George Howard Parker (December 23, 1864 – March 26, 1955)[1] was an American zoologist.

He was a professor at Harvard, and investigated the anatomy and physiology of sense organs and animal reactions.

[2] He graduated from Harvard in 1887 with his undergraduate degree, later pursuing special courses there and at the universities of Leipzig, Berlin and Freiburg.

in the Journal of General Physiology, Parker was awarded the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal in 1937 by the National Academy of Sciences.

[6] He was William Brewster Clark lecturer at Amherst College in 1914 and in that year was sent by the United States Government to investigate the Pribilof seal herd.