistics at Harvard University. His most well known contributions are ...
* 2018 Peter Bühlmann * 2019 Susan Murphy * 2020 Arnaud Doucet * 2021
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* 2022
Paul Fearnhead Paul Fearnhead is Professor of Statistics at Lancaster University. He is a researcher in computational statistics, in particular Sequential Monte Carlo methods. His interests include sampling theory and genetics – he has published several pape ...


Bronze Medalists

* 1936 William Gemmell Cochran * 1938
R.F. George Radio frequency (RF) is the oscillation rate of an Alternating current, alternating electric current or voltage or of a Magnetic field, magnetic, electric or electromagnetic field or mechanical system in the frequency range from around to around ...
* 1949
W.J. Jennett WJ may refer to: * Jeep Grand Cherokee (WJ), a generation of Jeep Grand Cherokee * Air Labrador, based in Canada (IATA code WJ) * West Jersey Railroad, a predecessor of the West Jersey and Seashore Railroad * WestJet airlines * Wiking-Jugend, a G ...
* 1962
Peter Armitage Peter Armitage may refer to: * Peter Armitage (statistician) (born 1924), British statistician * Peter Armitage (actor) Peter James Armitage (23 October 1939 – 30 November 2018) was an English television and stage actor best known for his r ...
* 1966
James Durbin __NOTOC__ James Durbin FBA (30 June 1923 – 23 June 2012) was a British statistician and econometrician, known particularly for his work on time series analysis and serial correlation. Education The son of a greengrocer, Durbin was born in W ...
* 1967
F. Downton F is the sixth letter of the Latin alphabet. F may also refer to: Science and technology Mathematics * F or f, the number 15 in hexadecimal and higher positional systems * ''p'F'q'', the hypergeometric function * F-distribution, a cont ...
* 1968
Robin Plackett Robin L. Plackett (3 September 1920 – 23 June 2009) was a statistician best known for his contributions to the history of statistics and to experimental design, most notably the Plackett–Burman designs. Early life and education Placke ...
* 1969 M.C. Pike * 1970
P.G. Moore PG or P.G. may refer to: *Parental Guidance (PG), a content rating in motion picture content rating systems and television content rating systems *Paying Guest (PG), also called homestay, a type of accommodation Businesses and organisations * P ...
* 1971
D.J. Bartholomew David John Bartholomew (6 August 1931 – 16 October 2017) was a British statistician who was Presidents of the Royal Statistical Society, president of the Royal Statistical Society between 1993 and 1995.''Who Was Who'', Published by A&C Black ...
* 1974 G.N. Wilkinson * 1975
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* 1976
P.L. Goldsmith PL, P.L., Pl, or .pl may refer to: Businesses and organizations Government and political * Partit Laburista, a Maltese political party * Liberal Party (Brazil, 2006), a Brazilian political party * Liberal Party (Moldova), a Moldovan political p ...
* 1977 A.F.M. Smith * 1978 Philip Dawid * 1979
T.M.F. Smith Terence Michael Frederick Smith (18 January 1934 – 7 December 2019) was a British statistician known for his research in survey sampling. Fred Smith gained his first degree in 1959. He succeeded Prof Maurice Quenouille as Professor of Statisti ...
* 1980
A.J. Fox AJ, or variants, may refer to: Arts, entertainment and media Fictional characters * A. J. (''The Fairly OddParents''), a fictional character * A.J. Soprano, a fictional character in ''The Sopranos'' * Superspinner AJ, a fictional character in th ...
* 1982
Stuart Pocock Stuart J. Pocock is a British medical statistician. He has been professor of medical statistics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine since 1989. His research interests include statistical methods for the design, monitoring, analys ...
* 1983
Peter McCullagh Peter McCullagh (born 8 January 1952) is a Northern Irish-born American statistician and John D. MacArthur Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Chicago. Education McCullagh is from Plumbridge ...
* 1984
Bernard Silverman Sir Bernard Walter Silverman, (born 22 February 1952) is a British statistician and former Anglican clergyman. He was Master of St Peter's College, Oxford, from 1 October 2003 to 31 December 2009. He is a member of the Statistics Department a ...
* 1985
David Spiegelhalter Sir David John Spiegelhalter (born 16 August 1953) is a British statistician and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. From 2007 to 2018 he was Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk in the Statistical Laboratory at the U ...
* 1986
D.F. Hendry Sir David Forbes Hendry, British Academy, FBA Royal Statistical Society, CStat (born 6 March 1944) is a British econometrics, econometrician, currently a professor of economics and from 2001 to 2007 was head of the Economics Department at the U ...
* 1987 Peter Green * 1988
Sarah C. Darby Sarah C. Darby is Professor of Medical Statistics at the University of Oxford. Her research has focused the beneficial effects of smoking cessation, the risk of lung cancer from residential radon, and treatments for early breast cancer. She is al ...
