John Whitefield Kendrick (July 27, 1917, Brooklyn – November 17, 2009, Arlington, Virginia) was a pioneer in productivity measurement and economic accounting.
In 1963 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.
Kendrick received a bachelor's degree in history in 1937 and a master's degree in economics in 1939 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 1955 he received a doctorate from George Washington University.
Dr. Kendrick authored more than a dozen books on economics and productivity.