Donald Allan Darling (May 4, 1915 – June 24, 2014) was an American statistician, known for the Anderson–Darling test.
In 1940 he became a meteorologist at Pan American Airways and from 1942 to 1946, during World War II, he headed the statistics department of the Air Force Weather Research Project.
Meanwhile, in 1943 Darling enrolled as a graduate student at the California Institute of Technology, where in 1947 he received his PhD under Morgan Ward with thesis Continuous Stochastic Processes.
In 2002 the University of Michigan created a professorship of statistics named in his honor.
In 1967 he went to the University of California, Irvine, where he retired in 1982 as professor emeritus.