George Burdon McKean VC MC MM (4 July 1888 – 28 November 1926) was an English-Canadian soldier who served in World War I. McKean was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for valour in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

(A book he wrote after the war, Making Good - A Story of North-West Canada, was based on his knowledge of life in Alberta.)

He shot both of these men, captured the position, then sent back for more bombs, and until they arrived he engaged the enemy single-handed.

He then rushed a second block, killing two of the enemy, capturing four others, and driving the remainder into a dug-out, which he then destroyed.

In the closing months of the war, Canada's Hundred Days, he led the capture of Cagnicourt near Arras, using, one historian wrote, "little but courage and bravado."

On 29 April 2018, a memorial stone for McKean was unveiled in his birth town of Willington, County Durham.