Samuel Kotz (Hebrew: שמואל קוץ; August 30, 1930, Harbin, China – March 16, 2010, Kemp Mill, Maryland) was a professor and research scholar in the Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science at The George Washington University from 1997 until his death on March 16, 2010.

He was an author or editor of several standard reference works in statistics and probability theory.

Kotz was born in Harbin, China, to a Jewish family who had left Russia following the Russian Revolution.

[1] Kotz studied electrical engineering at the Harbin Institute of Technology, graduating with honors in 1946.

[3] Over the course of his career he authored or co-authored a total of three Russian-English scientific dictionaries, over three dozen volumes/books/monographs in the field of statistics and quality control and over 280 papers.