# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-gavin-hall
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:26:27.720Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-gavin-hall"
name: "Peter Gavin Hall"
slug: "peter-gavin-hall"
description: "Peter Gavin Hall was an Australian researcher in probability theory and mathematical statistics. The American Statistical Association described him as one of the most influential and prolific theoretical statisticians in the history of the field.\nThe School of Mathematics and Statistics Building at The University of Melbourne was renamed the Peter Hall building in his honour on 9 December 2016."
tagline: "Australian statistician (1951-2016)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "AU"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1951-11-20"
deathDate: "2016-01-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump