George Edward Pelham Box FRS[1] (18 October 1919 – 28 March 2013) was a British statistician, who worked in the areas of quality control, time-series analysis, design of experiments, and Bayesian inference.

During World War II, he performed experiments for the British Army exposing small animals to poison gas.

After the war, he enrolled at University College London and obtained a bachelor's degree in mathematics and statistics.

While at ICI, he took a leave of absence for a year and served as a visiting professor at North Carolina State University at Raleigh.

In 1980, he was named Vilas Research Professor of Statistics, which is the highest honor given to a member of the University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty.

Box was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1974 and a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1985.