| Birth Name: | Danie Gerhardus Krige |
| Birth Date: | 26 August 1919 |
| Birth Place: | Bothaville, (OFS), South Africa |
| Death Date: | 3 March 2013 (Age 93) |
| Death Place: | Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa |
| Fields: | Geostatistics |
| Workplaces: | Anglo Transvaal, University of the Witwatersrand |
| Alma Mater: | University of the Witwatersrand |
| Known For: | Kriging |
| Awards: | Order for Meritorious Service, Class 1, Gold |
Danie Gerhardus Krige GCOB (in Afrikaans dɑːni ˈkriχə/) (26 August 1919 – 3 March 2013) was a South African statistician and mining engineer who pioneered the field of geostatistics and was professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, Republic of South Africa.[1] The technique of kriging is named after him. Krige's empirical work to evaluate mineral resources[2] was formalised in the 1960s by French engineer Georges Matheron.[3]