Duane M. Ilstrup (born July 1, 1946) is an American medical statistician and the highly cited author or co-author of over 500 scientific articles.[1] He worked at the Mayo Clinic from 1970 until 2003, and also became an associate professor of biostatistics at Mayo Medical School.
Ilstrup was born in Buffalo, Minnesota. He obtained a B.A. in mathematics and physics from Augsburg College in 1968 and a master's degree in biometry from the University of Minnesota in 1970.