List of industrial engineers

A

• Bud Adams – oil tycoon and owner of the Tennessee Titans.
• Ravindra K. Ahuja – editor of journals Operations Research, Transportation Science, and Networks
• Horace Lucian Arnold – American engineer, inventor, engineering journalist, and early writer on management

  B

• Ali Babacan – State Minister for Economy of Republic of Turkey
• Carl Georg Barth – Norwegian-American mathematician and mechanical engineer who improved and popularized the industrial use of compound slide rules
• Leslie Benmark – known for work in engineering education, specifically accreditation

  C

• Alexander Hamilton Church – English efficiency engineer, accountant and early writer on accountancy and management
• Timothy D. Cook – Chief Executive Officer of Apple Inc. aug 2011
• Roger Corman – American film producer and director
• Nancy Currie – astronaut

  D

• John Dasburg – former CEO of Northwest Airlines and Burger King
• John Z. DeLorean – former General Motors executive; founder of DeLorean Motors
• W. Edwards Deming – forerunner of Total Quality Management
• Mike Duke – President and CEO of Wal-Mart Stores USA

  E

• Harrington Emerson – American efficiency engineer and early management theorist
• A. K. Erlang – communications, queueing
• Michael Eskew – CEO of United Parcel Service

  F

• Henry Ford – founder of the Ford Motor Company; revolutionized industrial production by being the first to apply assembly line manufacturing to a production process
• Joe Forehand – Chairman of the board and former CEO of Accenture

  G

• Henry Gantt – inventor of the Gantt chart
• Frank Gilbreth – time and motion studies
• Lillian Gilbreth – time and motion studies
• Samuel Ginn – wireless communications pioneer; former chairman of Vodafone
• Joe Girardi – manager, Florida Marlins and New York Yankees
• Eliyahu M. Goldratt – inventor of the theory of constraints

  H

• Joe Hardy – founder and CEO of 84 Lumber
• Homer Hickam – NASA engineer; author of The Coalwood Way, Rocket Boys, October Sky, Torpedo Junction and Back to the Moon
• Charles O. Holliday – CEO of DuPont
• Linda Hudson – President and CEO of BAE Systems Inc.

  I

• Lee Iacocca – former CEO of Chrysler

  K

• Shahid Khan – owner of automotive parts manufacturer Flex-N-Gate and the Jacksonville Jaguars
• Charles Edward Knoeppel – American organizational theorist, consultant, and early management author
• Dick Kovacevich – CEO of Wells Fargo

  L

• Lars Lallerstedt – pioneer of Swedish industrial design.
• Tom Landry – former Dallas Cowboys Coach.
• Manny Lawson – active Buffalo Bills player.
• J. Slater Lewis – British engineer, inventor, business manager, and early author on management and accounting.

  M

• Lydia Meredith – CEO of the Renaissance Learning Center
• Captain Henry Metcalfe – American Army ordnance officer, inventor and early organizational theorist
• Edwin Moses – world record hurdler
• John Muir – founder of Sierra Club
• Alphonse Munchen – Luxembourgian engineer and Mayor of Luxembourg City
• Richard Muther – consultant; author of several influential books on plant layout and material handling

  N

• Shimon Y. Nof – Professor of Industrial Engineering at Purdue University; creator and Head of the PRISM lab

  O

• Taiichi Ohno – "father of the Toyota Production System", also known as Just In Time

  P

• R.K. Pachauri – Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Director, Tata Energy Research Institute
• Oscar E. Perrigo – American mechanical engineer, inventor, and early technical and management author
• Guy Primus – COO of Overbrook Entertainment
• A. Alan Pritsker – industrial engineer and teacher, pioneer of computer simulation languages

  Q

• Jorge Quiroga – former president of Bolivia

  R

• Jacob Rubinovitz – developer of instructional computer-integrated manufacturing and the robotics lab at the Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management of the Technion

  S

• Shigeo Shingo – creator of SMED technique and Poka-Yoke devices
• William H. Swanson – President and CEO of Raytheon Co.

  T

• Frederick Winslow Taylor – leader of the Efficiency Movement and a champion of standardisation and division of tasks
• Henry R. Towne – American mechanical engineer and businessman, known as an early systematizer of management
• John Tregoning – American mechanical engineer; wrote the first books on factory management
• Laura Tremosa – first Catalan woman to qualify as an industrial engineer

  W

• Edward Whitacre, Jr. – Chairman of General Motors; former Chairman and CEO of AT&T Inc.
• Clinton Edgar Woods – American electrical and mechanical engineer, inventor, manufacturer of automobiles, and early management