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 (1953–2026)

• 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