The Guy Medals are awarded by the

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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 *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 th ...

*1908 Patrick G. Craigie *1911 G. Udny Yule *1920 T. H. C. Stevenson *1930 A. William Flux *1935

Arthur Lyon Bowley Sir Arthur Lyon Bowley, FBA (6 November 1869 – 21 January 1957) was an English statistician and economist who worked on economic statistics and pioneered the use of sampling techniques in social surveys. Early life Bowley's father, James Wil ...

*1945

Major Greenwood Major Greenwood Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (9 August 1880 – 5 October 1949) was an English epidemiologist and statistician. Biography Major Greenwood junior was born in Shoreditch in East End of London, London's East End, the only chil ...

*1946

Ronald Fisher Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher (17 February 1890 – 29 July 1962) was a British polymath who was active as a mathematician, statistician, biologist, geneticist, and academic. For his work in statistics, he has been described as "a genius who a ...

*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 *1962

Harold Jeffreys Sir Harold Jeffreys, FRS (22 April 1891 – 18 March 1989) was a British mathematician, statistician, geophysicist, and astronomer. His book, ''Theory of Probability'', which was first published in 1939, played an important role in the revival ...

*1966

Jerzy Neyman Jerzy Neyman (April 16, 1894 – August 5, 1981; born Jerzy Spława-Neyman; ) was a Polish mathematician and statistician who spent the first part of his professional career at various institutions in Warsaw, Poland and then at University College ...

*1968 Maurice Kendall *1969 M. S. Bartlett *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 David George Kendall FRS (15 January 1918 – 23 October 2007) was an English statistician and mathematician, known for his work on probability, statistical shape analysis, ley lines and queueing theory. He spent most of his academic li ...

*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 *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 Dennis Victor Lindley (25 July 1923 – 14 December 2013) was an English statistician, decision theorist and leading advocate of Bayesian statistics. Biography Lindley grew up in the south-west London suburb of Surbiton. He was an only child an ...

*2005

John Nelder John Ashworth Nelder (8 October 1924 – 7 August 2010) was a British statistician known for his contributions to experimental design, analysis of variance, computational statistics, and statistical theory. Contributions Nelder's work was inf ...

*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 fro ...

*2014

Bradley Efron Bradley Efron (; born May 24, 1938) is an American statistician. Efron has been president of the American Statistical Association (2004) and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (1987–1988).Cochran, J. (1 September 2015), "ASA Lead ...

*2016

Adrian Smith Adrian Frederick "H" Smith (born 27 February 1957) is an English guitarist best known as a member of heavy metal band Iron Maiden, for whom he also writes songs and performs backing vocals both live and in the studio. Smith grew up in London ...

*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 Un ...

*2022

Nancy Reid Nancy Margaret Reid (born September 17, 1952) is a Canadian theoretical statistician. She is a professor at the University of Toronto where she holds a Canada Research Chair in Statistical Theory. In 2015 Reid became Director of the Canadian In ...

Silver Medalists

* 1893 John Glover * 1894 Augustus Sauerbeck * 1895

* 1897 F.J. Atkinson * 1899 C.S. Loch * 1900 Richard Crawford * 1901 Thomas A. Welton * 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 * 1906 W.H. Shaw * 1907 N.A. Humphreys * 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 * 1914 S. Rowson * 1915 S.J. Chapman * 1918 J. Shield Nicholson * 1919 J. C. Stamp * 1921 A. William Flux * 1927 H. W. Macrosty * 1928

Ethel Newbold Ethel May Newbold (28 August 1882 – 25 March 1933) was an English epidemiologist and statistician. She was the first woman awarded the Guy Medal in Silver in 1928. Early life Ethel May Newbold was born in Tunbridge Wells. One of eleven chil ...

* 1930 Herbert Edward Soper * 1934

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* 1935 Ernest Charles Snow * 1936

Ralph George Hawtrey Sir Ralph George Hawtrey (22 November 1879, Slough – 21 March 1975, London) was a British economist, and a close friend of John Maynard Keynes. He was a member of the Cambridge Apostles, the University of Cambridge intellectual secret society. ...

* 1938 E.C. Ramsbottom * 1939

Leon Isserlis Leon Isserlis (1881–1966) was a Russian-born British statistician known for his work on the exact distribution of sample moments, including Isserlis’ theorem. He also brought to the attention of British statisticians the work of Russi ...

* 1940 Hector Leak * 1945 Maurice Kendall * 1950

Harry Campion Sir Harry Campion, KCB, CBE (20 May 1905 – 24 May 1996) was a British statistician and the first director of what was the Central Statistical Office of the United Kingdom. He was also first director of the United Nations Statistical Office. ...

