Timothy Peter White (born July 9, 1949) is a retired academic administrator and kinesiologist.

[2] White's academic background is in physiology, kinesiology, and human biodynamics, with an emphasis on work in muscle plasticity, injury, and aging.

After earning his Ph.D., White spent two years as a post-doctoral scholar in physiology at the University of Michigan before starting his academic career at Ann Arbor.

[13] Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, White immigrated to Canada and then to California with his parents when he was young.

Experiencing chest pains, he checked himself into Good Samaritan Hospital, had a heart attack, and was rushed into emergency quintuple bypass surgery.