George Johnson

George Johnson may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

 * George W. Johnson (singer) (1846–1914), American singer, early recording artist
 * George Perry Johnson (1885–1977), American film producer, writer, and newsreel producer
 * George Johnson (actor) (1898–1961), American actor
 * George Johnson (musician) (1913–1987), jazz saxophonist and clarinetist
 * George Johnson (artist) (1926–2021), Australian artist
 * George M. Johnson (writer) (born 1985), American author and activist
 * George Johnson (aka Lightnin' Licks, born 1953), American musician, member of The Brothers Johnson

Military

 * George Owen Johnson (1896–1980), Canadian aviator, RCAF Air Marshal and WWI ace
 * George Johnson (British Army officer) (1903–1980)
 * George Johnson (general) (1918–2021), United States Air Force general
 * Johnny Johnson (RAF officer) (George Leonard Johnson, 1921–2022), Royal Air Force officer

Canada

 * George Macness Johnson (1853–1935), judge and politician in Newfoundland
 * George Balfour Johnson (1865–1940), politician in Saskatchewan, Canada
 * George William Johnson (politician) (1892–1973), Canadian member of the Legislative Assembly from Manitoba
 * George Johnson (Manitoba politician) (1920–1995), Canadian lieutenant-governor of Manitoba

U.S.

 * George W. Johnson (governor) (1811–1862), Confederate governor of Kentucky
 * George Y. Johnson (1820–1872), New York politician
 * George Alonzo Johnson (1824–1903), 49er, Colorado River steamboat entrepreneur and California politician
 * George A. Johnson & Company
 * George A. Johnson (1829–1894), attorney general of the state of California
 * George William Johnson (congressman) (1869–1944), American congressman from West Virginia
 * George E. Q. Johnson (1874–1949), U.S. federal judge
 * George W. Johnson (Minnesota politician) (1894–1974), speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives and 28th Mayor of Duluth, Minnesota
 * George R. Johnson (1929–1973), Pennsylvania politician
 * George Dean Johnson Jr. (born 1942), member of the South Carolina House of Representatives
 * George F. Johnson IV (born c. 1953), American politician and sheriff

Other politicians

 * George Johnson (MP for Devizes) (1626–1683)
 * George Johnson (Australian politician) (1811–1902), member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
 * George Randall Johnson (1833–1919), British cricketer and member of the New Zealand Legislative Council
 * George Johnson (Independent Labour Party politician) (1872–1958), British socialist politician

Association football

 * George Johnson (footballer, born 1871) (1871–1934), English football forward (Walsall, Aston Villa)
 * George Johnson (footballer, born 1904) (1904–1985) was an English footballer (Ashington, Reading, Sheffield Wednesday, Watford)
 * George Johnson (footballer, born 1907) (1907–1989), English football fullback (Wigan Borough, Darlington)
 * George Johnson (football manager), Leicester City manager

Basketball

 * George E. Johnson (basketball) (born 1947), American ABA/NBA player
 * George T. Johnson (born 1948), American NBA player
 * George L. Johnson (born 1956), American NBA player

Other sports

 * George S. Johnson (1879–1948), Australian rules footballer
 * Chief Johnson (1886–1922), American baseball player
 * George Johnson (baseball) (1890–1940), American baseball outfielder in the Negro leagues
 * George Johnson (cricketer, born 1894) (1894–1965), English cricketer
 * George Johnson (cricketer, born 1907) (1907–1986), English cricketer
 * George Johnson (sport shooter) (1915–2006), Puerto Rican Olympic shooter
 * George Johnson (athlete) (born 1938), Liberian athlete
 * George Johnson (boxer) (1938–2016), American heavyweight boxer
 * George Johnson (American football player) (born 1989), American football defensive end
 * George Johnson (American football coach), head football coach at Bucknell University from 1915 to 1917
 * Chappie Johnson (George Johnson, 1877–1949), American baseball player and team manager, Negro leagues career 1896–1919

Writers

 * George William Johnson (writer) (1802–1886), British writer
 * George Metcalf Johnson (1885–1965), American mystery and western writer, also wrote as George Metcalf
 * George Clayton Johnson (1929–2015), American science fiction writer
 * George B. Johnson (born 1942), American science writer
 * George Johnson (writer) (born 1952), American science writer, including for The New York Times
 * George Washington Johnson (poet) (1839–1917), Canadian schoolteacher and poet

Others

 * George Johnson (priest) (1808–1881), British clergyman and academic
 * George Henry Martin Johnson (1816–1884), Iroquois chief
 * George Johnson (physician) (1818–1896), English physician
 * George Johnson (statistician) (1837-1911), Canadian statistician
 * George Raymond Johnson (1840–1898), English architect in Australia
 * George Lindsay Johnson (1853–1943), British ophthalmologist
 * George F. Johnson (1857–1948), American businessman
 * George Marion Johnson (1900–1987), American law professor and academic administrator
 * George E. Johnson Sr. (born 1927), American entrepreneur
 * George W. Johnson (academic) (1928–2017), American academic and academic administrator

Other uses

 * USS George A. Johnson, a United States Navy destroyer escort in commission from 1944 to 1946 and from 1950 to 1957
 * USS George H. Johnson (SP-379), the proposed name and designation of a commercial freight lighter the United States Navy considered for service during World War I but never acquired
 * George P. Johnson, an American multinational corporation