Hermann Kinkelin (11 November 1832 – 1 January 1913)[1] was a Swiss mathematician and politician.

He was also a statistician, he founded the Swiss Statistical Society and the Statistical-economic society in Basel and led the 1870 and 1880 Federal census in Basel.

Kinkelin's works dealt with the gamma function, infinite series, and solid geometry of the axonometric.

Kinkelin produced more than 60 publications in actuarial mathematics and statistics.

He was a founder of the Basel "mortality and age checkout" (later "Patria, Swiss life insurance company Mutual") and the Swiss Statistical Society, of which he was a member during 1877–86.