Arjun Kumar Gupta

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Arjun Kumar Gupta (1938 – 25 December 2022) was a Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Mathematics & Statistics at Bowling Green State University in Ohio.{{cite web |title=Gupta honored for lifetime achievement |url=https://www.bgsu.edu/news/2011/03/gupta-honored-for-lifetime-achievement.html |website=Bowling Green State University |accessdate=4 December 2018 |date=March 2011}}{{cite web |title=A. K. Gupta Honored as Distinguished UNIVERSITY Professor |url=https://www.bgsu.edu/arts-and-sciences/mathematics-and-statistics/faculty-and-staff/distinguished-faculty/arjun-k-gupta.html |website=Bowling Green State University |accessdate=4 December 2018}}

Gupta was born in Uttar Pradesh, India in 1938. Gupta received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Poona University in India and his PhD from Purdue University.

He was a member of the American Statistical Association, the Institute of Statisticians, and the Royal Statistical Society of England. In 1989 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[http://www.amstat.org/awards/fellowslist.cfm View/Search Fellows of the ASA] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160616161612/https://www.amstat.org/awards/fellowslist.cfm |date=16 June 2016 }}, accessed 19 November 2016. He received the Olscamp Research Award in 1990. He has written more than 400 articles and he has edited, co-edited or co-authored six books on statistics.

In 2022, Gupta's memoir A Multidimensional Life: The Legacy of Arjun K. Gupta was published.

Gupta died on 25 December 2022.{{cite web|url=https://obits.mlive.com/us/obituaries/annarbor/name/arjun-gupta-obituary?id=38590830|work=Ann Arbor News|title=Arjun Gupta Obituary|date=7 January 2023|access-date=17 January 2023}}