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.

Armand Julin was the first president of the Royal Statistical Society of Belgium and at the same time president of the International Statistical Institute.

Friedrich Zahn was an internationally recognized German statistician, President of the German Statistical Society and Honorary President of the International Statistical Institute.

Albert Delatour was a member of the International Statistical Institute from 1891, sponsored by Alfred de Foville and Alfred Neymarc, then became ISI's president between 1920 and 1931. He was honorary president at the end of his life.