George Herbert Hitchings (April 18, 1905 – February 27, 1998) was an American medical doctor who shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Sir James Black and Gertrude Elion "for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment", Hitchings specifically for his work on chemotherapy.

Drugs Hitchings' team worked on included 2,6-diaminopurine (a compound to treat leukemia) and p-chlorophenoxy-2,4-diaminopyrimidine (a folic acid antagonist).

According to his Nobel Prize autobiography, In 1967 Hitchings became vice president in Charge of Research of Burroughs-Wellcome.

He also served as adjunct professor of pharmacology and of experimental medicine from 1970 to 1985 at Duke University.

[1] In 1989, Hitchings received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.