Frank Wilcoxon (2 September 1892 – 18 November 1965) was a chemist and statistician, known for the development of several statistical tests.

[1] Frank Wilcoxon was born to American parents on 2 September 1892 in County Cork, Ireland.

[2] He grew up in Catskill, New York, but received part of his education in England.

After the First World War he entered graduate studies, first at Rutgers University, where he was awarded an M.S.

These are non-parametric alternatives to the unpaired and paired Student's t-tests respectively.