George Frederick William Holls (July 1, 1857 – July 23, 1903) was an American lawyer, publicist, and Secretary of the United States delegation to the Hague Peace Conference.

His father, George Charles Holls, was a German immigrant and Lutheran minister from Darmstadt who settled in Ohio in 1851 and served as the founding director of the Wartburg Orphanage, the first Lutheran orphanage in the United States.

[5] After being admitted to the New York bar, Holls represented the German government in important matters and started his own law practice named Holls, Wagner & Burghard, building his clientele among those of German descent.

He was also appointed Secretary of the United States delegation to the Hague Peace Conference and was one of the American delegates to the Committee on Arbitration, which led to the creation of the Permanent Court of Arbitration.

[8] Holls was married to Caroline M. Sayles, daughter of Pawtucket, Rhode Island mayor Frederick Clark Sayles, who was a descendent of Thomas Olney and Roger Williams, founders of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.