Stigler is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Franz Stigler (1915–2008), Luftwaffe pilot who escorted an American bomber back to safety in 1943 George Stigler (1911–1991), Nobel Prize–winning U.S. economist, associated with the Stigler Commission and Stigler diet; father of Stephen Stigler James W. Stigler, American psychologist, researcher, entrepreneur and author Michael Stigler (born 1992), American track and field athlete Stephen Stigler (born 1941), professor at the University of Chicago, known for Stigler's law of eponymy; son of George Stigler William G. Stigler (1891–1952), American politician in Oklahoma Other uses Stigler, Oklahoma, a city Haskell County Stigler Regional Airport, owned by the city of Stigler Stigler Commission, convened in 1961 to study the measurement of inflation in the United States Stigler diet, an optimization problem regarding recommended dietary allowances (RDAs) Stigler's law of eponymy, which states that no scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer List of examples of Stigler's law See also Stiegler, a surname Stig (disambiguation)