Johann Richard Pfanzagl (2 July 1928 – 4 June 2019) was an Austrian mathematician known for his research in mathematical statistics.
[1][2] Pfanzagl studied from 1946 to 1951 at the University of Vienna and received his doctorate there in 1951 with Johann Radon and Edmund Hlawka on the topic of Hermitian forms in imaginary square number fields.
In the same year he became a founding member of the Austrian Statistical Society, of which he was executive secretary from 1955 to 1959.
From 1951 to 1959, Pfanzagl headed the statistical office of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber.
From 1993 he was a corresponding member of the mathematics and natural sciences class abroad at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and received an honorary doctorate from the Vienna University of Economics and Business in 1993.