Cary Lu (December 4, 1945 – September 23, 1997) was an American writer specializing in the Apple Macintosh platform.
Born in Qingdao, China, Lu arrived in the United States at the age of three and grew up in California.
Lu worked in television for several years on projects for NBC and CBS News, developed short films for Sesame Street and other children's programs on PBS and was the science and technology editor for the Children's Television Workshop.
He was part of the group that started Nova for PBS and worked on science and technology education projects for the governments of Australia, Kenya, and Algeria.
His final book, The Race for Bandwidth: Understanding Data Transmission, was finished by friends, the technology writers Adam C. Engst and Stephen Manes, and published posthumously.