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. *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

Source: *1892 Charles Booth *1894

Robert Giffen Sir Robert Giffen (22 July 1837 – 12 April 1910) was a Scottish statistician and economist. Life Giffen was born at Strathaven, Lanarkshire. He entered a solicitor's office in Glasgow, and while in that city attended courses at the uni ...

*1900 Jervoise Athelstane Baines *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 Wi ...

*1945

Major Greenwood Major Greenwood FRS (9 August 1880 – 5 October 1949) was a British epidemiologist and statistician. Biography Major Greenwood junior was born in Shoreditch in London's East End, the only child of Major Greenwood, a physician in general pra ...

*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 British statistician. Career Pearson was educated at Winchester College and Trinity College ...

*1960

Frank Yates Frank Yates FRS (12 May 1902 – 17 June 1994) was one of the pioneers of 20th-century statistics. Biography Yates was born in Manchester, England, the eldest of five children (and only son) of seed merchant and botanist Percy Yates and ...

*1962

Harold Jeffreys Sir Harold Jeffreys, FRS (22 April 1891 – 18 March 1989) was a British geophysicist who made significant contributions to mathematics and statistics. His book, ''Theory of Probability'', which was first published in 1939, played an importan ...

*1966

Jerzy Neyman Jerzy Spława-Neyman (April 16, 1894 – August 5, 1981; ) was a Polish mathematician and statistician who first introduced the modern concept of a confidence interval into statistical hypothesis testing and, with Egon Pearson, revised Ronald Fis ...

*1968

Maurice Kendall Sir Maurice George Kendall, FBA (6 September 1907 – 29 March 1983) was a prominent British statistician. The Kendall tau rank correlation is named after him. Education and early life Maurice Kendall was born in Kettering, Northampto ...

*1969

M. S. Bartlett Maurice Stevenson Bartlett FRS (18 June 1910 – 8 January 2002) was an English statistician who made particular contributions to the analysis of data with spatial and temporal patterns. He is also known for his work in the theory of statis ...

*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 statis ...

*1973 David Cox *1975

George Alfred Barnard George Alfred Barnard (23 September 1915 – 30 July 2002) was a British statistician known particularly for his work on the foundations of statistics and on quality control. Early life and education George Barnard was born in Walthamstow ...

*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 lif ...

*1984

Henry Daniels Henry Daniels may refer to: * Henry John Daniels (1850–1934), member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly * Henry H. Daniels (1885–1958), American Episcopal bishop * Henry Daniels (statistician) (1912–2000), British statistician See als ...

*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 physic ...

*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 a ...

*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 infl ...

*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 Prof. Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao (10 September 1920 – 22 August 2023) was an Indian-American mathematician and statistician. He was professor emeritus at Pennsylvania State University and research professor at the University at Buffalo. Rao ...

*2013

John Kingman 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 from 2001 unt ...

*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 Lea ...

*2016

Adrian Smith Adrian Smith may refer to: * Adrian Smith (basketball) (born 1936), American basketball player *Adrian Smith (architect) (born 1944), American architect *Sir Adrian Smith (statistician) (born 1946), English statistician and academic *Adrian Smith (m ...

*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 Professorship of the Public Understanding of Risk, Winton Professor of the Public Under ...

*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 ...

*2024

Peter Diggle Peter John Diggle, (born 24 February 1950, in 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 t ...

Silver Medalists

* 1893 John Glover * 1894 Augustus Sauerbeck * 1895

* 1897 Fred J. Atkinson * 1899 Charles Stewart 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 David Alfred Thomas, 1st Viscount Rhondda, Privy Council of the United Kingdom, PC (26 March 1856 – 3 July 1918), was a Welsh industrialist and Liberal Party (UK), Liberal politician. He was Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Pa ...

* 1905 R. Henry Rew * 1906 W. Napier Shaw * 1907 Noel A. Humphreys * 1909 Edward Brabrook * 1910 G. H. Wood * 1913 Reginald Dudfield * 1914 Simon Rowson * 1915 Sydney John 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 chi ...

* 1930 Herbert Edward Soper * 1934 John Harry Jones * 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 Edmund Cecil 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 Russ ...

* 1940 Hector Leak * 1945

* 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

* 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 * 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 gre ...

* 1965

* 1966 Peter Whittle * 1968

* 1973 Robin Plackett * 1976

* 1977

* 1978 Peter Armitage * 1979 Michael Healy * 1980 Mervyn Stone * 1981

* 1982 Henry Wynn * 1983 Julian E. Besag * 1984

John C. Gittins John Charles Gittins (born 1938) is a researcher in applied probability and operations research, who is a professor and Emeritus Fellow at Keble College, Oxford University. He is renowned as the developer of the "Gittins index", which is used for ...

* 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 subseque ...

* 1987 John Copas * 1988

John Aitchison John Aitchison (22 July 1926 – 23 December 2016) was a Scottish statistician. Career John Aitchison studied at the University of Edinburgh after being uncomfortable explaining to his headmaster that he didn’t plan to attend university. H ...

