Wayne Rosing (born 1946) is an American engineering manager. Rosing was an engineering manager at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) and Data General in the 1970s.He became a director of engineering at Apple Computer in 1980. There he led the Apple Lisa project, the forerunner to the Macintosh. He then went on to work at Sun Microsystems in 1985. After managing hardware development for products such as the SPARCstation, he became manager of Sun Microsystems Laboratories in 1990.From 1992 through 1996 he headed the spin-off First Person, which developed the Java Platform.He was then chief technology officer at Caere Corporation, which developed the optical character recognition product OmniPage.