Lieutenant-Colonel Geoffrey Edleston Wheeler CIE CBE (22 June 1897 – 1 February 1990) was a British soldier and an historian of Central Asia.

[1][2] Wheeler followed in the footsteps of his father, an infantry officer, and was commissioned into the Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment in 1915 as a second lieutenant, and he reached the rank of captain before the end of the war.

Wheeler spent the next decade and a half in India where he served in the External Affairs Department, the Ministry of Information and General Staff Army Headquarters.

In 1946 Wheeler was stationed at the British embassy Teheran, Iran (1946–1953), where he served as both the Press and Oriental Councillor until he returned to London in 1950.

His memoirs "Fifty years of Asia" are located at Oxford University, St Antony's College in the Middle East Centre Archive.