William Buhmann Johnson (born December 5, 1944) is an American mathematician, one of the namesakes of the Johnson–Lindenstrauss lemma.
[1] He was born in Palo Alto, California and raised from an early age in Dallas, Texas.
In 2007, Johnson was awarded the Stefan Banach Medal of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
[6] In 2018 he was an Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Rio de Janeiro.
[7] His doctoral students include Edward Odell.