Surgeon General George Bidie CIE (3 April 1830 – 19 February 1913) was a British physician who worked in India in the Madras Medical Service.

[2] Bidie joined the Madras Medical Service in 1856 and served with the Hyderabad contingent during the 1857 rebellion and received a medal.

He was a Civil Surgeon at Guntur during 1859 and between 1867 and 1868, served on special duty in Mysore and Coorg to investigate the stem borer (Xylotrechus quadripes) and its damage to coffee.

During his service he was decorated Order of the Crown of Italy (1882) and made a CIE (1 January 1883) and appointed Honorary Surgeon to the Queen (16 February 1898), a position he held under Queen Victoria, King Edward VII and King George V.[2][6] Bidie also worked as Superintendent of the Madras Museum from 1872 to 1884 as well as serving on the Cinchona Commission in 1873.

Francis Day named a species of fish after him as Caranx bidii,[12] but this is now considered a junior synonym of Selaroides leptolepis.

They had five daughters[13] and four sons among whom one who was also named George Bidie,[14] became a Lieutenant-Colonel and followed in his father's footsteps to serve in the Indian Medical Service.