Michael Randolph Garey (born November 19, 1945) is a computer science researcher, and co-author (with David S. Johnson) of Computers and Intractability: A Guide to the Theory of NP-completeness.
He and Johnson received the 1979 Frederick W. Lanchester Prize from the Operations Research Society of America for the book.
[1] He was employed by AT&T Bell Laboratories in the Mathematical Sciences Research Center from 1970 until his retirement in 1999.
From 1978 until 1981 he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery.
In 1995, Garey was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.