George Edwin Rines (December 28, 1860, Maitland, Hants County, Nova Scotia - November 30, 1951, New York City) was a British North America-born editor who grew up and worked in the United States.

Coming to the United States when 11 years old, his early education was obtained in the public schools of Brooklyn, New York.

For several years after graduation from the high school there he was engaged in mercantile life, but in 1887 resumed his studies at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York.

He resigned from the ministry in 1899 to devote himself to literary work, and has been a frequent contributor to religious and other periodicals.

From 1913 to 1915, Rines was managing editor of The German Classics, and after 1916 was editor-in-chief of the second edition of Encyclopedia Americana.