Peter Gavin Hall AO FAA FRS[3] (20 November 1951 – 9 January 2016) was an Australian researcher in probability theory and mathematical statistics.

[4] The American Statistical Association described him as one of the most influential and prolific theoretical statisticians in the history of the field.

He placed consistently high in examination results and in his final year, was among the top achievers in his form, and the winner of Old Boys' Union Mathematics prize.

[11] Hall earned his Doctor of Philosophy degree at the University of Oxford in 1976 for research supervised by John Kingman.

[13] He previously held a professorship at the Centre for Mathematics and its Applications at the Australian National University.