George Fuisdale Jowett (December 23, 1891 – July 11, 1969) was an English-born Canadian strongman, weightlifter, magazine editor and author.
He was a co-founder of the American Continental Weightlifting Association, the editor of Strength magazine, and the president of the Jowett Institute.
[1][2] He emigrated to Canada in 1911,[2] and served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in World War I.
Jowett co-founded the American Continental Weightlifting Association (ACWLA) with Ottley Russell Coulter and David P. Willoughby in the early 1920s, and he served as its president.
[10] He left the magazine in 1934, upset at Hoffman's support of the competing Amateur Athletic Union over Jowett's ACWLA.