See probabilism for the followers of such a theory in theology or philosophy.

This list contains only probabilists in the sense of mathematicians specializing in probability theory.

  • David Aldous (born 1952)
  • Siva Athreya (born 1971)
  • Thomas Bayes (1702–1761) - British mathematician and Presbyterian minister, known for Bayes' theorem
  • Gerard Ben-Arous (born 1957)
  • Itai Benjamini
  • Jakob Bernoulli (1654–1705) - Switzerland, known for Bernoulli trials
  • Jean Bertoin (born 1961)
  • Joseph Louis François Bertrand (1822–1900)
  • Patrick Billingsley (1925–2011)
  • Robert Blumenthal (1931–2012)
  • Erwin Bolthausen (born 1945)
  • Carlo Emilio Bonferroni (1892–1960)
  • Émile Borel (1871–1956)
  • Sourav Chatterjee (born 1979)
  • Kai Lai Chung (1917–2009)
  • Erhan Çınlar (born 1941)
  • Harald Cramér (1893–1985)
  • Miklós Csörgő (born 1932)
  • Sándor Csörgő (1947–2008)
  • Amir Dembo (born 1958)
  • Persi Diaconis (born 1945)
  • Catherine Doléans-Dade (1942–2004)
  • Joseph Leo Doob (1910–2004)
  • Lester Dubins (1920–2010)
  • Richard M. Dudley (1938–2020)
  • Hugo Duminil-Copin (born 1985)
  • Eugene Dynkin (1924–2014)
  • Robert J. Elliott (born 1940)
  • Paul Erdős (1913–1996)
  • Alison Etheridge (born 1964)
  • Steve Evans (born 1960)
  • William Feller (1906–1970)
  • Bruno de Finetti (1906–1985)
  • Hans Föllmer (born 1941)
  • Iosif Gikhman (1918–1985)
  • Igor Girsanov (1934–1967)
  • Boris Gnedenko (1912–1995)
  • Geoffrey Grimmett (born 1950)
  • Alice Guionnet (born 1969)
  • Ian Hacking (1936–2023)
  • Paul Halmos (1916–2006)
  • Joseph Halpern (born 1953)
  • David Heath (c.1943–2011)
  • Wassily Hoeffding (1914–1991)
  • Kiyoshi Itô (1915–2008)
  • Jean Jacod (born 1944)
  • Peter Jagers (born 1941)
  • Edwin Thompson Jaynes (1922–1998)
  • Richard Jeffrey (1926–2002)
  • Harold Jeffreys (1891–1989)
  • Mark Kac (1914–1984)
  • Olav Kallenberg (born 1939)
  • Gopinath Kallianpur (1925–2015)
  • Rudolf E. Kálmán (1930–2016)
  • Rajeeva L. Karandikar (born 1956)
  • Samuel Karlin (1924–2007)
  • David George Kendall (1918–2007)
  • Richard Kenyon (born 1964)
  • Harry Kesten (1931–2019)
  • John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946) - best known for his pioneering work in economics
  • Aleksandr Khinchin (1894–1959)
  • Andrey Kolmogorov (1903–1987)
  • Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827)
  • Gregory Lawler (born 1955)
  • Lucien Le Cam (1924–2000)
  • Jean-François Le Gall (born 1959)
  • Paul Lévy (1886–1971)
  • Jarl Waldemar Lindeberg (1876–1932)
  • Paul Malliavin (1925–2010)
  • Andrey Markov (1856–1922)
  • Stefan Mazurkiewicz (1888–1945)
  • Henry P. McKean, Jr (1930–2024)
  • Paul-André Meyer (1934–2003)
  • Richard von Mises (1883–1953)
  • Abraham de Moivre (1667–1754)
  • Octav Onicescu (1892–1983)
  • K. R. Parthasarathy (1936–2023)
  • Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
  • Charles E. M. Pearce (1940–2012)
  • Yuval Peres (born 1963)
  • Edwin A. Perkins (born 1953)
  • Siméon Denis Poisson (1781–1840)
  • Yuri Vasilevich Prokhorov (1929–2013)
  • Frank P. Ramsey (1903–1930)
  • Alfréd Rényi (1921–1970)
  • Oded Schramm (1961–2008)
  • Romano Scozzafava (born 1935)
  • Scott Sheffield (born 1973)
  • Albert Shiryaev (born 1934)
  • Yakov Sinai (born 1935)
  • Anatoliy Skorokhod (1930–2011)
  • Ray Solomonoff (1926–2009)
  • Frank Spitzer (1926–1992)
  • Ruslan L. Stratonovich (1930–1997)
  • Daniel W. Stroock (1940–2025)
  • Alain-Sol Sznitman (born 1955)
  • Michel Talagrand (born 1952)
  • Bálint Tóth (born 1955)
  • S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan (born 1940)
  • Bálint Virág (born 1973)
  • Wendelin Werner (born 1968)
  • Norbert Wiener (1894–1964)
  • David Williams
  • Marc Yor (1949–2014)
  • Ofer Zeitouni (born 1960)

See also

  • List of statisticians