George Frederick James Temple FRS[3] (born 2 September 1901, London; died 30 January 1992, Isle of Wight) was an English mathematician and recipient of the Sylvester Medal.

[4][5][6] Temple took his first degree as an evening student at Birkbeck, University of London, between 1918 and 1922, and also worked there as a research assistant before being awarded a PhD in 1924.

After a period spent with Arthur Stanley Eddington at the University of Cambridge, he returned to Imperial as reader in mathematics.

He was appointed professor of mathematics at King's College London in 1932, where he returned after war service with the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough.

In 1953 he was appointed Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Oxford, a chair which he held until 1968, and in which he succeeded Chapman.