Rolf Heinrich Stumpf (6 November 1945 – 27 October 2020) was a South African statistician who served as Vice Chancellor and Rector of the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth.
[1] Stumpf's career spanned various positions in academia, the research environment, and in the higher education policy environment, including serving as Deputy Director General of the Department of National Education and President of the Human Sciences Research Council.
Stumpf studied Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Pretoria, and graduated in 1972 with a Master of Arts cum laude.
In 1982, he was awarded a Ph.D. in Statistics (Analysis of Qualitative Data) from the University of South Africa.
[1] The author of a number of scientific articles in the field of statistics, Stumpf served as the co-author of a book on Graphical Exploratory Data Analysis.