Georg Ferdinand Howaldt (8 April 1802 – 19 January 1883) was a German sculptor.

He learned silversmithing and went to Nuremberg, where he became friends with the sculptor Jacob Daniel Burgschmiet, who convinced him to change to modelling and sculpture.

The success out of his cooperation with the famous sculptor Ernst Rietschel allowed him to start his own foundry casting sculptures for many known German sculptors of the nineteenth century.

His son Hermann Heinrich Howaldt, also a sculptor, had joined him and continued his work and the foundry under Howaldt & Sohn until his own death.

His brother August Howaldt was in 1838 the founder of the German shipyard Howaldtswerke in Kiel.