W. Edwards Deming

W. Edwards Deming

male, deceased (1993)
William Edwards Deming was an American statistician, college professor, author, lecturer, and consultant. Deming is widely credited with improving...
Jean Tirole

Jean Tirole

male, 56 years old
Jean Tirole is a French professor of economics. He works on industrial organization, game theory, banking and finance, and economics and...

Steele

male
Steele is an American rapper, famous as half of the underground rap duo Smif-N-Wessun, and as a member of Hip Hop supergroup Boot Camp Clik. Steele...
Shigeo Shingo

Shigeo Shingo

male, deceased (1990)
born in Saga City, Japan, was a Japanese industrial engineer who distinguished himself as one of the world’s leading experts on manufacturing pr...
Joseph M. Juran

Joseph M. Juran

male, 104 years old
Joseph Moses Juran (b. December 24, 1904) is an American industrial engineer and philanthropist. Juran is known as a business and industrial...
Robert M. Pirsig

Robert M. Pirsig

male, 81 years old
Robert Maynard Pirsig (born September 6, 1928, Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American writer, mainly known as the author of the book "Zen and the...
Martin Michlmayr

Martin Michlmayr

male
Martin Michlmayr is a Debian developer and PhD student working on quality and release management in free software both in practice and as a...
Kaoru Ishikawa

Kaoru Ishikawa

male, deceased (1989)
Kaoru Ishikawa (1915-1989) was a Japanese University professor and influential quality management innovator best known in North America for the...
Genichi Taguchi

Genichi Taguchi

male, 85 years old
Gen'ichi Taguchi is an engineer and statistician. From the 1950s onwards, Taguchi developed a methodology for applying statistics to improve the...
Masaaki Imai

Masaaki Imai

male, 79 years old
Masaaki Imai, a quality management consultant, was born in Tokyo in 1930. In 1955, he received his bachelor's degree from the University of Tokyo,...