George Herbert Mair CMG (8 May 1887 – 2 January 1926) was a British journalist and civil servant. Mair was the son of a Royal Navy surgeon. He was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School, the University of Aberdeen, Christ Church, Oxford, and the Sorbonne. In 1909 he got a job as leader writer, drama critic and special correspondent on the Manchester Guardian, and was appointed political correspondent and literary editor in London in 1911. He became assistant editor of the Daily Chronicle in 1914. Mair married the Irish actress Maire O'Neill (1885–1952) in 1911. He died in 1926 at the age of 39.