Charles Frederick Conrad (July 8, 1917 – February 9, 1995) was the founder of the LMC Lake Michigan Car Ferry service. He is also known as an industrialist who made environmental test chambers for the aircraft industry, aerospace industry, commercial industry, rocket industry, NASA, and the United States Armed Forces. The headquarters for his companies were in Holland, Michigan, with sales and service branches throughout the world. His formal schooling was as a high school graduate and a correspondence course in refrigeration.