Keshavan Raghavan Nair, Indian statistician (Paravur, Kerala State 13 May 1910 – Bangalore 20 November 1993)

Introduced the concept of partially balanced incomplete block designs

Established the Laguerre-Samuelson inequality in J. Ind. Soc. Agr. Stat. (1948)

On a method of getting confounded arrangements in the general symmetrical type of experiment. Sankhya 4:121-38, 1938

On a simple method of curve fitting. Sankhya 6:121, 1942

Eponym of Nair-Thomson inequality (1948)