This is a list of industrial and systems engineers, people who were trained in or practiced industrial engineering or systems engineering.

See also Institute of Industrial Engineers, International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE).

A

• Charles Armstrong - President of Seattle Mariners (Purdue University)
• Dominic Antonellis - President and CEO, New England Confectionery Co. (NECCO)

B

• Charles Bedaux - successful promoter and early contributor

D

• John Dasburg - CEO, Northwest Airlines (University of Florida)
• Mike Duke - President and CEO, Wal-Mart Stores USA (Georgia Institute of Technology)

E

• John Edwardson - CEO, CDW Computer Centers Inc. (Purdue University)
• A. K. Erlang - communications, queueing
• Michael Eskew - CEO, United Parcel Service (Purdue University)

F

• Joe Forehand - CEO, Accenture
• Karsten Fuhst - Dipl.-Ing. (FH) - Inventor of an downhole crusher

G

• Henry Gantt - inventor of the Gantt chart,
• Frank Gilbreth - Cheaper by the Dozen
• Lillian Gilbreth - time and motion studies (University of California, Berkeley)
• Charles Gordon - co-owner of Tri-City Beverages and inventor of "Dr. Enuf" beverage (University of Vermont)
• John Grado - Retired Chairman and CEO of Technographics, Inc. (University of Vermont)
• Jack Guynn - President of the Federal Reserve Bank-Atlanta (VT)

H

• Homer Hickam - NASA Engineer, Author of The Coalwood Way, Rocket Boys, October Sky, Torpedo Junction and Back to the Moon (University of Vermont)
• Charles O. (Chad) Holliday - CEO, DuPont

I

• Lee Iacocca - former CEO - Chrysler (Lehigh University)

J

• Joseph M. Juran - Six Sigma

K

• Robert S. Kaplan - Professor of Cost Accounting, Harvard University
• Robert Kidder - CEO, Borden Chemical Inc. (University of Michigan)
• Dick Kovacevich - CEO, Wells Fargo
• Edward J.Kearney, P.E. -President, Management Engineering (Northeastern University)

L

• Tom Landry - former Dallas Cowboys Coach (University of Houston)

M

• Jim McCaslin - President and CEO, Harley-Davidson Motor Co.
• William H. McCumber, P.E. - Fellow of INCOSE, President of EagleRidge Technologies, Professor of Practice at the University of Maryland University College (UMUC), retired from IBM Federal Systems and Loral/Lockheed; deceased 2003.

N

O

P

• R.K. Pachauri - Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Director, Tata Energy Research Institute
• Andrew Patti - President and COO, Dial Corp. (Rutgers)

Q

R

S

• William H. Swanson - President and CEO, Raytheon Co.

Sachin

T

• Mah Bow Tan
• Frederick Winslow Taylor

U

• Tom Usher - CEO, United States Steel

V

W

• Boon Wan
• Edward Whitacre, Jr. - Chairman and CEO of SBC

X

Y

• Philip Yeo

• Yun Jong Yong , CEO, Samsung Electronics

Z