Who is Thomas Bayes?

Ever since the Malaysian Air flight has been missing, Statisticians went back to Bayes theory,

I like to put a special event for this day as to remind us who Thomas Bayes was!

The English theologian and mathematician Thomas Bayes has greatly contributed to the field of probability and statistics. His ideas have created much controversy and debate among statisticians over the years.
Thomas Bayes was born in 1702 in London, England. Bayes's father was one of the first six Nonconformist ministers to be ordained in England. (4) Bayes's parents had their son privately educated. There is no information about the tutors Bayes worked with. However, there has been speculation that he was taught by de Moivre.

Still to put it, he was one who revolutionized Statistics with conditional probability and this algorithm is being used by advance software tools in the industry today from B.I. tools to Predictive Analytics.