ISI presidents

Frederick Mosteller, an esteemed American mathematician, was widely regarded as one of the foremost statisticians of the 20th century.

Gunnar Kulldorff was a Swedish statistician, specializing in estimation theory, survey sampling and order statistics. 

Ivan Fellegi is an honorary member of the International Statistical Institute, of the Statistical Society of Canada and an honorary Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society.

Sigeiti Moriguti was a Japanese statistician.

James Durbin was a British statistician and econometrician, known particularly for his work on time series analysis and serial correlation.

Enrique Cansado Maceda has provided a relevant service to the Spanish statistical culture

Throughout his career, he has succeeded in reconciling administrative responsibilities with a research and teaching activity at the highest level and with a very broad spectrum.

Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao was the President of the International Statistical Institute, Institute of Mathematical Statistics (USA), and the International Biometric Society. 

Miloš Macura - University professor; director of the Serbian Federal Statistical Office.

Petter Jakob Bjerve was a Norwegian economist and statistician. Prominent positions include director of Statistics Norway, Norwegian Minister of Finance, and president of the International Statistical Institute.

William G. Cochran was a prominent statistician, born in Scotland but spent most of his life in the United States.

Sir Harry Campion was the first Director of the Central Statistical Office, and first Director of the United National Statistical Officece, played a prominent part in the development, after the Second World War, of official statistics in the UK and internationally.

As a statistician, Marcello Boldrini has been particularly interested to the foundations of the method, and he proposed a view of statistics as an empirical history of all the positive sciences

Georges Darmois was a French mathematician and statistician. He was President of the International Institute of Statistics from 1953 until his death.

Stuart Rice strived to make the ISI the umbrella for all kinds of statistical interests and activities, which is reflected by the current seven ISI Associations as well as the breadth of conferences, meetings and publications.

Walter Willcox initiated the first statistics course at Cornell University in 1892, one of the earliest university courses in statistics in the United States, and one among 16 universities with such courses in the 1890s.