Lieutenant General George Marion Seignious U.S. Army (June 21, 1921 – July 3, 2005) was a distinguished military leader, diplomat and college president.

General Seignious was born and raised in Orangeburg, South Carolina but attended high school in Kingstree; he was a 1942 graduate of The Citadel where he held the rank of Cadet Major and served as a Battalion Commander, his classmates included future South Carolina Governors John C. West and Ernest Hollings who was also a long time U.S. senator.

He was commissioned as an Infantry Officer in the United States Army and won the Silver Star while serving as a Platoon Leader with the 10th Armored Division in the European Theater of Operations during World War II.

In June 1968 President Lyndon Johnson appointed Seignious to the critical and sensitive role of Military Advisor to the Paris Peace Talks, the following year he was promoted to major general and became Commanding General of the 3d Infantry Division in Germany, in 1970 he assumed command of U.S. Army, Berlin where he also served as a military advisor to Ambassador Kenneth Rush during the Quadripartite Negotiations on Berlin.

General Seignious died in Charleston on July 3, 2005; his funeral service took place in Summerall Chapel at The Citadel and he was buried with full military honors at the National Cemetery in Beaufort.