* 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 Lilholt 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 ...

* 1997

* 1998

Harvey Goldstein Harvey Goldstein (30 October 1939 – 9 April 2020) was a British statistician known for his contributions to multilevel modelling methodology, statistical software, social statistics, and for applying this to educational assessment and league t ...

* 1999 Peter Green * 2000 Walter Gilks * 2001

Philip Dawid Alexander Philip Dawid One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: (pronounced 'David'; born 1 February 1946) is Emeritus Professor of Statistics of the University of Cambridge, and a Fel ...

* 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, Raj ...

* 2004 Peter Donnelly * 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 * 2008 Gareth Roberts * 2009 Sylvia Richardson * 2010

Iain M. Johnstone Iain Murray Johnstone (born 1956) is an Australian born statistician who is the Marjorie Mhoon Fair Professor in Quantitative Science in the Department of Statistics at Stanford University. Education Johnstone was born in Melbourne in 1956. In 1 ...

* 2011 Peter Hall * 2012 David Firth * 2013 Brian D. Ripley * 2014

Jianqing Fan Jianqing Fan (; born 1962) is a Chinese statistician, financial econometrician, and data scientist. He is currently the Frederick L. Moore '18 Professor of Finance, Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Professor of Statisti ...

* 2015 Anthony C. 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 are ...

* 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 and relapsing medical conditions. She is a professor at Harvard University, ...

* 2020 Arnaud Doucet * 2021

Håvard Rue Håvard or Havard is a surname and given name. Notable people with the name include: Given name: *Håvard Bøkko (born 1987), Norwegian speedskater *Håvard Bjerkeli (born 1977), Norwegian cross country skier *Håvard Flo (born 1970), football pla ...

* 2022

Paul Fearnhead Paul Fearnhead is the Distinguished Professor of Statistics at Lancaster University. He is a researcher in computational statistics, in particular Sequential Monte Carlo methods. His interests include changepoint analysis, sampling theory and g ...

* 2023

Mark Girolami Mark A. Girolami (born 1963) is a British civil engineer, statistician and data engineer. He has held the Sir Kirby Laing Professorship of Civil Engineering in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge since 2019. He has be ...

* 2024 Jonathan Tawn * 2025 Richard Samworth

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 Camb ...

* 1938 Ronald Frank George * 1949 W. J. Jennett * 1962 Peter Armitage * 1966

* 1967 Frank Downton * 1968 Robin Plackett * 1969 Malcolm C. Pike * 1970 Peter G. Moore * 1971

D. J. Bartholomew David John Bartholomew (6 August 1931 – 16 October 2017) was a British statistician who was president of the Royal Statistical Society between 1993 and 1995.''Who Was Who'', Published by A&C Black Limited, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing ...

* 1974 Graham N. Wilkinson * 1975 Alfred Frederick Bissell * 1976 P. L. Goldsmith * 1977 A. F. M. Smith * 1978

* 1979 T. M. F. Smith * 1980 A. John Fox * 1982

Stuart Pocock Stuart J. Pocock is a British medical statistician. He has been professor of medical statistics at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine since 1989. His research interests include statistical methods for the design, monitoring, analysis ...

* 1983

* 1984

* 1985

* 1986 D. F. Hendry * 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 Rosemary F. A. Poultney * 1995 Iain Johnstone * 1996 John N. S. Matthews * 1997 Gareth Roberts * 1998 David Firth * 1999

Peter W. F. Smith Peter may refer to: People * List of people named Peter, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Peter (given name) ** Saint Peter (died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church * Peter (surname), a sur ...

and Jon Forster * 2000 Jon Wakefield * 2001 Guy Nason * 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 th ...

* 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 at ...

* 2005 Steve Brooks * 2006 Matthew Stephens * 2007

* 2008

Fiona Steele Fiona Alison Steele, is a British statistician. Since 2013, she has been Professor of Statistics at the London School of Economics (LSE). After graduating with a degree in mathematics and statistics from the University of Edinburgh in 1992, Steel ...

* 2009 Chris Holmes * 2010 Omiros Papaspiliopoulos * 2011 Nicolai Meinshausen * 2012 Richard Samworth * 2013 Piotr Fryzlewicz * 2014 Ming Yuan * 2015 Jinchi Lv * 2017 Yingying Fan * 2018 Peng Ding * 2019 Jonas Peters * 2020

Rachel McCrea Rachel () was a Biblical figure, the favorite of Jacob's two wives, and the mother of Joseph and Benjamin, two of the twelve progenitors of the tribes of Israel. Rachel's father was Laban. Her older sister was Leah, Jacob's first wife. Her aun ...

* 2021 Pierre E. Jacob * 2022 Rajen Shah * 2023 Tengyao Wang * 2024 Chris Oates * 2025 Jenny Wadsworth

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Silver Medalists

Bronze Medalists

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