Kantilal Vardichand "Kanti" Mardia (born 1935) is an Indian statistician specialising in directional statistics, multivariate analysis, geostatistics, statistical bioinformatics and statistical shape analysis.[1] He was born in Sirohi, Rajasthan, India in a Jain family and now resides and works in Leeds. He is known for his series of tests of multivariate normality based measures of multivariate skewness and kurtosis[2][3] as well as work on the statistical measures of shape.[4]