George A. Draper (November 4, 1855 – February 7, 1923) was an American textile industrialist.
George Albert Draper was born on November 4, 1855, in Hopedale, Massachusetts.
At the age of seventeen, Draper entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he studied for two years.
He was President of the Grafton and Upton Railroad, and of the Harmony Mills; director in the Milford National Bank, First National Bank of Boston, Brogon Cotton Mills Company, of Anderson, North Carolina, and of the Calhoun Cotton Mills of Calhoun, North Carolina.
His son Wickliffe Draper inherited his fortune and used it to begin the Pioneer Fund.