Editing Actuary (section)

==Notable actuaries==
{{See also|List of actuaries}}
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;[[Nathaniel Bowditch]] (1773–1838)
:Early American mathematician remembered for his work on ocean navigation. In 1804, Bowditch became what was probably the United States of America's second insurance actuary as president of the Essex Fire and Marine Insurance Company in [[Salem, Massachusetts]]&nbsp;{{sfn|Seltzer|Alin|1969}}
;[[Harald Cramér]] (1893–1985)
:Swedish actuary and probabilist notable for his contributions in mathematical statistics, such as the [[Cramér–Rao bound|Cramér–Rao inequality]].{{sfn|Cramér|1946}} Cramér was an Honorary President of the Swedish Actuarial Society&nbsp;{{sfn|Kendall|1983}}
;[[James Dodson (mathematician)|James Dodson]] (c. 1705 –&nbsp;1757)
:Head of the Royal Mathematical School, and Stone's School, Dodson built on the statistical mortality tables developed by Edmund Halley in 1693&nbsp;{{sfn|Lewin|2007|p=38}}
;[[Edmond Halley]] (1656–1742)
:While Halley actually predated much of what is now considered the start of the actuarial profession, he was the first to rigorously calculate premiums for a life insurance policy mathematically and statistically&nbsp;{{sfn|Halley|1693}}
;[[James C. Hickman]] (1927–2006)
:American actuarial educator, researcher, and author&nbsp;{{sfn|Chaptman|2006}}
;[[Oswald Jacoby]] (1902–1984)
:American actuary best known as a [[contract bridge]] player, he was the youngest person ever to pass four examinations of the [[Society of Actuaries]]&nbsp;{{sfn|SOA|1984}}
;[[David X. Li]]
:Canadian qualified actuary who in the first decade of the 21st century pioneered the use of [[Gaussian copula]] models for the pricing of [[collateralized debt obligation]]s (CDOs)&nbsp;{{sfn|Salmon|2009}}
;[[Edward Rowe Mores]] (1731–1778)
:First person to use the title 'actuary' with respect to a business position&nbsp;{{sfn|Ogborn|1956|p=235}}
;[[William Morgan (actuary)|William Morgan]] (1750–1833)
:Morgan was the appointed Actuary of the Society for Equitable Assurances in 1775. He expanded on Mores's and Dodson's work, and may be considered the father of the actuarial profession in that his title became applied to the field as a whole.&nbsp;{{sfn|Ogborn|1973|p=8}}
;[[Robert J. Myers]] (1912–2010)
:American actuary who was instrumental in the creation of the U.S. [[Social Security (United States)|Social Security program]]&nbsp;{{sfn|Williams Walsh|2010}}
;[[Frank Redington]] (1906–1984)
:British actuary who developed the Redington Immunization Theory.{{sfn|The Actuary|2003}}
;[[Isaac M. Rubinow]] (1875–1936)
:Founder and first president of the [[Casualty Actuarial Society]].{{sfn|CASF|2008}}
;[[Elizur Wright]] (1804–1885)
:American actuary and abolitionist, professor of mathematics at Western Reserve College (Ohio). He campaigned for laws that required life insurance companies to hold sufficient reserves to guarantee that policies would be paid.{{sfn|Stearns|1905}}
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