* 1951 F. A. A. Menzler * 1952 M. S. Bartlett * 1953 J. Oscar Irwin * 1954 L. H. C. Tippett * 1955

* 1957

* 1958 George Barnard * 1960 Edgar C. Fieller * 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

* 1966 Peter Whittle * 1968

* 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

* 1977

* 1978 Peter Armitage * 1979 Michael Healy * 1980

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* 1981

* 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 * 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 * 1988 John Aitchison * 1989

Frank Kelly Francis Kelly (28 December 1938 – 28 February 2016) was an Irish actor, singer and writer, whose career covered television, radio, theatre, music, screenwriting and film. He is best remembered for playing Father Jack Hackett in the Channel 4 ...

* 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

* 1994

* 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 Steffen Lauritzen FRS (born 22 April 1947) is former Head of the Department of Statistics at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, and currently Emeritus Professor of Statistics at the University of Copenhagen. He is a le ...

* 1997

Peter Diggle Peter John Diggle, (born 24 February 1950, Lancashire, England) is a British statistician. He holds concurrent appointments with the Faculty of Health and Medicine at Lancaster University, and the Institute of Infection and Global Health at the U ...

* 1998 Harvey Goldstein * 1999 Peter Green * 2000 Walter Gilks * 2001 Philip Dawid * 2002 David Hand * 2003

Kanti Mardia Kantilal Vardichand "Kanti" Mardia (born 1935) is an Indian-British statistician specialising in directional statistics, multivariate analysis, geostatistics, statistical bioinformatics and statistical shape analysis. He was born in Sirohi, Ra ...

* 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 * 2010 Iain M. Johnstone * 2011 Peter Hall * 2012 David Firth * 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

* 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 ar ...

* 2018

Peter Bühlmann Peter Lukas Bühlmann (born 12 April 1965 in Zürich) is a Swiss mathematician and statistician. Biography Bühlmann studied mathematics from 1985 at the ETH Zurich with Diplom in 1990 and doctorate in 1993. His thesis ''The Blockwise Bootstrap i ...

* 2019

Susan Murphy Susan Allbritton Murphy (born April 16, 1958) is an American statistician, known for her work applying statistical methods to clinical trials of treatments for Chronic (medicine), chronic and relapsing medical conditions. She is a professor at ...

* 2020 Arnaud Doucet * 2021 Håvard Rue * 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 pa ...

Bronze Medalists

* 1936

William Gemmell Cochran William Gemmell Cochran (15 July 1909 – 29 March 1980) was a prominent statistician. He was born in Scotland but spent most of his life in the United States. Cochran studied mathematics at the University of Glasgow and the University of Cam ...

* 1938 R.F. George * 1949 W.J. Jennett * 1962 Peter Armitage * 1966

* 1967 F. Downton * 1968

* 1969 M.C. Pike * 1970 P.G. Moore * 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 A.F. Bissell * 1976 P.L. Goldsmith * 1977 A.F.M. Smith * 1978 Philip Dawid * 1979 T.M.F. Smith * 1980 A.J. Fox * 1982 Stuart Pocock * 1983

* 1984

* 1985

* 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 * 1989 Sheila M. Gore * 1990 Valerie S. Isham * 1991 Mike G. Kenward * 1992 Christopher Jennison * 1993 Jonathan Tawn * 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 Johnst ...

* 1996 John N.S. Matthews * 1997 Gareth Roberts * 1998 David Firth * 1999 Peter W.F. Smith 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 Peter Lynn (born 1946) is a New Zealand kitemaker, engineer and inventor. He is notable for his construction of the world's largest kites (Guinness book of records holders), giant inflatable (sparless) display kites (the most widely known is the ...

* 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

* 2008 Fiona Steele * 2009 Chris Holmes * 2010 Omiros Papaspiliopoulos * 2011 Nicolai Meinshausen * 2012

Richard Samworth Richard John Samworth (born May 1978) is the Professor of Statistical Science (Cambridge), Professor of Statistical Science and the Faculty of Mathematics, University of Cambridge#Directors of the Statistical Laboratory, Director of the Statis ...

* 2013 Piotr Fryzlewicz * 2014

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* 2015 Jinchi Lv * 2017 Yingying Fan * 2018 Peng Ding * 2019 Jonas Peters * 2020

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* 2021 Pierre E. Jacob

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Silver Medalists

Bronze Medalists

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