Is there any method to identify the distribution of a given dataset?

It's important to identify the distribution of a dataset before do analysis
and inference. Is there any method to identify the distribution of a given
dataset? For example, I want to identify a dataset belong to normal of
poisson distribution, how can I do that?

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