List of actuaries
An actuary is a business professional who deals with a financial situation of risk and uncertainty. This is a list of notable actuaries and others who have influenced the profession.- John Graunt, English, constructed one of the first life tables
- William Petty, English, much early writing on life tables
- Johan de Witt, Dutch, early pioneering work on life annuities
- Edmond Halley, English, constructed one of the first life tables
- James Dodson, English, developed statistical mortality tables
- Alexander Webster, Scottish, developed a scheme for providing pensions to widows of church ministers
- Richard Price, Welsh, introduced correct methods for values of contingent reversions
- Edward Rowe Mores, English, founder of The Society for Equitable Assurances on Lives and Survivorships and the first person to use the professional title "actuary"
- William Morgan, Welsh
- George Barrett, English
- Nathaniel Bowditch, probably the second American insurance actuary; Essex Fire and Marine
- Joshua Milne, English
- Benjamin Gompertz, English, developed the Gompertz-Makeham law of mortality and the Gompertz function
- John Finlaison, Scottish, first president of the Institute of Actuaries
- Griffith Davies, Welsh
- Thomas Galloway, Scottish
- Elizur Wright, American, campaigned for valuation laws requiring life insurance companies to hold reserves to guarantee payment of benefits
- Wesley S. B. Woolhouse, English, co-founder of the Institute of Actuaries
- James Joseph Sylvester, English
- Ole Jacob Broch, Norwegian, founded Christiania almindelige gjensidige Forsørgelsesanstalt, Scandinavia's first life insurance company
- Ernst Engel, German, founded the first mortgage insurance company at Dresden
- Thomas Bond Sprague, British
- Esprit Jouffret, French
- Thorvald N. Thiele, Danish
- Emory McClintock, American
- Anders Lindstedt, Swedish
- Thomas Bassett Macaulay, Canadian
- Thomas Jaffrey, Scottish
- Miles Menander Dawson, American
- Gabriel Gabrielsen Holtsmark, Norwegian
- George James Lidstone, British
- Joseph Burn, English
- Johan Frederik Steffensen, Danish
- Alexander Jobson, Australian
- Maurice Princet, French
- Henry Louis Rietz, American
- I. M. Rubinow, Russian
- Alfred M. Best, American, founder of the A. M. Best company
- Filip Lundberg, Swedish, founder of mathematical risk theory and managing director of several insurance companies
- William Palin Elderton, English
- Alfred J. Lotka, American
- Sverre Krogh, Norwegian
- Harald Cramér, Swedish, developed numerous statistical theories and methods
- Ivo Lah, Slovene
- Dorothy Spiers, first woman to qualify as an actuary in the United Kingdom
- Henrik Palmstrøm, Norwegian
- Oswald Jacoby, American, youngest person to pass four examinations of the Society of Actuaries
- Pedro Teotónio Pereira, Portuguese
- Wendell Milliman, American, co-founder of Milliman & Robertson
- Andreas Tømmerbakke, Norwegian
- Bruno de Finetti, Italian
- Frank Redington, English, developed a theory concerning the immunisation of fixed-income portfolios
- Bernard Benjamin, English
- Cecil J. Nesbitt, Canadian
- Stuart A. Robertson, American, co-founder of Milliman & Robertson
- James C. Hickman, American
- Hugh Hedley Scurfield, English
- Phelim Boyle, Northern Irish
- Jeremy Gold,, American
- Paul McCrossan, Canadian
- Ed Savitz, American
- Ward Whitt, American
- Howard Winklevoss, American
- Robert Astley, Canadian
- Bryn Davies, British
- Christopher Daykin, English
- Steven Haberman, English
- James Robert Crosby, English
- Terri Vaughan, American
- Tan Suee Chieh, Singaporean
- David X. Li, Chinese, advanced the use of Gaussian copula models to price collateralized debt obligations
- Michael Shackleford, English
- Roelof Botha, South African
