Vasant Shankar Huzurbazar (15 September 1919 – 15 November 1991) was an Indian statistician from Kolhapur.
Huzurbazar was the founder head of the department of statistics, University of Pune from 1953 to 1976.
[citation needed] He served as visiting professor for two years to the Iowa State University in 1962.
[citation needed] In 1974, Huzurbazar was awarded the Padma Bhushan from Government of India for his contributions to the field of statistics.
[citation needed] Huzurbazar earned his Ph.D. in statistics from University of Cambridge in 1950; his advisor was Harold Jeffreys.