Benjamin Gompertz was an English self-educated mathematician and actuary, who became a Fellow of the Royal Society. Gompertz is now best known for his Gompertz law of mortality, a demographic model published in 1825. He was the brother of the early animal rights activist and inventor Lewis Gompertz and the poet Isaac Gompertz.
- Occupation
- actuary, mathematician
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Kingdom of Great Britain
- Born
- March 5, 1779
- Died
- July 14, 1865
