Anthony John Fox (born 25 April 1946) is a British statistician, who has worked in both the public service and academia. He was born on 25 April 1946, the son of OBE. He was educated at Dauntsey's School, University College London (BSc) and Imperial College London (PhD). He was a statistician at the Employment Medical Advisory Service, 1970-5 and then the Medical Statistics Division of the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys (OPCS) until 1979. In the latter job, he helped to set up the , which monitors the health, address changes and fertility of a 1% sample of the population of England and Wales over time for statistical purposes.