Talk:Rust Macpherson Deming
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Demings in Japan coincidence
[edit]Rust M. Deming was an United States Deputy Chief of Mission to Japan from 1993-96, a recipient of Japan's Order of the Rising Star, and is currently a professor at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He is the grandson of Nathaniel Hawthorn and the son of Olcott, who was the United States' first Ambassador to Uganda. He grew up in Westchester County, New York.
Another famous Deming, W. Edward, is credited with revolutionizing manufacturing and transforming the economy, in post-war Japan, His "...all others bring data" quote is ubiquitous within business school texts and common applied business parlance today. Also see "Out of the Crisis," Deming cycles and Statistical Process Control. W. Edward is a descendent of the Puritan settler and original Connecticut Colony patentee John Deming. W. Edward grew up in Iowa and Wyoming.
The surname "Deming" is not a common last name in the United States. So their uncommon common-surnames and their prominent foreign service in post-war Japan on behalf of the United States would seem like a very unexpected coincidence. Currently neither Deming's article indicates whether the two men are related. ~2025-37264-29 (talk) 15:42, 29 November 2025 (UTC)