Sir George William Chrystal KCB (28 August 1880 – 1 November 1944) was a British civil servant.
In 1917 he was appointed Assistant Secretary to the Ministry of National Service.
In 1919 he was appointed Secretary to the Ministry of Pensions, holding the post until 1935 when he was appointed Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Health, retiring in 1940.
Chrystal was also a writer, publishing a new translation of the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, the translation of the Memoirs of Prince Chlodwig of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, a translation of Julius Meier Graef's Development of Modern Art, the Life of William Robertson Smith, and a volume of Smith's lectures and essays.
Chrystal was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the 1920 New Year Honours[1] and Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in the 1922 Birthday Honours.