David George Kendall FRS[1] (15 January 1918 – 23 October 2007)[3] was an English statistician and mathematician, known for his work on probability, statistical shape analysis, ley lines and queueing theory.

[1][5][6] He worked on rocketry at the Ministry of Supply's Projectile Development Establishment during World War II, before moving to Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1946.

He was elected to a professorial fellowship at Churchill College, and he was a founding trustee of the Rollo Davidson Trust.

In 1980 the London Mathematical Society awarded Kendall their Senior Whitehead Prize, and in 1989 their De Morgan Medal.

Kendall also played a key role in founding the Bernoulli Society in 1975, and was its initial president.