Sir Hugh Ford FREng[2] FRS[1] (16 July 1913 – 28 May 2010) was a British engineer.

[3] Ford was educated at Northampton Grammar School and served an apprenticeship at the Great Western Railway.

[5] During World War II, he worked at Imperial Chemical Industries in Cheshire.

He studied operations at strip mills, earning the Thomas Hawksley Gold Medal in 1948.

Shortly after his death Ford was featured on the BBC Radio 4 obituary program Last Word.