Mir Masoom Ali (born February 1, 1937) is a Bangladeshi American statistician,[1] Distinguished Professor,[2] educator, researcher and author.

Ali founded the graduate and undergraduate programs in statistics at Ball State University.

Ali was born in Patuakhali, British India (presently Bangladesh) on February 1, 1937.

His earlier publications were on h-statistics, l-statistics, k-statistics and related finite sampling methods.

Ali has been a visiting professor at several universities and statistical institutes in the US, Canada, Bangladesh, India, Korea, Japan and Saudi Arabia.