title: George Ward
text: # George Ward
  
  George Ward may refer to:
  
  ## Sportspeople
  
  * G. B. Ward (1878–1942), American college football player and coach
  * George Ward (canoeist) (1932–2008), Canadian Olympic canoer
  * George Ward (footballer, born 1877) (1877–1921), Australian rules football player for Essendon
  * George Ward (footballer, born 1889) (1889–1928), Australian rules football player for Richmond
  * George Ward (footballer, born 1908) (1908–1981), English footballer
  * George Ward (rugby union) (1885–1962), English rugby union player
  * George Ward (rugby league) (1910–1991), Australian rugby league player
  * George S. Ward (1867–1940), vice president of the Brooklyn Federal League Baseball Club
  
  ## Politicians
  
  * George Ward, 1st Viscount Ward of Witley (1907–1988), British Conservative Party politician
  * George Ward (Liberal politician) (1878–1951), Member of Parliament for Bosworth
  * George B. Ward (1867–1940), mayor of Birmingham, Alabama
  * George Taliaferro Ward (1810–1862), cotton plantation owner and politician from Leon County, Florida
  * George F. Ward (born 1945), former United States Ambassador to Namibia
  
  ## Others
  
  * Cherry Valentine (1993–2022), English drag queen
  * George Ward (luthier) (died c. 1769), Irish luthier
  * George Ward (priest) (1862–1946), Archdeacon of Wisbech
  * George Hull Ward (1826–1863), soldier and Union officer in the American Civil War
  * George W. Ward (1867–1932), principal of Maryland State Normal School (now Towson University)
  * George Ward (1933–2012), co-owner of Grunwick Film Processing Laboratories during the 1976–78 Grunwick dispute
  * George Ward (died 1901), lynched by a white mob in Terre Haute, Indiana
  