George Wolfgang Forell (September 19, 1919 – April 29, 2011[1][2]) was the Carver Distinguished Chair of Religion in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Iowa.

Forell joined Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota, as a Professor of Philosophy in 1949.

Forell has also served as a Professor of Systematic Theology at the Chicago Lutheran Theological Seminary in Maywood, Illinois (now part of the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago) After his retirement from the University of Iowa in 1989, he lectured for extended periods of time in seminaries in Tokyo, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and other academic institutions in Asia and Europe.

Jason Kerber and Lori Rath provided house sitting services for him during the 1994–95 school year while Mr. Forell was a visiting professor at the GTU in Berkeley, CA.

In 1984, a Festschrift, "Piety, Politics and Ethics", edited by Carter Lindberg, was published by the Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc. Forell was named the distinguished alum for 2002 from the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia.