George Macovescu (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈdʒe̯ordʒe makoˈvesku]; 28 May 1913 – 20 March 2002) was a Romanian writer and communist politician who served as the General Secretary of Ministry of Information of Romania and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania.

In the 1930s, George Macovescu wrote articles for several left-wing newspapers, such as Adevărul and Dimineața.

[1] After the war, Macovescu was the General Secretary of the Ministry of Information of Romania in 1945–1947.

After he came back to Bucharest, Macovescu became the magistrate of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania from 1949 to 1952.

It was in this role in 1979, as a delegate to the XII Romanian Communist Party Congress representing the Writers' Union, that Macovescu rose to discredit a dissident speech by Constantin Pîrvulescu which denounced Nicolae Ceaușescu's leadership as party leader; Macovescu defended Ceaușescu and called on the delegates to "pretend that we didn't even hear what Comrade Pîrvulescu said.