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Fred Brooks, in full Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr., (born April 19, 1931, Durham, North Carolina, U.S.—died November 17, 2022, Chapel Hill, North Carolina), American computer scientist and winner of the 1999 A.M. Turing Award, the highest honour in computer science, for his “landmark contributions to computer architecture, operating systems, and software engineering.”.

Fred Brooks was the project lead for OS/360, IBM's flagship OS for its vastly influential S/360 line of computers. His experience on this project led him to write probably the most famous book about project management, The Mythical Man-Month. From that book came several famous dictums about computing. Some notable examples include:

Fred Brooks Jr., an American computer architect, software engineer, and computer scientist, best known for managing the development of IBM’s System/360 family of computers, died on November 17, 2022, at the age of 91. Details about his death have not been revealed. He also developed OS/360 software support package, then later wrote candidly about the process in his seminal book The Mythical Man-Month.

Frederick P. Brooks Jr., whose innovative work in computer design and software engineering helped shape the field of computer science, died on Thursday at his home in Chapel Hill, N.C. He was 91.