George Jarvis Brush (December 15, 1831 – February 5, 1912) was an American mineralogist and academic administrator who spent most of his career at Yale University in the Sheffield Scientific School.

[1] He studied at Cream Hill Agricultural School and commenced his studies at Yale in 1848 with courses from Benjamin Silliman, Jr. and John Pitkin Norton on practical chemistry and agriculture.

He left in 1850 to work with Benjamin Silliman, Jr. but received his Ph.D. from Yale in 1852 by special examination.

From 1852 to 1855, Brush worked and studied at the University of Virginia and in Munich and Freiberg.

He was appointed the first curator of the Peabody Museum of Natural History's mineral collection.