Daniel Dugué was a French mathematician specializing in probability and statistics.
[1] After finishing high-school studies in Bordeaux, Daniel Dugué was admitted to ENS and with a degree agrégation de mathématiques when he was 21 years old, in 1933.
He subsequently contributed to the development of the rigorous theory of the maximum likelihood estimator.
Dugué succeeded Georges Darmois as a director of Paris Institute of Statistics in 1960 leading it until his retirement in 1981.
[5] He was married to Lucie Canaud and had four children, Catherine, Élisabeth, David and Marc.