Sir George William Harriman CBE (3 March 1908 – 29 May 1973[1]) was a leading figure in the British motor industry in the 1960s.

[2] In 1923 he was apprenticed at the Hotchkiss works in Coventry of Morris Motors Limited.

[1] There followed a succession of promotions through the management of BMC,[1] a car manufacturing conglomerate created from the merger in 1952 of the Morris and Austin businesses.

In 1961 he was appointed Chairman and Managing Director of the British Motor Corporation[3] having taken over many of the responsibilities of Leonard Lord some years earlier.

[1] In addition to his business career, he was a noted rugby football player, captaining the Coventry and Warwickshire teams in the 1930s, and playing briefly for the England team in 1933.