George Fryer Sternberg (1883 – 23 October 1969) was an American paleontologist best known for his discovery in Gove County, Kansas of the "fish-within-a-fish" of Xiphactinus audax with a recently eaten Gillicus arcuatus within its stomach.

Sternberg was born in Lawrence, Kansas, and began leading fossil-hunting expeditions in the early 1900s.

The Sternberg Museum of Natural History at Fort Hays State University in Hays, Kansas is named for his work and contributions to paleontology.

[2] Sternberg formed a mentor relationship with Marion Charles Bonner of Leoti, Kansas, and through this relationship acquired many fossils from the Niobrara Cretaceous chalk for the museum's displays and archives.

The most notable specimen Bonner donated and Sternberg prepared for display was a nearly complete Dolichorhynchops osbornii in 1956.