title: Stigler
text: # Stigler
  
  Stigler is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
  
  * Franz Stigler (1915–2008), Luftwaffe pilot who escorted an American bomber back to safety in 1943
  * George Stigler (1911–1991), Nobel Prize–winning U.S. economist, associated with the Stigler Commission and Stigler diet; father of Stephen Stigler
  * James W. Stigler, American psychologist, researcher, entrepreneur and author
  * Michael Stigler (born 1992), American track and field athlete
  * Stephen Stigler (born 1941), professor at the University of Chicago, known for Stigler's law of eponymy; son of George Stigler
  * William G. Stigler (1891–1952), American politician in Oklahoma
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Stigler, Oklahoma, a city Haskell County
     * Stigler Regional Airport, owned by the city of Stigler
  * Stigler Commission, convened in 1961 to study the measurement of inflation in the United States
  * Stigler diet, an optimization problem regarding recommended dietary allowances (RDAs)
  * Stigler's law of eponymy, which states that no scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer
     * List of examples of Stigler's law
  