Guy Medal

The Guy Medals are awarded by the Royal Statistical Society 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 Medallists

1892 Charles Booth
1894 Robert Giffen
1900 Jervoise Athelstane Baines
1907 Francis Ysidro Edgeworth
1908 Patrick G. Craigie
1911 G. Udny Yule
1920 T. H. C. Stevenson
1930 A. William Flux
1935 Arthur Lyon Bowley
1945 Major Greenwood
1946 Ronald Fisher
1953 A. Bradford Hill
1955 Egon Pearson
1960 Frank Yates
1962 Harold Jeffreys
1966 Jerzy Neyman
1968 Maurice Kendall
1969 M. S. Bartlett
1972 Harald Cramér
1973 David Cox
1975 George Alfred Barnard
1978 Roy Allen
1981 David George Kendall
1984 Henry Daniels
1986 Bernard Benjamin
1987 Robin L. Plackett
1990 Peter Armitage
1993 George E. P. Box
1996 Peter Whittle
1999 Michael Healy
2002 Dennis Lindley
2005 John Nelder
2008 James Durbin
2011 C. R. Rao
2013 John Kingman
2014 Bradley Efron
2016 Adrian Smith
2019 Stephen Buckland
2020 David Spiegelhalter

Silver Medallists

1893 John Glover
1894 Augustus Sauerbeck
1895 Arthur Lyon Bowley
1897 F.J. Atkinson
1899 C.S. Loch
1900 Richard Crawford
1901 Thomas A. Welton
1902 R. H. Hooker
1903 Yves Guyot
1904 D.A. Thomas
1905 R. Henry Rew
1906 W.H. Shaw
1907 N.A. Humphreys
1909 Edward Brabrook
1910 G. H. Wood
1913 R. Dudfield
1914 S. Rowson
1915 S.J. Chapman
1918 J. Shield Nicholson
1919 J. C. Stamp
1921 A. William Flux
1927 H. W. Macrosty
1928 Ethel Newbold
1930 Herbert Edward Soper
1934 J.H. Jones
1935 E.C. Snow
1936 Ralph George Hawtrey
1938 E.C. Ramsbottom
1939 Leon Isserlis
1940 Hector Leak
1945 Maurice Kendall
1950 Harry Campion
1951 F. A. A. Menzler
1952 M. S. Bartlett
1953 J. Oscar Irwin
1954 L. H. C. Tippett
1955 David George Kendall
1957 Henry Daniels
1958 George Barnard
1960 Edgar C. Fieller
1961 David Cox
1962 P. V. Sukhatme
1964 George Box
1965 C. R. Rao
1966 Peter Whittle
1968 Dennis Lindley
1973 Robin Plackett
1976 James Durbin
1977 John Nelder
1978 Peter Armitage
1979 Michael Healy
1980 M. Stone
1981 John Kingman
1982 Henry Wynn
1983 Julian E. Besag
1984 John C. Gittins
1985 A. Bissell and W. Pridmore
1986 Richard Peto
1987 John Copas
1988 John Aitchison
1989 Frank Kelly
1990 David Clayton
1991 Richard L. Smith
1992 Robert Curnow
1993 Adrian Smith
1994 David Spiegelhalter
1995 Bernard Silverman
1996 Steffen Lauritzen
1997 Peter Diggle
1998 Harvey Goldstein
1999 Peter Green
2000 Walter Gilks
2001 Philip Dawid
2002 David Hand
2003 Kanti Mardia
2004 Peter Donnelly
2005 Peter McCullagh
2006 Michael Titterington
2007 Howell Tong
2008 Gareth Roberts
2009 Sylvia Richardson
2010 Iain M. Johnstone
2011 Peter Hall
2012 David Firth
2013 Brian D. Ripley
2014 Jianqing Fan
2015 Anthony Davison
2016 Nancy Reid
2017 Neil Shephard
2018 Peter Bühlmann
2019 Susan Murphy
2020 Arnaud Doucet

Bronze Medallists

1936 William Gemmell Cochran
1938 R.F. George
1949 W.J. Jennett
1962 Peter Armitage
1966 James Durbin
1967 F. Downton
1968 Robin Plackett
1969 M.C. Pike
1970 P.G. Moore
1971 D.J. Bartholomew
1974 G.N. Wilkinson
1975 A.F. Bissell
1976 P.L. Goldsmith
1977 A.F.M. Smith
1978 Philip Dawid
1979 T.M.F. Smith
1980 A.J. Fox
1982 Stuart Pocock
1983 Peter McCullagh
1984 Bernard Silverman
1985 David Spiegelhalter
1986 D.F. Hendry
1987 Peter Green
1988 Sarah C. Darby[1]
1989 Sheila M. Gore[2]
1990 Valerie S. Isham
1991 Mike G. Kenward[3]
1992 Christopher Jennison[4]
1993 Jonathan Tawn
1994 R.F.A. Poultney
1995 Iain Johnstone[5]
1996 John N.S. Matthews[6]
1997 Gareth Roberts
1998 David Firth
1999 Peter W.F. Smith[7] and Jon Forster[8]
2000 Jon Wakefield[9]
2001 Guy Nason
2002 Geert Molenberghs
2003 Peter Lynn
2004 Nicola Best
2005 Steve Brooks
2006 Matthew Stephens
2007 Paul Fearnhead
2008 Fiona Steele
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