List of industrial engineers

This is a list of notable industrial engineers, people who were trained in or practiced industrial engineering who have established prominence in their profession.

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 (Middle East Technical University)
 * 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
 * Karen Bursic –  American professor and undergraduate program director at University of Pittsburgh

C

 * Alexander Hamilton Church – English efficiency engineer, accountant and early writer on accountancy and management
 * Richard W. Conway – Emerson Electric Company Professor of Manufacturing Management, Emeritus, at Cornell University
 * Tim Cook – Chief Executive Officer of Apple Inc. (Auburn University) aug 2011
 * Roger Corman – American film producer and director (Stanford University)
 * Nancy Currie – astronaut

D

 * John Dasburg – former CEO of Northwest Airlines and Burger King (University of Florida)
 * John Z. DeLorean – former General Motors executive; founder of DeLorean Motors
 * W. Edwards Deming – forerunner of Total Quality Management (TQC)
 * Mike Duke – President and CEO of Wal-Mart Stores USA (Georgia Institute of Technology)

E

 * Harrington Emerson – American efficiency engineer and early management theorist
 * A. K. Erlang – communications, queueing (University of Copenhagen)
 * Michael Eskew – CEO of United Parcel Service (Purdue University)

F

 * Adel Fakeih – Saudi Arabian politician
 * Giacomo Ferrari – Italian politician and mayor of Parma
 * 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 (Auburn University)

G

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

H

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

I

 * Lee Iacocca – former CEO of Chrysler (Lehigh University)

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 (University of Houston).
 * Manny Lawson – active Buffalo Bills player (North Carolina State University).
 * J. Slater Lewis – British engineer, inventor, business manager, and early author on management and accounting.

M

 * William L. Maxwell – Andrew Schultz Jr. Emeritus Professor of Industrial Engineering at Cornell University
 * Lydia Meredith – CEO of the Renaissance Learning Center
 * Francesco Merloni – Italian industrialist and politician
 * 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 (Production and Robotics Software for Manufacturing and Management) 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 (Georgia Institute of Technology)
 * A. Alan Pritsker – industrial engineer and teacher, pioneer of computer simulation languages (Purdue University)

Q

 * Jorge Quiroga – former president of Bolivia (Texas A&M University)

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

 * Jorge Serrano – former president of Guatemala
 * Shigeo Shingo – creator of SMED (Single Minute Exchange of Die) technique and Poka-Yoke (fail-safe) devices
 * William H. Swanson – President and CEO of Raytheon Co. (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo)

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 (1840s–1920s) – American mechanical engineer; wrote the first books on factory management
 * Laura Tremosa – first Catalan woman to qualify as an industrial engineer
 * Tim Cook – CEO of Apple

W

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