Sir George Ernest Craythorne Hamilton QPM (born 27 June 1967) is a Northern Ireland retired police officer.

[2] He was educated at Gransha High for Boys, an all-boys state secondary school in Bangor, County Down.

[5] Hamilton was selected to succeed Matt Baggott as the Chief Constable of the PSNI in May 2014,[8][9] and took up his post in June of the same year.

The inquiry focuses on "concerns about how the Police Service of Northern Ireland conducted an investigation into allegations of bribery and fraud in 2014".

[12] On 8 June 2019, as part of the Queen's 2019 Birthday Honours for the United Kingdom, Hamilton was made a Knight Bachelor "for services to Policing and to the community in Northern Ireland.