Christopher Charles Heyde AM (20 April 1939, in Sydney – 6 March 2008, in Canberra) was a prominent Australian statistician who did leading research in probability, stochastic processes and statistics.

Heyde was a professor at Columbia University, the University of Melbourne, CSIRO, University of Manchester, University of Sheffield, Michigan State University, and The Australian National University, Canberra.^[1][2][3][4]

In 2008, Heyde died of metastatic melanoma.

Honours

• 1972 – Member of the International Statistical Institute
• 1973 – Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
• 1977 – Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA)^[5]
• 1981 – Honorary Life Member of the Statistical Society of Australia Inc. (SSAI)^[6]
• 1988 – Awarded the Statistical Society of Australia's Pitman Medal^[6] and served as President of the Society
• 1994 – Shared the Australian Academy of Science's Hannan Medal with Peter Hall.
• 1995 – Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal of the Australian Academy of Science.^[7]
• 1998 – D.Sc. honoris causa, University of Sydney
• 2003 – Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (FASSA)^[8]
• 2003 – Appointed Member of the Order of Australia (AM) "for service to mathematics, particularly through research into statistics and probability, and to the advancement of learning in these disciplines".^[9]

Offices held

• Vice President of the International Statistical Institute
• President of the Bernoulli Society
• President of the Statistical Society of Australia (1979–1981)
• Vice President of the Australian Mathematical Society
• Editor of the Australian Journal of Statistics
• Editor of Stochastic Processes and Their Applications (1983–1989)
• Editor-in-chief of Journal of Applied Probability (1990–2008)
• Editor-in-chief of Advances in Applied Probability (1990–2008).