Sir John Norman Toothill CBE (11 November 1908 – 5 July 1986) was an English electrical engineer who rose to be Managing Director of Ferranti.
He was the author of the ground-breaking Toothill Report of 1961 and was one of the creators of the modern Scottish electronics industry.
He was born on 11 November 1908 at 13 Trafford Road in Leicester, the only son of John Harold Toothill, an engineer's fitter, and his wife, Helena Gibbins.
[2] In 1935 he was appointed as chief cost accountant to Ferranti, which was then a company making electrical instruments, and in 1942 became manager of its new works in Edinburgh.
He remained as general manager of Ferranti Scotland until 1968, promoting the company's development into precision engineering and playing a large part in the creation of a Scottish electronics industry.