Wassily Hoeffding (June 12, 1914 – February 28, 1991) was an American statistician and probabilist.
His father was an economist and a disciple of Peter Struve, the Russian social scientist and public figure.
In 1918 the family left Tsarskoye Selo for Ukraine and, after traveling through scenes of civil war, finally left Russia for Denmark in 1920, where Wassily entered school.
His younger brother, Oleg, became a military historian in the United States.
[4] Hoeffding's ashes were buried in a small cemetery on land owned by George E. Nicholson, Jr.'s family in Chatham County, NC about 11 miles south of Chapel Hill, NC.