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Thomas Robert Malthus
Thomas Malthus
English economist and demographer
Irene Barnes Taeuber
American sociologist
Conrad Taeuber
American sociologist
John Graunt
English statistician
Kingsley Davis
American sociologist
Sir Alexander Carr-Saunders
British educator
Jacques Bertillon
French statistician
Corrado Gini
Italian statistician