Brian Ripley was the Professor of Applied Statistics at the University of Oxford and a member of the Department of Statistics as well as a Professorial Fellow of St. Peter's College.
He retired in August 2014 on grounds of ill health and is now an Emeritus Professor and Emeritus Fellow.
17 June 2026 Professor Ripley has been named as the lead laureate of the 2026 Rousseeuw Prize in Statistics.
He was awarded:
BA in Marhematics by the University of Cambridge in 1973, later
promoted to an MA and incorporated by the University of Oxford.
Smith Prize by the University of Cambridge in 1975.
PhD by the University of Cambridge in 1976.
Thesis titled Stochastic Geometry and the Analysis of Spatial Patterns.
Rollo Davidson Prize in 1976.
Adams Prize by the University of Cambridge in 1986.
Guy Medal in Silver by the Royal Statistical Society in 2013.
Rousseeuw Prize in
Statistics in 2026.
Fellowships of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Institute of
Mathematical Statistics.
Elescted member of the International Statistical Institute.
There are home pages for
Venables & Ripley (1994,7,9,2002) Modern Applied Statistics with S
Ripley (1996) Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks
Venables & Ripley (2000) S Programming
and errata lists for his books, also including
Ripley (1981) Spatial Statistics Wiley
Ripley (1987) Stochastic Simulation Wiley
Ripley (1988) Statistical Inference for Spatial Processes Cambridge University Press (The Adams Prize essay.)
After 35 years the address ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk has been migrated to an unreliable Microsoft server: ripleybd@iCloud.com is preferred.
Personal digital photography albums up to 2017.