Peter McCullagh FRS (born 8 January 1952) is a Northern Irish-born American statistician and John D. MacArthur Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Chicago.
He attended the University of Birmingham and completed his PhD at Imperial College London, supervised by David Cox and Anthony Atkinson.
McCullagh is a Fellow of the Royal Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
[citation needed] He was also the recipient of the inaugural Karl Pearson Prize of the International Statistical Institute, with John Nelder, "for their monograph Generalized Linear Models (1983)".
[3] He won a Notable Alumni Award in 2007 from his grammar school, St Columb's College.