* 1989 Sheila M. Gore * 1990
Valerie S. Isham Valerie Susan Isham (born 1947) is a British applied probabilist and former President of the Royal Statistical Society. Isham's research interests in include point processes, spatial processes, spatio-temporal processes and population process ...
* 1991 Mike G. Kenward * 1992 Christopher Jennison * 1993
Jonathan Tawn Jonathan Tawn is Professor of Statistics at Lancaster University. He is one of the leading researchers in Extreme value theory, looking into both methods and applications in areas such as oceanography, hydrology, and climatology. Career Tawn rec ...
* 1994 R.F.A. Poultney * 1995
Iain Johnstone Iain Johnstone (born 8 April 1943 in Reading, Berkshire) is an English author, broadcaster and television producer. Early life Johnstone attended Crosfields School, Reading, Campbell College, Belfast and Bristol University. Career Johns ...
* 1996
John N.S. Matthews John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second ...
* 1997 Gareth Roberts * 1998 David Firth * 1999
Peter W.F. Smith Peter may refer to: People * List of people named Peter, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Peter (given name) ** Saint Peter (died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church * Peter (surname), a sur ...
and
Jon Forster Jon is a shortened form of the common given name Jonathan (name), Jonathan, derived from "Tetragrammaton, YHWH has given", and an alternate spelling of John (given name), John, derived from "YHWH has pardoned".Jon Wakefield * 2001
Guy Nason Guy Philip Nason (born 28 August 1966) is a British statistician, and professor of Statistics at Imperial College London. Nason received his BSc from the University of Bath in 1988, a diploma in Mathematical Statistics from the University of C ...
* 2002 Geert Molenberghs * 2003 Peter Lynn * 2004
Nicola Best Nicola G. "Nicky" Best is a statistician known for her work on the deviance information criterion in Bayesian inference and as a developer of Bayesian inference using Gibbs sampling. She is a former professor of biostatistics and epidemiology ...
* 2005 Steve Brooks * 2006 Matthew Stephens * 2007
Paul Fearnhead Paul Fearnhead is Professor of Statistics at Lancaster University. He is a researcher in computational statistics, in particular Sequential Monte Carlo methods. His interests include sampling theory and genetics – he has published several pape ...
* 2008
Fiona Steele Fiona Alison Steele, is a British statistician. Since 2013, she has been Professor of Statistics at the London School of Economics (LSE). After graduating with a degree in mathematics and statistics from the University of Edinburgh in 1992, Steel ...
* 2009 Chris Holmes * 2010 Omiros Papaspiliopoulos * 2011
Nicolai Meinshausen Nicolai may refer to: * Nicolai (given name) people with the forename ''Nicolai'' * Nicolai (surname) people with the surname ''Nicolai'' * Nicolai (crater), a crater on the Moon See also * Niccolai, a surname * Nicolae (disambiguation) * Nico ...
* 2012 Richard Samworth * 2013 Piotr Fryzlewicz * 2014
Ming Yuan The Ming dynasty (), officially the Great Ming, was an imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1368 to 1644 following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty. The Ming dynasty was the last orthodox dynasty of China ruled by the Han peop ...
* 2015
Jinchi Lv Jinchi Lv is a statistician, data scientist, professor of mathematics, and a chaired professor in the Data Sciences and Operations department of the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. He is a co-developer of sev ...
* 2017
Yingying Fan Yingying Fan is a Chinese-American statistician and Centennial Chair in Business Administration and Professor in Data Sciences and Operations Department of the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. She also holds ...
* 2018
Peng Ding Peng may refer to: * Peng (surname) (彭), a Chinese name * Peng (state) (大彭), a state during the late Shang dynasty * Peng (mythology) (鵬), a legendary Chinese creature * ''Peng!'', 1992 album by Stereolab * ''PENG!'', a 2005 comic * P.Eng. ...
* 2019 Jonas Peters * 2020
Rachel McCrea Rachel () was a Biblical figure, the favorite of Jacob's two wives, and the mother of Joseph and Benjamin, two of the twelve progenitors of the tribes of Israel. Rachel's father was Laban. Her older sister was Leah, Jacob's first wife. Her au ...
* 2021
Pierre E. Jacob Pierre is a masculine given name. It is a French form of the name Peter. Pierre originally meant "rock" or "stone" in French (derived from the Greek word πέτρος (''petros'') meaning "stone, rock", via Latin "petra"). It is a translation ...


See also

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List of mathematics awards This list of mathematics awards is an index to articles about notable awards for mathematics. The list is organized by the region and country of the organization that sponsors the award, but awards may be open to mathematicians from around the wor ...


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