Manfred Wilhelm Padberg (10 October 1941 in Bottrop, Germany[1] – 12 May 2014) was a German mathematician who worked with linear and combinatorial optimization.
Starting in September 1968, he studied at Carnegie Mellon University, where he obtained a master's degree and his Ph.D. (1971) in Industrial Administration.
His advisor was Egon Balas and his dissertation was titled Essays in Integer Programming.
He, Martin Shubik, Ellis L. Johnson, and Harlan Crowder won the Frederick W. Lanchester Prize in 1983.
He was elected to the 2002 class of Fellows of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.