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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.
== Born in the 17th century == John Graunt (1620–1674), English, constructed one of the first life tables William Petty (1623–1687), English, much early writing on life tables Johan de Witt (1625–1672), Dutch, early pioneering work on life annuities Edmond Halley (1656–1742), English, constructed one of the first life tables
== Born in the 18th century == James Dodson (1705–1751), English, developed statistical mortality tables Alexander Webster (1708–1784), Scottish, developed a scheme for providing pensions to widows of church ministers Richard Price (1723–1791), Welsh, introduced correct methods for values of contingent reversions Edward Rowe Mores (1731–1778), English, founder of The Society for Equitable Assurances on Lives and Survivorships and the first person to use the professional title "actuary" William Morgan (1750–1833), Welsh George Barrett (1752–1821), English Nathaniel Bowditch (1773–1838), probably the second American insurance actuary; Essex Fire and Marine Joshua Milne (1776–1851), English Benjamin Gompertz (1779–1865), English, developed the Gompertz-Makeham law of mortality and the Gompertz function John Finlaison (1783–1860), Scottish, first president of the Institute of Actuaries Griffith Davies (1788–1855), Welsh Thomas Galloway (1796–1851), Scottish
== Born in the 19th century == Elizur Wright (1804–1885), American, campaigned for valuation laws requiring life insurance companies to hold reserves to guarantee payment of benefits Wesley S. B. Woolhouse (1809–1893), English, co-founder of the Institute of Actuaries James Joseph Sylvester (1814–1897), English Ole Jacob Broch (1818–1889), Norwegian, founded Christiania almindelige gjensidige Forsørgelsesanstalt, Scandinavia's first life insurance company Ernst Engel (1821–1896), German, founded the first mortgage insurance company at Dresden Thomas Bond Sprague (1830–1920), British Esprit Jouffret (1837–1904), French Thorvald N. Thiele (1838–1910), Danish Emory McClintock (1840–1916), American Anders Lindstedt (1854–1939), Swedish Thomas Bassett Macaulay (1860–1942), Canadian Thomas Jaffrey (1861–1953), Scottish Miles Menander Dawson (1863–1942), American Gabriel Gabrielsen Holtsmark (1867–1954), Norwegian George James Lidstone (1870–1952), British Joseph Burn (1871–1950), English Johan Frederik Steffensen (1873–1961), Danish Alexander Jobson (1875–1933), Australian Maurice Princet (1875–1973), French Henry Louis Rietz (1875–1943), American I. M. Rubinow (1875–1936), Russian Alfred M. Best (1876–1958), American, founder of the A. M. Best company Filip Lundberg (1876–1965), Swedish, founder of mathematical risk theory and managing director of several insurance companies William Palin Elderton (1877–1962), English Alfred J. Lotka (1880–1949), American Sverre Krogh (1883–1957), Norwegian Harald Cramér (1893–1985), Swedish, developed numerous statistical theories and methods Ivo Lah (1896–1979), Slovene Dorothy Spiers (1897–1977), first woman to qualify as an actuary in the United Kingdom Henrik Palmstrøm (1900–1998), Norwegian
== Born in the 20th century == Oswald Jacoby (1902–1984), American, youngest person to pass four examinations of the Society of Actuaries Pedro Teotónio Pereira (1902–1972), Portuguese Wendell Milliman (1905–1976), American, co-founder of Milliman & Robertson Andreas Tømmerbakke (1905–1994), Norwegian Bruno de Finetti (1906–1985), Italian Frank Redington (1906–1984), English, developed a theory concerning the immunisation of fixed-income portfolios Bernard Benjamin (1910–2002), English Cecil J. Nesbitt (1912–2001), Canadian Stuart A. Robertson (1918–2005), American, co-founder of Milliman & Robertson James C. Hickman (1927–2006), American Harvey Milk (1930-1978), American David Wilkie (1934-), British, developer of the Wilkie Model Hugh Hedley Scurfield (1935–2020), English Phelim Boyle (1941–), Northern Irish Jeremy Gold, (1942–2018), American Paul McCrossan (1942–), Canadian Ed Savitz (1942–1993), American Ward Whitt (1942–), American Howard Winklevoss (1943–), American Robert Astley (1944–), Canadian Bryn Davies (1944–), British Christopher Daykin (1948–), English Steven Haberman (1951–), English James Robert Crosby (1956–), English Terri Vaughan (1956–), American Tan Suee Chieh (1959–), Singaporean David X. Li (~1960s), Chinese, advanced the use of Gaussian copula models to price collateralized debt obligations Michael Shackleford (1965–), English Roelof Botha (1973–), South African
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