George Edward Ellis (August 8, 1814 – December 20, 1894) was a Unitarian clergyman and historian.

After two years' travel in Europe, he was ordained, on March 11, 1840, as pastor of the Harvard Unitarian Church, in Charlestown, Massachusetts.

From September 1842 to February 1845,[1] Ellis edited the Christian Register, at first alone and later with George Putnam.

[3] The author Grace Atkinson Oliver married his son, John Harvard Ellis.

He also printed privately memoirs of Charles Wentworth Upham and Edward Wigglesworth (1804–1876) (1877).